Modified vs. Pure.......

 7:53 am - Sunday - September 18th - Likely, CA - 52° F, 59% humidity, wind 6 mph out of the south by southeast......heavy cloud cover today...began raining around 5 am, and will continue throughout the day.  The forecast high for today is 62° F.   Rain is forecast through Wednesday.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I were overnighting at a Cracker Barrel in Missoula, MT......↴

For the third day in succession we began our day (Saturday) with that same 2 mile roundtrip walk out to Jess Valley Road.  It wasn't quite as cool as it had been, but it was cool enough for pants, and a long sleeve shirt.....

.....we then sat down and watch the entire English Premier Soccer match between Tottenham & Leicester (Lister).  The game was tied at half time, but then Tottenham went on a scoring spree in the 2nd half finishing at 'full time' with a 6-2 final score.  

Saturday was also the 3rd week of NCAA College Football.  Most of the games were blowouts, and not very interesting, and the final game of the day between USC and Fresno State was no different with USC prevailing 45-17 over the now 1-2 Bulldogs.

Now that we have installed our new Renogy Pure Sign Wave inverter it was time to test it to see if it would run our higher end, more sensitive, electronic appliances.  We have a Breville counter top oven (Toaster, Convection, Air Fryer, etc.), a Duxtop induction burner, and an electronic tea kettle....none of which would work on our old Heart Interface Modified Sine Wave inverter.  At any rate, just before we took our walk I unplugged the Newell's 50 amp power cord from the electric pedestal for the first time in over 5 months, and plugged it into the 50 amp plug inside the electric bay.  Via a 3 position switch up by the driver seat I can send either inverted 120 VAC power to that plug, or generated 120 VAC from our onboard Kohler generator.  

One improvement which became immediately apparent was that each leg was receiving just over 122 volts, whereas with the Heart Interface we would only get around 115 volts....so a big improvement there.  TLE then turned on, one at a time, each of the aforementioned appliances and they all worked as they should, and there was no voltage drop whatsoever.  That was the acid test, and it all worked as it should.  One of the great things about this new Renogy inverter is while it is a 2,000 watt inverter, it can take a momentary surge of up to 6,000 watts without tripping the circuit breaker.  Not that we will be running anything that would cause a momentary surge like that (the A/C's are one example), it is nice to know.

I spent a few hours watching the aforementioned NCAA college football games, before we headed over to the Clubhouse around 3:45 pm for the weekly putting contest.  TLE and I both managed to play two rounds before succumbing to defeat.  At last week's putting contest the game time temperature was 95° F, whereas Saturday's game time temp was 69° F, and much lower than that by the time the contest ended around 5:30 pm.  I know I've said it a few times now, but Fall is definitely in the air.  I guess I keep saying it to convince myself this change is for real, and not just temporary.  I am heartened by the fact that the 15 day forecast, which takes us through October 2nd, shows the cooling trend to be for real with temps mostly in the 60's and 70's.

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