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 Topic: Nickel Batteries. |
Hairyloon
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 Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Wed Aug 07, 19 4:49 pm Subject: Nickel Batteries. |
| With the development of good Lithium based batteries, Nickel batteries have fallen out of favour. No great surprise because the lithium ones are a whole lot better, but it seems to me that a whole lot ... |
| Topic: Forum hosts |
Hairyloon
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Forum: IT Matters Posted: Fri Jul 26, 19 5:48 pm Subject: Forum hosts |
I thought we'd done this before, but I can't find it and in any case, times change.
Do we have any recommendations for forum hosts and platforms?
I think that [url=https://www.kvdt.org.uk/]this lot ... |
| Topic: Anybody know about inverters? |
Hairyloon
Replies: 13
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Wed Jul 17, 19 12:17 am Subject: Anybody know about inverters? |
| i might dip into my pocket a bit deeper, apart from output quality the energy losses between battery and appliance are less with a decent mid range one which can matter if you have limited charging c ... |
| Topic: Anybody know about inverters? |
Hairyloon
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Tue Jul 16, 19 5:12 pm Subject: Anybody know about inverters? |
unless it is an expensive inverter the time and parts to mend it might be a false economy, if one bit is snuffed there will be other bits ready to pop
I was kind of thinking that. There are various ... |
| Topic: Anybody know about inverters? |
Hairyloon
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Tue Jul 16, 19 2:20 pm Subject: Anybody know about inverters? |
put the scope away. you might kill it.
Shouldn't do, as long as I poke it in the right holes...
a possible one problem fits both symptoms would be the inverter electronics have broken and decide ... |
| Topic: Anybody know about inverters? |
Hairyloon
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Views: 11592
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Mon Jul 15, 19 7:57 pm Subject: Anybody know about inverters? |
put a meter on the inverter out put , check for 230v (ish). dont get zapped...
About 160V.
I've got a scope here, but it's not mine and it's only rated to 20V.
Could use a divider, but I'm not enti ... |
| Topic: Abandoned BitCoin mine... |
Hairyloon
Replies: 13
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Mon Jul 08, 19 3:02 pm Subject: Abandoned BitCoin mine... |
| The basic difference between ASIC and GPU is a GPU is a general purpose bit of silicon an ASIC much more hardwired, so an ASIC will do a particular coin very well, but only that coin. A GPU can do any ... |
| Topic: Anybody know about inverters? |
Hairyloon
Replies: 13
Views: 11592
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Sat Jul 06, 19 7:12 am Subject: Anybody know about inverters? |
small cheap red hot wire heating element switch gear plastic thin metal bits , i aint seen yours but i have killed a few with those criteria
Nah, the switching is with silicon. It's a S3F94C8 chip, i ... |
| Topic: Anybody know about inverters? |
Hairyloon
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Views: 11592
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Fri Jul 05, 19 3:23 pm Subject: Anybody know about inverters? |
put a meter on the inverter out put , check for 230v (ish). dont get zapped.
if an inverter is going wrong it is usually low or no output rather than a v spike .
i would suspect a soldering iron ... |
| Topic: Abandoned BitCoin mine... |
Hairyloon
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Views: 4976
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Fri Jul 05, 19 9:03 am Subject: Abandoned BitCoin mine... |
Most coin mining is on GPU, the term bitcoin mine tends to be used generically to encompass all mining.
My apologies. I don't know if "Most" is correct, but "Many" certainly is and I won't argue th ... |
| Topic: Anybody know about inverters? |
Hairyloon
Replies: 13
Views: 11592
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Fri Jul 05, 19 8:56 am Subject: Anybody know about inverters? |
I plugged my soldering iron into my inverter yesterday and it (the iron) started buzzing then the blue smoke escaped.
The iron was temperature controlled one, not just a simple heater, but it was a c ... |
| Topic: Abandoned BitCoin mine... |
Hairyloon
Replies: 13
Views: 4976
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Thu Jul 04, 19 5:20 pm Subject: Abandoned BitCoin mine... |
True, but there is sometimes a happy medium...
Run with it if it works, but don't presume that it's right just because, and especially not if you can see why it might not be... |
| Topic: Abandoned BitCoin mine... |
Hairyloon
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Wed Jul 03, 19 9:49 am Subject: Abandoned BitCoin mine... |
However, as I expect you know, I am not a big fan of conventional wisdom...
Funny, we would never have guessed! 
It very often proves wrong.
For example, conventional wisdom used to say th ... |
| Topic: Abandoned BitCoin mine... |
Hairyloon
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Tue Jul 02, 19 9:09 am Subject: Abandoned BitCoin mine... |
Just on an aside. I use my phone, whilst it is on charge to help CRUK run calculations for research. It's quite a funky app.
I may write to the chap behind that project. I've found an email address.
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| Topic: Abandoned BitCoin mine... |
Hairyloon
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Wed Jun 12, 19 11:37 pm Subject: Abandoned BitCoin mine... |
" : cure for cancer, search for extra terrestrial intelligence, big data perversion of democracy, "
perfect
Is what I thought, but the relevant question is of how to get set up on the project. |
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