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Appliance rating
Just looking at monitors and keep seeing wattages that are questionable. For example, a monitor rated at 30W. But which has a USB-C power delivery rated at 65W. Simplistically, you'd add 30 + 65 and...
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BBC intelligence test
Slow access but fun. I wonder if the Antipodean would like to try?
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Windows 10 question (login)
Happy New Year I'm asking the question here as I am fearful to ask in the W10 group as I may not understand the answer :-) I was persuaded by Microsoft to change to a PIN rather than a password to log...
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Radiant Rings
The cooker has 4 spiral elements, 3x2kW and 1x1.2kW; the little one has failed. It seems easy to get a replacement (seem to 1.1kW now - and the others are 1.8kW - typical nowadays). On Ebay there's...
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New Year's Quiz 2020!
Greetings, Gentlemen (and/or Pammy) What with all the overflowing seasonal goodwill and whatnot over the last couple of weeks I thought it would be a bit of a hoot to hold a New Year's quiz. The...
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Any GIMP users here?
Gentlemen, How do you superimpose one photo onto another? I'm trying to combine the front and back photos of a PCB so I can follow which traces go to which components, so they'll both need to be made...
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Satellites
Poke your latitude/longitude into this tracker <>and find a suitable time (preferably just after twilight) when the "leader" is in view, marvel at Elon pissing 60 satellites a week into the sky for...
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DC power plug 6mm 2.1mm
I wonder if anyone can help. Looking for a replacement DC barrel plug to fit a BT Homehub 5A power supply. I believe the plug is a "Type B 6mm 2.1mm" according to wikidev which has gone offline at the...
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Hmm, bulb dilemma
it's probably a SOX one that needs a ballast Send it to clive (not really he's probably got dozens of them)
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Skilled man tools
Why do most car mechanics pride themselves in using the correct spanner for any nut - yet plumbers who have less sizes to cope with just maul stuff tight with crude grips?
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OT: Ping Pamela
Well, I've studied economics for nearly half a century. How long have you studied it? Where do you live now. ?
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Re: car people only please...
It's not unusual to get erroneous error codes which don't come back once cleared. I had quite a few on my previous car - Volvo V70 - some of which looked serious, but never were.
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16A Surface mounted inlet plug for caravan or similar
I can get one to IP44 but these have exposed pins. I can get a named inlet plug for 32 with a flap and IP67 from Screwfix but struggling to find one that is IP67 in 16A. I can go to eBay and get one...
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OT . What is this gadget?
This was situated outside a garden centre. Does anyone know what it is? /
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New boiler and flue question
We have an ancient (40 yrs+) New World back boiler in our kitchen fireplace. Serviced annually and still working well. Somewhat underpowered as the place has been extended. It is going to die...
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