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Baxi Neta-Tec fails Calibration
Long shot here, perhaps? This boiler has no error codes but flames out with what looks like insufficient gas on a modulated lowish output and purges before restarting. Placed the boiler in calibration...
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Rotten Apple?
Son has sent me a message to subscribe to his photo album while he is on holiday. I click on the subscribe link, and it wants my Apple ID. To get an Apple ID, it appears I have to have an iSomething....
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OT: splitting PDF files
Why are there all these online sites to upload, split and download PDF files? It seems to me all that is needed is to send the relevant pages to the virtual printer as a PDF file.
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Consumer Units with RCBOs
Yes, discrimination. AFAICS no time-delay / 100mA RCDs are available as RCBOs, so you'd need to allow for a 2-module time-delay RCD and an MCB for the garage - if they're available in BG. Also someone...
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Crocodile roller shutter style garage door
I have the same unit they keep advertising on TV by that builder type bloke, but it is not a Crocodile supplied unit, though the identical electrical/mechanicals. Today it opened further than it is...
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What's available to remotely switch a power circuit?
The other possibility is to use one of the smart slave N way sockets with a master socket intended for TV/PC so that one off all off. The snag with all of the ethernet smart devices is that every now...
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Problem with Hozelock garden sprayer
Have a Hozelock pump sprayer (5L) which is 20+ years old, and no pressure, so bought a service kit and replaced various washers etc. However, there is now plenty of pressure, but all that comes out of...
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Nuisance calls
Over the last 2 weeks I've had a few calls to my mobile from normal looking numbers, some land line, some mobile. All I hear is a recorded Chinese female voice (in Chinese) with background music.
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overboarding for shower tray.
For the life of me I cant remember when I done the shower room. Now doing the main bathroom. Putting down a resin shower tray and on to wooden floor boards (not chipboard), do I overboard the wooden...
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4 years ago
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Raspberry Pi to measure solar kilowatts and turn on the immersion heater when there's surplus
I'd like a Raspberry Pi mini computer to measure kilowatts in my house coming from the FIT solar panels, and my consumption of electricity, and how much is coming or going to the grid, and then to...
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Iphone compass app
I have read that the Iphone uses a magnetic compass, which suggests it would be affected by very local magnetic fields, but putting a magnet close to my SE doesn't seem to affect it at all. What am I...
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4 years ago
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Checking USB power output
Following on from my brief foray into solar power, I noted that it wasn't easy to measure the power output of the USB adapter. Amazon offers, for instance <>or <>. I'm sure some people here have used...
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Log burning stove chimney sweeping question
How do you do it? Our log burning stove sits in its inglenook with its unjointed vertical chimney pipe emerging from the flat top of the stove and straight up through the top of the inglenook,...
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Paint for newly skimmed walls - Dulux Supermatt?
We've had a room skimmed but want to paint it as soon as possible for M-I-L to return from a minor operation. It would appear that there are special paints which can be used in this situation, e.g....
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4 years ago
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Bolt cutters
Not what I thought they were for: 'I couldn't stop thinking about it and decided to do it'. 'I couldn't stop thinking about it and decided to do it'.
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