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SteamyTea

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  1. If you know what fabric you want to use, buy a roll of cable, and get a seamstress to make up some fabric tubes. Then feed the cable through them. Terminate with the RJ plugs. Cross post with @Temp
  2. If you zoom in to the bottom left corner, the sea is brown. Can tell holiday week is over, cheapskate holiday park owners have discharged the sewage treatment plant. And this is in one of the most desirable places in Cornwall.
  3. Who knows. I put old soil in the bottom of the pot, then filled up the rest with cheap compost. Just pushed the pips in to thumb depth, smoothed of the surface with my palm. Then watered. I plant loads of things, some work, some don't. All a bit of a lottery. My potatoe garden is just some old potatoes that were sprouting, cut into quarters and buried.
  4. Called bolts. I have often wondered how to make a wobbly wall flat with battening. Probably worth getting a couple if long straight edges. And string.
  5. AJA a nob. You planted your seeds yet?
  6. How long do they have to enforce breaches?
  7. Good. I want to discuss EWI with them. Save me the bother of calling them
  8. I have often thought HPs could have 2 or 3 compressors in them. Compressors are not expensive.
  9. Yes. Why I always put my seed in the lady neighbour's garden. Technically the front doors are in a breach of planning. Meant to be the old timber ones. But as they are a similar colour, council has not said anything. The joys of living in heritage area. Architects can convince the council of any dull looking box, then we, as owners, can't change jack shit. Even the satalite dishes and garden sheds are not allowed. Anyone that has lived in a mining area will know that 'heritage' actually means run down industrial wasteland, complete with toxic chemicals and poisoned watercourses. Heritage, my (expletive deleted)ing arse, just an excuse to not improve an area.
  10. If you look on the Elexon website you can see how cheap excess Scottish wind power is, and how expensive emergency extra generation is. Large scale storage is much cheaper than domestic level, though I do think if most houses had 1 kWh of storage that could deliver at 3 kW of power, that would be very useful. It would be owned by the power companies, rather than the householder. That way people cannot tinker with it.
  11. Well that is my 17 pips of beans planted. Let's see what happens.
  12. Rules here https://www.gov.uk/permits-you-need-for-septic-tanks
  13. It is too thin to add any insulation value. Thermal conductivity (k) has the unit W/(m.K) Thermal resistance (R) is the thickness of the material divided by the conductivity. m/(W/(m.K), more usually written as l (lower case L). Then the U Value, the unit we more naturally understand, is 1/R.
  14. Well so far I have drawn a blank with people in the industry knowing anything about it. But then no one has looked. A couple more people to chat to, hopefully one will allow me to put a proper power meter on one. We shall see.
  15. Going to take me more than 2 minutes to look at it. Wish they would put it all in a spreadsheet.
  16. No, got the light bulb manual. Seem to have missed the CoolEnergy one. was it by PM?
  17. I am really hoping that @LA3222 has just got some spurious readings or this is a serious problem that needs a fix.
  18. Fluttering your eyelids won't get you extra marks, did not help Angela Rainer. Did you make any assumption on the time to heat i.e. DHW heating for 5 hours, CH on for 14 hours.
  19. That can be a bit misleading though as they often only state at 3 temperature differences. i.e. 3.38 kW at OAT -7°C W at 35°C. 6kW at OAT 7°C W at 45°C, 9.51kW at OAT 12°C W at 35°C, or whatever. Makes comparison hard. What is really needed is three curves at least with the water output temperature fixed at maximum i.e. 65°C
  20. May be a DC voltage as it is an inverter unit.
  21. Does that come out the same on the kelvin scale?
  22. Not totally sure, it may act as an inductor, with thermal energy being a by product. @Radian would know more.
  23. Hopefully we will find out with a bit more investigation. How low could a compressor motor go in the power factor. 0.5 is appealing.
  24. Wonder if I can impress her with my chopper. I knew catering was the career for me once I had wasted 10 years at university studying energy.
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