Recent content by Lucy Parot

Hi, Had to look what a 'power trolley' was, but again that's exactly what we had before with the Elllies. The batteries just don't last that long if you run them nearly every night until they run out. We originally bought it for the Joburg thunderstorms after we lost R40K worth of...

That's effectively what we had before only as an ellies all in one kit.

That seems promising. However, we did look at the Ryobi RG 950 on their website but were concerned Were put off a little by Ryobi generators when we saw loads being brought in for repair, and being taken out, whilst standing in the parts queue during the last major loadshedding in Jan/Feb...

You dont say how old you are, so dont know how long ago this happened. However, I caution you to please think long and hard about this before you go any further. You want to find your biological parent(s) (understandable) but ask yourself if you are strong enough emotionally that if you do...

The original batteries when new lasted about 5 - 6 hours. But deep cycle batteries, as I now understand it, are not designed to go below about 50% of charge. Even at that they lose longevitiy fairly rapidly. We were going to exhaustion, and within months the went down to about 1 - 1.5 hrs...

As I understand it, if you own a device that can receive broadcast tv signals, even if you dont use it for receiving anything, legally you have to have a current licence or you can be prosecuted. Which would then give you a criminal record. Neither can you buy a new tv without presenting a...

One looking at will be in the garage which is about 14m away and has db rating of 57. Exhaust will either be routed through wall, or alteratively outside with weather protection

I want to buy a small generator to run the tv and hifi only during loadshedding. Those items are already on a separate system independent from the mains, as we used to use a 2kva ups until the batteries died. Then I found out that deep cycle batteries not really suitable for application...