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I use an app called (unsurprisingly) Petrol Prices. It gives you the cheapest garages nearby ranked either by distance or price. It varies enormously across the country, I filled up in Telford* this morning at £1.75/l. Here in Devon its 12p/litre cheaper at Trago Mills**. On the motorway we saw it w...

£1000 !! The contents of my fridge freezer (that would spoil) are probably only worth £200 and I've just been to Sainsburys. So one powercut at yours and the price is now £800? :mrgreen: I'm not sure if that's really clever accounting or really daft :? But given that I live in the middle of a town ...

£1000 !!

The contents of my fridge freezer (that would spoil) are probably only worth £200 and I've just been to Sainsburys.

This has got me thinking, maybe I should build an outdoor charging station for the 18650s I've pulled from laptop batteries. I've found that the batteries tend to fail because one or two of the cells have died so quite often you can get 3 or 4 useable cells. I keep them in my workshop as emergency f...

I repair a lot of stuff, always have.
I would advise taking pictures every step of the way, including screws/bolts/springs etc and, if something isn't moving, check for hidden screws/clips.

That happened in Spain in 2025. Good explanation here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackout. Solar needs a "reference signal" that they it sync to in order to put the right frequency out. A spinning magnet will produce this because you know exactly what frequency ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRnyfVgQbXk

(dunno why the YT link doesn't post the video in line, I clicked the [youtube] button.

How do you acclimatise to it when you get 2 or 3 weeks a year of heatwave and the rest of the time it's raining ?

We just had a power outage in my neighbourhood, and half the people who had solar were in the dark with the rest of us. Only a couple of people had a battery installed. That'll be the anti island system working if you have a battery and inverter and more importantly a mechanical change over switch ...

Have a good one ! Hopefully they have shut them down for these busy periods ..permanently would do Dover had to do it the other day didn't they .. Well it was busy going through but pretty seamless, no fingerprints or photographs like you have even transiting through the States. I think it took aro...