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Increasing an array over 4kW with batteries?
SteamyTea replied to bontwoody's topic in Photovoltaics (PV)
Either a manual or automatic change over breaker. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Automatic-Transfer-Switch-Circuit-Breaker/dp/B07R599LYP -
Will I be eligible for ASHP Grant?
SteamyTea replied to richo106's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
That is the idea of these grants. But if the market can stand a higher price, and suppliers are wanting to have financially sustainable long term business, the paying public have to pay the going rate. It is not right that we have a race to the bottom on prices as that does no one any favours: company's vanish and consumers get sub standard goods and services. -
Increasing an array over 4kW with batteries?
SteamyTea replied to bontwoody's topic in Photovoltaics (PV)
You need planning permission to go over 9m² on a ground array. Do the existing modules need a good clean? -
The roofs, the windows and the solar PV array
SteamyTea commented on Thorfun's blog entry in West Sussex Forever Home
Don't they, and other critters, invade the house. Would play havoc with my hayfever. -
Reducing Energy Bills - How goes it?
SteamyTea replied to Ferdinand's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
My Mother took a third of our take home as 'keep'. Was okay when to took home 30 quid. Soon became cheaper to buy my own place. Seems odd that a flat that cost me 17k was cheaper than living with my Mother. Rented it out, when off to university, sold it 3 years after purchase, worked out the place had given me a wage of 500 a year. And had a big deposit for the next place. What you going to do when that price plan becomes unsustainable, pretend it is still there? -
How does your garden grow?
SteamyTea replied to recoveringbuilder's topic in Landscaping, Decking & Patios
We called him Brick. Not because he was solid, but because he was dense. There is a story, after I had been told to leave, about him being tied to a bed and pleasured. No idea if it is true or not. -
How does your garden grow?
SteamyTea replied to recoveringbuilder's topic in Landscaping, Decking & Patios
Was at school with a lad from your neck of the woods, he liked it so much that he held the school record for beatings. You probably know him, name is Tim Simpson. -
How does your garden grow?
SteamyTea replied to recoveringbuilder's topic in Landscaping, Decking & Patios
For discipline. -
So it was @jack’s fault? Surely not And I was thinking it was because an ex of mine had moved to his village. I always suggest that people run to the hills.
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Reducing Energy Bills - How goes it?
SteamyTea replied to Ferdinand's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Ever day, it is part of my job. Mine can combine the microwave and the fan oven to speed things up more. When I boil anything, I boil the water in the kettle and then poor just enough into the pan. Faster and uses less energy. Yesterday, as an experiment, I did a load of washing at 40°C and a load at 30°C. 0.4 kWh and 0.18 kWh. Shame the a 30°C wash don't get the clothes clean enough. -
Mug of tea takes 0.3 kg of water. So you are boiling enough to make 16 mugs. The remainder can be used to wash the mugs and spoon up in.
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No hurry then, shall revisit in December and how the heliocentric mirror array us coming on.
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If your usual storage is full i.e. thermal store and lithium batteries, would it not be better to save it as separated ions and electrons in any old battery. The efficiency becomes secondary to the marginal increase in capacity. Or, if you are a 'prepper' and like to grow vegetables, use it to run so grow lights and irrigation, store those joules as carbs.
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I have lost the plot about what is going on here.
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What is going to hold your shelves up?
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Starting a 40 year old generator, not ran for 20 years.
SteamyTea replied to ProDave's topic in Boffin's Corner
Squirt with penetrating oil and put back in the shed till 2030. -
Combining an air-water heat pump and solar thermal
SteamyTea replied to Garald's topic in Solar Thermal (ST)
I think they should all be called thermal energy stores, even my storage heaters. Then sub dive them into vented, unvented, direct and indirect. Then the number if coils classed surface area. -
As you will be wanting to sell it once you have done with it, anything that makes it look good, and can be packed up inside it i.e. decking, skirt, EWI, cheap A2AHP should add value.
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Combining an air-water heat pump and solar thermal
SteamyTea replied to Garald's topic in Solar Thermal (ST)
I think that is okay. It is all about overall energy storage and modes of failure. While the water in either a pressurised, or vented system contains the same energy, a pressure vessel fails much more rapidly, seconds rather than months usually. This allows a much greater power delivery. Isn't a vented cylinder with isolation coils a thermal store. Or do you mean an old system boiler type cylinder, the ones with the coil in the base and an immersion element at the top.
