{"id":2071,"date":"2017-06-16T22:08:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T03:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2017-06-16T22:08:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T03:08:27","slug":"solar-panel-modification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=2071","title":{"rendered":"Solar Panel Modification"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2072\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170616_143048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2072\" src=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170616_143048-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Room for one more panel.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170616_143048-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170616_143048-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/IMG_20170616_143048.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Room for one more panel.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I got a little ambitious this morning and started the process of mounting my other two solar panels on Minnie&#8217;s roof. I worked a few hours removing the old legs from the panels, cutting mounting bracket from a piece of stock angle iron, and attaching the brackets to the panels. <\/p>\n<p>The place on the roof where the new panels had to be attached was occupied by my tanker trailer, so I had to remove that first. Then I hoisted the new panels up on the roof with a rope and set them in place. The sky was starting to look like rain so I put off gluing and bolting them down until tomorrow. Then it will be just a matter of running wires to tie all the panels into my charge controller.<\/p>\n<p>I have lots of battery capacity traveling here in the north. The main two things that keep me charged is all the daylight hours of solar power and the fact I&#8217;m not watching TV very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a little ambitious this morning and started the process of mounting my other two solar panels on Minnie&#8217;s roof. I worked a few hours removing the old legs from the panels, cutting mounting bracket from a piece of stock angle iron, and attaching the brackets to the panels. The place on the roof [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}