SteamyTea

Just been discussing a similar thing here:

Now you are just talking like a programmer. It is a case of using English words, but in an odd manner, until they do not make sense.

So do I. I understand BASIC and the underlying assembler, but seemed to miss the decade when C came along. When I worked for Welcome Break they had a new POS system designed in Israel. One of the test engineers came over and on a Monday morning started, what looked like random touch screen presses, until something went wrong. Then she wrote the sequence down, and started again. She did that for two weeks. I would have cheated.

(expletive deleted)ing good job I am upcountry then.

Never claimed it was easy. I hated the software modules at university, and I was one of the better ones at it. But surely these days you get modules that are added onto the main program. What happens in the Python stuff I use.

Or just a cheap, non sine wave inverter do it. The kind you see for 40 odd quid. Do the cheap inverts match an elements impedance better?

I thought you were working on cold fusion, shame it is not taking up more of your time.

What amazes me about home automation, especially on this site, is that will all the programmers on here, and a few hardware experts, they have not designed an open source one that can have simple modules that plug in.

This woman only needed 9 days treatment. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/3035606.stm

Hence But there are a lot of nobs that tinker under the assumption that relatively low voltage is pretty 'safe'.

There was someone, in the dim and distant past, who set his ST up so that it never overheated, then all he needed was a simple controller. There is a problem that if, and it is not very likely, that the DC side electrolysed the water, it would put off the hydrogen economy pretty quickly.

Back end of.

The easier way to to get someone that already has a stove to find out what the mean surface area temperature is and then assume an airflow around it (they can keep a small paper plane hovering, so not that great), and work it out from there. It will probably be a lot less than stated.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254103933935 Yes, a 13 and a half quid one if you stick to 48V modules.

The element may be OK, but how about the thermal cutout, and a bog standard thermostat, can they cope with the extra arcing?

I think in a home wood burner, visible smoke is more to do with the water content being driven off. From the colour you can estimate the temperature, so if you know the area that it is radiating from, you can work out the power it is delivering. Temperature (°C) Colour 480 Barely red in the dark 600 Dark red 800 Cherry red 950 Orange, barely visible in sunlight 1100 Orange-yellow, visible in bright sunlight 1300 Light yellow, nearly blinding, welding goggles required. 1500 Nearly white, blinding

Would also show if the system is not generating without having to go into the inverter menus.

Well it will be at those sort of prices.

Yes, but I charge a lot for it. Use the same business model as Crapple. Not going to tell anyone I am pulling the plug in the kit tomorrow. Ding Ding, I am in the bus.

I was driving up country, still here. But for about 10 miles on the A30, at 6:30 AM yesterday were free Christmas trees in the road. Driving against a stiff NE wind hurts my fuel consumption by about 10 MPG.

And SteamyTea Basics. Thought I would add the list just to make it the longest post ever.

Did we not have a similar conversation about the cost if fitting roof integrated PV against tiles. And you decided all the people that had actually done it were talking nonsense.

I use my camping stove and some LED lanterns on the odd occasion it has been prolonged. Having no water for half a day was worse.

Over what time scale?

Isn't that the same as I live in the Windy South West, yesterday there were a few thousand houses without power. I have never been seriously affected. I don't know if I was without power yesterday as I decide (actually had to) drive in 80 MPH crosswind for the first 100 miles, then the last 80 were in snow.