Hey thanks heaps Solar Guy – great info. Unfortunately it was after Christmas so you don’t get the prize (see first post).

Thanks for your time :o)

It is a household solar system feeding through the magic yellow box into a 24 volt battery bank, then to a 240 volt inverter to the house. I have seen the magic yellow box indicating a charge rate of more than 20 amps on a cool sunny day.

Cheers, Glen

No other names I can see – maybe on the back as it is screwed to the wall. As it is a friends not mine I don’t want to mess about too much….. :o)
Cheers, Glen

On the front load machines does anybody run off tank water pressure? I am looking for a new machine as the old one is past repair (it’s only 25 years old 😀 ) but I have been told I need at least 1 bar of water pressure (10 meter drop) to operate a new one. Any ideas – without a pressure pump – would be great. thanks

A long way off the subject but in as strange way related.
Daffy was his name but I had to change it when HE started laying eggs.
Daffney was left behind by previous owners but has taken a shine to me and gives me 2 eggs every 3 days. Please excuse my ignorance but can I use these eggs as I would a chook egg? Poached, scrambled or perhaps the…[Read more]

Thanks Laura5, Lee and Tullymoor. It sounds like a shop stop on my way up with the next load of furniture 😀
Tullymoor – the new place is an old 2 bedroom mudbrick place with no mains power or water on a lovely 11 acres of mainly natural bush (if you ignore the weeds) with a little space put aside for vegie garden etc. It’s in the Goldfields area…[Read more]

I’ve been told by a very mature gentleman (86 years young) that a good guide to the fire wood question is once the bark falls off easily it ready to go.

For those using Norton Identity Safe – You need to turn it off to update your profile, otherwise it fills in what ever you started with in your profile on your original log-in.

Having the same problem so I tried to just update my weather postcode and that didn’t stick either. I get an error at the top of the page reading “Unable to update Profile: The user name finally is in use.” I am running Nortons:|

Have a great day

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