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Quite fit too 😉
I play keyboards/piano – no vids yet but trust this is proper live tuneage. The piano recorded on the following 2 mixes of new motion (written by myself) was recorded live….
New Motion – Original 1996 oldskool mix
Most synthwork was done live then looped with filters added.
My mum got caught by a similar scam sometime back, they (the bank) refunded her money after about 3 weeks.
Now everytime my mum gets one of these emails, she uses the ‘enter user name/password’ boxes to send rather racist remarks to the nigerians that operate the scam, at least they get the message lol!
Another tip is make sure your browser is well upto date and use firefox, cos there was a security flaw in IE not long bk that got peoples details.
haha i think pretty much any beer has similar stuff in it, just stella always worked better for me lol!
Which beer gives the best readings…. hmmm maybe this should go to brainiac hahahaha
Easiest way to overcome this problem is to buy one of these…..
VAN STOCK UK. MCB / RCD Protected distribution 110v / 240v
The first or 2nd one whichever you prefer. When you get it, unscrew the plug (that goes into the genny) and link the neutral and earth together. this will provide your neutral/earth link.
Clearly label the lead ‘neutral/earth linked – generator use only!’
And to earth the generator get an earth rod into the ground and link with a piece of wire (2.5mm earth cable min for 16 amp) from the rod to the generator earth point (or any part of the alternator metalwork if theres no earth point)
That will give you the protection you need, so if there was ever an earth fault that could cause a shock the RCD (Residual Current Device) will trip.
HANDY TIP!…. When putting an earth rod in soil, take a piss on the ground before you put the rod in. it will make better earth resistance and…. if you have had a few cans of stella, the chemicals in that once gone through you give even better resistance! (good old electricity board advice that one!)
Sure thing, Yeah i always advise people to use diesel generators as petrol gennies are always surging. Problem is that the engines do not run as steady and cause fluctuations in the alternator which are still sine wave, and as such any surge protector will not stop these type of surges.
Petrol gennies are only really meant for non-sensitive power tools and such like. A second hand lister diesel is what you need they can be as cheap as £300 and can run on used cooking oil 🙂 Much safer/less of a fire risk too.
As for using an outlet with circuit breakers theres loads of different options available. Depends really how much you want to spend theres simple in-line rcd’s or you can make your own board up out of a small consumer unit – just have two RCBO’s one going to each double socket, with an incomong lead that plugs into the genny. RCBO is best option as each one provides overcurrent/earth protection independantly, an inline rcd will be ok but will cut everything off.
Important….. Always make sure the genny is properly earthed with an earth rod and… to be 100% safe the earth and neutral must be joined inside the genny. This will mimic your normal mains supply and will ensure any RCD works as it should. Some sparkies may disagree or be unsure but the science is there to prove it!
@MrAHC 267070 wrote:
while were on the subgect what do i need to build to get a circit breaker fuse box type thing to go between my generator and sockets? i also want surge protection other than whats on the extention leads & something to regulate the current abit more.
What sorta genny is it, single/3phase and is it diesel?
@Raj 267042 wrote:
Worst electrical install I ever saw was at a venue where they had hijacked the mains from another building and there was no fuseboard in the circuits anywhere :you_crazy amazing
lol yeah or the classic one where some silly twat decides to wire individual circuits straight onto the comb (busbar) on a cu rather than through a fuse/mcb
its when u see sparkies pass an installation, issue a cert and in no way should they have even attempted the installation let alone certify it.
Simplest way of telling if some1 knows what they are doing, if there is room in the terminal, then conductors should always be doubled over in the back of socket outlets etc…. can cause probs over time if people dont bother with this. Very basic thing to remember at college.
Another one, dont use those little insulated crimp connectors on solid conductors (like 2.5mm T&E) as they wear loose after time.
Yet i often see much more dodgier stuff than this it makes me cringe… 1.5mm 3core and earth 2 on live, other and earth on neut feeding a 7kW leccy shower. and this was done by an NICEIC registered spark… spoke to NIC telling them and they were like ‘well he is registered so it must have been done properly’ Soon changed when i had to tell them what letters i had after my name lol!
theres loads more to this but i wont keep on ranting lol!
lol yeah i know what u mean, i did full apprenticeship with the electricity board when i left school, qualified as electrical fitter (craftsman), then onto an electrical engineer – then 2 years later got laid off lol!
I seen some well dodgy stuff in my time even dodgy work carried out by NIC registered contractors which makes me laugh, work isnt as thorough as it used to be. Some of the ppl doin electrical installation courses nowadays get the answers to the exams given to them just to make the college have a high pass rate which is scary! 😮
@little luke 266692 wrote:
I hope you have the required certification to be installing such electrical equipment in your own home.
I’m a fully qualified electrical engineer, authorised to work on any installations and distribution systems upto 132,000 volts. Yes i issue certs too.
it was a bargain off ebay so i couldnt let it go lol, them 100 amp changeover switches usually cost hundreds. Plus i had to add my mod, lights, mains on alarm with silence switch u kno how it goes lol!
ouch, i overlooked the other side of things… got one of them energy monitors and current electric use in oct nov and dec has averaged 1MWh/month (just over) – the fookin heating in the music studio is all electric aargh!
im allowing 14 pence a unit in my calculations for leccy bills! bout 140 quid a month sheesh, looks like i gonna have to get one of my gennies, enclose it, run it on all the used vegoil i have :crazy_diz
man if they werent so noisy i’d do it!
Spose i could cheat, get a dual rate leccy meter (one that lets u have cheap leccy at night) use the cheap leccy to charge up loadsa 12v batteries, run thru inverters during the day, now theres an idea!
heres how you do it….
How to type upside down text and letters in HTML
and yep i can say rabbits, its those portlanders who cant lol!
Modern combis heat up to a certain temperature (usually 20 secs or so) then when its reached they self-regulate so the water coming out is the exact temp u want. This means it doesnt run flat out and soon as the temp is reached, uses v little gas to maintain it when the water is flowing.
our road isnt that long were the only 1, but just at the top of the t junction theres a house with a few lights up and a few along that street.
Mostly dotted about on our estate, couple next door to each other but its kinda council-estate style most of it lol!
homers the greediest, he wants about 100 watts or so, 30 for the lamps (ten 3w filament ones) and i think the motor is 70w or more
but homer was always gonna be greedy! lol
ahh its all good, were on a green electricity tariff anyway where every unit we use is contracted to come from renewables… up until the day solar panels are cheaper and i get to install loads on the roof of my music studio lol!
like i say them electric showers are absolute killers, if i was to campaign about anything it would be them because they emit lots more carbon for the same heat that a combi kicks out for a combi shower. power showers are ok (the ones that take the hot/cold water and pump it) but the leccy ones that heat up from cold, people dont realise it – a shower for say 20 mins will use 3kWh – thats almost 1.5kg of carbon thrown into the atmosphere lol! Almost 3 times what a gas combi boiler will use for the same heat.
But i do compensate by running my 207hdi on biodiesel 😉
Soz, on my soap box now lol!
Surprisingly the leccy isnt all that bad, alot of that is LED lighting total draw is just over 1kW so its like having a small fan heater on half heat.
6 hours a day at 14p/kwh say erm… 84p a day so say about £1 a day, £7 a week…. 4 weeks roughly works out about £28 say £30 to be safe lol!
I always compare it to those dreaded 9kW electric showers lol, if anyone has an electric shower then each 20 min shower will cost u about 40p… that soon adds up. if you can then get rid of it and get a shower unit that runs off ur combi, 10 times cheaper!
Lights hardly use up anything i think its where you can ‘see’ the electric being used it kinda makes u think lol.
Anything with a heating element on the other hand… ouch lol!
yes them genny fumes can b a pain, still good ol diesel, i will run it off cooking oil. will give a nice smell of chips cooking across our estate when theres no power, now that will confuse some people 😉
yes them genny fumes can b a pain, still good ol diesel, i will run it off cooking oil. will give a nice smell of chips cooking across our estate when theres no power, now that will confuse some people 😉
http://www.consumeractiongroup.com
Sign up to there if you havent done so already. And if youre thinking of making a claim… GO FOR IT!!!!
its well easy. ignore that success that lloyds tsb had, dont be put off by it 1 bit.
i remember when tsb used to be the bank that liked to say yes, but now their computers say no!
