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Wind spinners/ mini turbines?
SteamyTea replied to Moira Niedzwiecka's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
They just don't. It is all to do with the area they present to the wind and the windspeed. -
Wet, windy, warm and sometimes sun. Not even thought about heating for months now.
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Power consumption, summer?
SteamyTea replied to JamesJJJ's topic in Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR)
May depend where you live. Near a busy road, or an arable farm, or very close to the sea. All those throw up a lot of particles, all the time. I live just off one of the most polluted roads in the UK, hard to believe that in windy, wet Cornwall. The dirt I get in my windows is the worse I have known. -
You knocked out the traffic lights in Truro, which is 50 miles from you. And they blamed it on a windfarm and a gas plant, now we know the truth. Shall we call it the 3C event.
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Does that mean getting rid of a cooker and fridge, eating out every day instead. Using a launderette is just horrible, I have often thought they could be improved, and incorporated into cafes. Where do you put the eBike in a small flat. I did minimal living when I was a young student, probably the biggest single thing I had to move was my stereo. No, I shall stick by my statement that we need to build bigger places. Building smaller places does not reduce price, that is set my how much people can borrow. If people could swap excess assets for 'experiences', that would cause a lot of environmental damage from the extra transport alone. That is before the extra consumerism.
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Kevin McClod on Self Build
SteamyTea replied to SteamyTea's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
He thinks it is always worth paying for a professional. Then he goes on to relate a story about an estimator adding 20%, passing it onto the boss, who adds another 20%. Says it then comes in on budget. -
For anyone interested it goes into supporting professionals because they never get the estimate wrong. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0007djl
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Traders may not see it that way, they could capitalise on the the public's ignorance. I see to remember that happened after 'D' Day. 240 old pence to the pound was rounded to 100 new pence to the pound. I know of a warehouse
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Well yes, that is what they are for. But you can loose the output, or a high proportion of the output, for very little shading. I installed a small, off grid, system. When I went back to look at it a few weeks later because it 'had stopped charging the battery', I found a few dockleafs had shaded a corner. What was really interesting though, was just how hot that module had got, way too hot to put your hand on, so over 70°C. One of the problems of shading is that users are used to it. This is mainly because the shading has always been there, so they do not know what the system could produce. The upside is that we have a lot of overcast days in the UK, so on these sort of days, less, or no shadow is cast.
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Even with optimisers you still get a hit that is out of proportion to the optimal. I think we have done this conversation before.
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How badly shaded is it? It only takes a small bit of shading to have a huge impact on performance. Does your inverter/inverters have the ability to log long term performance data, text files are best as that can be easily manipulated in a spreadsheet.
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I have downloaded and installed Andoid Studio, that seems to have SDK in it. That makes sense, but how to I add in things like the camera, GPS and then, and this is probably the easy bit, make some code to do what I want it to do.
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Right at the very beginning. I tried an online development package, got as far as giving it a title, then I could find nothing. All it seemed to want to do was make a pretty GUI. Is Android SDK a program that runs in Windows? Never done any work in Java, I struggle with a bit of Python to be honest.
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I want to make, what I think should be a simple app for my phone. All I want it to do is take a picture every time I move a set distance, store the picture and attach the appropriate location to it. How does one go about this. I have looked at a few tutorials, but I think I am missing something very basic. It would be nice if I could 'do the work' on my PC, rather than fiddle on the phone. Anyone done this?
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I want one, then I can fly down the A30 and get rid of cars, the ones that block off the outside lane leaving half a mile of free space in front of them.
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It is because most customers consider painting a minimum wage job that is one step up from drinking meths on the street.
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Is it bollocks. I have 50m2 on two layers, I live alone, and it is still cramped. Trouble with small places is you can't really have a half size cooker, fridge, washing machine, bin, staircase, sofa, table bath, shower, bog, bed, wardrobe, light fittings. It is about time the country, and its planning committees, moved on and encouraged larger places. There is no problem with land area, we have only put housing on about 2% of it, that is less than a quarter of all urbanisation. It is about time we shifted our old viewpoint of 'start at the bottom and move up, not serving us very well as a nation.
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My favourite plane, along with the A10. They both looked like they meant business.
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Is Dougie short for Douglas? Douglas was the co-pilot in Cabin Pressure. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lmcxj This is totally off topic, sorry.
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Balancing Weather, Comfort and Laziness
SteamyTea replied to puntloos's topic in Landscaping, Decking & Patios
I suspect it will. We had a crazy night at work last night, completely caught us out. And we are a few miles from Newquay, but a few of the customers looked like they had planned to go there. Tonight may be worse. Except it is already raining. Never go to Cornwall in August, it is very wet. -
Did someone put up a link to some polyurethane resin that is for roofs. It may have been been for repairs, but could see no reason why it could not be used with glass fibre mat. May ve to use a powder bound mat rather and a emulsion one. Less itching from powder bound, but messier to use.
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During my two years of painting and decorating, I learnt to do what he says. Wish I had seen this 20 years ago. Gloss rollers are the dog's.
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Balancing Weather, Comfort and Laziness
SteamyTea replied to puntloos's topic in Landscaping, Decking & Patios
Sounds like Cornwall, which is going to be quiet now Boardmasters has been cancelled. There is going to be so much gear dumped on the local market. -
Can you tell my council that, they seem to have dropped the 'a week' bit, but have a sign saying it is to conserve wild life.
