Recent content by GaryMG4

I decided to wash the Honda today, normally I just put it through the auto car wash (it is almost 20 years old and basically our tip car!) . Wheels were grubby but I'd used up the fallout remover so used Surfex and a round brush in a drill, worked a treat. Rinsed the whole car then snow foam...

They were the same people who cold called about double glazing in the 70/80s. We had a 1920s end of terrace in the late 1970s, at the time only one company advertised double glazed sash windows which would have been a nice option. I sent for a brochure, needless to say a few weeks later on a...

Many years ago a friend at work got really tired of the conservatory salesman phone calls so he adopted a different strategy. He engaged with the conversation, discussing the finer points especially the more expensive options right up to the point where he wondered if his neighbour would...

I usually order through the oil club, they get the 'best price', normally one of three local suppliers. Occasionally I'll try to get a quote from local suppliers on most occasions it is slightly more than the oil club.

I asked that question and was told that it was a trading standards condition, so I had to pay £1.18 a litre!

I don't use Zapmap to navigate, nor do I have an Android phone but is it possible that displaying chargers on Zapmap via AndroidAuto is a 'premium' feature?

If they are adding panels to a third/fourth face of the building they would have to add scaffolding there too.

I guess that all depends on the cost of scaffolding, adds quite a chunk vs a few extra panels.

Yes the LR has an NMC battery the SR an LFP battery.

It was a bit flaky early on but does what I need of it.

Surely in that case every inverter would be inefficient as they are rarely fed with the full capacity of the panels, and I'd guess they would be hybrid so DC-DC to the batteries?

Would a 5kW inverter mean a G99 required? Especially if you plan to sell back to the grid.

Isn't there an issue with some 3 phase 11kW chargers where the MG only 'sees' a single phase so only gets around 3kW. Edit. Thinking about it, last year in Scotland most of the 22kW chargers gave me around 10kW with my 3 phase cable, but a local Tesco 22kW one would only ever supply 7 kW with...

I was considering adding an AC coupled battery to our house, we have solar on FiT so I didn't want to disrupt the payments. We are a low user of peak rate electricity, currently on IOG flexible so 5.2p and 27.8p, over the last 12 months we averaged 4.1 kWh per day of peak rate power. My...

It is marginal if you would pay more. I added 60.2 kWh to go from 6-100% and balance, 36 were at off peak (5.2p), 6 at peak rate, 18 from solar with 1-2 top up from the grid. Last time I did a calibration charge I just plugged in around 21:30 and told the Zappi to boost 80kWh so it just ran flat...