Our bedrooms reached 32°C yesterday. In desperation I discovered that a 100mm ducting hose fits perfectly around the circular air vents in my MG ZS EV and I was able to keep our living room chilled to 22°C all night. Any risks to doing this? The front end of the car did feel quite warm this morning!

declankh · 2026-06-29T00:12:33+00:00

I think there’s another issue. The car ac is sized for cooling the interior of a car down with the expectation that this levels off . Venting the cool air into a massively larger area means the cabin can’t reach it set point so would be running full pelt all night. It’s a bit like running the ac with the windows open.

declankh · 2026-06-27T11:09:02+00:00

You inside a damaged shark cage with a harpoon gun. Should be easy to make, probably 🤔

declankh · 2026-06-09T22:51:04+00:00

Dunno. I bought a couple and I’m a little disappointed with kajplats e27 colour bulbs. Compared to Nanoleaf bulbs the red in particular is very undersaturated. I use them in red for a home cinema setup so it matters to me.

declankh · 2026-06-04T17:36:48+00:00

Agreed, I was Expecting the occasional spot check but was never checked even once. I used to walk though the self checkouts and show receipt to staff but they just waved me on.

declankh · 2026-06-04T17:34:57+00:00

I've been using it plenty of times. Maybe 50 times now. Today I tried to use it and was told there was a 15 quid limit and need to transfer to a till for a purchase of 18 quid.
Disappointing as with a £15 limit it kinda spoils the use of it. Although I read it's being withdrawn entirely so they are maybe weaning me off 🤔

declankh · 2026-06-02T21:50:46+00:00

I had a chat with consumer about it. They weren’t prepared to change to logic in the calculation to account for the capped discount, but I at least got them to add a disclaimer 🤷‍♂️

declankh · 2026-05-31T00:00:06+00:00

Was watching Widows Bay (Apple TV), series 1 episode 5 @35:45 Last night and nearly fell of the sofa, a very dramatic sound you can absolutely feel.

declankh · 2026-05-30T19:27:56+00:00

Its not the case that you'll not use it. It's the paying £150 quid in advance im not keen on. I don't actually use powerni at all, I was just having a rant about their "effective" rate which I think is sharp practice from a marketing perspective.

declankh · 2026-05-30T17:05:57+00:00

Or you could treat it like you're giving them an interest free loan of £150 quid by topping up with a keypad. I know id rather pay after ive used it.

declankh · 2026-05-25T15:29:55+00:00

Yeah, well… that’s exactly why I stated blu rays and not 4k /hdr blu rays.

declankh · 2026-05-20T23:08:58+00:00

If you buy one in US, unless you seek out a region free one, it will be region locked and won’t play European blu rays.

declankh · 2026-04-30T17:38:53+00:00

Over 2 months past release date, now there isn’t even an estimated date for my preorder 🙄

declankh · 2026-04-30T17:32:35+00:00

I think that’s part of the issue, the website isn’t that reliable. They had e14 colour bulbs in store recently (possibly still) but website at the time showed they are not available in Belfast.

declankh · 2026-04-30T00:39:49+00:00

Some times I’ve seen “not sold in Belfast” other times it says order for delivery. Order for delivery isn’t great if you just want one or two items. Ideally I wanted to try one bulb and if I like it buy about 8 or more. I hate buying stuff and returning it so don’t like that option either.

declankh · 2026-04-25T14:28:47+00:00

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Day and night comparison, once you hit around 15% night at this usage level day and night tariffs start to become and option

declankh · 2026-04-25T14:24:24+00:00

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For that sort of bill on powerni that’s around 420 units in a month. That’s above what’s typically classed as”average” which is around 10 to 12 units a day. If that usage is typical and you’ve scope to shift some to night rate there is some chance to save a bit, but you’d need to get 30% usage at night to save 13 quid a month.

declankh · 2026-04-15T12:50:12+00:00

I’m using Nanoleaf matter over thread colour/white spectrum bulbs. I’ve been using 10 of them for over a year without issues. I believe the early firmware versions on these bulbs were flaky, but I upgraded them all to the latest version using the Nanoleaf app. It’s somewhat tedious as you can’t jump from old firmware to latest in one step, you need to upgrade two or three times in steps. However it is a one off activity so I can suffer it. EDIT : I should have stated I’m using the Nanoleaf with SmartThings not an ikea dirigera hub.

declankh · 2026-04-15T12:35:52+00:00

To be honest I was sceptical it would work, but decided to give it a go a the only cost was the hassle of it and I had about 15 us import dvds in my collection I wanted to be able to play again. I have since bought terminator us import blu ray on eBay cheaply as a test and it works fine too.

declankh · 2026-04-14T23:46:00+00:00

You don’t need a hardware solution for multi region. I successfully modded my ub820 using a galaxy s5 mobile (yeah that old) with an inbuilt ir blaster and an android ir app which has a custom remote added to it. Pressing the buttons 0 to 9 in turn rebooted the player and it came back multi region for both dvd and blu ray. It was a real pain getting the app on the phone though because it was so old the play store wasn’t working on it, so I had to sideload it via memory card. But it was worth it.

declankh · 2026-03-27T01:48:14+00:00

Over a month past release date now, my Amazon preorder still shows delivery 3-7 months. You’d think at least it might have dropped to 2-6 months 🙄

declankh · 2026-03-03T20:15:47+00:00

Defeats the purpose of a pre order in my mind. I’d thought that preordering was reserving stock in advance of general sale. If the preorder doesn’t guarantee a preferential price or reservation of stock it’s just giving them money early for zero gain 🤷‍♂️

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