Where are the solar lanterns when you need them?

Guess what happened yesterday evening? We ran out of power! Escom is our electricity supplier and how it works is you basically have a device in the house from which you can read how many prepaid units you have left. You can buy units at Escom or at some fuel stations, you just have to watch the units to ensure you don't run out. And that, of course, is what we did not do.

....And so the lights went out. We had used the last unit at about 9pm that evening.

You might expect that for two people who work on a project with solar power, that such an event poses no problems. Although we have products that can deal with these circumstances, we had no converted light bulbs, nor a paraffin lamp conversion LED unit (our two key lighting products!) in the house, as we recently moved all materials and products to our new office! So we had to use candles and a paraffin lamp for the rest of the evening. Embarrassing. And in the morning Dave had to use charcoal to prepare our breakfast.

Today, we'll bring a couple of light products back to the house I think...

More from us later,

Carl