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Jared Jacobs sees wut u did thar. (

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paradisolog,
@ 2016-04-22 18:29:00

WHO: Jared Jacobs & ~~OTA~~ Bo Dennis
WHERE: Near the solar panels in the main camp
WHEN: As the sun is starting to set
WHAT: Tinkering around a bit after quittin' time.
WARNINGS: TBD
STATUS: Complete

Having a quick look on the inside to see how similar or dissimilar it was to the one at the lake house would be a good start.

As the sun started to sink in the sky a little, Jared noticed that some of the people working on the medical facility were starting to break for the night. Manual labor wasn't really his thing, so if the others were going to start calling it a day, then he was more than happy to join that frame of mind. With a small screwdriver in hand, he wandered over to the solar panels, mounted and already facing the sky and started to look around. Between it and the turbine, there had to be some sort of electrical inverter around there somewhere in order for the inputs to actually go anywhere. If they had all of these resources but nowhere to convert the energy from input voltage to output waveforms, then all they were doing was storing a lot of energy they couldn't actually use. Which, to Jared, seemed like a total waste of resources and he somehow doubted the whole point of being given the panels and the turbine, or the generator, or the battery bank if they weren't able to actually use any of them.

After a little investigating, he found the inverter and looked around. He doubted any of them who didn't know any better would take much of a liking to him opening the thing up, but somebody had to look inside to see if there was already an automated energy diversion system in place. Some of them, he knew, already had it. Some inverters, like one attached to the solar panels at his parents' lake house on Tippecanoe, were already programmed to a minimum input and once the input level fell below that voltage, then the inverter would draw from the generator instead. If this inverter had the same sort of thing, then it would stand to reason that it would default on the solar panels, switch to the wind turbine, and then fall back on the generator and the battery bank would be used for emergencies.

Satisfied that no one was paying any attention to him, Jared started to work on the screws to open the face of the inverter. Having a quick look on the inside to see how similar or dissimilar it was to the one at the lake house would be a good start. There should be an extra section inside devoted to the wind turbine that might look unfamiliar to him, but the rest ought to be pretty standard, he thought.

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