So early in the morning as soon as it was light enough to see I was up on the roof with the intent of getting done before it got too hot on that reflective roof.
Denise was stationed in the inverter room managing all the wire spools. We have these pretty cool Bluetooth headsets that allow us full time hands free open mic communications that really help for running equipment, pulling wire, etc.
Another cool tool we have is this Milwaukee power fish tape. It really helps get wire pulls done, especially because my shoulders, elbows, wrists and hands aren’t what they used to be after decades of work abuse.
Our wire pulling morning started great, but then I screwed the pooch and created the mother of all birds nests. It took us both an hour and a half to untangle this mess. 😬
After fixing that disaster, and neither one of us in a very good mood as a result of the time lost, we came down off the roof to find some dude laying under the Freightshaker.
Turns out it was RDP’s own Monkeys Wrench, and he had come up the hill to nurse a bunch of our crap back into proper shape.
The previous week I had noticed that one of the airbags was showing some signs of damage from a run-flat situation we had awhile back, so a call to Kevin and he brought new bags to the job and changed them out while we worked, and he also worked on a whole bunch of other little items that needed attention.
Here he is, not thrilled I’m taking his picture, and with a disappointing downgrade from his Knipex pliers of last week to a one-size-fits-none wrench. 😄😄
Questionable tools or not, he had all our stuff fixed, tuned up, lubed, and ready to rock in pretty short order. 👍👍
We talked him into one last picture and he was on his way.
As for us, there was still a lot of shit to be done to get the solar connected to the inverters, so we kept at it.
Denise handled all the termination down in the inverter room while I went up top and worked my sun tan into a sunburn and also put some wires together. 😄😄
Finally, after a long hot day, I took a selfie and walked off the roof for hopefully the last time at just after 6 pm.
Even though we are about 3 days behind schedule, it felt good to finally have the roof work buttoned up, and we were looking forward to doing some AC wiring tomorrow and then turning everything on to see if it all works like it’s supposed to.
Would we be able to actually get this up and running tomorrow, or would we fall victim to yet another setback?…