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(expletive deleted) me ! Taken 3 days to get an esp32 tft screen working . ChatGPT talking bollocks and sending me in loops . Got it working now via human skills !

Bast ! . I’m not technically finished yet . So I’ll keep plodding …

Tinkercad for simple things . Takes 10 seconds to learn

Agree . I was surprised . Just expected a small sample for colour tbh . They might be disappointed with my £150 order 🙄

I mean that’s just a free sample !!

Crumbs ! Ordered sample yesterday. Arrived today ! Not just a tiny slither either ! I will be ordering from https://www.tradewarehouse.co.uk/

Yeah but I’ve got to design a thread and correct size barb - success rate at that design is zero .

I think so . I only stuck that on to test with a threaded tap - so it’s not a requirement to have that .

That’s for a watering system - so has to be a skinny

Won’t fit if I cut the barb off - thought of that So many things . But for now a generic connect any size pipe to any other size pipe magic thingy

No matter how many ‘water’ fittings I have - never the right one . The sump connector output is barbed - way too big . My pipe ( on the left ) with a nice and easy tap connector on at the moment . Cant seem to find a suitable connector which ever way I try it .. What do I need here ??

Thinking this might look smart

How the (expletive deleted) will that look ! Some (expletive deleted)ing brick effect Lino wrapped round a pipe . Rather have a photo of my manhood on the pipe ; pipes just about long enough 😘😉

Perhaps I lean over the coping from above ; do the middle bracket “ as best I can “ then the others to suit as I can lean to get them . Happier with the longest unsupported run at around 700cm then

Leaning over left and right I can reduce the unsupported span to 1.4m . I have been told that standard for all guttering is 600cm for brackets . Though looking at my black guttering ( roofer installed ) I think he must of run out of clips ! - certainly not 600cm gap … Do I risk 1.4m ?

Roof area is approx 15m x 3m . If I tip half the guttering in my favour ( which I think is doable ) then I’ll get water off half that . Cant really lean over the wall to fix anything and drill - way to awkward . A unistruct to span 3m with only 2 fixings will need to be chunky to hold guttering . Going to look pap . Might just have to hire scaffolding ( rather than a ladder ) .

What about something like a unistruct bar bolted to the top of the copings ( I can access from the otherside ) and the guttering clips hang off that ??

Though @saveasteading . Access is tricky . I can’t fix half gutter brackets in the middle . Span is 3m - walls too high . Some metal ‘bar’ spanning that gap that the actual gutter hangs on ?? or hire scaffolding ffs !

It’s probably the best plan tbh . So a half round running outlet off the gutter end . Various 30/45 degree turns to get over the wall ; then it just dumps into the horizontal metal half gutter . That it ??

So black down pipe and fittings going into a Lindab gutter running horizontal across the wall to the water butt . That what you’re suggesting ? . Will a half square gutter not overflow ? ( as opposed to an entire pipe ) . Opened up that sewer access - all good for the overflow to run into . This little “ automated watering system “ going to cost me £500 at this rate 🙄

So tank and as I said presume should be mdpe overflow as buried into a hole in that thingy .

I checked that access chamber thing - it’s not an access chamber is it . Anyway for reasons I can’t recall I put it in sometime ago . So the overflow could run into this . Did think about taking the copings off and chasing a trench in the wall to embed the pipe ; but as that is far too much work poo poo’d the idea . I think my only real option is a black plastic pipe right at the top of the wall just below coping level running horizontal.

IT’s got to run horizontal though . Chat advised me against putting a butt in that below ground section as the overflow from that puts more pressure on my sump

Getting more complicated Can’t have transducers more than 1 metre from screen . So transducers will need an esp32 to send data via WiFi for other esp32 with tft to pick up 🙄