Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

[V8Druid]

reasonably productive day yesterday .... strimmer sorted .. as suspected, the fuel pick up line had succumbed to being agitated about in the strip for the centrifugal repair.View attachment 23419View attachment 23420
amazed it was running at all .... two ends were just touching together at a bend point and sucking fuel (and air) across the split.
didn't have a long enough piece in me depleted stocks to effect a permanent repair, so a piece of an old 'giving set' from me weekly infusion treatments got pressed into service .... have kept a few lengths of the lines as they're handy to have sat with a 3mm bore ..... anyway, it did the trick for now, 'til some of the proper stuff arrives to replenish stocks........running like a watch and Pam's given its legs a stretch this afternoon, after the deluges of the night and this morning have burgered off.

knocked out a temporary repair for the fence post that got snapped in the gales last week .... will screw this on the top rail, straddling said post, for now, until the weather is more conducive to replacing the post (and I feel enthused enough to tackle it --- 's gonna take some sorting)
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sh1te little drill, but less effort than doing it by hand or getting the mag out .. flexes like hell on anything hard ... fine as a wood machine, but even a small (5mm) hole in steel has the pillar / table / head flexing .... should be prosecuted for making such cr*p .... got given it for services rendered a few months ago ... (gift horse, etc.) and the VFD ain't arrived for the Meddings yet .... @Rob65 rang me yesterday, as I was on me way down to the school, for Clara, to share his experiences on the niceties of VFDs ..... so should be here shortly, hopefully .... ordered yesterday.
1st coat of shiny tish after
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and second coat this afternoon

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sat having tea last night and there's this all pervading smell of kero again , from the utility, next to the kitchen, so a n other delve session into the boiler last night ..... the small almost undetectable drip from my previous foray in there was now a significant drip .... but from where? .... Nowt for it ..rip it to bits
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got the burner out to more accessible/examinable position on top of that small bucket, so I could get me head under it to see exactly where the kero was tracking from
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to discover it coming from the solenoid fuel control cut off valve spindle .... caught hold of it to find it loose as **** - less than finger tight .. whipped it out - O ring fine, so pinched it down wit a 15mil and after getting everything dry as a chip with tissue, turned the fuel back on ..... no leak ... how the hell this'd gotten as loose as it was is a mystery , but remounted its coil...
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and stuck everything back together and back in place (after a serious clean up of the cabinet of any rogue kero) .... hoovering out the combustion chamber (which was pretty good) and checking the nozzle (looked perfect and nicely dry) and fired it all up again .... no drips
has taken a bit of time for the inevitable kero smell to disappear, with plenty of heat, but back to normal today - odourless

well happy Druid, to sort what was becoming very annoying ... especially after I'd thought I'd found it the other day, but Kero being clear and all pervading, is bloody difficult stuff to trace back to source .... made it much easier whipping the burner unit out completely and getting it up in the air to see under it properly ...... aaand whipping that coil off, once I could see the stuff on top of the pump end cap .....

so two good results yesterday ...... day mar-ed by the bloody posty bringing us this..... View attachment 23429
was £2650 last year ... a 9.77% increase FFS ...... for which we get virtually sod all ....

two black bags once a fortnight, which we have to convey to the top of the drive ...

plods never come out here ---
took 3 months for them to come take a statement, when the horsey girl's donkey box got nicked and the box and vehicle that towed it away only got two miles down the road 'fore they rolled the freelander and then torched it, blocking the road ......
never turned up at all when 'her' barn got emptied of all her gear.
nearest street lighting is two miles away and do not get me started on the state of the roads
etc., etc. !!

 

[V8Druid]

WTF

I'm logged in? and it's my own post ?? can't see the pix

 

[V8Druid]

test

so what's wrong with the pix in me previous post then @Regy53 / @Rivmedia ???????
can anyone else see/not see them ???

 

[craig]

WTF
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I'm logged in? and it's my own post ?? can't see the pix

Don`t worry we cant see them either

 

[V8Druid]

Don`t worry we cant see them either

bugger !!! done nothing different to usual .. just drag and drop where I want 'em

 

[craig]

bugger !!! done nothing different to usual .. just drag and drop where I want 'em

I was looking forward to see the shiny tish

 

[bobthebuilder]

there are fields of 'em round here in certain areas too ... often on good productive arable land ....
one guy wanted to put some on a steep hillside, not far from one such area and was refused planning .... perfect spot for 'em .. south facing and unusable land for much else


so you'd have to have some form of storage then @fred -- like a wall or two? to make any use of the power they produce?
How do you separate this from your house/grid system and still be able to use it / not draw off the grid??
I know little about this stuff as once I'd sussed, years ago, it was a non starter, then, I've not taken a lot of notice since
presumably the wall battery banks are series-ed and put out 240v ? or are they paralleled and put out 12/24v for inversion to 240v?
what's the lifespan of a wall ?
I am a complete luddite on how this stuff works

i belive that the tesla powerwall has a app or controller to use battery power or grid power and use battery first, and charge it using off peak and use it during daytime .also i have seen a system where one can charge your tesla car for free bring it home plug it in and use it as a large free powerpack ,then recharge on the cheapo off peak,now if you had a turbine and solar you would as they say be cooking on gas

 

[fred]

pretty much as bob says. You get a gateway box (big electronic relay) which controls power flow to the house, battery and grid. Lots of cheaper options than tesla though, I got one for the home office couple years ago via the business as its counts for Annual Investment allowance.

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[V8Druid]

i belive that the tesla powerwall has a app or controller to use battery power or grid power and use battery first, and charge it using off peak and use it during daytime .also i have seen a system where one can charge your tesla car for free bring it home plug it in and use it as a large free powerpack ,then recharge on the cheapo off peak,now if you had a turbine and solar you would as they say be cooking on gas

certainly got plenty of wind most of the time .... 10m/s up here tonight .. again

 

[V8Druid]

I was looking forward to see the shiny tish

looks like I am gonna have to try a re-post BTLs

 

[V8Druid]

right .... let's try again

reasonably productive day yesterday .... strimmer sorted .. as suspected, the fuel pick up line had succumbed to being agitated about in the strip for the centrifugal repair.

amazed it was running at all .... two ends were just touching together at a bend point and sucking fuel (and air) across the split.
didn't have a long enough piece in me depleted stocks to effect a permanent repair, so a piece of an old 'giving set' from me weekly infusion treatments got pressed into service .... have kept a few lengths of the lines as they're handy to have sat with a 3mm bore ..... anyway, it did the trick for now, 'til some of the proper stuff arrives to replenish stocks........running like a watch and Pam's given its legs a stretch this afternoon, after the deluges of the night and this morning have burgered off.

knocked out a temporary repair for the fence post that got snapped in the gales last week .... will screw this on the top rail, straddling said post, for now, until the weather is more conducive to replacing the post (and I feel enthused enough to tackle it --- 's gonna take some sorting)

sh1te little drill, but less effort than doing it by hand or getting the mag out .. flexes like hell on anything hard ... fine as a wood machine, but even a small (5mm) hole in steel has the pillar / table / head flexing .... should be prosecuted for making such cr*p .... got given it for services rendered a few months ago ... (gift horse, etc.) and the VFD ain't arrived for the Meddings yet.... @Rob65 rang me yesterday, as I was on me way down to the school, for Clara, to share his experiences on the niceties of VFDs ..... so should be here shortly, hopefully .... ordered yesterday.
1st coat of shiny tish after

and second coat this afternoon

sat having tea last night and there's this all pervading smell of kero again , from the utility, next to the kitchen, so a n other delve session into the boiler last night ..... the small almost undetectable drip from my previous foray in there was now a significant drip.... but from where? .... Nowt for it ..rip it to bits

got the burner out to more accessible/examinable position on top of that small bucket, so I could get me head under it to see exactly where the kero was tracking from

to discover it coming from the solenoid fuel control cut off valve spindle .... caught hold of it to find it loose as **** - less than finger tight .. whipped it out - O ring fine, so pinched it down wit a 15mil and after getting everything dry as a chip with tissue, turned the fuel back on ..... no leak... how the hell this'd gotten as loose as it was is a mystery , but remounted its coil...

and stuck everything back together and back in place (after a serious clean up of the cabinet of any rogue kero) .... hoovering out the combustion chamber (which was pretty good) and checking the nozzle (looked perfect and nicely dry) and fired it all up again .... no drips
has taken a bit of time for the inevitable kero smell to disappear, with plenty of heat, but back to normal today - odourless

well happy Druid, to sort what was becoming very annoying ... especially after I'd thought I'd found it the other day, but Kero being clear and all pervading, is bloody difficult stuff to trace back to source .... made it much easier whipping the burner unit out completely and getting it up in the air to see under it properly...... aaand whipping that coil off, once I could see the stuff on top of the pump end cap .....

so two good results yesterday ...... day mar-ed by the bloody posty bringing us this.....

was £2650 last year ... a 9.77% increase FFS ...... for which we get virtually sod all ....

two black bags once a fortnight, which we have to convey to the top of the drive ...

plods never come out here ---
took 3 months for them to come take a statement, when the horsey girl's donkey box got nicked and the box and vehicle that towed it away only got two miles down the road 'fore they rolled the freelander and then torched it, blocking the road ......
never turned up at all when 'her' barn got emptied of all her gear.
nearest street lighting is two miles away and do not get me started on the state of the roads
etc., etc. !!

 

[V8Druid]

did nothing different with the pix in that one to the first time ?????

 

[Left hooker]

We are 800 less than you but with an increase this year also

 

[V8Druid]

We are 800 less than you but with an increase this year also

yeh but nigh on 10% increase is a ridiculous amount Stu .... taking the pi**
was £2500 the previous year to last ..... 6% increase was bad enough then

 

[Cyberprog]

yeh but nigh on 10% increase is a ridiculous amount Stu .... taking the pi**
was £2500 the previous year to last ..... 6% increase was bad enough then

Mines around the same. Same lack of service really too.

 

[V8Druid]

Mines around the same. Same lack of service really too.

add to that I've been ****ing no where in the last year to even make use of anything .... an' it's a right piss take

 

[fred]

i belive that the tesla powerwall has a app or controller to use battery power or grid power and use battery first, and charge it using off peak and use it during daytime .also i have seen a system where one can charge your tesla car for free bring it home plug it in and use it as a large free powerpack ,then recharge on the cheapo off peak,now if you had a turbine and solar you would as they say be cooking on gas

You can use the app to set when you want to consume the stored energy. I use a time of day tariff where electric is virtually free overnight, very cheap in day and mega expensive between 4pm and 10pm. So my powerwall is setup to charge itself to 100% overnight if its not already, keep a minimum 80% in the bank for 4pm and then no grid use from 4pm-10pm unless demand is over 5kw which is the max the powerwall can provide in which case it will pull the extra from the grid. In the summer my 4kw PV keeps it pretty much full by 4pm on its own regardless of whats happening in the house.

 

[V8Druid]

got this on this morning .... forgot to take the pic 'til it was near dark ...

should help it stay put 'til I can develop the enthusiasm to replace the post .....
posty arrived lunchtime with ....

Pam's been giving it her best afforts to break the repair this morning ..... and the spare'll be staying put for now

Couple of hours later Paul, our Hermes guy arrived with a package that could only be one of the two things I was awaiting arrival of .....
wasn't big enough to be the 10" diameter fan i was waiting for, for the countax .... shed it's blades late last year and in anticipation of some warmer weather (and on Angus's ( @modelman093 advice ) I'd ordered a new one .... so had to be ......

made up some brackets to get it mounted on the switch box plate off the Meddings ..

and got it in place .... after i'd sorted a supply lead into it on the bench .....

re-cabled the motor on the bench with some 3 core and earth and got it back in its rightful place at the back of the drill ... and plumbed the new tails into the VFD, having sussed U, V & W's colours for getting the connections right ....

as previously discussed .... no cable clamping provision so I'd used some longer than necessary bolts to fix it to its mount plates and tied both cables to those .... will at least give some protection .... certainly more than provided ....
nice fir, width -wise on the mount plate but had to extend it down a bit, to pick up the lower corners ..... with some 30 x 3 flat stiffeners ...

VFD works a treat .... and so does the drill..... will be very nice to just be able to walk up and switch it on for the odd holes ...... all I need to do now is try and work out the various settings and programs available on the VFD's ying tong instructions ... you know the sort I mean ..... total bloody gibberish
the read out is capable of RPM, output voltage, loading, and preset levels BTLs .... just need to translate HTF to set it all from the gobbledygook paperwork that arrived with it.
weather looks grim again tomorrow ... so might have a play then .

can't fault it for the cost and's supposed to run 3HP .... don't think the drill's lil' motor is ever gonna stress it

 

[Rob65]

Glad to hear it’s all sorted.
The default settings on mine were to show the output Hz. I have not bothered changing that.
The only setting I’ve messed with was the run up time for the one on my big lathe.

 

[V8Druid]

Glad to hear it’s all sorted.
The default settings on mine were to show the output Hz. I have not bothered changing that.
The only setting I’ve messed with was the run up time for the one on my big lathe.

this has a soft start and soft shut down Rob .... will get some pix of screens tomorrow ... I can't recall what comes up altogether TBH .... there's a lot