Recent content by GaryMG4

At similar age I had a ladybird book on magnetism and read about electro magnets. So I decided that if I dropped my very weak red and black horseshoe magnet across the exposed live and neutral pins of a 3 pin plug (they didn't have the insulated sleeves in those days) it would make it more...

Not quite the best day of the year here but Generation 24.4 (Earnings £5.63 FiT) Exported 5.2 Self consumption 19.2 (would have been more but both cars full) grid 2.1 (cost 91p inc 52p SC)

Over the last few days my SC as been about the same as I have bought from the grid, and that's without any battery storage.

This is what I like to see on the Zappi. !00% green and that's with 70% green set on the Zappi, according to the web page it was actually 99.6% green.

Yes not a bad day, 12 in car, but I didn't get back home until 1:45.

Isn't hindsight wonderful.

According to my price increase email this will be coming to the App in early May, or at least the option to stop the charge once the 6 hours of smart charge have been used. It doesn't explain how they would bill it if you don't set it. I wonder what it would do for my last calibration charge...

Agreed, more incentive for me to max out my solar(fit) usage.

Email from Octopus at 17:00 today. It also mentioned the 6 hour cap coming soon (early May) plus another 1p on the standing charge.

So its going up to 6.9p/30.26p, wish I'd fixed like @Rolfe

Groundhogs Thank Christ for the bomb was another fave from that era.

My 1st classical Cd was probably Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky (courtesy of listening to Emerson Lake and Palmer version), Rachmaninov 2 on vinyl prior to that.

Astronomy Domine was my introduction to Floyd, courtesy of an English teacher although first purchase was Dark Side of the Moon.

I'd forgotten about those, my first job after school had one. My contribution was A night at the Opera by Queen, and I still have the vinyl disk to this day. No idea of first CD, possibly something by Fleetwood Mac. First vinyl album was Dark Side of the Moon but prior to that my cousin and I...

Well you should see the portrait in the loft!