Recent content by Zerc

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    Motorists can expect significant fuel price increases this December

    How do they work out a 260km trip at 7.7l/100km costs R250.15? By my calculations , they will use 26km * 7.7l/100km = approx 20/litres and at about R21/litres that trip will cost about R420
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    Less than a week before the prepaid electricity meter update

    Will the fact that the meters will stop accepting tokens unless they are updated actually such a big issue? As far as I know the meters will not be bricked after the 24th, so I would assume that if I buy tokens next week and my meter has not been updated I will just receive two recode tokens...
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    South Africans getting unfair treatment with high iPad prices

    That doesn't seem to be true when purchasing in the USA - 'The United States Government does not refund sales tax to foreign visitors. Sales tax charged in the United States is paid to individual states, not the Federal government - the same way that Value Added Tax (VAT) is paid in many countries.'
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    R11,000 for a bi-directional meter and R350 per month to sell solar power to Cape Town

    So you have to pay R350 a month for the convenience of putting back into the grid. at R1.04/kWh which is 336kWh or 11kWh per day I have to generate extra. With my medium sized setup of 8kW inverter and 8kW of panels I'm hardly going to break even and I'm also going be putting more of a load on...
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    Elon Musk says remote workers are living in la-la land

    My office is only 10km and somebody else's is 40km away at a factory. Is it also morally wrong that I only have to drive 10km to work?
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    Does a UPS or Inverter increase electricity bill?

    The problem is that a lot of the time the load is shifted and not shed, your geyser will need to be on longer to make up for the heat you lost, the same for the fridge and freezer with cooling, the washing will be done when you have electricity, you'll either cook food later or will have bought...
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    Power cuts a huge problem for 5G - WAPA

    'MTN says it goes through 450,000 million litres of fuel per month.' Somehow I doubt that is correct ‍♂️
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    Samsung Galaxy S23

    Very easy to migrate and this was done in the store. One thing I had to remember to do was to deauthorise my ABSA app on my old phone before wiping it so I could get it working on my new one.
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    Loadshedding to be reduced to Stage 2 after Thursday's evening peak, until Friday [Updated]

    Friend had mine had his solar system go live this morning. Good timing on his part and his batteries are charging
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    Geyserwise temperature probe

    This is segment of the code I use in Home Assistant to get the temperature form the geyser probe. Hopefully this helps. - platform: ntc sensor: resistance_sensor01 calibration: b_constant: 4200 # Geyserwise reference_temperature: 25°C reference_resistance: 10kOhm...
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    Load first or battery first?

    Load first but also setup so that batteries must be at least 40% charged at 10:00 and 75% at 17:00 even if it means charging them from the grid. This is to ensure that I have enough energy so if there is cable theft or other issues I will be able to continue powering the house through the night.
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    Openserve on 1Gbps fibre - We'll launch it if we launch it

    I'm still waiting for Telkom to offer 500Mbps although to be perfectly honest even 200Mbps is mostly overkill for my requirements. I guess the big question though is why I am on Telkom.
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    Electronics without radio frequency modules must have EMC CoC - ICASA

    It's crazy, there's an image of a fuse on the pdf as well as a fire sprinkler and unless I'm very much mistaken a fire sprinkler had absolutely nothing to do with electricity
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    Municipal Power Failures: Generator or Inverter

    This is what the symbol looks like
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    Municipal Power Failures: Generator or Inverter

    Centurion
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