Saturday, December 18, 2010

Power Up!

Today we went online!

This week, Xcel came an installed the production meter and finalized their end of the arrangement. Today, Rebecca and Dan came and gave us a generous walk through of the system. They spent over and hour and a half answering our questions, explaining the wiring runs and the system. They also gave us a substantial packet of information about our system, detailing the wiring, how to reboot if necessary and pointers on possible issues that might arise.

All that was left was to throw the switch!

Rebecca insisted that we each got to try out starting the system, so that we all know what it feels like and know what to expect if we have to turn it on or off for some reason. We took our turns under Rebecca's watchful eye. As she says, she has a healthy respect for electricity.


Proud owners of a PV system!





And the solar midwives who made it all happen: Powerfully Green!


Our wireless fusion receivers makin' lovely watts:




Nik the electrician was critical in putting it all together. Because we swapped in new breaker boxes, there were a modicum of issues that Nik had to deal with to get the final approval from the city.

2 comments:

Adrian said...

Sweet sweet sweet!! Let the kilowatts flow.

luvsawdust said...

I guess maybe I chose the wrong installers! Congrats. Looks good.