Week 8 - UPS installation finalized

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Our time here in Kolandoto has come to an end, eight weeks has passed since we first arrived in Tanzania and oh have we experienced a bunch. Neither me nor Simon were sure what to expect when we first arrived in Dar es Salaam the 20th Mars but we are very happy with the outcome of our stay. We have meet a lot of amazing people, seen things we’d never thought we would see and perhaps the most important outcome; having to install a power back-up system for a hospital facing urgent difficulties. Since this post is the last post me and Simon will give we ought it to be time for a summary of our work.

We have installed 3 separated UPS:es which feeds the most critical loads at the hospital along with a total capacity of 3500 W solar power. The following pictures gets sum up the project.

Prior to installation in Eye theater

Eye theater after installation

Eye theater

Maternity ward prior to installation

Maternity ward after installation

Maternity ward

General theater prior to installation

General theater after installation

On top of general theater with the maternity ward in the background

Thank you so much for reading, hope you enjoyed!

- Martin & Simon

Week 7 - Loads of load testings

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Another week has passed here in Kolandoto, me and Simon has for the last couple of days spent a ridiculous amount of time testing the UPS:es. The systems has proven to be much more robust than we intended them to be, which is a good thing! For instance, on a sunny day the eye theater is close to self-sustained and almost the same thing goes for the UPS in the maternity ward. We are currently evaluating what the most efficient way would be to load the UPS:es even more. 

Though we are not leaving yet for another 9 days we had a final meeting with the staff of the hospital. We figured it would be a nice way to round off our stay here with a presentation of what we actually have been doing. As far as we reckon, the presentation was appreciated though we realized half way in that most people don't understand english. We got some help with the translation to Swahili and got to answer some questions, so we believe it worked out fine.

Staff of Kolandoto Hospital

 

Simon approves

 

The hospital kitchen where we buy our chapati bread

Thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed!

- Martin

Week 6 - Inverter delivered in advance

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The past week has been a good week. Not to much waiting in general and one of the two inverters which were suppose to be delivered on June 6 was instead delivered last Wednesday. This was truly good news since now we can assure that at least 2 out of the 3 UPS:ses works as intended before we departure on Maj 13.

So this week we have been following the electrician closely. Yeah, it sounds ridiculous but it has proven to be necessary. For example, even though the installation of the UPS in Eye ward were finished two weeks ago we found out the electrician had installed another piece of equipment there which we had not requested. The company wanted to install a voltage stabilizer prior to the inverter, even though the inverter already has that functionality itself.. Their intentions are good though and we are happy with the work they put in.

Anyhow, life in Kolandoto is appearing normal to us now. Ants establishing pathways across my bed, kids peeking through our windows at night and power outages on a daily basis is nothing out of the ordinary.

The following pictures gets to sum up this week!

Installing of the UPS in the maternity ward

Last sealing of the AC for maternity ward

 
Few out of many kids of Kolandoto

Hope you enjoyed reading!