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The disability industry

Prices for a 33V 1A psu as used by stairlifts to charge the battery. Typical Amazon price: £18 Farnell: £26 Medical gra...
12 comments posted 6yrs
posted by wrightsaerials
12 comments posted 6yrs posted by wrightsaerials

The gate lights (continued)

These pdfs might help people visualise what I'm trying to do. The jpgs are just for interest. https://www.dropbox.com/sh...
4 comments posted 6yrs
posted by wrightsaerials
4 comments posted 6yrs posted by wrightsaerials

Useless things found on ebay number 437

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/263483336531 This apparently changes the plug on the end of a male DVI cable to.... er a mal...
25 comments posted 6yrs
posted by CFKinsey
25 comments posted 6yrs posted by CFKinsey

Replacing indoor mortice latches

Many of the mortice latches on my internal doors are not as smooth as I'd like. I think they're all about 20 years old,...
10 comments posted 6yrs
posted by nospam
10 comments posted 6yrs posted by nospam

OT: Laptop based music creation?

Hi all, Trying to help a young family member with a laptop based music creation solution. Apparently, her Chromebook (b...
2 comments posted 6yrs
posted by news
2 comments posted 6yrs posted by news

Electric Car Chargers

Just curious (not clever enough to work it out) but why are 3 phase chargers more powerful than single phase fed ones?...
5 comments posted 6yrs
posted by train.JPlant
5 comments posted 6yrs posted by train.JPlant

Leaking H/W pressure release valve

Hi All, Well I think that's what it is. It looks similar one of these https://www.unventedcomponentseurope.com/heatrae-...
17 comments posted 6yrs
posted by leenowell
17 comments posted 6yrs posted by leenowell

OT Syria gas attack was faked up.

https://stundin.is/grein/10074/opcw-management-accused-doctoring-syrian-chemical-weapons-report/?fbclid=IwAR3fFmOMY9iZJO...
20 comments posted 6yrs
posted by harry130747
20 comments posted 6yrs posted by harry130747

RAID - is it worth it?

Having successfully installed my 250GB SSD as drive C and the 150GB HDD as drive E, the computer (Dell Optiplex 780 cur...
15 comments posted 6yrs
posted by me
15 comments posted 6yrs posted by me

inductive?

I want to put some LED lights on my sliding gate. I wondered if I could power them inductively, with a power 'transmitt...
61 comments posted 6yrs
posted by wrightsaerials
61 comments posted 6yrs posted by wrightsaerials

Mouldy workshop roof

New house has a brick built workshop with a much neglected flat roof, felt over OSB. The roof is seriously mouldy in pl...
10 comments posted 6yrs
posted by ben
10 comments posted 6yrs posted by ben

RCD tripping.

Woke up this morning to find the RCD in the split load CU had tripped. Turned out to be something on the 1st floor ring...
8 comments posted 6yrs
posted by dave
8 comments posted 6yrs posted by dave

OT Eternal September and posting to it

Just recently I'm finding the connection hanging there and the message queue does not go. However it still refuses to g...
12 comments posted 6yrs
posted by briang1
12 comments posted 6yrs posted by briang1