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Car battery polarity

I have found that I could buy some LED trailer lights but unlike my present incandescant trailer light bulbs the LED li...
67 comments posted 2yrs
posted by mUNDERSCOREnews
67 comments posted 2yrs posted by mUNDERSCOREnews

Mains Powered Hedge Trimmer - Cable Management

Rushing to get some trimming done before the brown bin goes out I managed to cut through the cable again - I went for m...
16 comments posted 2yrs
posted by jgnewsid
16 comments posted 2yrs posted by jgnewsid

'Smart' meter installation

Octopus came this morning to install 'smart' meters for electricity and gas at my flat near London. The electricity ins...
16 comments posted 2yrs
posted by davey
16 comments posted 2yrs posted by davey

Shed timber treatment and paint

My shed construction is about to start any day now. To current questions I would be pleased to have opinions on: 1 - mu...
6 comments posted 2yrs
posted by timw
6 comments posted 2yrs posted by timw

Used PC components

I have just cannibalised two personal computers. Apart from the motherboard (which might be OK) the remainder are perfec...
7 comments posted 2yrs
posted by pinnerite
7 comments posted 2yrs posted by pinnerite

equipotential bonding

Which edition of the regs first introduced the requirement for equipotential bonding?
6 comments posted 2yrs
posted by usenet
6 comments posted 2yrs posted by usenet

St Swithin's Day today.

Had some rain here in Sussex earlier on, and much more forecast for later. Bugger.
14 comments posted 2yrs
posted by Andrew97d
14 comments posted 2yrs posted by Andrew97d

Firefox master password

Does using a master password in Firefox give you more or less security?
3 comments posted 2yrs
posted by me
3 comments posted 2yrs posted by me

Beware Amazon AI review summaries

We need a replacement small electric item for kitchen use, so my wife and I were searching Amazon for suitable items, e...
11 comments posted 2yrs
posted by aero.spike
11 comments posted 2yrs posted by aero.spike

Free tools

I was attempting to clear up the workshop a bit and thought that actually having a place to put everything would be a g...
6 comments posted 2yrs
posted by see.my.signature
6 comments posted 2yrs posted by see.my.signature

Heat Sinks

I needed a 5V 1A source in the car but didn't want to have some ugly adaptor plugged permanently into a fag lighter soc...
13 comments posted 2yrs
posted by nhayward8990
13 comments posted 2yrs posted by nhayward8990

1.4GW !

Ed Miliband has signed off 3 new solar farms expected to produce c. 1.4GW https://news.sky.com/story/government-approve...
189 comments posted 2yrs
posted by jethro_uk
189 comments posted 2yrs posted by jethro_uk

Smart Meter Installed!

Having been extremely sceptical about Smart Meters in the past, when my electricity supplier informed me my electro-mec...
15 comments posted 2yrs
posted by noreply492000-medic
15 comments posted 2yrs posted by noreply492000-medic

TOT Discounts that actually cost more.

Last year I purchased a Tado Wireless Smart Thermostat Starter Kit V3+. I paid £99 from Screwfix. I registered the prod...
1 comments posted 2yrs
posted by junk
1 comments posted 2yrs posted by junk

Slow blow BS1362 fuse?

Is there such a thing? I have a chip collector that should really be on a 16A outlet but I'd prefer to leave it on a st...
19 comments posted 2yrs
posted by nothanks
19 comments posted 2yrs posted by nothanks