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dpmiller

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  1. don't understand why someone who has done so much of the build wouldn't just hire a van and do a bit of graft?
  2. for a given power consumption, lower voltages mean higher currents and so more voltage drop or "transmission losses" along the resistance of the wire.
  3. having spent quite a number of years installing and commissioning fumecupboards and BSCs, the airflow required to achieve containment at even quite a small aperture size is large. Conversely the velocity required to allow good capture within a carbon filter is... very low. eg. a schools portable fumehood requires a sash opening of perhaps only 250x600mm (say) so that a low face velocity of 0.3m/s give reasonable containment and time for the filter to adsorb. Vs a ducted fumecupboard that will be around 1m/s average face velocity to contain within a sash opening of 450x1200mm. That's a lot of air...
  4. does that not create smoke that needs :ahem: extracted?
  5. completion is different to needing to pay rates surely? We're resident and "substantially" complete so LPS want their pound of flesh, but BC aren't interested in visiting until I ring'em and ask for final inspection
  6. As it's a matched VFD I'd expect the colours codes to be a match but it's but a moment's work to swap any two phases over and re-try. it's something we see in Greater Belfast vs the rest of NI and GB, it's rare that something shipped from GB works in Belfast without swapping two wires...
  7. that doesn't look like variable speed to me. Does the pump have some kind of pressure-control/ bypass valve internally?
  8. drain test bungs?
  9. dripping off the chimney coping onto the back gutter. Ours do it too...
  10. it's my perception that it's sensing the system demand more accurately, giving a bit more boost on heatup.
  11. seems a bit overkill, what with insurance etc. What's wrong with a trailer?
  12. nope, a tiny bit of flow can move heat to odd places...
  13. have you not got a diode across the 24V coils?
  14. isn't the choice really Openreach- Virgin- Fibrus? as they supply the infrastructure...
  15. build it on a tray with an drain to outside?
  16. if you can't see the aluminium, it's only a scuff. Ignore...
  17. why can't your air-to-water cool?
  18. regeneration discharge is pressurised yes, overflow is not...
  19. If you try to use the velux lower flexi-flashing alone you'll end up with a gutter behind the PV panel, whereas the GSE top flashing routes the water over the top of the PV. You'd also need to replicate the velux flashing for any areas that *don't* have a velux above them?
  20. surely being able to transport items the size of a fence panel would be useful during a self-build?
  21. Correct. not white, silver. They're not pure black panels...
  22. it's more about pulsations/ fluctuations. The glue/ weld may have embrittled over time too...
  23. some washing machine valves are similar. I've seen it a couple of times over the years. What kind of supply is it on, is there a pressure vessel and is it charged OK?
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