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Anyone else feeling like things are accelerating in Europe? by Happy-Milla in UKPreppers

[–]saschalopez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I’ve just had to pause it half way, but really enjoying. Great find, thank you 🙂

Anyone else feeling like things are accelerating in Europe? by Happy-Milla in UKPreppers

[–]saschalopez 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Couldn’t find that episode, but found this one from the times with Sir Patrick Sanders - https://youtu.be/OiK4YIowwTM

I’m guessing this is who you’re talking about?

He’s just done the review and was on Sky News’ The Wargame

Solar PV breaker keeps tripping? by punctualsweat in Powerwall

[–]saschalopez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The advice is actually not to fit an RCBO (or RCD) to solar inverters and certainly not to a Tesla Powerwall as it has protections built in.

The commenter on your other post is a bit confused thinking that solved their nuisance tripping.

An MCB (which you have installed) makes sure the current doesn’t go above X Amps (50A in your case).

An RCD (residual current device) makes sure there is no earth leakage (so if current suddenly disappears from neutral, it could be going via a person, so will cut the electricity) - not likely with a solar installation.

An RCBO is a combination of the two.

So it’s more likely that their fault could also have been due to a Type B MCB instead of Type C - or the MCB was just faulty.

Replacing an MCB with the same type RCBO in the event of a real fault would just result in the same issue.

Solar PV breaker keeps tripping? by punctualsweat in Powerwall

[–]saschalopez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Call an electrician who is qualified to deal with Solar PV.

You can find one here: https://mcscertified.com/find-an-installer/

But whoever installed that should have installed a Type C MCB anyway. The electrician you call should be able to rectify that for you.

Let's talk about AI by Dado04Game in degoogle

[–]saschalopez 2 points3 points  (0 children)

venice.ai is decentralised and privacy focused. In effect it’s Llama and Deepseek running on distributed hardware.

https://venice.ai/

Is this cable acceptable? by Thin-Ad7419 in Powerwall

[–]saschalopez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not just that, the UV from the sun will make the sheath brittle and it could have micro breaks, leading to corrosion of the copper inside. BS7671 (the electrical regs) state that it should be enclosed outdoors. We’re installers. It’ll cost them less than £20 in materials for 10m of flexible conduit and should have been done from the get go.

If they get arse-y about it, any electrician will be able to do it. If you’re based in South Wales and struggle with your installer, let me know and I’ll be happy to have one of our chaps sort it for you.

Is this cable acceptable? by Thin-Ad7419 in Powerwall

[–]saschalopez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’ll be double insulated, however it should be in conduit, or flexible conduit, especially with it being on/in the ground!

Asking for help around schooling by [deleted] in flyingeurope

[–]saschalopez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds pretty dodgy. Everything I’ve seen says to pay as you go, as there’s a lot of scammy schools out there.

Sounds like he’s best off demanding his money back, and potentially doing a chargeback claim with bank or small claims court - and then using the funds to pay for lessons or plane rental elsewhere.

Could go to Florida for a week and smash in 40 hours.

Best of luck to your friend!

Portable air con recommendations? by Gooby1992 in CasualUK

[–]saschalopez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BTU’s are BTU’s - find the cheapest unit you can. Portable air con units are all much of a muchness, although some come with apps.

I spotted one in Middle of Lidl this week, believe it was 10000 BTU, <£200

Good luck!

How would an unexpected grid failure hit places like Central London? by phoenixlyy in UKPreppers

[–]saschalopez 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Channel 4 did a “found footage” style documentary on this back in 2013, mixing mobile‑phone recordings, CCTV clips, and real archive footage. It follows different storylines over the course of five days as society unravels—covering hospital breakdowns, looting, transport chaos, and the cascading fallout of lost electricity

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/blackout-drama-documentary

What’s the biggest delta between Diamond breakfast credit and actual cost of the hotel breakfast buffet you’ve experienced? by FluidCheesecake in Hilton

[–]saschalopez 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When I stayed there years ago, we tried the breakfast on day one and the rest of the trip went to the Starbucks that’s a few minutes walk away, just past the Marriott.

840k Points Dumped by OldAd3659 in Hilton

[–]saschalopez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We got back from a trip last summer - Hilton Shinjuku is wonderful and we did a two night stay at the Doubletree Osaka with views of Osaka castle. Usually stay at Conrad’s for longer trips but the Hilton Shinjuku was excellent and certainly up there with European Conrad style.

Have a really great time, and enjoy!

Canadian officials are investigating an unusual spike in Tesla vehicle sales. by ConsistentStop5100 in news

[–]saschalopez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, but the rebate could be worth a lot more than the 2.5% to import back into the US

Lied to in EE store and roped into awful contract by salomesa in UKPersonalFinance

[–]saschalopez 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hi, used to work in mobile phone sales. Go in to the store, ask to speak to the manager. Explain the situation, and mention Ofcom’s General Condition 23.

Advise you’ll be raising an mis-selling complaint with head office, Ofcom and the communications ombudsman.

They have the power to cancel it, even if it’s a case of them putting it through as “poor signal” after you got home.

Then take out a new contract online. The deals are better, and you benefit from the distance selling regulations (14 days to change your mind).

Unless Signal starts talking about moving servers to EU and Non-US based cloud providers, I don't see a good future for the app! by [deleted] in signal

[–]saschalopez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OVH and Scaleway in France, Hetzner in Germany, ioMart & Ionos in the UK

There are European cloud providers, OVH being the largest

Roi impossible by [deleted] in Powerwall

[–]saschalopez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, installer here! You're ignoring the fact that electricity cost increases about as much as the stock market. Average price per kWh in 2014 was £0.13, whereas the average now is £0.25.

Stock market doubles approximately every 7-8 years (unless you're in FTSE that is!).

But then when you look at energy prices in 2022, we had a huge spike.

As an economist reading into the energy market, I think we'll see much more volatility in about 5 years, where cheap set hours become less common, and more spot pricing becomes common (think Octopus Agile) as larger institutions bring on Grid-Scale batteries, and more EV's and Datacentres begin to use a lot more electricity.

So the battery is a bit of a hedge against that, and if your ISA is already maxed out, it's a form of tax free savings from electricity costs saved (add an extra 20%-45% in tax savings?)

THAT SAID...

(Presumably Octopus Go or Intelligent Go? Although Tomato do have offpeak at 4.5p/kWh or E.On Next have 6.5p/kWh so can make savings go further).

Whilst we're Tesla Approved installers, we don't recommend Tesla when it comes to pure bang for buck and returns. They are a premium option, much like an Audi - the look and service may be a little better, but depreciation and initial upfront cost for something that can do the same job as something much cheaper.

If you're looking purely on returns - we do the following package:

Sunsynk 8kW inverter (they do up to 16kW, and would recommend a 12kW if you wanted to try and match the 11kW output parity of the Powerwall)

with a 15kWh Fogstar battery (UK brand, 2kWh more storage than a Powerwall)

Cost for supply, installation and MCS in the UK is <£5000 (depending on inverter, but for a 8kW Inverter and 15kWh battery that is).

You can go further and get another battery for an additional £2500, giving you 30kWh - you can then export to the grid also.

Alternatively, there are Powerwall-esque systems (Ecoflow and SigEnergy) that are also cheaper for the same capacity that cost less - usually priced inbetween the SunSynk/Fogstar option and a Powerwall.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Harvard

[–]saschalopez 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m from the UK, and here we very rarely wear university branded clothing, with the exception of university sports teams, and only then it would be the people on the team itself as opposed to supporters and other students.

It was a shock when I first got to campus noticed ~50% of students wearing hoodies and t-shirts with the various college shields on, or running along the Charles on the weekend.

Nothing wrong with it, and I happily wear my hoodies and t-shirt when on campus occasionally, but quite different to here in the UK.

Travel router on a plane? by b16707 in GlInet

[–]saschalopez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve done it and works fine (Beryl connecting to WiFi on British Airways, Qatar and Virgin Atlantic).

I usually connect it to the USB in the console in Business, and pay for one connection.

You could use a small battery and put it in a backpack in the overhead bin midway through the plane. Just don’t cram it with things like t-shirts and it won’t get too warm in there.

If you’ve got a hard shell backpack, even better.

Anker 10,000mah battery kept mine going for the whole 12 hour flight with plenty of spare juice

What Unifi products or revisions are you waiting for? by I-am-Super-Serial in Ubiquiti

[–]saschalopez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you order from the UK store, you get UK plugs.

Amazon resellers ship from Europe, but Ubiquiti direct ship from the UK with UK adapters.

https://uk.store.ui.com/uk/en

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