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Unsinkable II

A sprinkle of talcum powder around the affected area will show where its running from.

It was like that on some pedestals, in Manoel Island, Malta around 2001. Caused no end of fun.

Bit like a mate from Cornwall, while in Spain, having explained to him the Spanish concept of Mañana, he said, in Cornwall we don't have anything that urgent.

So, so true ...

Used to be 240V plus or minus 6%, now 230V plus 10%, minus 6%. So nominally 230V, but actually 240V

Simple. If you haven't eaten it first, don't put it in the heads.

Ok, remove any reference to HV, the rest describes the source of power to a fixed installation.

Sorry Paul, I have to take issue with you on this. There will be no bonding at the pedestal, what you are measuring is the bonding at the supply 11kv*, star/delta transformer where the star point neutral is bonded to earth. In some installations, there will be a very low value neutral...

Or a cloudfare tunnel using cloudfarered ?

Fixed IP 3G and 4G SIM cards from Andrews & Arnold Not cheap, but effective

I've been 'playing' with home assistant for a few weeks, the intent was to monitor loft & outside temp/humidity, HA runs on a RPi4, with lbe thermopro sensors, it's morphed into a central heating monitor, running on a RPi pico. Got me back into coding python, but the HA .yaml config is a pain...

It's a 50 ohm TNC connector, a threaded version of a BNC. RS PRO, Plug Cable Mount TNC Connector, 50Ω, Clamp Termination, Straight Body | RS

Fine, if you want pay vastly inflated prices. It is lower viscosity.

If its clear yellow, it's something similar to this. Pirtek Hydraulic Oil 46 - Pirtek