Search results

Agreed, but PIR solar, are very different, very effective.

13.8v to maintain it in a charged state, 14.4v to charge it. Don't discharge it more than 50% of it's capacity, it will quickly ruin it, and never leave it in a discharged condition, ever - recharge, as soon as it has been used.

Quite a large area here, and very dark. I have a combination of lighting. One 8w, in a lantern fitting, on dusk until 11pm, via a smart plug adaptor, a set of around 6 or eight solar PIR triggered lights, which are very effective, then two high level HPS fittings, providing a good amount of...

Two names, for basically the same thing. I've tried the stove top things, where the water, is funnelled up via a pipe in the middle, onto the coffee, in a container held above; the similar automatic electric versions, and the French Press. The stove top version made undrinkable coffee, the...

I've not tried those yet, I'm not inclined to, the examples I have seen, they are only decorative. I tried a couple of cobs, but they seem to overheat far too easily, and commit suicide. Most of what we use are these , but I'm careful to ensure they are well ventilated, for cool running. Other...

Until you are caught out! Happened to me too, I attracted quite a few scammers, but I set myself up with rules, in advance, to deal with it.

After a while of use, especially if I open lots of tabs, I'm finding Firefox slows down the loading of websites, to a crawl. This happens, even if I close the unwanted tabs, to get it back to my basic ones. FF 146.0.1 64bit, on Win11 - thought it seems to have always been a problem. The fix, is...

Yep, I found it well worth the watching too. A semi-dramatised reconstruction of the events, based entirely on survivors actual statements. The most accurate version I have seen so far.

If you feel so inclined, you can remove the rusty old electrical grip conduits. Just undo the screw clamp, and out they come. The cable inside, will be TRS - rubber, over covered with cotton, then waxed, dating back to before the 1960's.

The same here. Mine can show our summerhouse, the garage, the workshop extension, built on the back of it, even a mock 'wishing well' - that suggests, it is derived from the OS data.

They vary, from just normal people, to some otherwise extremely intelligent. It's not really about lack of intelligence, it's a matter of being too trusting of others, not wary enough. They call you out of the blue, yes - but they have a very convincing storyline, often about bank staff being...

I cannot see any sign of an output from the spur - guess the lift has been done away with? Into the input side there would seem to be two browns, and two blues, which would suggest it is wired on the ring of the sockets.

Those, are not water pipes - they are old electrical conduits. Hopefully, the original wiring has been replaced by now, with PVC, so they are redundant.

In some cases, certainly, but none-the-less, lots of highly capable, and very intelligent people fall for these scams - judging by what I see on TV, the dating scams, and the phone banking scams. The latter, where they ask to to transfer your money, into a safe account, or by gift cards.

One of my early ones, decided that a far too narrow packhorse bridge, down at the end of a rough farm track, was a good idea. My present one, if I enter a destination down south, once firmly on the M1, it likes to take me off the M1, to a roundabout above it, then back down onto the M1.

It needs to be a tin mesh, otherwise it will restrict the airflow - better, might be to prevent them getting access completely to the vent, via some sort of over-hang. See Ivor's post #6 where he suggested L shaped alloy extrusions. They would need to poke out from the wall, far enough to...

'No Country For Old Men', with, but not starring - Tommy Lee Jones. His diction, is normally not great, but in this, I didn't understand a single word he said.

A straight swap, no problem. No programming necessary.

Nope!

Er, no! What is risky about doing that?