Recent content by pcaouolte

BT have told me that I don't need to plug my phone in "somewhere else", it will continue to be plugged into the BT master socket. BT haven't proposed to give me "free VoIP-only broadband". They have said that the copper line will continue to come into the house and I will continue to use my...

My smart meter still does the same thing. My cheap rate is from 00:30 to 07:30 in the winter and 01:30 to 08:30 in the summer.

I personally would have ditched BT completely and relied on my mobile phone. The BT service is hideously expensive and I only need a small excuse to ditch it. The only reason that I keep a landline is that my mother's Dementia does not allow her to reliably remember to call my mobile rather than...

No definitely not. I'm not a BT Broadband customer, I don't have one of their home hubs and, as far as they know, I might have no internet connection at all. It won't because it doesn't (and wont in future) plug into the router. It plugs into a BT analogue socket.

I'm due to get exactly the same "upgrade". According to the letter received from BT my home "phone service is about to get a whole lot better". I will "get an enhanced call plan, which includes calls to any UK mobile and landline numbers - at any time of the day". "On the day of the upgrade the...

A fully charged car battery is around 12.64 V, 12.18 V = 60% charged, 12V is about 40% charged and 11.6V is basically flat.

When my meter was changed for a smart meter the meter fitter pulled the fuse and then plugged in some sort of plastic insulation device where the fuse had been. He constantly photographed every step that he did as a record of exactly the steps carried out and proof that he had followed all the...

My brother in law became a meter fitter. Prior to that he butchered turkeys. I recall that his training to fit smart meters lasted about a week for electric meters and another week for gas meters. He did carry the seals and equipment to replace the seal on the main fuse. He fitted both electric...

See my edit about the boiler requiring a permanent live supply when the programmer is not calling for heat, I edited my post while you were replying.

I didn't install anything. My heating engineer (very good and completely trusted by me) didn't install an overrun. Boiler has been working fine for about six years without an overrun. Edit to add: I understand that the boiler requires a permanent live supply to allow the flue fan to continue to...

I'm not a heating engineer but I do have an Ideal Logic heat only boiler. There is no pump overrun on mine but the flue fan does continue to run for ~ 2 minutes after the boiler stops heating, presumably this is to cool the heat exchanger.

How hot does the hairdresser need to be?

Thank you.

What tuner do you use with the pi?

That doesn't work very well as the thief with either an Android or iPhone will be notified that the tag is moving with them and the tag will start beeping so that they can easily find it.