Small things matter

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Re: Small things matter

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AGT wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 6:39 pm Sounds good mate.
Meant to be 5 deg degrees early tomorrow morning so first overnight burn coming tonight!
That Arctic wind pattern they spoke about on radio? Arrived here about 16.30hrs. Summer is officially over at Casa De, long live Winter! :D :roll:
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Re: Small things matter

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Joeboy wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 6:47 pm
AGT wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 6:39 pm Sounds good mate.
Meant to be 5 deg degrees early tomorrow morning so first overnight burn coming tonight!
That Arctic wind pattern they spoke about on radio? Arrived here about 16.30hrs. Summer is officially over at Casa De, long live Winter! :D :roll:
Whilst walking the dog earlier, I was saying to my wife where is the wind they had forecast!
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Re: Small things matter

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Fintray wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:18 pm
Joeboy wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 6:47 pm
AGT wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 6:39 pm Sounds good mate.
Meant to be 5 deg degrees early tomorrow morning so first overnight burn coming tonight!
That Arctic wind pattern they spoke about on radio? Arrived here about 16.30hrs. Summer is officially over at Casa De, long live Winter! :D :roll:
Whilst walking the dog earlier, I was saying to my wife where is the wind they had forecast!
We were over at Lords throat out in the wide wide open at 4. No worries, got back to Inver, out of EV and thought 'bloody hell'. :lol:
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Re: Small things matter

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A few bits of kindling and some logs and the embers are away..

22.6 in the living room with the door open all night
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AGT wrote: Sat Oct 14, 2023 9:14 am Image


A few bits of kindling and some logs and the embers are away..

22.6 in the living room with the door open all night
Looks good, had an autoignition here too. 😋
18degs downstairs with 6 degs outdoors and it is blowing a hoolie! The wee turnip has lifted the 12v 130Ah battery(s) from 12.0v when I hooked in the second one last week to a mighty 12.15v. 😀


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Re: Small things matter

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Think the thermal mass of the stone walls are now retaining the heat, 11deg outside
21.5 in the hall way.

Away out for lunch

Watch out for that 0.15 volt increase!
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Re: Small things matter

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I bet that’s down to the trees being trimmed, a 0.15v increase is better than a 0.15v decrease 👍🏼

Not too windy here with sunny spells and short showers, temperature outside is cooled to 9 and set to fall away to 3 overnight.

Lounge is still holding 18.7 without heat input but I suspect tonight will be seeing the WBS being lit. Kids are all recovering from a nasty 48 hour sickness and fever bug and the boss has fallen to another case of tonsillitis so it’s a quiet weekend for us to let everyone recoup.

I’m sat in my NBC suit to avoid catching the lurgy 🤣

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We are out for lunch at dogtap in Ellon. Sheets of rain just rolled in and the lassie serving tells us they are expecting snow tonight! :o

I'll be back at WBS by then!
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Coming back over the road and the sleet started. First chance to try out the Winter.back up. EV combined with home inverter gives a 7.6kW barrier tween us and the grid

Tumble dryer running off EV. :D

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Re: Small things matter

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I really like that!!
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