Recent content by NugentS

I am in Slough - hardly a conservation area unless you count conservation by semtex :)

Hi, I am considering building a lean to against the rear of my house starting just under the top windows, down to just over the bottom windows across the width of the house. No walls, just some oversized posts and built solid Depth will be about 3m. Decked roof with IKO Armourglass Plus Square...

Wouldn't it be better to install each EVSE (the OP did say 2 EVSE's) on different phases - so 32Amps on two phases. No issue there. Of course it does mean having to pull 2 cables to the shed or one 3 phase cable I guess

The ballasts came with the tubes as a complete kit

Brightness - they are fine. Flickering - they are not

Its not a dimming switch its a simple on / off but one that I can say "Alexa, trun on / off the office light"

I might here to - although given the state of the insulation I may well have to replace the entire fitting I readded the smart switch and the flickering is even worse now that I have removed the cap. With the dumb rocker switch its fine, shorted its fine (suprise suprise, given that what the...

Flickers when on. Off is fine. I removed the cap - and then had to hoover the carpet as all the insutaltion on the screws broke off

I have removed the Flourescent Tube starters and put in the ones that came with the tubes The rest is as per the photos below

Oh Poo, its the switch. I just replaced the smart swicth with a typical dumb rocker switch and the lights don't flicker Any suggestions? I want to be able to smart control the lights in the house - but they are the typical UK switch live and a number of the smart switches don't support that.

Hi, I had a twin flourescent tube setup in my home office - I replaced the tubes with LED tubes and obviously also replaced the starters with whatever the LED's require. However these are now flickering (I don't think they did initially). Both tubes are flickering. Some google says that the...

Oh, and I have 4Kwp of solar panels on a SMA Inverter 30+kWh of Pylontech batteries attached to 2 Luxpower Inverters I use Octopus Go Faster to charge the batteries overnight (00:30-05:30) and top up from Solar during the day And an EV The car can pull 32 Amps, The batteries 32 Amps between...

I have the same. But the batteries are inthe detached garage which means that I would have to run a scond circuit between the house and the garage AND then distribute this out into the house somehow. I would much rather be able to isolate the mains (simple isolation switch) and then fool the...

Could I do this with a UPS? I have enough of those. Plug the UPS output into the mains (ignoring the live male plug issue). The problem I can see is that at least for an brief period of time the UPS would be trying to supply the whole house whilst the batteries and solar wake up something that a...

Hi, South of England Based Retired, x Network Engineer Am a very lazy person, the amount of effort I am prepared to put into being lazy is significant :)