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Emergency Help To Repair Our Home Solar System

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Hello! We are a transgender owned and operated alpaca ranch in southern Colorado. We exist to provide a haven for queer folk, and as a place for queer folk to thrive. We produce premium alpaca fiber yarn and yummy duck eggs. The current crisis has hit our ranch hard. We just moved to our new location which we purchased last month and are starting to set things up to continue our working within the queer community. Due to a miscommunication with our inspector before purchasing the ranch we call home we had thought the energy system the house came with was completely functional and up to spec. It turns out we were totally wrong. All of the major components are at least 20+ years old and everything is now failing due to us starting to use it regularly. The house had been unoccupied for several years before we bought it so the strain of suddenly being used is killing off ancient bits and peices one by one. We are only getting about 6 hours of energy out of our dilapidated solar panels and the depleted battery bank. Because of the lockdown trying to get things fixed or replaced has been extra expensive and difficult to manage. We really need help in getting our power functional and working properly, as it is we are barely able to do laundry or run the pump well for water. We are completely off grid so this system is 100% our lifeline. We purchased a generator today with our remaining savings hoping that it would bridge the gap, only to find that the inverter is completely fried. We have a new bank of batteries comming in on Tuesday, they where extremely expensive and the list of things we need to even make them work keeps getting longer as key systems keep failing. We found out last week that none of the current wiring is code compliant so we are needing to get all of the internal wiring redone as well to avoid fire hazards. The move too and purchess of our new home was a massive drain on our resources, having that drain compounded by a dip in sales and such a massive expense in replacing our solar system has made it really rough and we very much need help in getting this taken care of so that we can get back to helping the queer community and producing our amazing yarn. Anything helps a ton with this emergency, we all appreciate your support and belief in us sosososo much. Big hugs from all of us up here on the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch.

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