Sinbad
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The guy who did my gas compliance cert when we sold the house had a contact in the fire department.
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Not at the moment - we had a recent leak in one of the pipes (properly fixed it though), so only when we can afford a full replacement if needed.
Anyway, only one full unit and one low, the other two are empty.
I would love a 1kW element.
Neuk_
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It would take forever to heat the geyser though? I'll most likely go for 2kw elements, it would enable me to run both at the same time if I needed to.
at 2.5kW I need 31 minutes to get that 40 Gal geyser up to 75 degrees and keep it there for the day. With a 1kW element I can run that geyser the whole day even with rain just on Solar.
Wtf are you cooking in it?
Neuk_
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Bloody hell! Ours take around an hour to an hour and a half with 3kw elements.
All the LegionellaWtf are you cooking in it?
You'll never have a hot shower or bath with a 1kw element. It just won't heat up fast enough.
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Maybe 2 elements? A 3kw (or 2kw) element to heat it up, then the 1kw to keep it there.
Should work... but nah, I'll just stick to gas or solar geysers.
I love my gas water heater. Just set the temp you want and turn the tap on. No waiting for things to heat up or reheat after a shower.
I swapped out my 4kW element for a 2kW element, so that I can power it using the sun, without needing the grid or my batteries. It takes about 2 hours to take 150L from 36C to 65C. There is a solar plate on the roof as well, so that speeds the process up a little.
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What is a solar plate?
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Hard to believe that from January until now we did more than 250 hours of loadshedding and power failures...
We're making plans to mitigate the issues, will move a couple of our critical VM's over to cloud, and have the office go dark over weekends.
Should shave off a couple of liters from our diesel consumption.
We're making plans to mitigate the issues, will move a couple of our critical VM's over to cloud, and have the office go dark over weekends.
Should shave off a couple of liters from our diesel consumption.
KWIKOT KWIKSOL SOL-PANEL-2B SOLAR FLAT PLATE COLLECTOR PANEL
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Like the hot water panels for a swimming pool, just operated differently.
Neuk_
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This is running both our geysers yesterday from 11:30 but I switched the pool off...
This is running one geyser then the next today from just after 12:00 but I left the pool running...
wingnut771
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I guess its over guys, no more updates:
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Station build-up for the last 7 days - Eskom Data Portal
This shows how resources were used to build-up the demand over the past 7 days, and it includes both generation and demand side resources that Eskom has contracts with.
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Melkbosstrand haven't had load shedding for this week yet.
REASON - they are busy at Koeberg.
Rejoice...
REASON - they are busy at Koeberg.
Rejoice...
So much for the shift to 4 by Thursday too. Haven't had power the whole ****ing day again. Stupid solar system can't be installed fast enough, have all the **** filling my garages, just need the guys to find time to do the install.I guess its over guys, no more updates:
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Station build-up for the last 7 days - Eskom Data Portal
This shows how resources were used to build-up the demand over the past 7 days, and it includes both generation and demand side resources that Eskom has contracts with.
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