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Don't plan on building it 'too' light... I got a 48" that I actually took off its original stand it came with and now lives on a 'machine bench' built for all the power tools, as its stand was quite lightweight- and as a result everytime you went to apply pressure to the belt, it would slide...

Diesels most certainly can catch fire- and do... What he's being 'slightly misleading' about is that while a puddle of diesel IS indeed hard to ignite, a finely atomised mist of diesel is far from hard to do so (indeed I have had a fire myself while working on a diesel ute with a faulty...

Many of the newer 'smart' car chargers suffer the same problem- they need a certain voltage to sense before they will 'fire up'(I've got 5 different car chargers here, four of which are smart- and I have had to use the old 1980's vintage 'dumb' Arlec 4A one to get 'dead flat' batteries to start...

That's why I said he should fit a socket for the oven on a fused spur off the fixed wiring point for the hob lol- that way it's all legal and safe... ;-)

'Technically' you should be getting a sparky in to do it, but yes, a 30A 6kw hob (actually a 6kw hob will be 26A) and a 13A 3kw oven will be fine on a 6mm^2 feed with a 32A breaker (they will allow up to 15kw on a 32A/6mm feed combo according to the regs (unless they have changed, don't have a...

Not a recommended practice mind you lol... The issue is most lithium chargers (probably all, at least I've never come across one that didn't) won't even try and charge a cell that is too low in voltage (because they are prone to thermal runaway when in this state) so it is a safety thing...

The big ones look similar to the ones I posted before, they can handle handle very large (10kw) solar panel arrays through cyclonic conditions lol

At this point, it really needs a new PCB entirely- the common mode filter is heavily corroded, and that damaged cap would need replacing as well, plus from your description there is still something else wrong as well to have made it stop working originally... (and its general overall shape looks...

Not sure I'd be overly keen on those- very little preventing 'uplift' from pulling them out of the ground... Say a combination of lots of soaking rain and a high wind could see them easily being 'pulled up' out of the ground on the upwind side of the shed... These are the type of 'screw...

It definitely looks like a common mode interference choke That's it (different circuit diagram, but they are all pretty similar) on the left, marked EMI Coil Tranfo... Although they are required for interference suppression legally speaking, many cheaper units don't even have one fitted...

I repack my own batteries (at least the dewalts are screwed together, not glued like some) but I was less than impressed with the new Dewalt 20v series battery that came with my chainsaw- it failed VERY quickly, turns out it has cells running in parallel and has no BMS at all- just the led...

Mine has electronics in it- but it is literally just a USB power supply, the older one I have is no electronics- just a bunch of copper strips from one set of contacts to the other... If it was going to stuff the battery, it would stuff the original battery too lol

Dewalts have plenty of aftermarket batteries for sale, although its annoying that they changed from the old XRP '18v' plugin to the XR '20v' slideon- they are actually the exact same voltage lol- pure marketing... and can be used interchangeably with an adapter... That's one of mine from the...

Its worth checking around with some installers- especially the smaller ones, rather than big 'chain' ones- if the UK ones are anything like the Aussie ones, they often have many older ones sitting around just taking up space, and the sunpowers were a popular brand for gridties- it's highly...

Not sure on the UK rules, but here, with a gridtie it has to be a licenced installer doing any repair work... What is the actual panel ('Sunpower' have made a LOT of different panels over the years)- in many cases, secondhand panels are easy to get (at least here in Australia)- in fact that was...

I've recovered several 'burnt out' ICE vehicles driving the tilt-tray or the ute and car trailer- and they can be just as lethal as any ICE fire... This one from a few years back the passenger actually got out with their clothes charred... (must have been a while ago- thats the old car trailer...

Which was exactly the same advice given when hirise buildings first started appearing... evacuate and let it burn (as they simply didn't have the equipment at the time to fight them)- now they have hilift sprayer trucks (capable of going up to incredible heights, with nobody up the top, just a...

The US has some pretty lax rules if some of the vehicles seen on utube are any indication (some states seem to have no inspections at all, far from the UK position (and most of Australia)- driving around in 'trucks' (it is REALLY necessary to use a huge pickup with dual rear tyres as a family...

A lot of nonsense has been pushed about EV fires (one of the biggest pushing the 'Chinese EV's catch fire (he particularly targeted BYD) on youtube was sprung moaning about the 'fields full of unsold EVs'- turned out they were sold- to a rideshare company that went broke in the middle of the...

I'm still using an Epson old dot matrix (I only use it for printing receipts and the occasional documents, and for that it works fine...) Luckily I still have a couple of spare ribbons left (I re-ink myself when when needed, so they really only need replacing when they literally 'wear through'...