It's much better than a lot of countries, but, getting worse year on year, and not as good as several other major countries. I'm in Italy, first night we stopped on the outskirts of Rome near the airport, couldn't believe how many small restaurants were closed on a Friday night. The owner of the small pizza place we went to was telling me it's all down to the major hike in energy costs. The locals aren't going out, and overheads were making it not worthwhile opening.
Trevi fountain, Rome.
Yep, last time we were here it was being repaired, so it was nice to see it working, although getting near it is another matter - sharp elbows needed 😃
That's so sad. It's hard enough running small businesses as it is without all the knock-on effects this energy crisis is having.
Solar cells output voltage does not vary much with light , it is the current they produce that varies with insolation. They are current sources not voltage sources like batteries.
Hey Piglet, thanks for that little nugget, that's yet another thing I didn't know, but a really useful thing to know.
It's world wide, but Brexit has added 5% to our inflation. And it's not just fuel, this year's droughts will have affected crops across Europe, so food will rise in price. I'm planning on growing a few things next year, simple stuff like tomatoes, which taste better than the underipe supermarket offerings.
Nobody said you were a moron, but you clearly have no idea what you are doing where electricity is concerned. Only an idiot would have connected an ammeter across a PD of any sort. You had no idea what was going to happen..
So what I thought would happen, happened, it read the voltage.
The problem is when you did the current measurement, if for example you'd done the same test to a battery supply, if the leads were not protected by a fuse you would easily have vapourised the test leads, burning your hands and arms etc. Luckily the solar panels have a relatively high internal resistance and the current was limited to 18.5 amps.
None of us came out of the womb knowing all there is to know about anything, knowledge needs to be passed on. As I often say, every day is a school day!
John, clearly I don't understand your point, so would you like to climb down off your high horse and educate me instead of being condescending.
Where would i start??? I would recommend that you get yourself some books on basic electrical theory.. NEVER EVER try to measure current by putting a meter across a supply of any sort.. If you did that with the mains you would have had a current of up to around 1000A flowing through your probes and meter which would have basically exploded/vaporised in your face. I read once [not sure how true it is though] that many more people die of the burns they receive as a result of things going wrong, than they do of the shock itself.. You came very close...
