Recent content by GaryMG4

May 23 car 21k miles, still use the supplying dealer although they lost the sales franchise. Had the 'they all do that' noisy air con compressor finally fail and replaced under warranty otherwise all ok and I still like the car.

It would be good. After early failure with Ryobi, I went to Bosch which still works. A neighbour helped me reclad the stable block and had Dewalt, I was so impressed I bought a twin pack from Screwfix. I then needed a 2nd fix nailer and just bought a cheap Excel and for the lawnmower went...

If we are talking about power packs, that is removed from the device to charge, apart from the usual power tools, lawnmower etc. I can add far too many radio control aircraft/helicopters and a couple of boats plus the power tank that powers my telescope.

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.