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    Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation in Diary of CEO podcast

    I mean with the pricing of houses in cpt, I won't be surprised if someone bites. Just the other day I saw a house for sale in my area. Less erf than mine but almost twice the price.
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    Home Network Help

    Personally sounds like one of two options: 1. You have devices on static IP's that the DHCP does not know about (reserved) so it is assigning it to another device thereby causing a conflict. 2. You have multiple DHCP servers running on the network. Does seem like the problem is somehow linked...
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    Billionaire Johann Rupert’s mayonnaise giant is making 227,000 jars a day

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    Solar generation in rain/cloudy conditions

    The installer did mention to me while I was at work that there would be shading. At the time I accepted it for what it is given those were the only locations available. On arrival at home I found these 2 panels slightly more forward than I originally expected them to be. To the companies credit...
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    air con advice

    For sure, I'm saying 18000 is maybe a step beyond oversizing. I know, but as stated I have 12k units in both living and bedroom. Bedroom is 20 squares and living is 32 squares. I will admit though that if i didn't have tinting on my living room windows then the 12k unit likely would be...
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    Solar generation in rain/cloudy conditions

    Reading up on the JA solar panel layout it makes sense now why the portrait was causing such a loss. Seems with the vertical column of cells, the horizontal shadow was essentially cutting off the entire 2 panels. In hindsight, having known this though I probably would have resorted to it only...
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    Solar generation in rain/cloudy conditions

    Been troubleshooting my one array for some time now after it was relocated. Was producing drastically less than the other 9 panel string (both north facing albeit slightly different angles). A set of 2 panels had slight shading cast by the forward 3 panels but google seemed to think this...
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    The Home Improvements Thread (3)

    On a more personal note, have some improvement myself in the outside workshop. Recently noticed a ever growing crack develop in the floor around the water tank. Drained and moved the tank over the weekend to find the floor had dropped about 100mm so clearly not reinforced. Pretty much going to...
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    air con advice

    I would guess it's more efficient than a bigger unit but that is just an assumption. Normally if a unit was undersized, you would be running it on full and even then barely getting anything. I would tend to agree less fan speed is less fan noise. Something to probably note though, all my...
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    air con advice

    Size of my living/dining. Oversizing isn't a bad thing. I do tend to think manufacturers underestimate the room sizes. When we had a 12000 put into our master (20m2) the installer even queried why such a big aircon and turned out he was kinda right. That things has never seen a fan speed beyond...
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    We finally want to pull the trigger & go Solar

    Tend to agree. Not a fan of that 2x 6kw split. Almost like it's an attempt to offload old stock. Also a 5kwh battery is R13 500 so they are definitely running with high mark ups.
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    The Home Improvements Thread (3)

    I just know flooring.co.za but nothing in 80mm from them. Suppose polymer skirting is not an option?
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    air con advice

    18000BTU is pretty large for a bedroom, overkill I would think unless it's the size of a living/dining room. Other than that, all air cons these days have a "soft wind" function. Midea calls it breezeless but each brand calls it something else.
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    LIFEPO4 Battery discussion thread

    makes sense but your cycles drop drastically. Could be the difference between replacement every 10 years or every 20 years. I was more surprised the battery doesn't lock up as I've been told passed a certain point they do and you have to take them in to get started again. Whether that's sales...
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    LIFEPO4 Battery discussion thread

    Talking of LiFePo4 batteries, had a funny conversation with my BIL. Long story short we were talking about discharge levels and he takes his deye 16kw down to 4% in winter with the reason that "it's 6000 cycles so i don't mind if it kills that a little bit". Didn't say anything but I was very...
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