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Some more photos
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2016 9:36 am
by Coconuts
As usual, we had a few visitors:
- Deer by the sundial
- Taking a dip
No Gifft Hill visit is complete without some more sunset photos:
- Sunset 1
- Sunset II
I had hoped to do some deep astrophotography during this trip, but between having friends with us for the first week, and all of the villa projects, I never got around to it. I did manage to take a photo of the moon through the telescope at Plumeria, though:
- Moon
All the best,
Kevin
Re: Some more photos
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2016 9:57 am
by longingstjohn
Kevin,
Nice pics.
How goes the solar upgrade?
brian.
Re: Some more photos
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2016 5:34 pm
by Coconuts
Brian: The solar project is complete for now, and has more than met our expectations. I have some comments in my earlier post. The ground mount system used 315 watt LG panels, which is as high an efficiency as you can get now (20%). Solar City, via their acquisition of Silevo, is set to tick up efficiency to 22 - 23% starting next year. While we got in under the net metering cap, we are considering putting Sonnen (
www.sonnen-batterie.com/en-us/start) battery storage systems at each villa. Sonnen battery storage systems are available now, and use lithium iron phosphate cells, with twice as many cycles (10K versus 5K) as the still a year away Tesla Powerwall.
All the best,
Kevin
Re: Some more photos
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 9:31 pm
by philbetm
Kevin.....MORE PHOTOS pleeeese !!!
Re: Some more photos
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:58 am
by Coconuts
philbetm: Will do, but way too busy dealing with taxes this afternoon. By the way, I tend to upload images as attachments, but that limits you to five. What do other posters recommend to embed lots of photos in a post? Also, how do you do that and still show a starting photo, instead of just a link to an external site? I currently save photos on local hard drives, but could consider using iCloud, Flicker, or whatever.
All the best,
Kevin