Into the Light

Today was Tuesday and the four of us kept busy putting up lights, mostly.  I, Gary, spent about half the day troubleshooting the wiring done by a recent team in the new Depot shop.  The electrical work there looks like it was done with what equipment was available at the time.  In some of the wall boxes the mounting screws protruded too far into the box or PVC conduit and shorted into the wiring inside it.  Anyway the shop is now in usable condition.

Tom and the two Gene's worked on lighting on the new poles.  We have been putting up 40-watt and 30-watt LED fixtures.  At night when these are lit up, it almost seems the 30-watt fixtures outshine the 40-watt ones.  At any rate they are very good fixtures. 

After working on the shop and poles, we moved down to the dining hall to install new lighting there.  The present setup is open 2-tube fluorescent fixtures and we are in the process of replacing these with some of the 30-watt fixtures mentioned above. 

The photos show some of the work we have done in the last few days. (If I can upload them)  The generator has run through several cycles now and is working flawlessly.  The leaks have been fixed and what remains to be done pertains to the second generator, which is presently not in running condition due to most likely needing the control board replaced. In the remaining days we have here we will continue to install lights where we can as well as doing some cleaning up of leftover materials.  We have made contact with the next mission we will visit on Thursday.  Then on Friday we will move on to a project near Port au Prince.  From there we will go to the Dominican Republic for a finial survey and flight home.  That will be in less than one week now.

Just to show you our accommodations the men of the team have had over the last week, this photo is the men's dorm.  Some nights the sounds inside the room outdo the sounds outside.  I have probably slept pretty "soundly" myself from time to time.