PV system is installed and we've got electricity.

In November 2010 we’ve got the our Solar electricity system installed and we’ve now got electricity throughout the house. It is just great to be able to use some tools now without having to run a noisy generator. Here are some pictures from our PV system: The first pictures shows the concrete pad we poured for the external battery enclosure. In the second picture you can see how we used some of the waste abling twine, by adding it to the concrete mix to make the pad stronger. As seen in the third picture, we've made the walls of the encloser out of Hebel (aereted concrete) Working with Hebel was easy and fast. We used a plain saw to cut the hebel blocks to size when necessary. Next couple of pictures show the batteries. Each one of these weights about 70kg. The cable Rosalba is holding in picture 6 shows the size of the cable that connects the batteries to the rest of the system. It's about as thick as a thumb. And finally a view of the solar panels installed on the roof. As you can see we are very happy finally having our solar system. [{width="595" height="793"}](http://www.budafoods.com.au/strawbalehouse/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2010-10-30_13.08.09.jpg.scaled.10001.jpg) [{width="595" height="446"}](http://www.budafoods.com.au/strawbalehouse/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2010-10-30_13.19.08.jpg.scaled.10001.jpg) [{width="595" height="793"}](http://www.budafoods.com.au/strawbalehouse/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2010-11-14_12.25.57.jpg.scaled.10001.jpg) [{width="595" height="446"}](http://www.budafoods.com.au/strawbalehouse/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2010-11-15_09.08.16.jpg.scaled.10001.jpg) [{width="595" height="446"}](http://www.budafoods.com.au/strawbalehouse/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2010-11-15_09.57.58.jpg.scaled.10001.jpg) [{width="595" height="446"}](http://www.budafoods.com.au/strawbalehouse/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2010-11-15_12.10.28.jpg.scaled.10001.jpg) [{width="595" height="793"}](http://www.budafoods.com.au/strawbalehouse/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2010-11-15_13.58.59.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg)