Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections.

I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one off.

If you have time in the mornings, come post in the thread before you head off to work, let us know what you've got on and what the weather is like in your area etc. Anything at all is fine.

Posts and likes get counted towards your total stats in this thread.

So GOOOD MORNING PEOPLE - WEATHER IS NICE TODAY IN STOKE. I'M THANKFUL IT'S FRIDAY, HAD A RUBBISH WEEK. THANK GOD IT'S OVER.

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[DPG]

It's a rivet holding the appliance side of the fuse holder in place. You can use it to check the fuse. without taking the top off.

Interesting. Was 99% sure it was a rivet, but never realised you could use it to test the fuse. Nice one.

 

[marconi]

nothing on today, same as the last 6 months. bored shyteless, retirement is pants., but health issues have forced it on me. downt to a bit of fault finding and testing these days.

Supervise some apprentices?

 

[Mike Johnson]

Don't know about you Tel, but I don't seem to have enough time in the day to do all I wont too since I retired, bit cold to work on the Greenhouse today, think I will have a coffee instead.

 

[marconi]

Re-examined the old mk plug and saw that the red flag records the size of fuse fitted- 3, 7 or 13A.

 

[marconi]

I have started a project to look at expanding the power generated from two systems co-located on one roof. Currently 16 x 300W (6.5kW grid tie inverter) to a business supply and meter and the other 24 x 300W (8kW grid tie inverter) to a home supply and meter - both business and home home connected via the same cable to a pole transformer a few hundred metres away. No battery storage.

Talking with contractor who did install it looks like the roof with the 16 panel array can be increased to 26 panels. Technical and cost study by me into whether to increase smaller array from 16 to 24 and swap 6.5kW inverter for another 8kW inverter (or 26 panels subject to max voltage limit of current brand/model of 8kW inverter) or stick with as it is now and simply add a third solar system of 10 more panels and feed these into a third grid-tied inverter.

Not currently clear whether the expanded PV should feed business which has increased a/c and refrigeration load over summer, or the home which has just acquired a pure electric vehicle - the MG - with EV charger off home meter. Of course could fit second EV charger point on business supply too.


Octopus - current client electricity supplier have some interesting ideas for using EV car battery to store excess energy from PV which can be fed back into grid as and when required which is another interesting thing to study.

I don't know yet whether the MG can feed back the energy in its battery into the grid through its current charging cable/connection. Or which EV vehicles can now or can in the future.

 

[Mike Johnson]

I thought there was a maximum amount of kW you where allowed on a domestic building?

 

[marconi]

I thought there was a maximum amount of kW you where allowed on a domestic building?

There may be local planning laws on how many panels. My project is on a farm. The DNO, as part of the application to connect the solar pV to the grid, state the maximum power which can be exported. This can either be set by the maximum power rating of the inverter or by using a higher powered inverter which has the functionality to limit exported power. We use the latter which require a current clamp around one of the meter tails.

The better return on investment is self-consumption (save circa 20p per kWh) rather than export (and be paid 5p per kWh) so sizing the total power of the solar installation and its cost is a key part of the analysis.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Thanks for that @marconi a Pal of mine put up solar panels way back when the feed in tarif was first introduced, he still gets the maximum even now, I think it's over 30p per kWh, he has an electric car and a heated swimming pool and gloats that he still gets a cheque from the DNO every year in the region of £1800.00, I say gloat, but perhaps thats me as I missed out when he was telling me about putting them on his roof all those years ago.

 

[Mikegh]

What was wrong with raised switches on sockets

Someone has to come along and change them to low profile

 

[pirate]

Exciting morning for me!
Went for a pre-op PCR test, came home...
and made pies!

 

[pirate]

Quick update:
PCR fine
OP fine
Came home and made more pies
That was Thursday
Mate called round yesterday morning and we had a brandy brekky followed by a nice pub lunch
This morning, watched the Australian Open tennis...and got 3 more emails asking for quotes for smoke alarms to meet new Scottish regs, which I can't do for 4 weeks now, and can't get the units anyway!
Just like buses...

 

[telectrix]

what's a PCR? hope its not R for rectum.

 

[pirate]

Polymerase Chain Reaction
It's a test for Covid

 

[littlespark]

what's a PCR? hope its not R for rectum.

where the heck you been for the last 2 years?

 

[Mike Johnson]

It was 25 degs in the Greenhouse today, proved all the gas struts work on the new vents and louvres, still have to wire up the socket to get the propagators working, that should be done tomorrow, completed the wiring for the lights,, I can soon start seeding.