OneGuyFromBarlick

No they are already cabled, its just tweaking the software on the inverter to work with out of phase AC on the grid rather than the DC coming from the panels in daylight. In the interest of citing sources the youtube video is here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONp8dismI-Q

Anyone remember the orange knob of the apocalypses (thanks Big Kev) tirade "Trunp digs coal" a while back ?. It sound very hollow now because America is going don the same road we are with renewables. Even the much trumpeted cheap fracking natural gas can't compete with free wind and solar...

II got the same message regarding oneguyfrombarlick.uk also with Ionos, I ignored it.

I came across that video last week. I dismissed it as a waste of time. Barely enough power to charge a mobile phone and only when its raining ... The solar panels will at least run the heat pump when the sun is shining.

Somebody rattled my cage regarding heat pumps. My understanding is that the RHI (renewable heat incentive) government system isn't available for hybrid heating systems. It depends on an inspection of your premises where they evaluate the insulation and estimate how much heat you will need to keep th...

Being nice helped a lot, the PPP details were waiting for me when I got up. I put them in and the router sprang to life. Pages load like the wind and speedtest reports 37.11 mb/s down and 9.28 up. Happy bunny.

I decided discretion is the better part of valour (or something like that) and sent an apology, looking back on it I was the impatient bugger who deleted the routers credentials and covid is probably making their lives difficult. And I have had 3 years very reasonable mobile use from them. We'll see...

On a different tack, I recently decided to upgrade and to make it more affordable to change my broadband provider. I'm regretting it. My change over date has arrived (the 19th May) and I've no broadband, this is coming through using my phone as a wifi hotspot. The old provider switched me off prompt...

The opinion is turning, looking at it from the governments perspective with a cold {very cold} financial viewpoint it makes sense to kill off care home residents. From a capitalist perspective it could be argued its the responsible thing to do under the present conditions. And yes they are going to ...

Stanley wrote: ↑20 May 2020, 02:35 Isn't it funny how it is always 'a sophisticated attack'...

My brother and his wife run some care homes and have lost a good number of their residents to Covid19. I've heard the local hospital was turning the residents away when they'd tested positive for the virus. Anecdotal evidence only, I'm not sure whether I buy it. The source has had disagreements with...

BBC2 Horizon Program aired tonight with much of the latest research https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000jbhj/horizon-2020-coronavirus-special-part-2, First cases are thought to be 1st December or possibly earlier according to Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic 17th of N...

Just remember who has the biggest ban hammer........

I don't often throw my weight around on here but I'm that way out today. I'm hardly a UK government cheerleader but I don't believe expats should be the ones sticking the boot in. Some of us live here.

Is the elephant in the room, the fact that it started in China or the Chinese government played down / covered up the serious nature of the disease ?

Is it just me or is the bod doing the NHS Coronovirus "stay at home" adverts on National TV a real live wire (not) ?. I think he's maybe computer generated to be as depressing as possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cK02XwUogM Having found the youtube version he has a name. :biggrin2:

I generally check in at least daily, but often don't post if nothing catches my eye.

Big Kev wrote: ↑25 Mar 2020, 09:16 the orange knob of the apocalypse

Excellent turn of phrase, it gets my vote.

Sheesh a thread started yesterday with all these posts, must be something important...... :biggrin2: Being in the at risk group my daughter was preaching at me on the phone for letting Mrs Pluggy out the door (who isn't on the list) , The as yet unknown condition thats gradually turning me disabled ...

If you sign up to your browsers native login service - Firefox Sync for Firefox, Google account for Chrome or Chromium and a Microsoft account for Edge it pretty much does what a password manager does and more besides. Technology has overtaken the password manager in my book.

Air to air are much cheaper and are quite easy to 'reverse' to make them cool. In the UK cooling would be nice the 2 days in July when it gets warm, the rest of the year its a waste of time. There is no real market for air con for houses so no body bothers importing them. The air source heat pumps h...

On a more down to earth approach, something Germany has been doing for a while and we've just started trialling is using excess wind energy (rather than paying them subsidies to have turbines stood idle when there is low demand ) is to produce hydrogen by electrolysis and then inject it into the nea...

Looks like a character from Blackadder.....

If you sign in to chrome using the same credentials as your phone, the cloud google photos will automatically be available on the computer. No faffing it just works.

Or you can just share a link to pictures :

https://photos.app.goo.gl/pi9Rish12a3kxJrz9

Or with a google account you use Google photos and it does itself without a cable. I just take 'em and they appear on any computer I want, yeah, yeah,,I know, big data, the epitome of evil.......