I roll up a bit of kitchen roll, give it half a cap of kerro and stick some sticks on top, once away I put the coal round it. On wood I do similar but make a cone of smaller logs until the bigger ones will fit.
If its cold and I'm busy its always coal so I can take my eye off the ball and not...
This isn't or rather shouldn't be rocket science.
What happens here is someone connects a caravan battery through a split charge relay, 6 yards of 4mm cable via a dodgy white tow bar connector. They then flattens the battery over night with a fridge. Remarkably this setup doesn't adequately...
A few years ago someone asked me for advice on selecting a chemical anchor, I recommended a well known and very reliable product, used it for years... two weeks later a single failure occurred which made an emergency nationwide inspection and subsequent inspection regime necessary ... name mud...
Yes the same with mine, I can open the air vents at the bottom and start the tornado or close them off and use the glass wash to put air in from above, its very flexible.
But I wonder if that would just be too fast?
If I need mine to run over night I let it run down a fair bit before bed time...
Yep.. a fire is possible.. As I said, its a toss up really and you have to weigh up all the factors as best as you can, me I'd not use them anywhere BUT I can see why some would.
Charger pops in the wall, next to curtains and away it all goes and burns the house down as against a charger that pops inside a metal back box in none combustible plaster and its just a nuisance..
I can see them being better and worse - as long as its good equipment its just a toss up really.
I have a few things that bimble round my tiny mind and surface from time to time, reasons for nuisance tripping is one but I still ponder is why predominantly its the neutral terminals that burn ......
same here, I presume the psu has some kind of PCB fuse? how they achieve separation in such a small enclosure is a concern, some of the plug in the wall chargers are downright lethal so not limited to the plate outlets.
I was reading 'the other' thread and thought a general discussion about firing the stove might be interesting without distracting 'the other' thread :-)
For sure firing a stove isn't as simple as piling logs in and applying a match so I thought a thread like this might be interesting to share...
I didn't .. I said that what YOU are quoting in relation to the original question is, perhaps my use of hokum pokum was inflammatory.
From what the OP has said, the batteries are ebay LA cells, the charger isn't a smart charge alternator made by Ford, even if it were the charge and load is...
100% agreed but he's saying the room isn't getting particularly warm, as you know its easy to have flames and little heat. I still reckon its worth knowing the flue temp we are getting here?
20Kg of smokeless here is 7 quid, so shop around but for testing thats not important, on coal are you feeding air from below the bed and are you able to choke the flue?
have you got a way of measuring the flue temp, even one of these cheap magnetic gauges or maybe you have an IR thermometer..
How are you controlling the air - coal is best with air from underneath the bed, wood is better with air from the top. Is there a damper on the flue?
My burner here is...
^^ that works but its tricky getting the pot shaft and knob concentric, you can end up having a knob that wobbles about the axis as you turn it.
This from replacing pots on some electronic kit from years ago where the original part isn't available so you need a modern replacement, if the...
OK thats fine Norm and I'm sorry you have taken it this way, I've also got rather a lot of experience of connecting batteries in parallel. Mainly in safety of life situations and am confident in my skills and knowledge. I firmly believe you have misunderstood the facts presented to you and you...