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Soldering is bad , a proper crimp is gas tight the trouble is amateurs using improper crimp tooling and parts. Then they solder making it worse. Few people can solder properly anyway. This comes back to amateurs attempting things that professionals have done properly for decades. Do it...

Yes but with many perspectives and points of view. Gov have to then balance competing needs , many will ask for more services yet lower tax. Clearly that’s not sustainable so responsible government has to take decisions. By definition someone will be pissed off. The problem as clearly seen in...

I’ve now settled on a ATmega406 based design

My boats have always been floating science projects. !!! ( or a spy trawler as my friends suggest)

q abd it’s nonsense. Installing grid tied battery systems requires good technical knowledge a knowledge of the electrical codes and an understanding of mains wiring standards. Few people have that knowledge

By the way as someone who just passed their 500th order with AliExpress I found dealing with Ali great. Delivery times can be way way off at certain times. I’ve had deliveries arrive well after Ali refunded me the proceeds. In over 500 orders only ever lost one , a bag of thermal paper rolls...

With a 50AH battery , you must only have one light to leave on ?

It’s $2 you weren’t getting back anyway

I flew a lot for leisure , 30 years ago I could rock up 10 minutes before and board , however the ticket cost , adjusting for inflation , close to 100 times the current ticket ( I flew 400 miles into London last week for €9.99 , the G&T cost more)the two hours wait in the airport for €9.99 was...

Russian had dominance, after this Europe will never ever again place its reliance on Russian hydrocarbons, the war will do the exact opposite.

Cant agree. Firstly childcare is now a highly structured trained professional undertaking. The insurance alone is high. It’s not a partime activity. The US not a good model to study. Done Scandinavian models are interesting ( not issues ) the U.K. model ( healthcare , education etc) is worth...

Sorry not acceptable in a modern caring society. There must be a safety net Otherwise the poor sink deeper into poverty and the rich get richer. Taxation does and must have an element of wealth distribution taking from the haves and giving something to the have nots ( with appropriate limits...

I live 9 months on a boat. I decide whose around me or nobody. , no taxes , fully off grid, scenery changes every day. No county inspectors neither.

I certainly have an “ interest “ in how my electricity is generated. But that’s about the height of it. I see the grid as a national infrastructure and to me if their are failings , then these should be laid at the door of the utilities regulator and ultimately the gov minister and his...

Again the Victron mppt has Bluetooth on off so you can disable charge via this of using the Cerbo or using the remote on off. It’s up to you. Again yes if you want a CH and a DCH bus great use two contactors but the bms should kill both in lve and hve

I don’t see any point in disconnects on the panel side

Yes his comment makes no sense

Forgive me , I will not debate “ poor is a lifestyle choice “ with a person claiming in excess of 100,000 income. You clearly have no concept of poor or the difficulties people get into from low Incomes or no incomes. The fact is capital intensive cost reduction strategies directly discriminate...

I should say I’m in industrial ekectronics for 35 years. I’ve seen every fault mode possible. So yes I will postulate edge cases. But my view is given a budget of X what’s the best choice that goes towards my goal of safety first. So do I want my bms to get wiped by lightening which shorts...

Again folks there is no real issue with out of balance cells nor in out of balance series batteries. Only if it’s a serious effect on overall capacity dues it raise concerns. For example post charging , bleeding of charge into a resistor is a complete waste of time abd all you are doing is...

Why reinvent a grid when a perfectly good one already exists.

Grid failed in a storm twice on 10 years. Once for 5 hours once for 3 hours. Grid reliability has been excellent

Incentive , here’s money to allow us to control your stat What’s this , the evil company has controlled my stat Yiu have to admire the cognitive dissonance involved here

Not living in a house at all looks more and more tempting too

This is not the point , the point is if you let wealth disparity to increase without limits , what will inevitably happen is rebellion and revolt. Those “ have nots “ once numerous enough will simply attempt to take some of that wealth . The resulting chaos isn’t good. !!! It’s not about...

Standard Chinese model , widely sold for much less on AliExpress , thing weighs a ton

Hi you mention bolts and show a picture of nuts