Winding down

Thursday we went to the tower again to mop up on our work there. After a call to a US representative for the FGWilson generator company to verify the wiring for the generator remote start, we were satisfied the system would work as planned. Why a manufacturer will not spell this information out in their service manuals is something I cannot fathom. The information we were looking at in the manual we had was not even close. In fact there were blog posts on the manufacturer's website from people asking for the exact same information we needed and no one from the company had the integrity to respond with an answer. Go figure! Anyway, we installed a few light fixtures on the inverter circuit, and tied in the wiring and ran our tests. The system worked flawlessly and we were satisfied. Then we cleaned up and loaded our tools for the journey down the mountain. We installed a recording power monitor to get one day of readings and will need to run up there Friday to pull the meter off. On our way down the mountain we stopped in Petionville to look at the Stereo92 building. Another US group has donated solar panels for this site and will be coming to Haiti in a few weeks to install them. We needed to size the Charge Controller and give suggestions for installation that this other team can utilize. Traffic from Petionville to Carrefour was absolutely horrendous! We hoped to reach the radio station by 5PM but it was just around 6 when we arrived. We went past one of the canals where yesterday there were men fishing for a woman's body who had fallen into the canal. There were men this time on the other side of the street still fishing for the body or for another one, we did not know which. Death is pretty normal here. In fact we went past the street leading to our villa and there was a funeral hearse and procession coming down from there to the main traffic jam to make it even worse. Makes one just think about the eternal consequences of the way we live our lives while we are here. Thank you for your prayers for us. It is now Friday morning and internet seems to be working. Today we will return to the tower, then stop by a hospital to look at some possible future I-TEC work, then we will be at the station by 2PM for them to send us off. They are very precious people and we feel it a privilege to be a small part of this ministry here to this great sea of people who need the Lord.