Muhendis

You are welcome to be as difficult as you want. My vernier caliper is OK to 1/100th mm. Not calibrated but measures accurately on known other items. It's digital. Roundness was tested and found to be ........... round.

That's a really impressive bunch of pictures. There are some blue 6" pipes high up sticking out of the wall in one of the pictures. What are they for?

I thought it was 'tll death or until 70 whichever comes first. Last I heard a health test was not required for renewal but a declaration of fitness to drive is part of the application.

A UK address is mandatory and must appear on the front of a UK license. You should change the address at DVLA or make sure you don't get caught. Yes I do but it has expired 'cause I'm old. If I ever go back there for any length of time I could renew it using my sons address. Either that or hire a car using my Thai license.

Last time I went to the UK which was over four years ago, I had intended to drive my son's car on my Thai license. Problem was the insurance company would not insure a driver with a Thai license. Hiring a car and driving with a Thai license seems to be fine though. If it is over 5 years old, it is no longer valid.

This contract battery swap idea is most likely very very expensive over the long term. Better idea is to adopt the battery swap idea which is good, and to own the extra battery pack yourself. Your "spare" battery pack can be charging, preferably by solar, whist you're running around on the number one pack. If going off out for the day carry your number two pack with you for the return journey. Easy is it not?

The point being that your ICE has hundreds of metal bits rubbing against each other and relies on frequent explosions for power whereas an electric motor has but one moving part to achieve the same result. With this in mind I am tempted to ask why the simpler electric machine is not less expensive than the equivalent ICE.

And the radio goon show staring the fabulous Eccles.

Looks too much like squirm. I think I will do it as sometime woodworker said 25mm2. How about that. It works but need to cancel before continuing.

Brilliant. Thanks No excuses from now on

Would that be SWG or perhaps AWG?

Thanks. Problem is, us regular engineering type guys automatically know what cable size refers to so if we say 25mm cable we know it means 25mm². This is useful if you are using a notepad type machine which doesn't have a way of doing the superscript ². (anyone know how to do this?) 'course it could be that Ben Zioner is fully aware of this and is simply nitpicking for the sake of it but probably not since that is so rare on this forum.............????

Using a vernier caliper I measured the diameter of each of the seven cores. I calculated the cross sectional area of each and summed them.

Tell them you clearly have that je ne sais quoi recognised by road builders the world over.

Yup. That there's aluminium. Still good for half a night out at 22B/kg stripped. Fingers crossed Thai style and looks of skepticism from the rest who seem to be standing back a bit.

Please note the original post Might have some difficulty finding the starters in most of these.

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.