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Kalk Bay kerb koffie.

DB is still in the same place, they just split it into two...there was enough space in the kitchen cupboard where it is to add a smaller separate one....then ran a few wires from the DB to the inverter...and back..no electrician but it seemed pretty simple, biggest part was separating out the circuits...the original DB wasn't well marked... Oh, also all downlights to LED (huge savings on consumption of standard 12v incandescents ...PITA!!!), garden lights onto daylight and timer switch and geyser elements changed to PTC units also on timers...

I like it...up to 85% off grid and running down to 60% SOC during winter and still coping....if we see a run of clear skies for a few days during winter, we drop down to 40% just to recycle the batteries a few times and that will get us through the longest loadshed Eskom can throw at us... A few years ago, I was like Nah...it's never going to get that bad, I travelled in Africa a few years where most of the places I worked had jennies and never relied on state supply.....now, I'm thinking OK... I got a few squares left on the roof, not quite N facing and I got a battery bay open...hmmmmm...$$$$ but worth it......100% self supply -----already there with water (borehole and tx plant)....sheeezzz....!!!

Just about the neatest setup I seen... 8kW Sunsync hybrid inverter 24 x 385W panels 20kW lithium recycled Revov battery pack (split into 4 units...) DB split into Essentials for Loadshedding (plugs, lights and some light load items) and the Full Eskom All packaged into a neat Mainframe cabinet on wheels

That would take a feat of extreme strength.....I carry an aluminium thermos flask to keep the water cold......🤣

There is no way I'm going back there!!!!

Got a free entry into a race I never entered.....turns out it was the race of my life...for my life!!!!!

Sagan should be DQ'd ...he's the only one breaking the speed limit......🤣

Here it is, once step closer to reality....

Have been flying Qatar Air for about 12 years now, up to 8 flights a year, internationally...with my bike...in a proper bike bag (PROBIKE)..... It has cost me.... ZERO.... R/$/QR/AED/Kwachas/Rupees/SD/GBP/EURO

That Gravel model is probably the best looking gravel bike I seen...raw Ti is hard to beat!😜 Slap a dropper on that and you got the perfect gravel bike that would also do you proud on the road....

When you said glow in the dark...my mind's eye...

Bucket list.....

You guys are all so rude! @Scott Mullin: WELCOME TO CAPE TOWN!!!!!!!

Looking for this, if you have 105 hydraulics stripped for spares... 105 R7020 diaphragm, LHS

Defense 101...

Awesome work!

Up early...

@DJRThought this may be the start of your Impressionist phase...nice...

Up early to beat the heat....

There's one point just before the right hand climb where you have to go around a tree that grows right on the edge of the road, have to ride on the road to go around and duck into the few driveways before the right climb....this place?

Go to the start, there's a link to a Facebook site

Nice cool ride home

Florida plates and Florida State Seminoles sticker.....😎

Check out my channel, loads of Greenbelt rides, Kirstenbosch, Cork Tree run https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC47T5KJILgAToUkWpazYzSw