SamKingfisher

No other LV anywhere near. Anyway, the transformer up at the farm (at least half a mile) is now supplying 5 properties and struggling as it is. And as far as the wind goes, I live on a boat at the moment. The thought of a fairly constant 100-1000w of extra power is like 8 years of Christmas rolled into one. The house will be roughly the same size as 14*60 widebeam, we're not talking mansion tax here.

My lass got a patrol notice while waiting for the Calder to stop being shut. I suppose she should have gone around in tiny circles for a bit.

I love the shed engine. I think I want a CS though I doubt I'd get much hot water from it. Stuff the electric start nonsense. I don't see a big problem with fabricating a bracket for an alternator, and seems you can use the flywheel to run the belt over.

Like 151570120007 except that's not working. Thanks. Absolutely will be in it's own house! And you say that about most days, but you haven't been up there. It is tree-bendingly windy!

I'd charge the starter with 80w solar. As long as I put back what I take out I don't see the problem. The point about not doubling the solar is that some weeks are just useless for solar. I have lived with solar on the boat for 3 years, I know how it is. I have an emergency kipor for when there is no sun. I thought a psw inverter will power most washing machines? Certainly the zanussi I have on the boat is fine. Also I shouldn't have used the word emergency. I mean cloudy windless days in winter. At the moment I have 330ah of batteries and I never see more than 20a going in from my beast of a kubota engine. I am nice to my batteries and don't use much power. The house will have AA fridge and freezer, laptop, led lighting, low power CH pump. Occasional washing machine. That will be about it. The battery bank is overkill and more about long life than capacity. Thanks but I think I'm sorted with the alt tech. The barn is in Yorkshire. Sadly I can't get away with such large turbines as you have in Greece. Also, returning to the washing machine, I tell you what, if a washing machine is too sensitive to run off a psw inverter, it ain't going to run on some dirty 240v site genny! I'm 100m at least from a high voltage line. 1,200 wouldn't even start to pay for the transformer.

Yep, I'm thinking hot water from waste heat. I'm not keen on all the losses involved in turning DC into AC into DC into AC which is what would be happening with an inverter generator powering say the washing machine. I'm going to keep it simple and not allow any source of 240v other than the inverter. I only need it to supply 1kw max, anything more than that is nice but not essential. I think that's less than 50 amps at 24v Also, wouldn't the belt supplied to fit a bus alternator be able to turn it ok without disintegrating? Ps must be diesel cos of cheap red diesel.

Ok, so as well as a boat I also have a barn, which I have planning permission to turn into a house. I can't afford the 34,000 that it would cost to connect to the mains, so I am going off grid. I will have 2kw solar, a 1kw wind turbine and a 1000ah battery bank, made up from 2v cells. But I need a back up generator. I am ideally looking for a quiet, electric start, water cooled engine of between 2 and 10hp (I suppose I'd consider bigger) which I can spin a 50-120amp 24v alternator with. I mean ideally I'd want a Lister single D but the hand start and fiddling about puts Ellie off as much as it attracts me! So what would you recommend, and does anybody have anything suitable? I would be using a controller on the alternator, probably. Also, how easy is it to get a 24v alternator to interact with said engine? Thanks.

I would strongly advise against giff gaff for data, unless you are in a city. Useless. I'm going back to 3.

The rivver trent treat. Autocorrect I love you. Oh and I'd only had the boat 2 weeks at that point, though I had sailed small dinghies at sea.

I had waves breaking over the bow on the tidal treat. This was Not a problem Great fun

I have never seen a Liverpool shell with a wet cabin bilge (apart from plumbing leaks obvs). All the more recent ones seem to be pretty generic, maybe they mucked about more in 1995

Low frequency rumble is easy to ditch, especially for broadcast. They probably run a high pass filter as a matter of course.

Set fire to the transformer!

Fanshaft, there is now no lockie for Field or Dowley Gap. First day of lockie free action at Field, the Shipley pound was well down. As you know, it is a long pound!

Oh but they are. Paid lockies have been replaced on the L & L I believe. Certainly as volunteers have come in, paid lockies have gone. There was a mad idea to run the 5 rise with one paid and volunteers, that didn't go so well...

British hardwoods have supplied a lot of the oak in kingfisher, however they just charged me 80 quid for a glorified chopping board so that's the end of a lovely relationship!

It's just a needle gauge with a 3 way switch, leisure/off/starter. My starter battery feeds this gauge or starts the engine. Oh and the immersion element I use to warm the cut for my morning dip.

This might not seem like loads to you lot, but I have only a 95mA alternator. Joke. No really, it is on the rat's exercise wheel. I did leave a needle gauge switched on for the starter battery once and it didn't start up with the usual gusto. I think it was down to 12.4 when I spotted it.

I stopped drinking in solidarity with my pregnant girlfriend, unfortunately I'm now eating cake in solidarity with my breastfeeding girlfriend!