{"id":2392,"date":"2018-12-05T23:19:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2018-12-05T23:19:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:19:53","slug":"that-time-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2392","title":{"rendered":"That time of year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tilting my panels is a chore I don&#8217;t like, but when the daylight hours are shortened, and the sun drops towards the horizon, I have no choice to keep my batteries charged up.  They&#8217;re tilted now, just in time for a couple of days of cloud cover.  My panels are back to working like they should.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming I&#8217;m using propane for fridge, heat, and hot water, my laptop computer is the biggest draw on my batteries.  But, this year I acquired a Nintendo Switch which consumes almost as much as the laptop.  And I replaced my hand vacuum with a new model which has a hefty lithium-ion battery in it.  Bottom line is that I&#8217;m using more solar-charged batteries to charge up more re-chargable batteries.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen more people hanging panels on the sides of their rigs, likely covering up windows.  It&#8217;s inconvenient not having a window, but it&#8217;s temporary and easy.<\/p>\n<p>Still fairly quiet in Q, which is nice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tilting my panels is a chore I don&#8217;t like, but when the daylight hours are shortened, and the sun drops towards the horizon, I have no choice to keep my batteries charged up. They&#8217;re tilted now, just in time for a couple of days of cloud cover. My panels are back to working like they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}