I’m not sure what Denise is doing to this inverter-but apparently it required privacy!😄😄
The truth is, she’s taking pictures of every settings screen on the inverter to ensure that we keep setting the same when we swap out some equipment later on. The screens are just very hard to get pictures of because they are not very bright and there is a lot of glare.
Normally, we would screenshot the settings from the online app that is far, for easier to deal with however, on the first day of commissioning the inverter manufacturer accidentally pushed a firmware update that ruined the Wi-Fi dongles to allow these inverters to communicate with the outside world.
We got our conduit, both above ground and below ground, installed in pretty short order to deal with the oversight of power not actually going to the well pump controller. Here is Denise showing out deep the trenches just in case anybody needs to know later.
The conduit installation and backfilling went textbook perfect.
The wire pull was a two stage operation and stage one was also in textbook perfect.
The second half of the wire pull, however, turned into an utter disaster. Seriously, one of-if not the worst wire pulls of my entire career. We had some sort of weird jam in the conduit that I still can’t explain that hung everything up when the wire was almost all the way pulled in.
We broke all sorts of tools and parts, had to build makeshift recovery tools on site, dig out one end of the underground-it was seven hours of pure misery, frustration, and physical pain to complete a 40’ long little wire pull.
After we recovered from that debacle, we managed to fix the broken Terminal lugs on this breaker.
We worked long after dark, trying to play catch-up from our wire, pulling disaster. Making a panels, making a pump controller, fixing wiring in the handle and generally just going through the remnants of our last-minute punchlist.
We did eat good however! The smoked tri-tip turned out excellent even though we ate very late at night.🙄
We crawled into bed for a few hours of rest so that we could roll into Friday and hopefully get caught up and wrap this job up.