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- Sun Oct 20, 2024 10:44 am
- Forum: Wind Power
- Topic: 3off Hugh Piggott design 3.7m dia Wind Turbines. Vid
- Replies: 3
- Views: 962
3off Hugh Piggott design 3.7m dia Wind Turbines. Vid
Vid is fun..... Some of you may know about my 24 years of a RE and sustainability Project. House all restored and well insulated, although the Energy man freaked out when he tested. lol 4 beds, 3 showers, etc, Lecture Theater 3 independant Gites. 20KW PV, 15KW Ac coupled and backcharging through my ...
- Mon Sep 16, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: Photovoltaic
- Topic: AC Coupling on a Mini Grid, using Old GTI's
- Replies: 0
- Views: 758
AC Coupling on a Mini Grid, using Old GTI's
Hi, All I dont post much but this PDF may be of some interest. This is actuall Empirical Evidence after 23 years of RE operations. AC COUPLING WITH OLD GTI’s With a Main Inverter that takes a Battery DC voltage and changes it to a 120vac PSW 60HZ or a 230vac 50HZ, it’s the H BRIDGE design of the mai...
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 8:42 pm
- Forum: Energy efficiency
- Topic: Slide towards Winter
- Replies: 81
- Views: 21834
Re: Slide towards Winter
"Merry Xmas ray guns".
- Mon Sep 18, 2023 8:31 am
- Forum: Cafe
- Topic: Where am I ?
- Replies: 262
- Views: 86816
Re: Where am I ?
Another solar powered day trip in the EV today, won't be many more this year before I need the grid again. Not too difficult to guess the location, we were at Tiger day at the Tank Museum, Bovington, fantastic battle re-enactment, loads of vintage infantry weapons firing blanks and some decent pyro...
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 10:23 pm
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: EV trip to France
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18683
Re: EV trip to France
For a French Carte sejour, (permement residency carte,) and French passport, your fingerprints are indeed taken and put onto a file and in the FR Gov data base system.
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:10 am
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: EV trip to France
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18683
Re: EV trip to France
Nope, still no signs of machine installations for spotting Crit Air stickers in Rouen, well the bit i go through. Haven’t used the A28 start point in Rouen itself for many years. Just a quick visit for the last 2 days to the UK and back to Normandy. Used 'Scum' lines Dieppe to Newhaven. Another stre...
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 8:35 pm
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: EV trip to France
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18683
Re: EV trip to France
Dan,
"called Bourg-Achard, near Rouen".
We call that village, Bugger-old. lol
"called Bourg-Achard, near Rouen".
We call that village, Bugger-old. lol
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 8:18 am
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: EV trip to France
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18683
Re: EV trip to France
And here in France. At present Crit-Air stickers are still rolling out. Mostly for large city areas. Paris, Rouen etc. However, France being France, there is a lot of hostility about this as another stealth tax. With a lot of my French friends sticking a finger up to the Crit-Air. Me i have my 3 yea...
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 8:40 am
- Forum: Cafe
- Topic: Squirrel problems
- Replies: 37
- Views: 16910
Re: Squirrel problems
We are very fortunate that we do not have Grey squirrels in this part of Europe. My saying, “save a tree eat a grey squirrel". However, we do have these, but our border collie, who permanently lives outside. keeps them away. Stone Martins and Pine Martin’s. I see ‘Joeboy’ is speaking French? ht...
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 7:03 pm
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: 8th World(Guangzhou) Battery Industry Expo
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2879
Re: 8th World(Guangzhou) Battery Industry Expo
How goes the build? Hi Joeboy, Still at it but the R&D on the lead plates themselves is good. Insulation socks and sheet seperators now being worked on. Not Long before i can test and give REAL WORLD DATA. As usual got a littel side tracked with other projects here. LOL Great to hear from you, ...