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by jennyjj01
Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:45 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Solar panel bargain...
Replies: 14
Views: 424

Re: Solar panel bargain...

Arzosah wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:45 pmSo it's the amperage and the volts that need to be identical, not the wattage?
voltage the same if going in parallel. Current the same for in series.... Give or take about 10% limit the number in series because shade on one can stymie the others. Iirc
by jennyjj01
Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:03 am
Forum: Homes and Retreats
Topic: National grid (electric) look to suspend night time call outs to domestic power cuts
Replies: 27
Views: 626

Re: National grid (electric) look to suspend night time call outs to domestic power cuts

korolev wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:12 pm The simple(!) solution is open-ended fines so that they are charged per hour that a customer is off over the primary period.
I agree. Either toothless regulation, or regulator is in cahoots with NG.
But the free market, they'll do what best costs in.
by jennyjj01
Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:27 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Solar panel bargain...
Replies: 14
Views: 424

Re: Solar panel bargain...

I've been doing a bit of reading because of this thread, about adding in a solar panel bought later - it sounds like the new panel has to be the same wattage as the existing panel. It *can* be different, but that needs extra care etc etc taken, and it seems much simpler to just get a panel at the s...
by jennyjj01
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:55 pm
Forum: Homes and Retreats
Topic: National grid (electric) look to suspend night time call outs to domestic power cuts
Replies: 27
Views: 626

Re: National grid (electric) look to suspend night time call outs to domestic power cuts

What a surprise that a company can be so financially and cynical planned! :lol: Be interesting what happens and they ignore you then theres a subsequent big arc flash that kills or BBQs some poor soul walking down the street Won't they have insurance for such contingencies? As a NG shareholder, the...
by jennyjj01
Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:29 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Solar panel bargain...
Replies: 14
Views: 424

Re: Solar panel bargain...

Does anyone here use Micro-Inverters like these ?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403087824719

Probably not legal to just use plug and play in the UK.
by jennyjj01
Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:37 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
Replies: 662
Views: 39126

Re: Advice for a hopeless gardener

Whatever you see fit. The seeds right on the end though , grow like billy o ! Sorry, what do you mean by "The seeds right on the end"? Do you mean the ones to the outside edge of the cluster with new ground available to them? I guess I should harvest from the middle of the patch because t...
by jennyjj01
Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:34 am
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
Replies: 662
Views: 39126

Re: Advice for a hopeless gardener

Reporting in on the egyptian tree onions..... With some questions... Of the 10 or so that survived initial growing. there's now about 8 big chunky and well established multi bulblet plants. I gave the treetop bulbs extremely little help and it looks like 3 or so set themselves down and prospered. S...
by jennyjj01
Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:51 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
Replies: 662
Views: 39126

Re: Advice for a hopeless gardener

Optimistically I chucked some protective net over. Should I have raised that off the ground a bit? Beginners question on protective netting over seeds..... should it be propped up like a gazebo/canopy or am I ok just laying it on the ground and whipping it off when the seedlings sprout through ( ca...
by jennyjj01
Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:47 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
Replies: 662
Views: 39126

Re: Advice for a hopeless gardener

We have just eaten perennials Welsh onions. Other perennials are on the way soon! Zero problems with growing. Perennial plants are the winner. Reporting in on the egyptian tree onions..... With some questions... Of the 10 or so that survived initial growing. there's now about 8 big chunky and well ...
by jennyjj01
Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:08 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Advice for a hopeless gardener
Replies: 662
Views: 39126

Re: Advice for a hopeless gardener

ONIONS Rest In Peace :D Dammit, the wind has done for me again! I had germinated a window propagator full of onion seeds and had given them a week in my poly greenhouse shed thingy and all was well. My tray of tomato seedlings were also put out there to acclimatise. And what do i find this morning? ...