I've looked into building a solor system for my power requirment and your not wrong when it comes to the batteries, half the cost was the batteries and as I understood it they would need changing after a few years. I've also looked into creating power from the stream that runs through my property but there again I'm going to need a large battery bank to make it worth while. The old Lister chugging away seems to be the better option at the moment except its not exactly economical, I'm running on what I think is red diesel but knowing how things work out here it might be central heating oil or a mixture, should I be adding anything to protect the engine?
My evo has been sitting for about 3 years now, luckily most of the body is ally so its not rusting, I'm trying to find the time to tidy up the body and give it a full respray. I completely rebuilt the engine about before laying it up (spent a fortune) its now producing so much torque that I broke all the spokes on a set of 8 spoke wheels, sounds unbelivably but they were very thin spokes and the tyres/4wd system gripped the road so well that rather than spinning the wheels it found the weekest spot and fractured all the spokes where they meet the rim!
Don't get me started on the french, I've been out here 6 years now and some of the stories I could tell you are unbelivably, 1 example a friend had his horse box resprayed, he was told they'd have it about 4 weeks, he got it back 13 months later and the paint work started bubbling within a couple of weeks, the painters will not put it right. I could probably write a book with the amount of stories I have. Don't get me wrong some of the french are really nice and helpfull, its just all the others with their "It will do" attitude.
Has Anyone else had trouble getting on this forum latly, I keep getting told that the server is not responding.