Energy network owners have made £3.9bn ‘excess profit’ from higher bills, says report

[Roger440]

1 hour ago, Nickfromwales said:

@Alan Ambrose

 

Apologies, this thread has been utterly derailed

We are bad people. 

 

Not entirely, as electricity prices were what i was posting about.

 

But, yes, mostly

[SteamyTea]

I did something about off grid a while back.

 

 

 

[SteamyTea]

6 hours ago, JohnMo said:

But yes things have changed

My milage has 

 

 

[Nickfromwales]

20 hours ago, Roger440 said:

Im not paying £20k for a connection. Thats just silly.

lol. 
You’d spend it on a new lift without blinking 😂.

 

Sorry, I meant cubic space earlier, as it’s basically 2.5 storeys high iirc? A rough stab as I can’t remember exactly how big was your manage, I just know it’s feckin massive!

 

Look again at solar, and maybe some job lots of the cheap used panels, with a few squirrel’d away for spares. Lots of those seems the way forward, but probably need a commercial sized battery and hybrid inverter to get you through DNO.

 

Shame about the 3ph issue, but if you can get a cheap remote start gen-set then I guess that’s the way forward. To max it out every time you run it, you’d set it up to dump a load of power into the batteries and heat into a TS or the UFH.

 

You just have an expensive hobby, and a man cave like an aircraft hanger, which I am jealous of btw 😜. 

[Onoff]

21 hours ago, Roger440 said:

For a 2 post lift, demand on start up is too high for a static convertor, Would need to be rotary. Which the manufacturers demand a 60 amp supply. Not do-able. 

 

Nah...convert to single phase, job's a good'un. Runs off a 13A plug. Done it twice now. 3rd one lined up.

[Roger440]

2 hours ago, Onoff said:

 

Nah...convert to single phase, job's a good'un. Runs off a 13A plug. Done it twice now. 3rd one lined up.

 

Complication. Its a screw lift. If it was hydraulic, sure, easy done. A screw lift has 2 motors (both 3.2kw), one each side, and if theres a car on it already, you are starting it at full load. Unlike a hydraulic ramp.

 

Single phase screw lifts are liking rockig horse doo doo. And i hate hydraulic 2 posters. Pain in the backside for accurate lowering of, say a shell, over a subframe.

[Onoff]

3 minutes ago, Roger440 said:

Complication. Its a screw lift.

 

1/2" chain & sprockets. 18T for the small one, 36T for the big one.

 

 

 

[Roger440]

2 hours ago, Nickfromwales said:

lol. 
You’d spend it on a new lift without blinking 😂.

 

Sorry, I meant cubic space earlier, as it’s basically 2.5 storeys high iirc? A rough stab as I can’t remember exactly how big was your manage, I just know it’s feckin massive!

 

Look again at solar, and maybe some job lots of the cheap used panels, with a few squirrel’d away for spares. Lots of those seems the way forward, but probably need a commercial sized battery and hybrid inverter to get you through DNO.

 

Shame about the 3ph issue, but if you can get a cheap remote start gen-set then I guess that’s the way forward. To max it out every time you run it, you’d set it up to dump a load of power into the batteries and heat into a TS or the UFH.

 

You just have an expensive hobby, and a man cave like an aircraft hanger, which I am jealous of btw 😜. 

 

Lifts are cheap!

 

£20k for a connection from 50ft away is robbery. Its not happening. Plus its even more expensive (as though that were possible), and uncapped.

 

Yes, almost 6 meters to the apex. 

 

Working on the solar. Need a tame electrician to sign of my install though...... Not sure DNO will accept my qualifications!

 

The hobby might be expensive, though its not that bad as you think, i do it all myself, But over the next 20 years, unless i do something im going to spend over £70k on electricity at todays prices. And prices can only go up. And i really would like 3 phase, which a genset would give me.

[Roger440]

1 minute ago, Onoff said:

 

1/2" chain & sprockets. 18T for the small one, 36T for the big one.

 

 

 

 

Well, i guess if you gear it down enough, anything will work!

 

Not really getting in to ramp modifications. Ill live with what i have.

 

Anyone need a really nice 2 post 3 phase screw lift?

[Onoff]

10 minutes ago, Roger440 said:

 

Well, i guess if you gear it down enough, anything will work!

 

Not really getting in to ramp modifications. Ill live with what i have.

 

Anyone need a really nice 2 post 3 phase screw lift?

 

How much?

[Roger440]

4 minutes ago, Onoff said:

 

How much?

£1600.

[Onoff]

23 minutes ago, Roger440 said:

Well, i guess if you gear it down enough, anything will work!

 

Exactly:

 

 

[Onoff]

On 21/02/2025 at 20:42, Roger440 said:

For a 2 post lift, demand on start up is too high for a static convertor, Would need to be rotary.

 

Funnily enough I'm building one using the two motors off the two, 2-post lifts:

 

 

[Roger440]

29 minutes ago, Onoff said:

 

Funnily enough I'm building one using the two motors off the two, 2-post lifts:

 

 

 

All good stuff, though way over my head!

[dpmiller]

12 hours ago, Roger440 said:

 

Complication. Its a screw lift. If it was hydraulic, sure, easy done. A screw lift has 2 motors (both 3.2kw), one each side, and if theres a car on it already, you are starting it at full load. Unlike a hydraulic ramp.

 

Single phase screw lifts are liking rockig horse doo doo. And i hate hydraulic 2 posters. Pain in the backside for accurate lowering of, say a shell, over a subframe.

You could probably do what's done with 3hp x2 tandem compressors, just put a short delay on one of the motors. It only takes a second for the first motor to come up to speed and reduce it's consumption to sane levels, then there's plenty of juice to kick the other one in. I doubt a second would put the screws too far out of balance...