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This is still the question. It would be easy enough to have LED headlight, so an 8 AH is enough to run 12 volt lights, but with vintage how far does one go?

For me, the existing panels do not get the morning sun, and while using off-peak, that does not matter, if panels produce say 10 am to 3 pm in winter, and the off-peak is 00:30 am to 05:30 am then the big gap is 3 pm to 00:30 am so panels South-West works well. If the tariffs change however...

I personally think my best next step is more likely to increase battery size, as already the off-peak has become more expensive, and the export has gone down too, as it stands still more for export to what I pay for off-peak, but if this trend continues, then I would need to alter how I control...

On hunting, it seems it was 8.0 Ah not 80.

I still wonder if the report is linked to the actual government paper, or if it is what that reported thinks should happen? But only 10 days left to wait.

As said there is a 250 volt range. If not tripping all the time, then clamp-on may help, but I went all RCBO, seemed a better option, as my consumer unit I need to go outside and down steps to get to.

You have written a lot while I was replying, the clamp meter needs to measure in 1 mA increments, link does not work, but the Uni-t UT210E was cheapest I could find to measure in 1 mA increments and both AC and DC.

OK, I will start with a guess. My guess is the 2019 electrician got it working by not connecting an earth wire, which when you came to work on it, you have re-connected it as it should have been. However, we have three tools, the insulation tester, the RCD tester, and the clamp-on ammeter...

I agree, which is why I think they want to give with one hand and take back with the other, and plug in solar is just a paper exercise to say look how green we are.

The method used in old British motorbikes was to use a coil for each job. Often each coil had a different gauge of wire. But some did charge a battery, often 6 volts, and it was really a bit of hit-and-miss, and it was a regular job to put the battery on charge. So the headlight switch as well...

I spent most of my working life as an away worker, so the garden was simply not available to me. So small pond, and grass for the children to have a swing, green house erected but hardly ever used. One apple tree, a bit of rhubarb, but garden was rather small. So retired to mid-Wales, larger...

It would need to be a book on tape, reading i.e. close up work, is a problem now.

It would need a G99 as the V2G EV connects a battery which is typically too big for G98. But it seems people with an EV, realise solar can reduce their bills due to being able to be used in house. I only get 12p/kWh for export, and my off-peak is cheaper than my export rate, so pays to fully...

Last night 16/17 August 2026 it rained. So now I can step back and leave it to nature.

Last night it rained, so would think no longer a problem.

It seems they must not be fitted on wooden structures, so can't be put on wooden fences, sheds, or balconies. Also limits on how far out they can protrude, article here seems odd to use a discontinued measurement (cm) so maybe it is Cat Ellis's thoughts of what should be allowed. Maybe I am...

My daughter blamed the moss killer. Normally applied end of May it would be long gone, but no rain.

To move a kitchen, needs planning permission. At least that's what the LABC told me. As to RCD or RCBO in my kitchen cooker on its own RCBO and all but fridge and freezers on a ring final RCBO, with the rest of that side of the house. The fridges and freezers run from two double RCD sockets...

Daughter came to help with gardening, and was raking the apples and dead moss off the lawn, and the lawn started to burn, no flames, she caught it in time, could stamp it out, as to if just because dry, or because late May treated with moss killer don't know, but be careful with a metal rake on...

I have a couple of beds which do that, not hospital beds, simple domestic. I am sure they use very little power, I can measure if you want, OK I did, 68 watt peak, so 13 amp is 3000 watts, I could run it off a power pack like this which gives out 300 watts.