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@toodles Did you just have that alert on your phone? It genuinely scared the crap out of me, I thought there was an incoming ICBM! Not a disposable bb...
@toodles I understand those few degrees colder have a disproportional impact on running costs and cause damage to the produce too. You’ve certainly ch...
@majordennisbloodnok Newer, half decent kitchen equipment runs much leaner than it used to. We replaced a series of terrible Samsung American style fr...
@majordennisbloodnok It can’t be the powerwalls, mine are running and my total 24 hr house load is about 7 kWh. This is for a fully electric 300m2 ...
@toodles A daily court feast for luncheon would be enough to explain it. I’m jealous, sat here looking at a curly cheese sandwich, a very civilised w...
Looking at the PW trace, there’s a larger than typical cyclic base load. My money would be on a refrigeration compressor, either a massive one or a pr...
@old_scientist You will probably find that most of it has settled out in the rads or the volumiser. Anywhere where there isn’t laminar flow. I had ...
That’s not biofilm. Looks like a very fine particulate rust, but fine enough that I doubt it will do too much harm. If the cleaner doesn’t shift it yo...
@toodles must be a PW2 thing, I understand the 2 versions use different battery chemistry. Im semi intentionally abusing my battery, it gets 3 full cy...
@toodles weird. It’s only started doing this very recently?
@toodles never seen that before, not on mine.
@old_scientist That sounds like text book biofilm (I used to work on very high purity water systems for IV use and experienced it several times). I...
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