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Dimmable LED ES lights
Having hit the point where tungsten and halogen bulbs are no longer generally available I am transitioning to LED bulbs, which need to be dimmable for the main living area. With the pair of lights on...
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My own smart meter ?
Does anyone know of an energy monitor for the electricity that I could use without having to sign up for a smart meter ? I see lots of "smart plugs", but want to monitor the whole house. not one...
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TV fault
Every so often, with live TV on my LG 43" 15 year old LCD TV, half the screen becomes garbled. Pic here: the channel, or other sources like DVD seem OK. I can only think this is an aerial problem....
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Tripping tumble dryer
I've a Beko DCU 8230 tumble dryer, about 10 years old, tripping the RCD at or near the end of a cycle. I replaced the mains interference filter on a recommendation about 5 years back after the same...
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Throwing explosive fun
This was prompted by ARW's query about small blue LEDs. I didn't want to hijack his thread so this is under a new heading. Does anyone remember about 40-45 years ago there was a 'toy' : a small wrap...
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OT - small blue LED lights
Passed quite a few of them last few weeks on the way to work but seldom on the way home from work. Random places - but usually on rural roads where it is not safe to stop and inspect. And never in the...
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One for the geeks.
On my desk top is an icon leading to *old Firefox data* 95Mb created last May. I have no idea of the benefit/purpose in keeping this file. W7 pro system. Any thoughts in words of few syllables?
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One-sided pull-out shelves
I have half an airing cupboard I'd like to shelve. The rough floorplan looks like this: |O_| where |_| are the walls and O is the hot water tank. The remaining gap is about 60x60cm so a good space for...
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Outside PIR puzzle
I went out to get firewood a few nights ago and my PIR triggered outside lights just kept blinking intermittently as if they were failing to “latch on”. Ordered a new PIR switch but before it...
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OT: War torn Ukraine vs Nottingham
They cited “terrible” housing conditions and high costs They cited “terrible” housing conditions and high costs
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IHD -Eon-Next
I have a smart meter with an In House Display. It was provided by Eon but now operated by Eon-Next. I have economy 7 electricity but the display only shows one electricity tariff and charges everthing...
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Chrome Book marks disappeared - Zpost
Come to the system today and all my bookmarks have disappeared. Well, there is one showing for the Halifax but all the rest are gone. They were there a few days ago. Google tells me to look for the...
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Backup power, I built a thing
Or how to over complicate something for the fun of it: (if anyone can work out why the syntax highlighting add on for media wiki is not doing is colouring thing, that would be handy!)
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Drill repair
Ok. so there is an impact driver in the post:-) While I have your attention, has anyone attempted a gearbox repair on a Makita HP457D ? Engaging low speed has worsened such that several attempts are...
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Looking for wire stripper for thin electronics wire (2023 Update)
I have a couple of 'automatic' wire strippers that work well on T&E and mains flexible cable but they don't work so well on thin electronics wire, especially multi-strand where the individual strands...
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