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by nowty
Fri May 10, 2024 6:52 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage
Replies: 583
Views: 102780

Re: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage

Now in operational service, still got to add my anti pigeon brush surround and paint the exposed rails. :mrgreen: Also my metalwork was sent to the wrong address so I had to bodge the joining of the extension rails for now, thats another job to do but it should not be too bad. This was a hard job th...
by nowty
Thu May 09, 2024 3:15 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage
Replies: 583
Views: 102780

Re: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage

My aluminium strips for connecting my rail extensions are not coming till Friday now, so I've been re-painting my clamps black with hammerite and cut my rail extensions. I will be painting any exposed rails black once its all up. :oO:

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by nowty
Thu May 09, 2024 11:00 am
Forum: Media and Culture
Topic: "Grid Stabilisation Park"
Replies: 7
Views: 349

Re: "Grid Stabilisation Park"

Big flywheels to provide synchronous compensation so the grid can operate with zero gas, thus allowing more renewables to operate before they are curtailed. From the website of the company installing them. https://www.statkraft.co.uk/newsroom/2023/helping-the-uk-power-grid-spin-back-its-system-inert...
by nowty
Wed May 08, 2024 4:54 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage
Replies: 583
Views: 102780

Re: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage

I've put a single token new panel on for verifying the proof of concept of how we get them up there, reverse way to how I got the old ones down. Haul onto a wheele bin, then step them up on an edge rung by rung on a ladder until they can be cantilevered over the edge of the rear of the car port. The...
by nowty
Wed May 08, 2024 4:43 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage
Replies: 583
Views: 102780

Re: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage

Solar panels, a protective system to save your roof tiles from dangerous solar radiation and stains which are expensive to remove! Save money on expensive roof repairs with solar panels! Think this sales pitch would work? Yep, thats nearly 13 years of roof protection that the original solar panels ...
by nowty
Wed May 08, 2024 4:35 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage
Replies: 583
Views: 102780

Re: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage

Solar panels, a protective system to save your roof tiles from dangerous solar radiation and stains which are expensive to remove! Save money on expensive roof repairs with solar panels! Think this sales pitch would work? Yep, thats nearly 13 years of roof protection that the original solar panels ...
by nowty
Wed May 08, 2024 3:07 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage
Replies: 583
Views: 102780

Re: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage

Had a back strain, not sure how, as I was just walking through the kitchen at the time. :facepalm: Cold pack, voltorol, paracetamol, and a little rest and I'm back in business but in slow motion, SWMBO is doing a sterling job helping out too. :mrgreen: 3 down but the last ones always a fecker. :evil...
by nowty
Wed May 08, 2024 11:56 am
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage
Replies: 583
Views: 102780

Re: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage

I was about to go out to get some 18mm thick plywood as a working board on the car port roof as my previous crawling boards were rotting through. Then I realised the pallet the panels came on was 18mm plywood with steel reinforcing strips, just what I needed. :xx: Last time I replaced the panels I u...
by nowty
Wed May 08, 2024 9:45 am
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage
Replies: 583
Views: 102780

Re: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage

They were £75 each with the VAT but the free delivery is sweet. I think they manage to do this because they come from a local depot, so a relatively short distance. I don't actually know how they do it. My single panel was strapped to a long pallet. Very much.on.its own and the guys at the depot be...
by nowty
Mon May 06, 2024 10:17 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage
Replies: 583
Views: 102780

Re: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage

They were £75 each with the VAT but the free delivery is sweet. I think they manage to do this because they come from a local depot, so a relatively short distance.