Last Wednesday in Haiti

Today was another busy day at YWAM for the I-TEC team of Tom, Gary, Gene F., and Gene H.  We finished relighting the cafeteria with LED fixtures and this has been very good.  We removed sixteen fluorescent fixtures drawing 80 watts each and replaced them with eight LED fixtures drawing 30 watts each.  We have essentially the same amount of light for about 1000 watts less electricity.  As I look out at the Arena, I can visualize replacing the twenty-seven 400-watt fixtures with LED fixtures for a similar reduction in electricity.  Perhaps another time...

We replaced a pole and light fixture at the guard station at the main entrance.

Would you say it needed replaced?

Another thing we did today was to give some training to the workers at YWAM for generator maintenance.  This was well received and we are convinced that the equipment will be well taken care of.

One thing that may be taken care if by our sister generator company in the next few weeks or months is a slight leak on the generator head gasket.  All of the other leaks have been closed up.

This evening we attended church with the YWAM family.  In the morning we will visit a local ministry that has asked us to look at their electrical needs.  We may also visit the YWAM Homes Of Hope project site not too far away.  After that we will be picked up by someone who will transport us to our next job site near Port au Prince.  We are hopeful that we will have the tools and information we will need to make this generator changeout.

If we have internet in our travels after YWAM, it may be in short supply.  I have so far been unable to update the blog using my cell phone, so unless we can get to a place that has Internet we may be limited.  We moved up our travels to Port because we were told that the border crossing into the Dominican Republic is usually closed on Sunday when we were going to cross it.  So we are planning on doing that on Saturday instead, as our time will slip away quickly before we have to be in Santo Domingo for the flight home on Tuesday morning around 6am.