Recent content by DrRob

That's why I was going for 12V. The inverter will eat through the battery at a rate of knots. Now I'm trying to source a sensibly priced flow switch or current sensing relay.

Now that looks like a neat solution. Thanks for that thought.

Thanks Sparktitus, that's pretty much what I was looking for. Without needing an inverter I'll get a lot more from my battery as well.

Thanks for that. I'd actually seen that one, but he starts with 2 UPS devices which costs a lot more than some of the alternatives I was hoping for.

Hi everyone, I'm trying to work out how to do something that, on the surface, looks very easy, but I'm looking for advice on how to make it as neat, cheap and safe as possible. I have a fishtank, which relies on constant power for the filter to stay alive amongst other things. In the near...

Seen them working and heating a pool with no problems throughout winter. Am in the process of having one installed right now.

From what I can gather, and see by digging, they've built a retaining wall and then backfilled with gravel, which has since started growing things. My ideal would be to leave it open to let the house breathe naturally but there'd be a risk of people losing an ankle down the side of the pavement...

Main problem is that, after digging down to the floor level of my house, there would be a 3 foot deep, 15cm wide hole, and supporting the channel drain worries me. I've been considering that too, but suspect that it would probably take long enough to sort out that I'd save myself a lot of...

I wonder if anyone on here has any ideas that will help us out in an unusual situation. We recently purchased a 1756 cottage that stands right next to the local road. A few years back it appears that a footpath was put in, running along the end wall of our house. When this was done a gap was...