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by Saladin
Thu Feb 27, 2025 10:21 am
Forum: Cafe
Topic: The Camelot Cafe/Bar
Replies: 15
Views: 3850

Re: The Camelot Cafe/Bar

Is it too early for a Guinness? No! Three so! Like everything pros, get on with it, DIY’s ponder about it, tidy up frequently don’t mix enough etc etc stop for a cup of tea admire the work, pros want paid and onto the next job. What do experts do? I've knocked a month (March) off my lecky import. Ph...
by Saladin
Sun Jan 19, 2025 10:11 pm
Forum: Wind Power
Topic: affordable grid-tie wind?
Replies: 17
Views: 3588

Re: affordable grid-tie wind?

by Saladin
Sun Jan 19, 2025 12:20 am
Forum: Wind Power
Topic: affordable grid-tie wind?
Replies: 17
Views: 3588

Re: affordable grid-tie wind?

If you use a hybrid inverter you can grid-tie anything that charges the battery.

Scoraig Wind Linky
by Saladin
Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:29 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Battery-inverter cables upgrade
Replies: 62
Views: 8447

Re: Battery-inverter cables upgrade

H07RN's great cable and quite often more authentic. Better mechanical resilience, higher heat capacity, much higher voltage rating, as flexible. Hard to find in red. Arguably welding cable is for welding and hence rated for surge loads not continuous duty..most people use it because it's cheap and f...
by Saladin
Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:56 am
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Battery-inverter cables upgrade
Replies: 62
Views: 8447

Re: Battery-inverter cables upgrade

The gauge being down is one thing but so is the price hence my acceptance of the back-hander. Sure it's dishonest but it's effin' hard to get honest cable or any at all in a red jacket over 50mm², if the price per gram of copper is fair then ignore the numbers and oversize the oversize is my logic. ...
by Saladin
Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:31 am
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Battery-inverter cables upgrade
Replies: 62
Views: 8447

Re: Battery-inverter cables upgrade

How much does the insulating jacket weigh? :pot-stir: btw that's the "hi-flex" cable Nowty it's 40mm² > 45mm² :on-patrol: Dodgey cable dot com linky PM me for the "I know what you did last Summer" hotline Free cable or class action lawsuit; you choose...'Split Charge's' defense w...
by Saladin
Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:35 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: End to end lead acid battereies?
Replies: 14
Views: 2411

Re: End to end lead acid battereies?

I suppose if you EQ them and they all have identical specific gravities and water consumption there's nothing to fix.

I rotate my lead every 2 years.
by Saladin
Wed Jan 15, 2025 3:08 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Battery-inverter cables upgrade
Replies: 62
Views: 8447

Re: Battery-inverter cables upgrade

Interesting. Did you try weighing the cable? I weighed it. Load tested it. Melted it at 67% "rated" continuous although that was mostly conducted heat from a fuse. Calculated the diameter of the strands x number of them. Compared it's gauge to genuine cable. Full load voltage drop tested ...
by Saladin
Wed Jan 15, 2025 2:44 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Battery-inverter cables upgrade
Replies: 62
Views: 8447

Re: Battery-inverter cables upgrade

If its of use to anyone. I have bought a couple of times from an ebay seller 'split charge' being their shop name. Good quality cables, many sizes. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201702388802 Hohoho..that's where I got the dodgey underspec cable I mentioned earlier. In fairness they're a distributor no...