Lights Out?

[Dave Liquorice]

I've yet to find a LED lantern that will chuck out > 800 lm(*) for >

6 hrs that a gas lantern will. Not to mention the suplimental room heating. B-)

I have a shaker torch next to the bed for the battery reason but it's light is pretty pathetic but enough to get to the lanterns and fire them up (one has piezo ignition).

Saw something in CostCo yeasterday, twin pack of a couple of "nightlight" torches that dropped into a plugin charger unit. I think they did the non-maintained "emergency" light thing along with a maintained nightlight.

(*) More than a standard 60 W incandescent perl bulb.

[whisky-dave]

You couild always fit yuorself out with a few dozen of these. ;-)

[jgh]

and in the warmest end-of-October on record (according to Look North). What's going to happen when it gets cold?

jgh

[jgh]

I heard that, and wondered why on earth the aircons were previously being run continuously when they not needed anyway. There's this wonderous invention called a "thermostat", it's only been around about 500 years or so, maybe they haven't heard of them yet...

jgh

[whisky-dave]

I thought that was why they're called wind up, because they wind you up :)

[Martin Brown]

They are American. You can't have anything like natural ventilation or air that hasn't been triple filtered and heated to 25C in a room.

[dennis]

I ordered 40 aa alkaline batteries in case my rechargeable prove inadequate for my torches. They should last for a few weeks.

[dennis]

5D cell maglite with a 3W LED is better, better light, longer lasting and if you accidentally hit something with it it won't break.

[Tim Watts]

Yep - just been out with the youngest and his friend going around the village (I made half an effort this year and green-ed up :)

Wore a t-shirt - and was still warm.

[Tim Watts]

My 15 year old 4D maglite got an upgrade 3 years ago with one of these:

That thing lights up half a field on full and the batteries last a long time if used wisely (dropping to the mid or low setting)

[Dave Liquorice]

I suspect these will be large central coolers, with a fair amount of thermal inertia and probably able to modulate how much cooling they do. The rooms may look as if they individual air con units, fans and thermostats yes but the cooling is done centrally and cold water(?) circulated.

[Vir Campestris]

Tell them to be sure the fuel pump is on the internal circuits, not the external mains.

Andy

[Huge]

I think you'll find that the incompetence is pretty evenly spread across the political spectrum and that your comment merely reveals you for the bigot you are.