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As I said here almost a couple of months ago I hoped to start this thread when I have the time. I'm still pressed for time, largely because around th...
@tomasmcguinness I, too, am getting to grips with a large boiler. Do you mind if I DM to compare notes ? (Or take up @transparent's suggestion)
I wonder whether the OP's post just promotes an old stereotype. I am presently in the boiler camp but I take a great interest in this forum. I've pe...
@transparent So a distributed multi-path arrangement similar to communications networks? This would be sensible from a robustness (and security!) sta...
@iancalderbank In the numbers above, there is no common relationship between disturbance and power for battery and PV, for example. Some context would...
@transparent Are you suggesting to National Grid that they should be targeting upgrading their local distribution infrastructure (at the expense of th...
@rusty I suspect that most of us here are engineers (some retired) 😉. I wish I'd had a master builder working on my extension last year. The builde...
@rusty I dread employing tradesmen because they invariably take shortcuts. If I try to take pre-emptive action by specifying exactly what I want done...
By the way, this is available to watch on Parliament TV.
This is also the problem with the IoT and 'smart' devices - as soon as a supplier loses interest in a product they remove the 'cloud' that was providi...
@Technogeek I've recently been attempting to characterise my gas-fired central heating and radiators prior to a possible transition to an ASHP and st...
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