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    Help! My inverter has died.

    Well done, pleased for you. You do know that the current running one will now work for ever don't you. ;)
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    SMETS 1 (no so!) SMART Meter

    Ask your current supplier to fit you a 2nd gen meter, they are supposed to be migrating all 1st gen meter users over anyway. Once you have the 2nd gen meter fitted you can move suppliers. I wouldn't move until its done.
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    Metal detecting!

    I made mine ;) https://mikefettles.blogspot.com/2018/
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    Metal detecting!

    I made a sling and attached a bungy cord, it almost carries the detector just above ground level. I also don't have to put it down when digging, it just sort of hangs beside me. I don't clip my arm into it either so when I let go it just sort of follows me ;)
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    Metal detecting!

    I once detected a field I usually detect just beaches as I live close to the sea and have no permissions available near by. I once detected a field and got lots of knives forks and spoons, all 20th century stuff and valueless. Turns out the local schools used to have the pig man round to...
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    Help! My inverter has died.

    Being tight, I think I would have looked at replacing the relays first for £20 outlay and maybe saved myself £150. I'm sure I have seen solar river relay repairs on youtube before. My solar river 3000TL was installed Jan 2014 so it too is on borrowed time I guess.
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    QUIET

    I reluctantly use Facebook but I wouldn't use it for anything that needed referencing again in future, to me its just a giant black hole that swallows up posts never to be seen again. At least with forums they build a library that can be referenced in future times. Oh and yes it is quiet in here.
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    Solis app - Power flow

    If you have the app running and getting data then use the tab "overview" and scroll down and it should be there, it is on mine anyway.
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    Need some help please with video format, codecs AVI/MPEG etc

    I did today manage to get in touch with the importers and they of course said tough luck, wear it. Well they actually suggested I grabbed all the footage 40-60mins a night via wifi to my phone as it would then be in a suitable format, but I think they thought the App was perfect and didn't drop...
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    Need some help please with video format, codecs AVI/MPEG etc

    I just got a new trail camera, its not my first, the others record to micro SD and I just copy what I want to keep up to Google photo or send to facebook forums. This new camera seems to have a video recording format that neither facebook or Google photo will accept. I have to convert them to...
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    ENA connect direct

    Not sure there is a problem? I just went to the old ENA database and was able still to search up to 16/4/24. I then took the link to ENA's new connect direct site and without signing up or logging in I was able to set filters and search the database...
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    In my day we used proper saddles

    These 3/4" brass pins and lead saddles have been on the shelf at home since the late 1950's. Apart from melting the saddles down to make fishing leads, I cant see there ever being a use for them.
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    When you had to make your own pattress

    I'm sure I still have a couple of those wooden back boxes hiding behind plastic lighting switch plates in my 1960 house.
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    Brought a smile

    I actually did this with a girlfriend in about 1986, after a night out we got home to find I didnt have my keys. There was a metal framed front window with a small sash open. She was very slim and did exactly the same window dance with me standing outside lowering her by her ankles to the floor...
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    Brought a smile

    Looks like they used the seal wire from the meter and cut out to clamp the spoon to the screws :)
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    Emails blocked..

    https://www.idnet.com/email-services.php?VAT_INC_EX=on#vat_selector_buttons I use the above service from £18/yr and you get support if needed. So it can be [email protected] quick and easy works well with thunderbird too.
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    optimum battery size

    I think if you were to use a tool like PbmsTools to view what's going on with your batteries overnight, you would see that stopping discharge at 15% isn't absolute and that there will be maybe 1-2% further discharge almost within minutes of the 15% cut off point, then further discharge due...
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    optimum battery size

    I have a Solis inverter and mine would go into loop mode and repeatedly self charge with the % set too close between force and over soc. At 1% difference yours is imo much too close. I settled for Overdischarge SOC which has a range of 6-40% at 15% and Forcedischarge SOC which has a range of...
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    2 yearly check of your Generation meter.

    Just to finish this off, I requested that if they wanted to send a meter reader to double check my photo and revised MCS meter serial number that they first contact me with an appointment. Of course out of the blue a Morrisons meter man appeared on the doorstep yesterday asking to read the...
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    2 yearly check of your Generation meter.

    My fit energy company contacted me about my generation meter, every 2yrs they send someone to certify its the same meter and its not been altered from the original on the MCS cert. This year they asked for a photo instead, I sent them one, 4 days later I get an email telling me my account is now...
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