I shouldn't have invited the possibility of wind damage in yesterday's post. Last night the original wireless installation at Goodlie Hill came down in the wind. That's the mesh-box, solar panel, wind turbine, battery and steel frame. Bill Kerr kindly went up to take a closer look this morning and reports that a weld on the frame had broken. There's a lot of damage to the equipment so it's not going to get fixed quickly, if at all.
Thankfully the new installation (five Nanos on a 6m pole) remains intact so we'll have to see how quickly we can get mains power to it in order to restore service to our subscribers at that end of the village.
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