9/1/24; 3:45 PM
It didn't last for the full three hours. The battery wasn't fully charged, and it was too discharged to continue for the last half hour.
There was plenty of water in the bucket, and it is still being consumed by the evaporative cooler as I type this.
It was about as much as I had predicted.
Today was mostly cloudy, so the battery may not get fully charged. Tomorrow, I've got other things to do. So nothing tomorrow on schedule. That didn't last long.
7:13 AM
Gonna run it from 6:30 AM to 9:30 AM. Didn't get started early enough to do the 6 AM time schedule.
There were nearly 2 gallons in the bucket this morning. Happens every time I run the evaporative cooler. That proves it is mostly coming from inside. Add that to the half gallon I collected yesterday while making the run. Nearly three gallons total. By the way, I saw another way to treat water with reverse osmosis. It looks like a good deal, but it costs a lot. There's always a catch.
Anyway, with this schedule, the solar panels will get nearly an entire day's worth of light to recharge. It doesn't get enough light earlier because the sun isn't high enough to stop casting shadows over the panels. It gets light earlier, but not very much.
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