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Judith Proctor ([personal profile] watervole) wrote2011-03-21 09:21 am

Solar Panels - electician

The electrician was here bang on the dot of 8am (they said people would arrive between 8 and 10am).

He's working away fitting something called an 'inverter' in the loft.  There are things happening in the cupboard with the electricity meter and there's a small hole in the back of my built-in wardrobe (because that's the wall where several pipes go up, so it's an easy place to feed wires between floors) which I assume will connect in some manner to where a light switch is currently dangling free on the floor directly below on the other side of the meter cupboard..

He got here before Richard left for work, so Richard was able to give him a quick guide to useful access points for wiring.

Not much useful that I can do, so I'm just staying out of the way.

[identity profile] rpdom.livejournal.com 2011-03-21 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
You're so lucky to be able to get panels like this. I looked into it myself, last year, but our roof is just a bit to far in the wrong direction to qualify. :-(

BTW, an inverter converts the low-voltage DC current produced by the panels, to high-voltage 'mains' AC current.