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Interesting, most fuseboxes installed in the last decade or two in Australia use C curve breakers, rather than B curve... Lights and power or 'combined light/power' like the garage all C curve breakers (10A for lighting, 20A for power or combined) (thats the fusebox from where I used to live...

One approach I have seen used in Australia for 'home made lamps' is to have an approved transformer/power supply unit, and run the lamp at ELV (5v or 12v- here it is anything under 60vDC), that way your PSU is handling the LV side of things, and the requirements (at least in Australia) are very...

It is actually quite common on FB, the scammers don't hack the original account, but set up a copied new account (same photos, same posts, everything), and then try and scam friends/followers of the original account... I know four personal friends who have had this done to them over the last...

I have a homemade one using a Meanwell PSU (the 24v ones can be 'turned down' to 20v with the trimpot next to the power LED)- but... Yeah you need a pretty grunty one, depending on the tool, your PSU has to be able to handle the stall current of the motor- I use a 30A one I picked up for just...

LOL- 9600 baud- you young whippersnapper you... (My first BBS I used a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem (you literally dialed on the rotary dial, then stuck the handpiece into the modem- you could hear it squealing away!!!) Several years later I moved to a 1200 baud direct coupling modem I got...

Well its middle of summer here in Australia, so the aircon is running during the peak heat of the day when its too hot, but my total electric bill (no gas here at all) is um... $0.00 for the last month, and the same for the entire last year... Total offgrid system... ;-)

That's what we were talking about before (an undershot wheel)

All the undershot wheels on small streams I have been involved with, the trick is to keep the dam a little bit under the axle height, so flood conditions it will simply flow over the top of the dam, and the wheel height is such that it basically goes to the bottom of the stream- quite possible...

I have been involved with the installation of several microhydro setups over the years, although pelton wheels are more efficient, they tend to clog more easily, and require a full 'dam' or a large fall that can be accessed at both the top and bottom- both of which tend to be an issue unless you...

1.2kw is a small one, but suited to a small stream as shown (you can get larger if you are lucky enough to have a sufficiently large stream or river) And remembering that it is 24/7- thats nearly 29kwh a day!!!! I'm in a good part of Australia for solar production, and my old 6kw gridtie solar...

Actually, microhydro has little to no effect on streams ecology (especially if no dam is built ie an undershot or 'paddlewheel') And its amazing how little 24/7 production is needed to make a significant amount of energy- a 12v/100A output microhydro turbine makes 1200w 24/7- so its daily output...

Yes, but are the bulbs actually E27- or E26??? LED bulb manufacturers have a habit of using them interchangeably (especially the 'universal' 100-240v types can be found with either) and even many 230v only ones (dimmable) can be found with E26... (and viceversa with 120v dimmable with E27) This...

One thing to watch out for- there are two different bases that look identical, the E27 and the E26- but although they both 'fit' each other, they may not necessarily work properly in each others bases, and especially the cheaper ES LED manufacturers tend to use the two interchangeably, which can...

same with 18650 lithium batteries- Ebay seems to have stopped listing them altogether- but sells them in plastic housings called 'cordless batteries' for drills etc etc But try and buy them separately, and Ebay says no.... Between that and the number of dodgy sellers on there these days, I...

The days of 'needing' a pure sine wave are long gone- the only things needing a pure sine wave inverter these days wouldn't run off a 150W inverter LOL- ie motors... Almost all modern electronics built in the last two decades will have either a capacitive dropper for extremely low current...

It's like those stupid 'California cancer labels'- you got hit with fines if you didn't have them, so now 'everything' has them, and now everybody totally ignores them... (my sliding glass door in Australia came with one of them...- oh noes, my doors gunna give me cancer!!!!) Sheer bloody...

Although it is hard to get it through the plastic clear cover, this stuff isn't unusual for caravans on long runs with heavy loads (electric cooking and HWS) 4mm does 'just' fit into a standard 10A plug (although its a right pain to do) Everything is a 'tight squeeze' but fits and is legal...

I would like to see the actual specs (they don't appear to be online unless you are willing to pay hundreds of pounds...), as that is contrary to both Australian regs (much of which is based on BS regs)- and physics.... We have a MINIMUM size cable required for various current limits (and...

Not only do they monitor your traffic (often both inside and outside your own 'private' ie local network, but most if not all of this traffic- you get to pay for!!!! (and considering that a large proportion these days can include video streaming- that could be a large chunk of your data taken...

This is a common issue in Australia as we started rolling out fiber everywhere a while back- one downside was when (not if) cyclones hit in the northern parts, your 'phone' stops dead too when the power goes off... Sadly this is considered 'your problem' these days, but many use a UPS (backup...