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He lives locally, he’s an arial fitter so he’ll have a van full of materials and he quoted me over the phone.

My kitchen TV ‘s coaxial cable running over a flat roof to an arial on a pole attached to a dormer window is old and the mesh has oxidised. It’s about 25 meters max. I phone a local arial fitter and he quoted me £150 to replace the cable plus an arial “ if it needs it” which presumably it would...

It’s easy to delay start times but the issue is transferring the washing to the tumble dryer! Yes, I know there are machines that do a full wash and dry. We actually had one and it was useless!

My wife says she can do a wash and tumble dry in not much more than an hour and still be in bed soon after midnight!

Octopus night rate starts at 11.30pm I believe. E-On starts at midnight. Does anyone know of any starting earlier, eg 11pm?

1.8kW per day?🤔

My Smart Meter shows usage in real time. If I boil a kettle, the usage shows immediately on the meter.

That is very interesting, thank you. It confirms exactly my point and situation. Last night, after being out all the sunny day, I had a full battery of "free" solar electricity so I confidently connected the fridge freezer and the separate freezer to my solar battery, thus isolating them from...

My smart meter shows Watts, I’m charged in Watts /KW usage, my appliances are rated in Watts. Small appliances such as phone chargers have very little Watt usage. Certainly not 50w in 3 minutes ( ie 1kW per hour)) I cannot see the relevance of amps in this. My calculations are not meant to be...

The 50w is showing on the Smart meter and the load(s) are from 5v transformers on the phone chargers and router

My issue has nothing to do with my PV system. I only included reference to it to illustrate how I identified the issue with the Smart meter which appears to add phantom watts! My small PV system is not intended to replace or even significantly subsidise my usage from the grid but it allows me to...

About 3600kWh per year. My PV charges a 100ah Lithium battery connected to a 3000/6000w Inverter to a 13 amp extension lead to my utility room.

Please bear with me. Out of interest and annoyance with the Utility Companies, I have installed a DIY solar system which is giving me about 1Kw of electricity per day in the current time of year and will give me over 2Kw per day in the summer. It is totally independent of my house supply. I have...

I have been running a small 12v PV set up using 2 x 420W panels through a Victron 50amp controller to 4 x 100ah wet cell leisure batteries in parallel and a 3000/6000 inverter. I saw a cheap 100ah LiFePO4 battery so I purchased it and swapped it to my system, disconnecting the non lithium...

Could someone please explain why my earthing is to the house side of the gas meter rather than the incoming pipe? I would have thought that a more reliable earthing would be from the gas mains pipe.

I need two optimisers for my soar array as my neighbour's cherry tree shadow crosses my panels. Should I sneak out in the middle of the night and fell the tree or can anyone suggest a good priced couple of optimisers?