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    UK Hello. I saw a question related to the Rangemaster Kitchener 90

    Most likely the grill element shorting to earth I have had them where they work for a bit but as they heat up the short gets bigger and also had one that used to trip as you turned it off, need to get someone with a insulation tester to check it out for you
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    Electric vans

    I do like the look of it and think it will last a long time but like you a bit small and expensive, I can not understand why has it got a max range on the engine option or is that just that you will need to refill with petrol. But saying that I think maybe not this but the same sort of hybrid is...
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    Electric vans

    This looks like a good option and think it is the sort of thing we will all be driving in 10 years View: https://youtu.be/G508L0swhNk
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    Electric vans

    Load limiters are used a bit in France as a house might have anything from a 15A supply or a 3 phase 15A per phase up to 60A mono phase or 45A 3 phase they work well but I think we need a clever system using smart meters and wifi so,chargers can be turned on and off to balance out load on the...
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    Electric vans

    This is the big question my customer with a Tesla gets free charging at service stations but he was one of there early customers and new customers do not get the same deal, but think they get so many KW per year,normally I think it might be in the range of 6 to 8p per mile. I looked at the idea...
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    Electric vans

    It cost about 4p per mile charged at home against 11p for 50mpg car, but as tax is 2/3 on diesel and 5% on electric if you adjusted for that price would be about the same,
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    Electric vans

    The other thing is where is all money lost on fuel tax going to come from?
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    Electric vans

    You may say that but I have a customer with a Tesla and he has used it to come down here which is about the same distance, he says it charges in about an hour but this time he had bikes on the roof and car full and was only getting 150 miles between charges instead of nearly 300 miles. Is he...
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    Electric vans

    The engine could still be water cooled, something like a mini-digger engine driving a auto box, with inputs from that and electric motor, revs of engine change very slowly add blue and partical filter on exhaust, I have been told that the latest diesels exhaust gasses are cleaner that what it...
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    Electric vans

    Hi I would say the long term answer is a plugin hybrid but not what is being built at the moment it has to have a small diesel or petrol engine maybe under 1L and a electric motor, it needs a range of 30 miles off of the battery and the engine is used for faster travel like motorways and out of...
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    Radio controlled switch

    Hi quick question over the years I have installed a lot of cheap radio controlled switches, for outside lights, gates and pool lights I have used cheap units and have not had many problems except at one house I have fitted 4 units first failed next day second after a week and the third after a...
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    Different way to do two way lighting

    even the sockets can be wired both ways legrand do a double socket where the two are wire one live on left one live on right problem is things like boilers with a fuse built in the fuse has a 50 / 50 chance of being in neutral helps to keep you awake
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    Different way to do two way lighting

    This system would have gone back to when electric first arrived in this region the system was very simple it would have been 3 phase 15A per phase, there where no fuse boxes, EDF supplied a 500ma 15A trip, cables went direct from this around the house with a fuse built into every light switch...
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    Different way to do two way lighting

    Came across a odd system today here in a house in France, thought I would share it with you all, light switch down stairs live to one output of the switch neutral to other then what would normally be input went up to the light, upstairs switch same set up,the two wires from the switches...
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    Stripping Wires With Side Cutters

    My sons puppy has a liking to eat live cables, has taken the trip out many times so must be getting a shock, but does not seem to stop him, I wanted to change his name to pikey because of this love of copper

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