Heckler
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id love to do this but should i go boating instead?
stu
id love to do this but should i go boating instead?
stu
Free Power and heat
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pvb
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Barking, absolutely barking!
rickp
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Can you imagine how his neighbors feel if he's running that lister on vegetable oil from morning 'til night every day?
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Rick
sarabande
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I know about 6 farms on Exmoor who still use these as the main power source.
EDF (the lecky suppliers) want £15000 to connect a friend's house, even after he has offered to lay all the cable underground to the best standards to their nearest pole !
EDF (the lecky suppliers) want £15000 to connect a friend's house, even after he has offered to lay all the cable underground to the best standards to their nearest pole !
tobble
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Looks like a good DIY system, I wonder what proportionof his energy (heating and electric) it covers.
I doubt his neighbours are too keen on it tho...
I doubt his neighbours are too keen on it tho...
DRANNIE
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I'd have an asbo on the bugger before you could say "the idiot next door needs his bumps reading and although he's saved himself £50 month on powers bills he's knocked £100k off the value the neighbours houses"
oldestgit
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Great if you are isolated in the country.
In the middle of a town. … Nope….
I just can’t believe the neighbours haven’t approached the authorities yet?
They probably will now…………………….
In the middle of a town. … Nope….
I just can’t believe the neighbours haven’t approached the authorities yet?
They probably will now…………………….
rickp
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EDF (the lecky suppliers) want £15000 to connect a friend's house, even after he has offered to lay all the cable underground to the best standards to their nearest pole !
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That doesn't surprise me. A mate got a quote to run 3 phase from the box on the outside wall to inside the same wall. Over £3k for a hole in the wall and some cable. It was cheaper to get a 3-phase inverter in the end.
Rick
EDF (the lecky suppliers) want £15000 to connect a friend's house, even after he has offered to lay all the cable underground to the best standards to their nearest pole !
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That doesn't surprise me. A mate got a quote to run 3 phase from the box on the outside wall to inside the same wall. Over £3k for a hole in the wall and some cable. It was cheaper to get a 3-phase inverter in the end.
Rick
pvb
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In complete contrast, my electricity supplier changed my home supply to 3-phase (including running new overhead wires to the house) for free!
2020Vision
New Member
I believe he gets most of his heating requirement and can run the house entirely off the batteries and inverter.
The generator is only run for a couple of hours per day for battery charging.
I don't think the motivation is free power and heat, more having a back-up system for when the utilities fail.
The generator is only run for a couple of hours per day for battery charging.
I don't think the motivation is free power and heat, more having a back-up system for when the utilities fail.
reginaldon
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Re: Free Power and heat re: rickp et al
Can you imagine how his neighbors feel if he's running that lister on vegetable oil from morning 'til night every day?
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Can you imagine how he'll feel (and you) when Putin turns off the gas?
Can you imagine how his neighbors feel if he's running that lister on vegetable oil from morning 'til night every day?
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Can you imagine how he'll feel (and you) when Putin turns off the gas?
pvb
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The generator is only run for a couple of hours per day for battery charging.
[/ QUOTE ]On the video, he showed the previous day's temperature chart, saying he'd started the engine "yesterday morning" and turned it off at "6 in the evening". That sounds like all day - and I bet the neighbours think so too!
The generator is only run for a couple of hours per day for battery charging.
[/ QUOTE ]On the video, he showed the previous day's temperature chart, saying he'd started the engine "yesterday morning" and turned it off at "6 in the evening". That sounds like all day - and I bet the neighbours think so too!
vyv_cox
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Although he claimed that the exhaust was quiet due to his 'silencer', a length of drain pipe, he seemed not to have a real silencer at all. It would not seem to be an insurmountable problem to deliver exhaust gases to something more acoustically absorbent.
pvb
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It would not seem to be an insurmountable problem to deliver exhaust gases to something more acoustically absorbent.
[/ QUOTE ]Like inside the house, perhaps? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
It would not seem to be an insurmountable problem to deliver exhaust gases to something more acoustically absorbent.
[/ QUOTE ]Like inside the house, perhaps? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
srp
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It always used to depend on circumstances, and it may still do so. If your installed equipment (in a domestic situation) increases to the point where existing single phase supply won't cope, the only option is for the supply company to install 3 phase - it might occur in a largish house with electric space and water heating systems.
You can't just go out and buy a few 3 phase machines and expect them to install a new line though.
It was different in the 50's and 60's - there was a programme of rural electrification which offered free or low cost single and 3-phase supplies to remote farms and houses, but a lot of people refused the offer and ended up in later years stumping up the whole unsubsidised cost.
You can't just go out and buy a few 3 phase machines and expect them to install a new line though.
It was different in the 50's and 60's - there was a programme of rural electrification which offered free or low cost single and 3-phase supplies to remote farms and houses, but a lot of people refused the offer and ended up in later years stumping up the whole unsubsidised cost.
