Small things matter

Wood stoves, pellets and other bio-fuels
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Re: Small things matter

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Had what I'm pretty sure has been the personal top Womble moment of the year today.

Workshop lights have been failing to perform as a 3rd hand overhead fluorescent tube unit (small) had failed.

Turns out SWMBO knew where I had left a spare 240ac/12vdc transformer at least a decade ago (she's like that). A quick rummage through the Turkush spare used led strips, a couple of led switchable striplights that were on s/by for who knows what use, a bit of spare cable from 1990..

Had great fun soldering within the home battery soc range of today's meager yet very real generation.

In the end we have a three unit individually switched 12v dc overbench set up which is miles beyond where we'd degraded to. All lying about doing nothing until today. :whistle:

It has urged me on to cleaning workshop (again). Just got to think on some more shelfs or similar and reorder that back wall. Great fun today, started at 07.55hrs with 66% soc and at 15.20hrs we are at 67% soc, brilliant


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The photos are pish, don't do it justice, the light thrown i mean. I'm very happy at the thought of a 4W dubai (style) bulb and some essentialy cast off led strippage is getting the job done to a good standard. 👍
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Re: Small things matter

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Joeboy wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:20 pm Had what I'm pretty sure has been the personal top Womble moment of the year today.
You'll be looking for a guest spot when it airs https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/wom ... ewsupdate/ ;)
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Fintray wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:23 pm
Joeboy wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:20 pm Had what I'm pretty sure has been the personal top Womble moment of the year today.
You'll be looking for a guest spot when it airs https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/wom ... ewsupdate/ ;)
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Well, that's my Christmas present to myself arrived and he fired up within seconds of placing on stove.

He is whisper quiet (name's Steve) and is defo making a difference. Feeling that I walk.into a wall of heat further away than before. Even a magnetic thermometer with it. What a time! :D

I think he may also have a partial cloak of invisibility.

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Joeboy wrote: Thu Dec 14, 2023 4:07 pm Well, that's my Christmas present to myself arrived and he fired up within seconds of placing on stove.

He is whisper quiet (name's Steve) and is defo making a difference. Feeling that I walk.into a wall of heat further away than before. Even a magnetic thermometer with it. What a time! :D

I think he may also have a partial cloak of invisibility.

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Steve looks a lot like my Lidl bargain and I've noticed a big difference in the heat being pushed into the room.
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What's your new one called? Got the cheapo thermal imager out. Surprised at the colours and temp. It is doing its job well.

Steve is a 10 blader open box buy @ £31.97. I have no idea if the blade count matters. Having not actually seen the unicorn that is Larry fan fae Lidl I can't comment on similarities. :hysteria:

Glad you're noticing the difference too. Always worry about placebo effect in these purchases. Defo better.


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We've got some nice cherry wood trunk slices. Debarked & and been drying for a year. Might try that in place of the wee bottom logs. I think we could achieve improvement edging towards 😎.

Project for tomorrow.
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This is not normal behaviour. The single ply kitchen roll strip.test was a success on the twin fan. Not on the single. I guess we are looking at focused displacement v's ....not.
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Re: Small things matter

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Joeboy wrote: Thu Dec 14, 2023 4:41 pm What's your new one called? Got the cheapo thermal imager out. Surprised at the colours and temp. It is doing its job well.

Steve is a 10 blader open box buy @ £31.97. I have no idea if the blade count matters. Having not actually seen the unicorn that is Larry fan fae Lidl I can't comment on similarities. :hysteria:

Glad you're noticing the difference too. Always worry about placebo effect in these purchases. Defo better.
Never really thought about giving it a name but perhaps Fanny will do. :D

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Fintray wrote: Thu Dec 14, 2023 6:14 pm
Joeboy wrote: Thu Dec 14, 2023 4:41 pm What's your new one called? Got the cheapo thermal imager out. Surprised at the colours and temp. It is doing its job well.

Steve is a 10 blader open box buy @ £31.97. I have no idea if the blade count matters. Having not actually seen the unicorn that is Larry fan fae Lidl I can't comment on similarities. :hysteria:

Glad you're noticing the difference too. Always worry about placebo effect in these purchases. Defo better.
Never really thought about giving it a name but perhaps Fanny will do. :D

Lidl fan is a 6 blader.
Of course! :praise:
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