openspaceman
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Worrying about global companies profits was not a consideration in my decision. That's not to say I don;t think it important to worry about how it leads to the pollution aspects of welath disparity. It was more a wish to be able to say I was largely self suffient in energy for the home, of course I still depend on fossil fuel for my various modes of personal transport and the capital cost of an EV means I always will. Anyway I had the money sitting in a bank not earning anything so went for it. Of course had I invested the money instead at a few percent compound interest I would still have my capital sum and all the interst built up over 12 years ( at a modest 3% that £13k would build up to about £17.5k) whereas I now own a PV roof of dubious sales value and have had 60% of my electricity for free and payments of over £13k.
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No in the video I rev it from tickover and hold it there, at first it seems to pick up but not quite crisply then it falters with a misfire. I said earlier it was a bit like a pea in a whistle but interfering with the fuel flow. I wonder if a series of bubbles are being pulled through the jet. Anyway there are still things to experiment with. My point about the lower pressure when the strato port was blocked was not only does this richen the mixture but spark plugs sometimes fail at pressure. So that is a definite possibility, air bubbles in the main jet. I'll take it to PM if it gets no further, thanks.
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I never really kept proper records, I just knew my electricity bill was low at £240 pa, The firm that installed my battery for £3k reckoned I would go from 60% independence from the grid to 80%, I hope to do better, but that 20% difference in importing from the grid may represent £168 saved so just short of 6% of the cost pa. It will never payback in my lifetime unless I get a cheap night time tariff for the winter even then it's a toss up whether the battery (guaranteed 7 years) will outlast me.
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Mine was 4kW and £13k about then, never worked out the efficiency as it's meaningless in this context. The price dropped to about half within 3 or 4 years I'm told. I'm glad you remembered your electricity price per kWh then at 11p, certainly puts things into context.
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Well I am in that area and seem to produce about 3MWh pa out of my SW facing 4kW panels, they do not come into full sunlight before 10:00 GMT and trees shade out the end of the day in WNW.
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Yes I understand all those things and also did think that a bright but overcast day would trump shallow direct sunlight but now I know it doesn't, not much one can do about that aspect. Why didn't we discuss this in a renewable energy thread??
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I shall not know for a few months but my immediate impression from two months data with the battery is that optimising power generation in the winter months makes more sense than maximising annual generation, so a steeper angle than my roof makes sense. We have been about 45% independent of the grid in the worst months and now it seems to have risen to 60%, so in high summer unless I intervene and use an immersion to heat water I will be exporting some. Has anyone a current figure for a 4kW PV installation? Mine was paid in 10 years if you ignore loss of interest on capital sum. If anyone still has a cheap offpeak tariff I would say a battery with capacity of one day's usage is probably a first step.
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Yes exactly that, if you look at my fingers you will see it seems to pick up with a slight stutter and then with throttle wide open it starts missfiring but not screaming like the mixture were weakening off. With a constant wide open throttle the acceleration pump should make no difference should it? I didn't get it warm as other things to do. Nor me, if you think about it with the strato port blocked even with the throttle wide open there will be less pressure in the chamber. How far from Wellinborough? I have a mate that does that trip once a month. No, since I retired I have no accurate means of pressure or vacuum testing. The big problem is that even though this is a 11 year old saw the current version is only £270 so apart from my time, which is free, there's a limit to which it's worth going.
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Probably but not enough to notice, you would not believe how much stuff I had in the back, just to make sure I could keep two 50 year old tractors running for a few hours
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Yup
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This time I didn't have time to try anything, previously the only thing that made it rev up was to block the strato port on the carb. I'll have another play soon. The trouble is the Hi screw works in parallel with the jet and only has a small effect.
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I was tractor driving today so no time on the saw but I did get the owner to film it. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fj4wpt50J0tp4G3w7M2q3Yp2_lWvRxhq/view?usp=sharing DRIVE.GOOGLE.COM I'll leave it up for a week or so for anyone to view. I have not bought a new spark plug nor tried the hemostat on the line from the carb to the purge bulb.
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Welcolme here Eggs and that's lots of Andys
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Not that much, no more than a couple of drops into the carb I find.
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Both SGN and Transport Scotland will be statutory undertakers so exempt from planning or felling licences https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/factsheet/2017/02/devolution-of-forestry-factsheets/documents/new-felling-arrangements-exemptions/new-felling-arrangements-exemptions/govscot%3Adocument/New%2Bfelling%2Barrangements%2B-%2BExemptions.pdf The bird nesting is no different from elsewhere, precautions must be taken (inspections) to avoid disturbing section 1 species recklessly. Nothing says work is prevented until you come across a nesting bird.
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I think you are right but I have problems working with very small things as I have no stereo vision so cannot judge distance close in, as such I favour waiting to find another carb to try or lashing out on a chinese one. I'm working with the saw's owner tomorrow so shall try and do a video. I can do this by putting a hemostat on the hose, I'll try tomorrow.
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Yes I did that early on.
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Not much scope for supporting British PV, I think mine are chinese and I know my battery is but the performance certainly seems worthwhile. I just wish I could get a few hundred Watts of electricity out of the stove, there's another thread for that. I'm glad I took the plunge before inflation really cut in.
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Not yet. My fridge is using too much electricity so that's the first thing I'm looking to replace to get my electricity consumption below 6kWh/day.
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I spoke too soon and a gremlin got back in. I took the saw to work for the first time today and it played up, just would not open up to high idle. It coughed and spluttered just like there was a pea from a referees whistle in the jet chamber.
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Ebac washing machines are being touted as repairable and long life
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Is this because they run cooler?
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Railtrack was the privately owned network operator that went out of business to be replaced by the government owned Network Rail who don't appear to be accountable to anyone other than the office of raill regulation for safety stuff.
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Have the definitive regulations regarding firewood?
openspaceman replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
So in order to trade you have to belong to an organisation that tests the moisture content of your logs but the organisation is not accredited to test log moisture content and the results would not stand up in court yet they can still ban you from being a member and thus prevent you selling logs? Guilds were similar and done away with because they stultified trade. -
That's right and if the carb has got warm enough that a vapour bubble is causing the starting problem it pulls through fresh colder fuel. I didn't like the bulbs initially but from whenever I can remember Husqvarna saws have had problems if you sit them down in hot weather after very hard work and having this purge bulb seems to solve the hot start problem.
