Slowly But Surely

Both yesterday and today were assembly days.  Yesterday Tiare, Mr. Kamalu and I(Nicole) started to get things set up.  Tiare worked on connecting positive and negative wires to the solar panel.  I cut rectangle in the lid of a storage container (which we will be using to house the wires) and installed the on and off switch and the Peak Power Point Tracker (MPPT250).  I also connected a wire between the two 6 Volt batteries in order to wire them in series so that the voltage will be 12V.  

Today, we all felt extremely...... confused.  The schematic looks pretty straight forward but it is actually quite complicated to put together.  Today's main objective was to get everything wired to the MPPT250.  First we connected the solar panel and the fuse.  Later we figured out it was the wrong fuse and now we are still in the process of connecting a new one.  We are also in the process of connecting the battery to the tracker with a fuse as well.  

Things on our to do list include:

-connect fuse to battery wire

-tap into battery wire and connect another fuse, the on/off switch, and pump

-connect pump to tracker

-get a clear hose for the pump

sources: BZ Products, Inc. MPPT250 Wiring Diagram