Recent content by Tacet

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    Qwant search engine

    Saw a (seemed sponsored) article about Qwant browser, and got curious. Anyone using it? For basic searches it seems to give fairly similar results to google, but with a bit less sponsor-prioritization. I stumbled across a few stores I've never seen on Google results before. It started off...
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    End of an era for the 93-year-old South African retailer behind K-Way and Old Khaki

    Osprey, REI, Deuter, Gregory hiking bags? - nope Spyderco knives - nope Tentco tents - nope (they have the gazebos, noted) Oztrail - nope Just about the only thing they're good for is Stanley flasks. And oh, I bought a Victorinox paringknife from them when our holiday lodging didn't have any...
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    Skyworth 55Q6600H or Xiaomi A Pro 55

    I looked through the Xiaomi's webpage; no mention of a TV tuner. I was hoping that they omitted it with our market in mind, but sadly the spec sheet indicates that it has DVB-T2+C/DVB-S2, depending on the market. That's the TV-license avoidance hassle I was thinking of. 😅
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    Skyworth 55Q6600H or Xiaomi A Pro 55

    Do you need to go through the TV-license avoidance hassles with these, or will you be able to buy them without one?
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    Scam site: electronicpro.co.za

    I keep a Gemini chat with the sole goal of investigating online shop legitimacy. We're busy building, and I've been stumbling over places like https://www.gundoevolution.co.za/ (plumbing stuff), https://shop.magnet.co.za (electronic switchgear), keyelectric.co.za/ (electronic switchgear, cables...
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    I Need to Buy Fibre Optic LAN Cable to Reduce LAG

    OP is probably trolling. If not, severely ill-informed. Electrical-optical conversion will be a greater contributor to lag than any kind of distance you'll have in your house, even if you have a large house. The transport medium at short distances is not the key contributor to lag; here you...
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    SA’s biggest data centre ‘monster’ set to consume 25% of Durban’s electricity

    Your HVAC design at the coast is different - you'll use e.g. aluminium condenser coils which are usually more expensive. You'll also have more dehumidification to do, making your HVAC more power hungry. So you don't see the telco kit rust, but only because quite a bit of cost and energy is...
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    One mistake South Africans make when selling their homes

    Sole mandates should have an expiry date. I made the mistake of doing sole mandate, and the agent did almost nothing to sell the house. Waited for it to run out, and sold within about a week.
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    Why do (some) adults choose to dress like children?

    Nope, it wasn't even an argument. It was a frivolous bit of humour in a thread that only one person is taking seriously. People dresses less formal than they did 20 years ago. I accept that, shake my head at some of the clowns I see out there, and move on. I'm not going to spend time or...
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    Why do (some) adults choose to dress like children?

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    Upgrades to Solar. Suggestions needed

    Sorry, wasn't online for a few days. It can be done without turning anything off, BUT, there are risks. If you turn the CTs around in the main DB itself, then your main risk is the fact that you're working in a live environment - it can be done safely if you know what you're doing and you...
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    Upgrades to Solar. Suggestions needed

    Quite possible that the CT is just the wrong way round. Easy to fix - where it connects to the inverter, just swop the two wires around and see if its values seem more realistic. Pic below is for a 12 kW, three phase, but the principle will be the same for the 8 kW, and I think the connector...
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    Upgrades to Solar. Suggestions needed

    @Pho3nix Rereading your OP, I suspect that you made a typo - you have a 5 kW Deye inverter, not a 5 kW Deye battery? The Deye can push power back to your non-essential loads. If so, do you know if the installers installed a CT around the live cable going to the main breaker in your DB? It...
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    Upgrades to Solar. Suggestions needed

    Cheap is relative; while you may have enough funds to easily add 4 panels, not all of us have that luxury. Also, I asked what inverter it is with multiple reasons: to see whether the inverter can feed power to the non-essiential loads and to see how much solar capacity the inverter can safely...
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    Upgrades to Solar. Suggestions needed

    Why do you want to add more panels? You're currently wasting solar capacity. What inverter do you have? I don't see any geyser or oven consumption on your power graphs, so I suspect that your inverter is only feeding critical loads, and that you're not pushing power back to the non-essential...
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