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- 2 Mar 2024, 9:49am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Rain and the Sturmey Archer x-fdd hub brake
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1016
Re: Rain and the Sturmey Archer x-fdd hub brake
So this is not ideal?
- 24 Feb 2024, 7:54am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Rain and the Sturmey Archer x-fdd hub brake
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1016
Re: Rain and the Sturmey Archer x-fdd hub brake
I use the same hub and get the same issue. When I set off the next day after a wet commute home, the brake takes a few goes before it works properly.
- 28 Oct 2023, 3:59pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: UK energy
- Replies: 952
- Views: 163892
Re: UK energy
I haven’t looked into this myself but it seems like using the stored energy oneself rather than selling it might be more “profitable”?rjb wrote: ↑28 Oct 2023, 3:42pm Ok bigger batteries will be more cost effective but this system will only return approx £5k over 10 years for an upfront cost of £8k and then you will need to replace the costly inverters. Doesn't make economic sense in my view.
And when electric cars become widespread those cheaper overnight tariffs may well disappear making it uneconomic.
- 28 Oct 2023, 3:36pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: UK energy
- Replies: 952
- Views: 163892
Re: UK energy
I’m not sure where you got your battery cost from but a 10 second Google found a 13.5kWh Givenergy All-in-one battery for just over £8k installed.
https://lr-renewables.co.uk/product/gi ... 66EALw_wcB
…not that making a profit is necessarily the best reason for getting one.
https://lr-renewables.co.uk/product/gi ... 66EALw_wcB
…not that making a profit is necessarily the best reason for getting one.
- 22 Oct 2023, 4:02pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: UK energy
- Replies: 952
- Views: 163892
- 22 Oct 2023, 2:14pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: UK energy
- Replies: 952
- Views: 163892
Re: UK energy
A heat pump used to charge a suitable heat battery makes perfect sense.
- 22 Oct 2023, 12:23pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: UK energy
- Replies: 952
- Views: 163892
- 22 Oct 2023, 10:38am
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: UK energy
- Replies: 952
- Views: 163892
Re: UK energy
The costs of what, the Homely gadget or the heat pump? I”m assuming the gadget cost is not prohibitive in any significant way.
(We know heat pumps are expensive to install without a grant.)
- 22 Oct 2023, 9:31am
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: UK energy
- Replies: 952
- Views: 163892
Re: UK energy
This gadget, https://www.homelyenergy.com/, works with heat pumps and smart tariffs and partly uses the thermal mass of a building as a battery to reduce energy costs:
https://youtu.be/oyQcyXGN_Is?si=flxAWswYxNMRi6FE
https://youtu.be/RjOCzbvSaws?si=rl_XAFNI8Xo8XwNz
(Edit: maybe this would be better off in this thread https://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic. ... start=1890)
https://youtu.be/oyQcyXGN_Is?si=flxAWswYxNMRi6FE
https://youtu.be/RjOCzbvSaws?si=rl_XAFNI8Xo8XwNz
(Edit: maybe this would be better off in this thread https://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic. ... start=1890)
- 17 Aug 2023, 5:15pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: TRP Spyre disc brakes
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1918
Re: TRP Spyre disc brakes
I had those once. They had to be readjusted frequently, not because they were worn but because the adjustment screw became loose and wound itself in.
I switched to Avid BB7s.
I switched to Avid BB7s.
- 26 May 2023, 4:59pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Mystery creak
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1703
Re: Mystery creak
Although my seatpost is greased and still creaking, my seat tube has a sleeve in it which will be the focus of my next experiment.
- 18 May 2023, 6:38pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Mystery creak
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1703
Re: Mystery creak
I also have a creak that might seem as though it could be from the crank but in fact is seatpost related.
At first thought it couldn’t be because the creak is just as bad when out of the saddle. But I recently raised my Carradice SQR bracket and it got worse which is what made me focus on the seatpost. If I leave the bag off, the creak mostly goes away, so it seems like the swinging weight of the seatpost bag is sufficient.
The creak is also considerably worse when the bike is warm after being in a hot bike shed all day.
At first thought it couldn’t be because the creak is just as bad when out of the saddle. But I recently raised my Carradice SQR bracket and it got worse which is what made me focus on the seatpost. If I leave the bag off, the creak mostly goes away, so it seems like the swinging weight of the seatpost bag is sufficient.
The creak is also considerably worse when the bike is warm after being in a hot bike shed all day.
- 9 May 2023, 8:21pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Heat in the home
- Replies: 2292
- Views: 133288
Re: Heat in the home
I switched my heating off when May began, which I ritually do.
My boiler is also old, it was in the house when I moved in 16 years ago so I’m assuming 20+ years. I’m about to undertake a diverter valve replacement to fix a longstanding hot water problem, and each winter I wonder if something else will break - I don’t want to spend much money keeping it running.
So I too am thinking about heat pumps. Perhaps the installation costs will come down significantly before I have to make the switch.
- 23 Apr 2023, 6:56pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Covid Choice
- Replies: 53
- Views: 2547
Re: Covid Choice
If a treatment is “proven”, is it not just medicine (i.e.,without a qualifier) or are you saying unorthodox medicine has a method of proof rejected by the West?
- 23 Apr 2023, 3:48pm
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Covid Choice
- Replies: 53
- Views: 2547
Re: Covid Choice
What I was trying to ascertain was whether you consider unorthodox medicine to be fundamentally different or just an area that requires more research, of the orthodox kind.Biospace wrote: ↑23 Apr 2023, 1:52pmThat which isn't in the orthodox camp, surely? However, there are many, especially higher up, within the NHS who would be regarded as holding 'unorthodox' views, but orthodox medicine itself shifts considerably so that someone considered as as 'on the fringes' a few decades ago could now be at the core of its thinking.