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Crossy

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  1. If the whole circuit is in 2.5mm2 and on a 20A breaker you'll be fine.
  2. The only issue could be if the incoming funds are tagged as "international" if you need that statement.
  3. They said there'll be snow at Christmas They said there'll be peace on Earth But instead it just kept on raining A veil of tears for the Virgin birth I remember one Christmas morning A winters light and a distant choir And the peal of a bell and that Christmas Tree smell AND EYES full of tinsel and fire
  4. Do you remember Chalk hearts melting on a playground wall? Do you remember Dawn escapes from moon washed college halls? Do you remember The cherry blossom in the market square? Do you remember I thought it was confetti in our hair?
  5. Elon Musk’s German Tesla plant suffers close to $1 billion in damages after attack by the ‘dumbest eco-terrorists on Earth’ Arsonists calling themselves the Volcano Group left Tesla’s German factory without electricity on Tuesday, leading to damages the company claims could approach $1 billion. More than 60,000 residents in Brandenburg and even parts of Berlin were also affected when a single high-voltage power mast near Tesla’s factory in Grünheide was set ablaze, raising broader questions over how to protect defenseless infrastructure critical to the economy from vandals, saboteurs and criminals. https://www.aol.com/elon-musk-german-tesla-plant-123857792.html
  6. Yup, no issue whatever, expired is expired. You'll get a 30-day visa exempt entry without any bother.
  7. It's also against the forum rules if it changes the context ...
  8. Ouch, at least it did open eventually! I've seen fake MCBs that were literally just a switch!!! This is the datasheet for similar devices from Littelfuse (a known quality brand) https://www.littelfuse.com/~/media/automotive/datasheets/fuses/passenger-car-and-commercial-vehicle/blade-fuses/littelfuse_atof_datasheet.pdf The characteristic curves from that datasheet. Their 2A fuse should open in less than 0.1s at 8A!
  9. Yeah, failing open is my experience too. BUT Once, many years ago (I was about 12 so early 70s) we had an incandescent lamp fail spectacularly when it was on (nice pop, broken glass). Afterwards the dimmer it was controlled by would only operate at full brightness, so in that case I'm assuming the triac went short. But as I said, that's once in many years, other times the beasts have gone open.
  10. How about a: - https://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/218/A_Long_Slow_Comfortable_Screw_Up_Against_the_Wall37560.shtml
  11. I am rather partial to a Long Island Iced Tea (as is my darling wifey). Unfortunately (maybe fortunately) after 2 or 3 long ones the world does become a little blurred round the edges
  12. Good advice on testing the remote. Lurking in one of the earlier posts is the fact that the manual on/off switch on the unit also doesn't turn it off. I'm suspecting a stuck relay, but without poking around on the board with a multimeter we are fumbling in the dark.
  13. Running a BEV which is charged by solar, wind or nuclear where there is no exhaust whatever? Hydrogen does have uses where rapid recharge (long distance haulage) and weight (aircraft) are issues but for personal vehicles the battery which can be re-charged at home is king. At least for the foreseeable future.
  14. Among Colin Crompton’s classic gags were: “First prize in the raffle is a diving suit… no, it’s a divan suite.” Or: “The sign in the gents, ‘Wet paint’, is not an instruction.” The audience, mainly sporting extra-thick glasses and huge sideburns – and that was just the women – were regulars at northern clubs and lapped it all up.
  15. <Insert name of your "favourite" politician> and his driver were cruising along a country road one evening when a pig ran in front of the car. The driver tried to avoid it but couldn’t. The pig was killed. The <politician> told his driver to go up to the farmhouse and explain to the owners what happened. About an hour later the driver staggers back to the car with his clothes in total disarray. He was holding a bottle of wine in one hand, a cigar in the other and smiling happily. “What happened?” asked the <politician>. “Well,” the driver replied “the Farmer gave me the wine, his wife gave me the cigar, and their beautiful daughter made mad passionate love to me.” “My God, what did you tell them?” asked the <politician>. The driver replied: “I’m <politician's> driver, and I just killed the pig.”
  16. It may just be a stuck relay on the control board. A good, solid thump to the relays with the handle of a big screwdriver will often free things up.
  17. OK it's like this. You are measuring a small (maybe feeling a bigger) voltage between two "grounds". This may be caused by a high resistance connection in the ground coupled with naturally "leaky" appliances (anything with a mains inlet filter), they don't necessarily need to be in your condo if other units share that ground to the re-bar, or even capacitive coupling from other live wires if that connection is really, really bad. You need to eliminate/minimise this voltage. You do this by making sure that your electrical ground is as good as practical (clean up that rusty connection). If this isn't practical/possible then you can use your "better" ground (the water pipe) in addition to the iffy main ground. From an earlier post: - Without visiting your place with a box full of test-gear it's not possible to define exactly what you are seeing, but the suggestions should clear most of the common issues. Try the simple fixes first. When they don't come back and we can delve deeper.
  18. After a whole week of unemployment, I've completely lost track of what day it is Gawd knows how I'll cope when I actually retire!
  19. That EV is looking even more attractive
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