Weather

[93-DY-SAM]

Best thing would be a changeover switch.
You'd need to get an electrician to fit one. It's a unit which is fitted beside your fuse box and is connected to a fitting which he would fit on  an outside wall. My changeover switch which I had fitted last February was £250 which included the labour
Once you buy a generator you connect the cable from it to the outside fitting , turn it on for a couple of minutes then change the switch over on your unit from mains power to generator power. Fairly straightforward operation

Ah right, thanks very much.

Just exactly as Jim Bob has said. Simple enough job for any electrician.

[LC]

Anyone any experience of using battery storage in the context of solar panels?

[WeeDonns]

Anyone any experience of using battery storage in the context of solar panels?

Often see case studies like this
Residential Solar Install In Moira
but no hard figures on previous electricity units used/cost in a year V what it is now & the costs of installation/maintenance

Would be interesting to know the installation costs on a basic family home, say 2 adults 3 kids & would it produce enough power to run all the appliances in the home year round, or in addition would it also produce enough power to charge an EV to do 100mile a week

[armaghniac]

Best thing would be a changeover switch.
You'd need to get an electrician to fit one. It's a unit which is fitted beside your fuse box and is connected to a fitting which he would fit on  an outside wall. My changeover switch which I had fitted last February was £250 which included the labour
Once you buy a generator you connect the cable from it to the outside fitting , turn it on for a couple of minutes then change the switch over on your unit from mains power to generator power. Fairly straightforward operation

Ah right, thanks very much.

Just exactly as Jim Bob has said. Simple enough job for any electrician.

It might not be a bad idea for clubs in areas unaffected to offer to ship their generator for a week to someplace in darkness. Training etc could manage with the mains for a week, and the GAA could probably round up 100 generators.

[giveherlong]

Best thing would be a changeover switch.
You'd need to get an electrician to fit one. It's a unit which is fitted beside your fuse box and is connected to a fitting which he would fit on  an outside wall. My changeover switch which I had fitted last February was £250 which included the labour
Once you buy a generator you connect the cable from it to the outside fitting , turn it on for a couple of minutes then change the switch over on your unit from mains power to generator power. Fairly straightforward operation

Seen a few ones in dire straits without a change over switch back feeding the generator into a socket. Wouldn't be recommended but would get you going if totally bate. You need to totally isolate the house at the meter board so you aren't feeding out into the grid

[armaghniac]

contrary to some opinion, storms are not actually becoming more common, they just have names

[RedHand88]

Best thing would be a changeover switch.
You'd need to get an electrician to fit one. It's a unit which is fitted beside your fuse box and is connected to a fitting which he would fit on  an outside wall. My changeover switch which I had fitted last February was £250 which included the labour
Once you buy a generator you connect the cable from it to the outside fitting , turn it on for a couple of minutes then change the switch over on your unit from mains power to generator power. Fairly straightforward operation

Seen a few ones in dire straits without a change over switch back feeding the generator into a socket. Wouldn't be recommended but would get you going if totally bate. You need to totally isolate the house at the meter board so you aren't feeding out into the grid

This is very dangerous. If an engineer is working on a cable on down the line, you will be sending power from your house to where he is working, putting him at risk.

[93-DY-SAM]

Best thing would be a changeover switch.
You'd need to get an electrician to fit one. It's a unit which is fitted beside your fuse box and is connected to a fitting which he would fit on  an outside wall. My changeover switch which I had fitted last February was £250 which included the labour
Once you buy a generator you connect the cable from it to the outside fitting , turn it on for a couple of minutes then change the switch over on your unit from mains power to generator power. Fairly straightforward operation

Seen a few ones in dire straits without a change over switch back feeding the generator into a socket. Wouldn't be recommended but would get you going if totally bate. You need to totally isolate the house at the meter board so you aren't feeding out into the grid

This is very dangerous. If an engineer is working on a cable on down the line, you will be sending power from your house to where he is working, putting him at risk.

This above and not to mention the risk of frying everything in your house including yourself and your family. A sure way to start a fire or risk electrocution. I know we all do silly things from time to time thinking it won't be us but never back feed a generator.

[Blowitupref]

Warm weather back for a few days, temperatures to peak tomorrow before returning to normal by Sunday.

[Milltown Row2]

Great to see a weather chart showing all of Ireland 

[Olly]

Anyone else think the summer of 95 was deadly warm?

[Wildweasel74]

Warmest one i remember from the mid 80's

[sensethetone]

Anyone else think the summer of 95 was deadly warm?

it was a cracker, remember people thinking all them bombs prior to summer 95 were making rain.

[RedHand88]

Anyone else think the summer of 95 was deadly warm?

it was a cracker, remember people thinking all them bombs prior to summer 95 were making rain.

I always thought twitter gave birth to those kind of conspiracies but funny to see it was around 30 years ago.

[Hereiam]

Always remember it as I was sitting GCSE's that year and it was killing me to sit in and do exams as there was plenty to do outside at home.