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by Kommando
Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:18 pm
Forum: Media and Culture
Topic: How one German village exemplifies the cancer risk from wood burning
Replies: 13
Views: 732

Re: How one German village exemplifies the cancer risk from wood burning

Lifelong Asthmatic since I was 3, have lived in city centres, months spent in Shanghai where the outside air burnt the back of the throat, stood at bus stops not being able to see the number on the bus until it stopped, worked in factories including foundries. Despite all of that the worst attack I ...
by Kommando
Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:44 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Idiot's guide to a self build battery
Replies: 1069
Views: 120610

Re: Idiot's guide to a self build battery

Below £135 the seller is supposed to collect the VAT and send it to UK, above £135 VAT is not collected by seller but is instead collected at entry into UK based on declared value. So if you buy goods over £135 but the declared value is accidentally declared at below £135 then no VAT is taken at ent...
by Kommando
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:07 am
Forum: Transport
Topic: Jaguar I-Pace won't stop...
Replies: 30
Views: 1713

Re: Jaguar I-Pace won't stop...

If there was 'user error' and a carpet interfered with the pedal then there should still be an over-ride of some description. The Windows BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) was the butt of many jokes but you still had an on/off button to get rid of it and do a fresh reboot.
by Kommando
Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:30 am
Forum: Transport
Topic: Kerosene (Heating Oil) in a tractor?
Replies: 25
Views: 1333

Re: Kerosene (Heating Oil) in a tractor?

Is that K60 engine using the same principle as the Napier Deltic with two opposed pistons per combustion chamber.

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by Kommando
Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:08 am
Forum: Transport
Topic: Kerosene (Heating Oil) in a tractor?
Replies: 25
Views: 1333

Re: Kerosene (Heating Oil) in a tractor?

It's the fuel pump that determines if you can use kerosene, the older the pump the more likely it can be used. Modern fuel pumps require a level of oil content to lubricate them which diesel provides. You can get away with either mixing it in with diesel or adding cheap hydraulic oil. At current hea...
by Kommando
Tue Feb 27, 2024 3:54 pm
Forum: Cafe
Topic: Secondhand Taycan EV
Replies: 14
Views: 1403

Re: Secondhand Taycan EV

I have practised bangernomics for a few decades, you do not buy your car because it has depreciated more than another making it cheap to buy. You buy it based on reliability ratings, running costs and what you plan to use it for. That will mean its usually depreciated by less than most others in its...
by Kommando
Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:36 am
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: LuxPower - emergency backup enabling
Replies: 72
Views: 8669

Re: LuxPower - emergency backup enabling

Found out that the Solax X1 Boost G3, which is a cheap and freely available new G98 inverter, can be made to control its output via the connected Grid frequency. https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/63602/mp-2-ac-coupled-with-solax-inverter.html The two parameters that need adjusting are Fr...
by Kommando
Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:57 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Automating overnight charge rate and limit with Sunny Island
Replies: 5
Views: 531

Re: Automating overnight charge rate and limit with Sunny Island

Luckily you will end up only interested in 5 or 6 registers but with SMA providing so many registers and the descriptions not always matching the matching parameter description in the Sunny Portal its a steep learning curve. Note any register marked ! in a yellow triangle is best left alone Warning ...
by Kommando
Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:08 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Automating overnight charge rate and limit with Sunny Island
Replies: 5
Views: 531

Re: Automating overnight charge rate and limit with Sunny Island

With a 13 as well as changing parameters using Sunny Portal then you also have the option of Modbus TCP. Depending on the firmware version there are two modbus register lists https://www.sma.de/en/service/downloads?tx_lwsmasolrsearch_pi1%5BfilterQueries%5D%5BdocFamily%5D=%22002Battery%20Inverters%22...
by Kommando
Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:28 am
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Automating overnight charge rate and limit with Sunny Island
Replies: 5
Views: 531

Re: Automating overnight charge rate and limit with Sunny Island

Which version of the 8.0H do you have,10 , 11, 12 or 13.