Well, that's handy isn't it!

[wildebus]

Lost power around noon due to the weather and estimated restoration is around midnight. But it was 8PM earlier and got pushed back so who knows if Midnight will come and go as well!

But no worries as moved perishables from house fridge to campervan fridge, and ran a cable from the external 230V outlet into the house to provide lights and allowing us to watch TV through the sky box. Down around 12% SOC since doing this but should be fine until power back even if doesn't happen until the morning and the solar will be back to get some juice back in.

Having a electric-centric Camper is handy :dance:

 

[trevskoda]

Lost power around noon due to the weather and estimated restoration is around midnight. But it was 8PM earlier and got pushed back so who knows if Midnight will come and go as well!

But no worries as moved perishables from house fridge to campervan fridge, and ran a cable from the external 230V outlet into the house to provide lights and allowing us to watch TV through the sky box. Down around 12% SOC since doing this but should be fine until power back even if doesn't happen until the morning and the solar will be back to get some juice back in.

Having a electric-centric Camper is handy :dance:

More uses than one for a van.

 

[jagmanx]

Now

Where is that generator ?

:dance: :lol-049:

 

[wildebus]

Where is that generator ?

:dance: :lol-049:

I was thinking that!
Down to 57% SOC (annoyingly the batteries were only at 80% SOC when the power went, due to being parked in the shade for a few days) and power still off with a new time of 5PM tonight for restoration. Let's hope get some solar recharging today! (I'll have to move Clarence though - then again might be ok as the branches ripped from the tree yesterday might clear a path for the sun?)

 

[wildebus]

Power restored just before 2PM (might be been off a tad under 24 Hours. I wonder if an outage over 24 Hours kicks off a compensation payout and that is why it came back before the 24 hours was hit?).
Clarence down to 54% SOC by then and put the mains charger on as well as getting solar to get the batteries up as quick as possible just in case (forecast for tomorrow is not great so best to be prepared!).

Oh, just a comment on the Solar. Up here in the southern Borders the rain was very sandy in the last couple of days - very noticable on the windows and bonnet. I had a look at the Solar Panels and there was a lot of dried sandy stuff on them.
I got the hose out and washed them off with a jet of water - the harvesting immediately increased by around 40%! So if you had similar rain recently and panels on the roof, might be worth giving them a quick bath?