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...There again, I enjoyed the magic roundabout when I should have been out discovering fags, birds and booze 🤣

73 onwards - I think it was to be ITV's answer to Dr, Who but didn't really cut it. I watched it a bit. For slightly younger people I think.

They've been good to me too. How does that expanding PU adhesive fare in the wet though? I've not had much experience of it in outdoor applications but just used it on my picnic table makeover. Will be overpainting though.

Ah, that famous scene with Arthur and Charlie Croker. Fun fact: Arthur was played by Michael Standing who later appeared as Ginge in the 70's sci-fi series "The Tomorrow People".

Looks like you made it into a flush panel? Very smart!

You may have noticed that I avoided any specific quantification because it depends on the goal. If trying to burn through a safe door with a PV powered plasma cutter, maximising kW may be more important than kWh. Particularly if you want a quick getaway.

Being realistic, given the slightest breeze, far more air will be circulating than you could create over such a large area with a fan. Much better to use a hybrid thermal/PV panel to shift cold water in one end and hot out the other. (he says trying to get the thread vaguely back on topic)

Agreed. Altitude of Sun for 51o 30'N (London) astro.ukho.gov.uk: So for the modules to be perpendicular to the Sun on during the Summer Solstice in London they should be inclined at about 28o whereas for the Winter Solstice they should be at 75o to get maximum output when facing South at midday. Anything less than perpendicular will create a loss. So for a 45o pitch roof, April/September will give best results.

But the roof is in shade so as long as there's an air gap under the modules, it's pretty much irrelevant what they mounted on. I saw some pwople were experimenting with water cooling PV to increase output. Not a realistic proposition I would think although it did seem to gain a little.

Agreed. However, I was thinking of using it to heat some water for a workshop sink using gravity. Just a small amount at a time for hand washing after working on the car.

Thanks for posting this up. Interesting to see a company making a product that's not far removed from the DIY versions we've discussed on here. I've been thinking about what you could do with black PVC conduit, 90o elbows and solvent weld to make a serpentine flat panel absorber.

10:51 got fed up not seeing anything so started to look at the moon. Very nice sight in itself but then Bam! a very bright fireball pretty much straight past the moon heading SE. Not a pissy white streak but orange/red thing with long tail, like a firework. Amazing.

Still clear over here but signs of cloud further East. Not seen any yet though.

Cheers @Big Jimbo built it a long while ago but recently given it a big makeover. Always had a plan to add a garden room on the back (original planning objections meant no window on our garden facing elevation 🙄) and a room-in-roof on the garage for my toys.

It's been just too hot to care about anything other than Iced Coffee.

Same here. Has been just the ticket in the current heatwave (we didn't get the 40oC one at the end of July but it's been 30oC for close to three days in a row here). The Sun is blocked by the house at the hottest time of day (back of house faces NE). Makes the room a proper refuge. With sliding doors open on three sides a decent through draft is almost guaranteed. Can also drift in and out freely so virtually outdoors with a warm roof. Excuse SWMBO, she was a bit pixelated by the afternoon.

Well, I gave it a couple of hours but nobody bit. Guess it's up to me. Balanced flue.

Yes. Rafters are 25mm narrower than yours but that would be because of their total length which is probably less than yours (5627). This is supporting a slate roof. Doubt that the difference would make much difference to the flex of the bottom chord.

My 225mm chords only span 6.2m on a 600mm pitch and gave unacceptable amounts of flex.

Not sure why you mention YY in particular. It's a bit of a grey area as to whether their use in UK electrical installations is appropriate for power. They're really regarded as control cables. Here's a relevant review of the situation by Eland Cables But there are Class 2 PVC cables that might be suitable, it's just the photo above made it look a bit on the skinny side. I must be in a bit of a bad mood today or something. Also I'm still getting to grips with the changes to the 16th ed. where stranded first became acceptable in UK installations. 🙃

So this is garage with Room In Roof. Does it connect to the house? We did our garage extension with RIR trusses. Span of 6.2m and a total run of 17m. Wasn't too impressed with the resulting floor feel though. Truss manufacturer did the engineering design but I can think of any way it could have been installed badly enough for it not to be predictably bouncy. One 4m section had a supporting wall 1.2m in from the outside reducing the effective span to 5m and this section felt much better. We ended up sistering the adjacent 6.2m chords with 25mm ply which was a pain but did solve the bounce. The gang that initially craned the trusses on and braced it all up said it'd be fine once nogged but this was BS. There's still a run that we haven't got around to nogging as it's just a store area but it feels no different.

Given that the AC connection has been done in flex, I'd not be expecting more than 2.5kW and even then it'd have to be no more than a meter or so from the ring final... which it joins via??? A 13A FCU??? There ought to be some MCS paperwork detailing the installation somewhere. Nowhere in this install could I suggest safely placing a CT except possibly at the meter tails but that wouldn't show generation, just the full import/export mix.

House looks newly minted. I hope that loft space is well ventilated. Unnecessarily heat stressing an inverter is not clever. Looks like a bit of 'lip service' and chucked in to meet a planning condition.

Log store looks fab. How have the cat(s) settled in? Don't see enough cat pics around here!

OK, that makes sense. Funny how it looks sloped in the photo. I've used the sledge trick to rip a long length or UPVC drainpipe into a pair of half round channels on a table saw before. Just screwed it to a piece of 2x4 and slid that along the fence of a table saw.