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Last seen: May 6, 2026
What do you guys think of these panels, were they, are they any use. A bit of an innovation at the time, or a plug.
@transparent they wont fit those designer rads, I had a load of them and had to bin them, they said the heat efficiency was poor, but mine had no conv...
@ellyse the requirement for my installation was to have 10mm gaps under all the doors to allow circulation and trickle vents fitted to the windows. Co...
@toodles it’s akin to growing tomatoes , big expectations, you get a few, then next minute they go and die on you. What next they get blown off the r...
@transparent 0.1 of those mystical things that solar panels produce but evading both myself and toodles currently. However I’m in the wrong place agai...
Have you got your average winter production for last year, perhaps it might cheer me up.
@toodles I have been quite pleased with average daily electricity bills 2-3 quid. Hoping that additional panels would keep up that production during t...
@transparent what are you producing today, I’m only getting 0.1, overcast. Is this typical of what we should expect during winter
@transparent I spoke with their boss when it began to go wrong and he said it’s typical of the standards but would get it sorted. The sort of site man...
@transparent I spoke with the cable guys and they said it’s not always the case three phase is in the street, reason was of course, why have you not c...
Another though, if I overloaded the 100 amp supply, how would they give me a more powerful feed without using another one of those phases.
@toodles I thought they were going to spread the load in my house onto the three phases but told they won’t. Said they only ran the three phase in in...
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