Recent content by jimmyhackers

update, did a little experimenting this afternoon wifi main meter showed 330ish watts usage. solar meter showed 170 ish watts into grid. turned off solar, wattage usage jumped to 500ish watts. seems like we are getting the double whammy. i think i may add a fair few more pannels\inverters to...

maybe a crude picture done in paint will help you guys understand my setup. no my solar doesnt power the house during a power outage. i imagine i would have to put a regular inverter into my house system to trick the grid tie system to work...but its something im not testing anytime soon. im...

been thinking....maybe i should ask a different way. say my house load is 500w, and my gridtie solar is pumping 1000w into the grid. what percentage of my house load is coming from the grid, and my grid tie system?

i currently have 2000w of panels going to a grid tie inverter....this feeds a seperate WH meter that we read off the number and tell the electric company and they reimburse us for our solar energy. this is seperate to our electricity bill which we get still charged for on the WH number on our...

i do the returns at a street lighting company. which means i come into contact with old grotty aluminum and plastic. every now and then i get a rash from where my forearms have touched the lamps. light red rash, kinda feels like ive been rubbing fibreglass insulation, loads of little prickles...

Update: i didnt get the 54p raise :( i got a £1.50 raise instead!!! :D (no extra commitments either :) ) for whatever reason i wasnt told, and i only noticed looking at my payslip today (today is payday also), i went and said thank you straight away. Not sure if it was meant to be a "suprise"...

thanks for the help, all good advice. After reading Quinc's post, and i think about it, a point i made to get the first raise was that amazon just opened a warehouse 2 minutes from my house and they are looking for trained reach/counterbalance flt drivers. :D its kinda awkward as im friends...

that patents a fun read :D Ive always toyed with "free" energy devices, mainly of the raidowave harvesting type. They dont create free energy, they harvest it. with minimal results, i began to wonder why it worked but only barely. mW to 1/10th of watts of power. my surmation was the issue is...

At my job for over the past year i received minimum wage for 6 months (on agency). When i was offered a contract they tried to pay me minimum wage again and i said "no, i want more for my skills" (electrical,mechanical,flt,prior experience etc etc). I ended up with an extra £1.60 per hour over...

im the rma person there (returned merchandise authorization) i test/fix the returned products (led street lights) some trip and/or pop stuff. also the testers (essentially live mains prongs) pump mains voltage into the new lights other staff use, and i guess sometimes they miss :S. tripping...

intermittant problem at work. wanted some clarification at the warehouse at work....there is a larger fuse box with a single large breaker feeding a fuse box inside a portacabin. most/all of the sockets in the portcabin have a built in rcd (LN trip delta of 30ma). some of the test equipment...

well... 3 cycles in....the thing charges up fine...discharges fine. nothing is out of balance... my dad says hes never seen the battery light go below 2 bars while hes used it.... he leaves it on charge for a while after use.... usually for a day/24hrs. chargers rated at 2A (manufacturer of it...

due to the very nature of air being made up of loads of different gasses..... some molecules/atoms being tiny and able to escape through rubber and seals etc, while some are big and cannot escape.... due to the above, over time things like tyres and im guessing air shocks can leak the...

i have made a lithium for the dog but....as wonderful as it is it seeing him move with more pep and speed. i worry about decreasing the life of the brushes in his movement motors. hes quite old now. i suppose i should really check the current nimh hes using and see what V each cell is at....and...

just wondering as my xt60 and xt90s on my bikes get rather dirty terminals. i think its combination between sparking and getting the connectors wet in the rain. the xt90s are the anti spark variety....but they still spark unless i wait 10s or so before i fully plugging them in. just wondering...