NOMADICISTA

Well here it is... http://i41.tinypic.com/208e3hc.jpg I took a weeks holiday when the car was due to be ready. We stayed at the nice hotel in Lowestoft and even ate lobster. Lobster is usually really expensive but Lowestoft is a fishing town so it was cheaper than steak! We toured around a bit after...

It's been a busy month since my last post... Scouring the pages of eBay, I've been lucky to find some gems amongst the sea of cheap Chinese panels that are flooding the market. Well, apart from this first item, which is an unbranded and probably cheap Chinese panel :). But it was only 67 Pounds and ...

By my calculations a 10A load on a 16m run is going to drop 0.9V (out and return combined) with 6mmsq cables. But you said that you'll have a couple of spurs (one 16m and one 10m) with sockets along the way so I'm guessing that the load will be split at least 50/50 on each branch. In that case 5A on...

Glad to hear business is picking up a bit.

It's a bit of a weird shaped house... And looks half finished - Is that some kind of protective wrapper on the left-hand wall?

For the ones on the flat roof, what do you use for fixing them on the roof at an angle?

Hang in there Sharkey. We feel for you. My wife says she saw the ghost of my missing cat Gloves from three years ago. He was very old and had a bunch of medical problems after having had a stroke but one night he went out but never came back. We never found him so he's just "missing, presumed d...

Thanks Griff. I spotted another bargain on eBay today... A pair of Rolls Surrette RB/12CS11P 12V 357Ah batteries on sale for 500 Pounds. They're about 715 each when new and I almost put a bid in until I realised there's no way on Earth I can move the things! They're 125kg each. I had enough trouble ...

A small milestone today... I've made 100kWh of solar power since the start of my project! Not as impressive as Sharkey's 1MWh but it's a start.

While surfing eBay last week, I spotted a guy selling off some panels. With some last minute (literally) bidding war and using my random number bid of 101.62 Pounds (beating some other guy by 8p :D ), this 2004 vintage Kyocera KC40 panel was mine. The guy actually had two of them but had only put on...

I'd write back to them and demand to know the accusation and the accuser in detail and then invite them down to have a look-see. You could send them pictures of the inside of the bus. Of course this assumes that as Sharkey mentioned, there isn't an ordinance or covenant preventing you parking it the...

Out of curiosity, I tried turning off all the other loads on my inverter and tried running the fridge freezer off it for a while. I had to pick a time when the compressor had stopped and then swapped the power over to an extension from the living room solar sockets. I plugged it in via one of my Wat...

I've got my new Insight on order now 8) I've been playing two dealers off each other. Both were playing the party line that with the scrappage deal you only get the discount off of list price and their margins are so small because hybrid tech is more expensive and blah blah blah... Finally though on...

They attempted to serve me notice by sending a registered letter to my "last known address", which just happens to be the very property that they were foreclosing on. Go in guns blazing but I'd be surprised if they didn't try to wriggle out on the "last known address" clause. Mo...

I've not been FAPed since my first broadband connection when I won a ISDN link in a raffle at an IT exhibition. A dialup ISP offered 24x7 unlimited free access (for the monthly subscription charge) and didn't have a technical restriction on ISDN or bonding (as nearly nobody had ISDN at home). Anyway...

While working out in Reading I went to fuel up and noticed that the Morrisons supermarket was selling B30 biodiesel alongside the regular stuff on all their pumps. This is a 30% blend of biodiesel, made in part from reclaimed cooking oil. The price was exactly the same as regular fossil diesel and a...

These Sharp panels are really good. Although rated at 170W each, over the last couple of days I've seen the pair putting 14.6A at 28.0V into the battery - That's nearly 409W! It's not even June yet and the array isn't angled optimally for the noon sun either, being set for about 45 degrees (about th...