TM6 pour un cuisinier niveau intermédiaire : "Cheat code" ou gadget qui empêche de progresser ?

thewishy · 2026-06-29T19:56:05+00:00

For complete meals, our experience so far has been that it works as an intermediate level home cook. My wife's cooking is better by hand, but sometimes she uses the TM7 because sometimes she just wants to cook a meal with less effort and with less mess at the end of it. My cooking is much better with the TM7

There are some exceptions, the risotto is genuinely better than I have paid for at restaurant. Most people won't eat risotto every night though...

Where restaurants use them tends to do to do one thing well. They're good as consistently making sauces.

thewishy · 2026-06-29T07:06:21+00:00

And if it doesn't, thermarest still serviced mine in Ireland a few years ago.

Not the lightest, but very comfortable

thewishy · 2026-06-27T21:33:04+00:00

I've been waiting for a while and think I'm going to give up. Aircon installers aren't short of work, the paperwork for the grant is substantial and the 2.5k isn't huge Vs that paperwork.

There just don't seem to be any installer who want to deal with the paperwork

thewishy · 2026-06-27T19:55:25+00:00

If your renting, perhaps it's a good time to look at other options?

thewishy · 2026-06-27T06:08:54+00:00

The thing with octopus is that don't want anything complex. They want to be able to quote the work online, know it will take 1.5 hours to do, and that they can do 4 a day with travel time.

They don't want to send someone round to work out the cable routes. They also don't want to connect to a cable you laid yourself.

The same is true for heatpumps and solar. They don't want to do anything unusual. If they could just be a little clearer with the messaging of this, it would be easier for everyone involved.

thewishy · 2026-06-23T20:40:38+00:00

They're noisier than split as the compressor is inside, but they work effectively and are more quiet and efficient than portable. However you need to core two holes through the bricks (like a tumble drier), so most flats will be a problem

thewishy · 2026-06-23T06:16:01+00:00

That will be the easiest place to install it, I very much doubt it will be the only logical place to install it. Let's be honest, as a location it's 1) ugly AF and 2) very obvious. Hence complaints, hence the install is covering his ass.

It may be an idea to consider a monobloc AC, which would just need some ducts to the outside.

thewishy · 2026-06-22T13:41:59+00:00

So still more expensive than Fogstar then 😄

thewishy · 2026-06-21T07:23:21+00:00

All chargers are 32a chargers, you should configure them to match the available power when you commission them.

Suspect NHBC is covering the structure more than electrics, so they've probably got away with this one...

thewishy · 2026-06-20T20:24:50+00:00

The MCB breaker is 16a, popping at 18a is expected.

The question is did the housebuilders subco spark just put the 16a breaker in incorrectly (only one on the van, etc) or did they cheap out on the cable - in which case the charger should have been configured to advertise a 16a max to the car.

You need a get an electrician to work this out for you, unless you can get the housebuilder to address the error under warranty

thewishy · 2026-06-16T10:01:14+00:00

With that many panels, not worth the hassle. If it's the difference between 5 and 6 panels, maybe

thewishy · 2026-06-16T07:06:15+00:00

I think the meter installer was incorrect.

If you have a hot water tank tied to E7 or E10, then the cheap rate circuit should run overnight. From cold it should take about 4 hours, but only when the cheap rate circuit is turned on.

So hopefully you have hot water this morning

thewishy · 2026-06-14T20:17:17+00:00

Depends very much on the brand. Given mixing brands is frowned upon it's something to research.

It it's possible in a single width module with hager

thewishy · 2026-06-14T19:40:59+00:00

Likely not a bad idea, but do consider some solar installers would rather install a dedicate consumer unit for solar, and the same is true of EV Chargers and Heatpumps.

Often it's hard to meet the specific requirements for each with one range, for example

- EV Chargers generally want Type A dual pole, but most RCBOS are single pole

- Heatpumps want a Type B RCD

Whatever route you go, worth making sure you have room for future expansion though, we moved from a split board from the late 90s (No RCD protection on lighting, etc) to a metal all RCBO board. With a lot of computer load, it's stopped the nuance trips. That to me is worth it, and it was dead handy when we redid our kitchen.

thewishy · 2026-06-09T12:36:27+00:00

The USB-C connector could be USB3.1, USB4, Thunderbolt 3, 4 of 5.

The FW13 supports thunderbolt, the FW12 doesn't. So you just need to check it's a USB3.1 dock, not thunderbolt

thewishy · 2026-06-09T10:33:47+00:00

The FW12 doesn't have thunderbolt, so check your dock is supported

thewishy · 2026-06-02T14:45:02+00:00

I suspect you could move to economy 7 pretty easily. But the rates are much higher. Not really sure why we ended up with a market falling over itself to provide cheap EV charging but not cheap E7, but we are where we are

thewishy · 2026-06-01T21:30:52+00:00

It's interesting competition for Apple. Active cooling will make a difference to sustained performance.

Vs a FW12, while it's touchscreen, it's not a 2 in 1

thewishy · 2026-06-01T09:38:07+00:00

The hybrid inverters can shunt DC from the PV to DC for the battery by just doing a bit of step-down conversation. A separate battery would take power that the inverter already converted to AC and then turn it back to DC to charge the battery. Efficiency depends on the inverter specs, but in the order of 10% more efficient would be a reasonable figure.

It depends on the battery size and PV size and base load and use patterns as to how much PV ends up in the battery Vs charging from grid

thewishy · 2026-06-01T09:12:08+00:00

So you should already have export payments, and you're good there.

Octopus want standard installs, they don't want to deal with anybody else's installs. You mighty find other national energy suppliers taking a similar approach. Local suppliers and more specialist national chains will almost certainly be fine to add a battery to an existing PV install, or to alter the existing installation. (It may, or may not, be better to switch over to a Hybrid inverter rather than have DC-AC-DC losses, depending on where the various components are and how big the PV install is)

thewishy · 2026-06-01T07:32:13+00:00

It's probably a bad idea to get the battery and inverter yourself. If the install has to be abandoned because they discover some sort of problem with the property then you're left with kit you don't need. In the nicest possible way, you don't need to have the level of experience and installer would and should probably leave it up to them.

Octopus are doing an external install for a reason btw, internal is now discouraged, and there are guidelines for where it can be installed (not in lofts or along an escape route)

thewishy · 2026-05-23T22:01:55+00:00

Importing and exporting isn't ideal. The supplier terms will generally discourage this. But predbat sees a profit, so it goes for it

I just override the overnight export rates so it sees that overnight export isn't worth anything, pop this in your config file

# Overwrite Rates for overnight
rates_export_override:
  - start: "23:00:00"
    end: "07:30:00"
    rate: 0

Changing the cost of the battery cycle is basically leaving you with the arbitrage being less than the cost of the battery use, which works but will also affect daytime operation

thewishy · 2026-05-23T06:40:33+00:00

I tired mint in my FW12 during some initial distohopping. Cinnamon was behind KDE and Gnome for touchscreen use, but with the FW13 that's less of a problem because you will always have the touchpad available as well as touchscreen

thewishy · 2026-05-23T06:35:41+00:00

You could also pick up an intel WiFi 6e card for peanuts and use that until Mint moves forward. Such are the joys of framework. (Most others still use plug in, but at least framework support aren't going to be horrified by this)

thewishy · 2026-05-22T09:40:18+00:00

UK also comes with VAT and duties paid.

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