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True but if neutral is switched rather than live (see @Crossy comment above) then that is enough to make a fluorescent lamp glow quite nicely when switched off. I know that to be true, been there done that.

The way to protect new batteries from old has to be to isolate them from each other using diodes or MOS FETs or some other electronic device I guess. Charging would present the same problems in reverse so I would put my meagre pension on MOS FET's switched between charge and discharge.

Absolutely right although the question of "did the fluorescent lamps show similar problems?" would probably answer that. I am assuming that there was no sign of ghostly glows before the LED's were fitted.

Yeah, but some people seem to be too dumb to figure that one out.

LED lamps are strange beasts. They are high impedance devises and will work, sort of, with very little current flow. What you are seeing is possibly a bit of stray, cable induced, pickup from the house wiring. Fitting an AC rated capacitor (for example a fan motor capacitor) across the light fitting terminals should fix this.

The amount of electricity the panel produces relates directly to the amount of sunlight falling on the panels. If the OP is using pretty well all the panels can produce under good sunlight light conditions and a cloud passes over, there is every likelihood that the output from the panels will fall below the power demand. In that case the current will fluctuate. Fix for this is more panels.

Satellite terminal? Geostationary or low orbit?

I must be very naive. My first though on reading this was "what pot plant does the OP want to grow". Took me a few seconds to realise the pot plant he was talking about was marijuana. A pot plant for me is a plant grown in a pot.

This is true. I bought some 25mm aluminium cable in a Chinese electrical shop and, out of curiosity, measured it. The actual size was 22mm.

My fix from a couple of comments ago, assumed that the installation had been successfully done. There is some gunge available which is applied to cables as they are pulled through conduit etc. which reduces friction and minimizes damage to cable from heat friction. https://shopee.co.th/product/289493934/10941905043?gclid=CjwKCAjw_uGmBhBREiwAeOfsd5cLxfjLkojwBLeoCoAqnqGZHbTwJqwtKrtnUYyzIwsXLat172_BPxoC2foQAvD_BwE If you can recover the damaged cables there is quite a few £'s worth of copper there. Enough for a good night out. Or did you install aluminium.

And don't forget the grass which will be very happy with this idea. These are expansion joints. What is the gap you will be making between 8M sections? Further to my earlier comment don't forget the landing lights for your Cessna runway which needs to be at least 10M wide.

Power is not discarded. Solar panels produce enough power for the loads which are applied to them. There is a maximum limit to this, dictated by the area of the panels, which will not be exceeded. It follows from this that you cannot measure the power from the panels which is not being used. Best for estimation is written on the label stuck on the rear of the panel (PMax). Subtract from this the thermal derating figure according to the panel temperature then subtract a further amount which is 1%/year (some newer panels are better than this) to get the probable potential output.

There are no disadvantages. There is an advantage in the cross sectional area of flat cables being smaller than round. Also when laying a cable run in trunking with several others, the cables will not twist and tangle so easily.

I've had a tremendously hard life. Have you any idea how hard it is finding a good butler house keeper these days ..........

Yeah. If you could get enough discarded parts you could build a complete bike. Great time stripping bottom bracket bearings and cleaning rust off balls.

Batteries, Charge controllers, solar panels and inverter all separate and non-intelligent. Good for the simple life. Nothing with a mind of it's own except my wife which does occasionally give trouble.

You did all that when you were 15? What job did you do after education? Car repairs maybe?

Neither police nor embassy staff are qualified to judge if you are dead or not. That is the job of your local hospital doctor.

Yes I know. That's why I used those temperature figures. Onetimewoodworkers figures are for FLA batteries. My lead carbon batteries are in the same temperature range as LiFePO4's.

Nah! A soapy one should sort out all them 'orible little things

As the man said. Adding strong new batteries to weaker old ones will deplete the new batteries quicker. If you are interested to extend the life of your batteries then keep them in a moderately cool place (25C is perfect but they should be ok at 30C) and arrange for your depth of discharge to be as little as possible. 30% would give an extremely long life but for lithium chemistries, 40 to 50% should give you many years of power.

Agree with the above comments. Better late than never. So what about Don Mueng and all the others dotted around the country? With the amount of money AOT makes It could easily be done and I would imagine costs would be recovered in the first year especially if, like forum members, they adopt a DIY approach.

Like ask to search for drugs in a hidden comparttment in the skateboard?

I wonder what happened to start that off.

Thanks for remembering. Yeah. It was a Bantum