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This month's electric car is a Vauxhall Corsa Electric YES Edition.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/cars/electric/giveaway

3 bungalows came up for sale in my mothers road in the past month, all sold within a couple of weeks. Similar experience in my neck of the woods too, bungalows seem to be very sought after.

Thats a similar job to my shed roof I did around 12 years ago. These pictures are recent ones when I re-powered the roof a few months ago, but you can see how I put the rails on. I first put on a bitumen banding flash along where the rails were going. Then I placed a decking plastic strip on top, th...

A new record power peak here at Nowty Towers after my recent panel upgrades. (nowtyrecord) 10.5kW on the grid ties and 1.975kW on the DC coupling, so almost 12.5kW coming in. :twisted: The grid ties are practically at their theoretical max but there is about 1kW of headroom capacity left on the DC c...

"The state utility says the 10 MWh sodium-ion battery energy storage station uses 210 Ah sodium-ion battery cells that charge to 90% in a mindblowing 12 minutes."

My mind is blown.

Finally, I got confirmation today that Octopus have now put me on their Outgoing Octopus tariff and I shall be earning 15p per kWh exported. Now to rejig my battery charging and discharging times to optimise things. What are the pros and cons of exporting at a high(ish) rate over a small period v a...

I deal with excess solar by, 1) Home battery becomes near full and the DC coupled charge controllers will simply throttle off and shut down. 2) First 4kW excess gets exported, any more excess gets diverted to pump power into storage heaters and/or hot water tank. 3) If I’m out, any further excess ge...

AGT wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 8:05 pm

Those old transformer based Sunny Boys may not be the most efficient these days but they are near bomb proof. They will likely see us all out.

ecogeorge wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 7:46 pm Do i spot a dovetail joint on the bottom ?

I have a feeling this was not supposed to be a dovetail joint but a square joint. But I miscut the first piece and somehow managed to cut the second piece to match the first irregular cut.

I’m cooking dinner for my mum and what did I find in her cupboard in full operating service ?

A spice rack I made in school woodwork class.