Shutting Down the Fridge
September 20th (Friday) In the morning we did our standard Spanish lesson time, and then our radio fax reception time. While our weather faxes were coming through I worked on cleaning out our fridge. We have finally chosen to make the switch to not having our fridge on at all. During the summer months, especially our first months away from Vancouver when we were actually getting sunshine, we easily produced enough power through solar to run our fridge and freezer. In fact, it was so good that we would often get home after a day’s excursion, and our batteries would be at 100% charge. As the summer progressed, and we stopped getting very much sun, the drain on our batteries became more, and we started having to charge with our generator or our engine from time to time. Eventually we started turning our fridge and freezer off at night, as we found the freezer would stay rock solid and the fridge would not warm up too much. Now, however, as the days are getting shorter, and the an...