SteamyTea

I wish they would post up the actual usage, rather than points and pennies. I am starting to think that this is an experiment that is set up tot fail. If everyone on this trial saved 0.5 kWh, that is 150 MWh, sounds a lot, but it isn't Between 5:30 pm and 6:30 pm yesterday, the national usage was 39,696 MWh. If 25 million homes did this, apart from just shifting the peak by an hour, the saving would be 12,500 MWh. That is 32%. That amount could easily be save, all the time, by basic changes i.e. don't fill the kettle more than needed, reduce tumble drying, shorter shower. If change is to come about through a price mechanism, then charge £0.5/kWh, don't reward.

Have made my mind up who is coming around to sort me out.

May as well fit them while the places is a mess, better than living with regret.

Flick the main switch and tell her that the power will come back on later.

I think out Ed dug holes and filled them up with concrete. I am still struggling, one day I may return.

I would have thought with the coming recession, there will be projects to pick up at a reasonable price. If you can find something that already has a suitable foundation poured, and you can change the house design, that may be a good option.

Is there not a plate surface area to total mass, minus the plate and mechanism mass, ratio that sets the performance? The number of impulses a minute should not affect the compacting performance, just the time it takes to cover an area.

Just the internet, you never been to a Weatherspoons?

You know how some adverts would stop you buying a product, they have managed that for me.

There may be some with fake DS18b20s shipped with them, but you can swap that out for a genuine one. The display will only be reading of the probe, so should be as accurate as the probe. @TerryE and myself have both calibrated them independently, and via different method, and found the DS18b20 to be very good.

Why not something like this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/113641431380

Welcome Have a read of out old mate @Ed Davies blog. https://edavies.me.uk/ Maybe go up and help him finish it.

I seem to remember using some old, but we'll stored plaster, it had a very short working life. The plasterer with me whined like a little boy about it. Gave home 50 quid to get more, he returned with some from the same batch, from the same merchants. He happily finished off. I would think that old cement, if it has absorbed moisture, would not be as the manufacturer intended. This might not matter in a lot of instances, but might be catastrophic if the elements were key to the structural integrity.

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Minus a lot of your inputs i.e. van, fuel, consumables, marketing etc.

Not just pressure, flow is important. If your 'water heating device' cannot deliver enough power you have to reduce the flow rate, regardless of the water pressure. One way around this is to use a store of water that is heated in advance. Then you can have a smaller device heating the water that can be delivered to the shower at just about any rate you like.

Well done. Part P next.

From the local rag. Retiring Visit Cornwall boss Malcolm Bell says the future of tourism is to attract 'friends' not 'effing emmets'

Poison, there is a reason it is used around food places.

Have you ever been tempted to copy a Machintoch? I like things to be really simple and intuitive. Most people understand a basic thermostat, and most can set a basic timer. Where it gets too much is if you have to delve into sub menus to do that. I did suggest that it should be possible to replace a basic wall thermostat with something a bit smarter, but easy to revert back to a wallstat. It would help immensely if plumbers and electricians would stop putting controls in inaccessible places, with unmarked cables and no manual. It would also help if all manufacturers would agree to just supply one type of switching i.e. zero volt. If you need power to something, run a separate power lead. The first topic I created over at the 'Other Place' many years ago was about Open Source house design. Within hours there was disagreement about the best formats to use i.e. which software packages. Pencil and paper and a book of rules/tables was all that was needed, but no, everyone wanted to make it way to complicated. It is strange, most people, most of the time, understand and stick to the rules when driving. As soon as they become pedestrians they set their own rules that they think will benefit them the most. That is why it takes to long to walk down a busy street, to many random actors (expletive deleted)ing it up.

Isn't that part of the problem to uptake. Way too much choice just paralyses potential customers. You only have to look to the different 'flavours' of Linux to see why it is struggling in the marketplace. All the talk at the moment is about Rust. I do t have a clue what the (expletive deleted) it is, or why I might need it. Computer aided design packages have the same problem.

Yes. All going to end in tears these cloud services.

I still think you should write a book, you explain things so well.

All giants to me. I like being in the wherethefukarewe tribe.

Some LED lighting systems use a constant current device that converts the mains AC current to one suitable for LED lighting. This can be switched either before the device i.e. on the AC side from a normal wall switch, or can be switched on the DC side, after the device. If it is switched on the DC side, the voltage conditioner is always on and may be using a bit of power. Why simple design is generally the most energy efficient.