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The Times this week carried a story on Electricity Demand by UK Data Centres. The results were a surprise to me, so I've taken a few days to check t...
No. Whilst it's not an offence to erect a turbine on a 60ft pole in your garden, it becomes one if you ignore an instruction from the Planning Enforce...
If you'd like to have a go at building your own wind (or water) turbine, but don't fancy winding a set of coils by hand(!), then you can buy a ready-b...
There are several types of site which would be viable for a small wind-turbine, but there aren't many of them. Let me put out a few pointers: 1: Y...
The 100A Main Switch is on the right, correctly labelled. It supplies a row of 18 RCBOs. Each RCBO provides two types of protection to th...
STOP right there. There is no such concept as an MCB protecting RCBOs. Wait until I have time to clarify this later this evening.
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As @jamespa is recognising, this subject is too massive for me to post all at once.I'm attempting to use graphics to provide a flavour of what's happe...
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