Normally I advise people to wait until the weather warms to build panels. I was unfortunate enough to be forced into putting Robs' panel together early. The amorphic panel that I was using to keep his battery topped off over the winter failed to do its job at all. $100 POS. Fortunately, I had an experimental panel fail, and I was able to recycle its cells for this one. How's that for thinking ahead. If I didn't have them already strung together I probably wouldn't have been able to put this together. It's just too cold to do any serious work with the cells, the temperature difference would have led to some serious breakage.
Anyway, Rob has power now, I don't know yet if his battery is damaged. I'm in the process of getting some meters in so I can see what's going on, and I still need to get his motors going again. I'm tired of kicking him around the garden.
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