openspaceman

Yes the one wrongly ordered but suitable for the 550mk1 was about £100, the mk2 older part 582 77 74 01 is a quid cheaper and the current part 582 77 74 04 is listed at just over £50 with VAT so be warned there will be dealers with the more expensive part in stock.

It was only the driver's side and the switch was in the door panel IIRC it was a while ago.

Had this on a vauxhall car and it was the wire had broken inside the insulation near the hinge.

Yup going OT but Aspen is only three times the price of petrol now which surprised be

Yes demand is sky high and prices are going that way too. Take a look at the camelot-forum.co.uk I am on there with the same username fumbling around trying to decide what I can do next. I am planning to add a few panels just to decrease my grid dependence a few days into what the forum refers to as the "shoulder" months of november and february when solar pv production drops off.

That tone of language ends the discussion for me mate

I'll PM you this evening, thanks

Did you mistype tasty?

What lies? If you are talking in general yes you are right, the cheapness of fossil fuels and the vested interest in producing them has meant the urgent need to deal with the external costs of them hasn't allowed the renewable energy business to develop as far as it could have from when problems became apparent 50 years ago. It is a basic human trait to live for today. At the domestic level an individual can comfortably do without the grid for most of their electricity with a battery that only stores a days worth. I could even do without the grid for the last 450kWh I fall short of from Mid November to March with a simple chp system which would make better use of the thermal energy of gas. Of course we are going to rely on fossil fuels for a long time yet but no need to continue with such profligacy and those living in high density housing will have to rely on what is provided, and pay for it. It's simple O level physics that show why this is not practicable;energy in the wind is the mass flow times the square of the velocity, mass flow also contains a velocity term as it is mass passing per unit time, hence the energy varies with the cubic power of the wind velocity. So if you design the hardware to make use of the wind and produce a return on the hardware at an average 7 metres per second then double the wind speed to 14m/sec and you need to cope with producing 14 times the average amount of power, it is simply not worth investing the equipment for such a range so cheaper to produce the power around the average speed with machinery optimised for it and shut down when the windspeed is too high for the equipment to absorb the energy.

Thanks to a @adw and @spudulike and all who commented. I went to the L&S site and they do only list the mk1 part in their diagrams so it becomes difficult if you don't have the parts list for your saw (do they still come with the user manual for Huskys?) Very special thanks to the dealer who contacted me pointing out the newest coil is 5827774-04 and supplied one by next day, it is also listed at less than half the price of the earlier ones it supersedes. Saw back up and running ready to return. It was fiddly separating the old white connector and fitting the new one, I found I had to slip off the flexible carb mount on that side to get enough space for my fingers, other than that a simple job. I am glad it didn't need to be plugged in to diagnostics, what would dealers charge for this and a firmware update if necessary?

This is the same whether the battery is in the car or in the home system; the hybrid inverter is set to not export so as soon as the battery indicates it is full the inverter shuts down and the panels are then open circuit. I think there are a few arbtalkers who are off grid and use solar panels this way @Justme??

I had never heard of monsanto before roundup in the mid 70s but prior to that lost my first job for querying the use of 245t and 24d for spraying hazel stumps. I was already aware of problems associated with agent orange, the dioxin impurities the bulk processing introduced was implicated in birth defects of both the progeny of the vietnamese and american servicemen exposed to it. I was exposed to some of it in diesel from the wander leads we used away from the spray pumps. I think what we used was a purer form but I had finished having kids by then so...

I have charged my daughter's car for a couple of hours on a sunny day off the 13A socket, managed to put 5kWh in, about 24 miles of range. Most car charges are 7kW so 3kW of panels won't run one but the inverter can comfortably cope with 2.4kW. The panels are connected to a inverter which has inputs that maximise the power available (Maximum Power Point Tracking) from the panels. Then there are various makes of car chargers that connect to the inverter, Zappi seems to be popular, this restricts the power to that which the solar array can provide. I think I would always advise a battery because that is what makes the solar pv available throughout the day, it would also charge up while the car is away. If you want to dedicate the panels just to charge the car then consider running a hybrid inverter like the sunsynk off grid, most inverters depend on being connected to the grid and must shut down if the grid fails.

Don't think it was delivered by bombers, grunts used to get covered in the stuff. It was nasty stuff, a poorly refined formulation of 245t, which kills broadleaves, not grasses.

let's have a piccy then, perhaps someone might like to fit it for me. Does yew steam bend?

Did you get anywhere on these all those years ago? I want to know whether restocking a right hand gun for a master left eye would suit me but don't want to lash out 600 quid to find out so was thinking of doing a beech one but wondered whether the bend is simply steamed in or carved?

I have a similar problem and put it down to codling moth (as a lot have grubs or exit holes and brown rot /blossom rot. I haven't had success with grease bands or pherome traps to show me when the moths are active and as I don't spray chemicals I suppose I should plant a more resistant tree. I tend to pick the windfalls up, cut out any rot and put the pieces through a juicer, keeping the juice in the fridge, it will freeze. I will harvest the lot that remain soon but even wrapped they do not keep well so will juice most of them.

I meant he has responded here on another subject, not on the red diesel issue, so my prompt may get to him.

@Stephen Arb Association may not have seen this but as he has responded elsewhere...

No sign of any bare wires, are there any resistance or continuity checks that can be done on the coil while it is out? I have a bit of hedge cutting to do today but will get back on it this evening. Parts are showing as on back order so if I need a new coil it will take a while In the meanwhile I have a Mk1 coil which can go cheap, never fired up, as the owner says it was his mistake so will not ask for a refund and also out of time.

Thanks @spudulike I did think there was a reason the plug lead was a bit short. The part number of the blue coil is 518723602 so mk1 will refit the old coil as you say and report back

Way too modern for me with lots of electrickery I don't understand but a chap I used to help out has dropped off this saw which won't run. He did not explain why he decided to put the new coil in, the previous (OEM?) one is just black and marked walbro. I wonder if it is the right coil as the plug lead is a very hard and tight fit. @adw? Spark is weak and the picture is taken with the coil gap at 0.4mm and near enough TDC. It does not fire at all even with the new plug (he did not bring the original plug) or with petrol spray in the intake. I see the heated handles seem to use the power off the coil pick up instead of a separate alternator mounted under the flywheel like the old type?? Any other thoughts? Is this a case of needing to set something up on a diagnostic port?

I wish I had bought a few more but only got 5ltr and by the time that was used the price was high.

'Cept it has gone from 15 quid in April 21 to 25 quid now

I doubt that as the state is very profligate with our money and no reason to believe anyone in government was looking to the future when the effluent from fossil fuels was ignored. We have now seen our dependence on foreign owned resources is becoming an economic disaster, mostly caused by using the american model of share ownership causing the demise of home industries.