The ground was already wet from record high summer rains. December and January delivered 404mm of rain here. The earth was saturated …

The floods started …

After a summer of rain it ended with the biggest flood we have ever seen.

See how the days unfolded as the big flood nearly entered the house.

This is some more detailed information on lithium batteries that we have been able to glean in our journey to buying new batteries. We are definitely not experts. If you notice something that isn't correct here please comment and let us know.

We woke up one day to find our power system completely failed. The inverter, which converts DC to 240V AC, has a low voltage light blinking. The voltage has dropped to a point where the system shut down. Our battery has failed. We knew it was coming since we had been testing the batteries but now we are confronted with the reality.

Follow our journey as we learnt more about batteries.