epirb Forum Posts (7,379)

RE: Carbon Tax Gone....

those panels are putting out 2 amp tops , very little power ,fridges use quite a bit . Car batteries have about 100 cycles and then die , their death comes quick too , one day all full of life and sparks next carrion . Deep cycle batteries have about 7000 cycles and die a miserable death over years . Resuscitated my big ones from last year , swap a liter of fluid from the top cell to the bottom one , plays catch-up and starts the weak cell charging ,more so when I hook my white elephant charger/inverter up to it and give them 15.6 volts .

July Photo comp , creation or progect work in progress

spring growth on it Robo ?

RE: Carbon Tax Gone....

Does not sound cheap , but solar panels were not either 10 years ago . First grade panels are now less than 10 % of what they were .

Simple problems unless you know them cause real big problems

12 volt panel is not , they poke out 20 , voltage controllers have to control the volts going into batteries and have limits both in volts and amps . Places selling panels are not saying what the restrictions are and would sell any thing , try putting 3ooo watt (270 amp ) worth of power into 12 volt batteries , no controller that I know of will do that as the highest I know of do 90 amp and the best 60 besides this the batteries I have are supposed to charge at 10-13 % of their 20 hour capacity . All this info is skipped by the marketers of the products .

RE: Massive mystery crater at 'end of the world'

theres a bigger ar^e hole running Russia than that .

July Photo comp , creation or progect work in progress

I would give your self 10 meters of diameter with no wires above at all for a twenty year old tree . Is that your drive in the photo ? Tis good if it is , That little cute tree in 70 years will be standing partly on it with a stump dia of a meter . Every bumble bee that will ever be , in your area , will visit that tree once it flowers proper . People driving past will say what a wonderful tree , your neighbours in fifty years might have different thoughts .

RE: Carbon Tax Gone....

Those sale to grid systems are only half built as the power that a person produces should be stored rather than sold and bought back . Sell the extra . Bit harder to sort that out though .

RE: another Malaysian plane shot down

(MH370)

RE: another Malaysian plane shot down

Two people had seen a plane burning , that have come forward .

RE: Out Of Normality

don't know why you don't tell them to take their job a shove it (of course after finding another first )

RE: an answer for Lookin's post "What have you done out of normality?"!

I seriously know the felling Rob .

RE: an answer for Lookin's post "What have you done out of normality?"!

not learnt how to sort the pixels out yet So don't know

RE: Carbon Tax Gone....

Last labour government tried to introduce that here , caused all manner of protest , it was called the fart tax , I kid you not

RE: an answer for Lookin's post "What have you done out of normality?"!

you don't like their commie mates

RE: an answer for Lookin's post "What have you done out of normality?"!

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haven't you learnt what Robo has been teaching us Lookin

RE: Massive mystery crater at 'end of the world'

Massive ??????????? don't you love it . Compared to what , pot holes on a road . If it was massive it would have been recorded by seismic gear . Any body missing a Russian drilling rig with a few Russians on it . A few weeks back somebody had a post about some space junk . could be connected

RE: Out Of Normality

all I will say , there is a very different wind blowing around here .

late here

RE: Out Of Normality

jezzz life on the edge Micky , you are being tracked for sure .

July Photo comp , creation or progect work in progress

nope , not that way bent though one of the new comers is what do you think this place is "broke back mountain "

July Photo comp , creation or progect work in progress

yea , lots more to do yet .

RE: 5th Wheelers

easy suggest you let her drive , might have to finish doing up the brakes or at least fix the semi auto gear box . Small problem of jumping out of first while on the down hill , mixes real well with excessive pumping of brakes ,more so on steep wet tracks , wooooohoooooooo moments .

RE: 5th Wheelers

truck deck , would clash either on a twist or a steep climb out . A good caravan will drag on dirt , grotty ones do anyway .

RE: 5th Wheelers

I can't see much benefit , you still need a turning circle so a lot of the trailer has to be back anyway from the deck , having an area above the deck would be a problem off road .What is not shown in my pic I could not turn tight enough just before that pic was taken and had a wheel over the bank to stop hitting the caravan , not a good idea having caravan above the vehicle as well to manage as well . For some reason cameras don't work when every body's holding their breath and expecting calamity , least not round here .

July Photo comp , creation or progect work in progress

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my work in progress first pic must be 1996 (house) as the two dogs have mussels on to protect them from 1080 poison spread for possums , these two had a sub-lethal poisoning and were stuffed for anything with another dog dead , not keen on 1080 poison . Second pic early 2 thousands after having second story and windows ,paint .

RE: 5th Wheelers

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July Photo comp , creation or progect work in progress

er broken camera , for a little moment looked like the dog was floating deadish in the water .

July Photo comp , creation or progect work in progress

I think something wrong ... um......ummmmmmm its in the middle of a farking desert . Bit like building a ski lodge in the middle of town .I got very keen on these late eighties , even travelled around north Island having a look , nice finished when well built . Became a bit like a cult building them at the time . The log houses have a funny little quirk , they settle so windows and doors have to built to allow for it , no problem if allowed 4 ,bit iffy otherwise .

RE: 5th Wheelers

The cousin lovers next door have one , cost 65 tho or so and had to purchase Nissan 4x4 to tow it . You are very welcome to do in it what you wish .

July Photo comp , creation or progect work in progress

well , if you can photograph it , enter it . Tell you what if you like , I shall send you the one I ruined making my U-Tube dozer clip and you can fix it while taking pic with your new one .

RE: buckle your seat belts

yea Japan had no option but attack US for access to oil . Sanctions were there because of their attack on China . One led to another and I bet Japans occupation of Korea factored in the US's thinking .Still to be sorted .

RE: Your Best Argument For Atheism

pretty much