April 15-30, 2000 -- Woops, no log notes

So, one of these days, I will learn to write my logs daily. I did really well for a while writing notes, at least. But something happened, and nothing was noted. Here is my best recollection of what happened. There are a few things that I can definitely assign dates to; the rest is a blur. Between April 15 and 17, we performed the two different tests. We performed an inverter test and we performed our freezer test. We discovered that we can, indeed, go for 12 hours on our inverter battery bank! We also found that we can charge our batteries in approximately 3 hours. If our freezer compressor will freeze the plates in 3 hours, then we will only have to run our generator approximately 4 hours each day! Our freezer was capable of holding for 24 hours. We are officially set! On April 17, after spending many, long, long hours trying to find the battery drain, Joe came out to take a look. We discovered that because of the way our antenna is hooked up, it was discharging through the cable system! With that resolved, our 24 volt systems have held up since then! Also, the freezer guys came out and found that part of the anomalous issues with our freezer was because the freezer refrigerant was low. They topped it off, and everything was working great. On Wednesday, April 19, we had the food delivered that we ordered from Bush Brothers. We also discovered that the freezer compressor is too small for our system. After discussing this with the freezer guys, we decided to upgrade the compressor. On Sunday, April 23, the freezer died. We didn't know precisely what the problem was, but thankfully, our freezer holds very well, because we didn't discover the problem until Monday. On Tuesday, April 25, before the freezer went above freezing, we moved food into storage at the yard. On Wednesday, April 26, we found the reason that the system had died. There was a failure in the heat exchanger, and everything has to be replaced. The manufacturer has promised that we should get replacements in about a week. This is much better than the previous build! Hopefully they can stick to this. The rest of the time, we spent working on teak. It is starting to look pretty good. I know there are other things that we did, but I am hard pressed to remember them