While the camp was, indeed, up and running on the new power system, there was still a ton of details to take care of.
Wiring needed cleaned up, the generator t taps and panels needed finished, the camps new main distribution panel in the generator shack needed finished, several large j boxes full of nonsense needed attention and there were still two old solar systems that needed removed from the system.
The first order of business was to clean up and finish the inverter room. Pictures don’t do justice to the mess that the previous night’s thrash-a-thon left behind. It looked like a tornado went through the room.
We spent some time cleaning up , completing the last wiring details, and making sure everything was in proper shape.
During this period, a man named Henry stopped by because he had heard the camp was now live on its new solar system. He was ecstatic and impressed.
Now, it turns out Henry wasn’t just some random guy-he more or less founded the camp, ran it for years under several different forms, and eventually sold it to UofA -and sold was really more like donated. So Henry is a pretty big deal around here.
And he wasn’t the only one that kept showing up and checking out the project. A handful of other people who had either supervised the camp, worked there, or spent time as a youth here have been filtering in and out over the past weeks-all excited with the progress. People who stay or work here seem to build life long ties to this place, and it’s easy to see why-it’s a beautiful, unique place tucked in a hidden little draw. It’s been truly a pleasure to be a part of it.
Anyway, once the inverter room wiring was complete-it was time to put all the covers and dead fronts on for the last time.
Then it was off to the generator shack to wrap that up.
This j box and several like it needed cleaned up and the wiring reconfigured to work properly with the new power scheme.
One of the old solar systems we removed and I forgot to get a single picture.
Oops.
The second one was tucked in a tiny dark room that reeked of rodent feces and urine, so we masked up and went in to dismantle it.
Once that system was dismantled, it was once again past 7 pm, another really long day was in the books, and the only thing left to do was have another celebratory beverage-and go get another one of those Hollywood showers!
