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G83 type test PASSED

The Windsave inverter has passed its G83/1 Type test with flying colours. This has been a lot of work for everyone at Advance and Windsave and shows the benefits of companies pooling expertise.

The unit should be in volume production in the next couple of months, can't wait to start seeing them dotted about the countryside.

Funny pic to liven up the text!

Security against false alarms

Its always good for industry experts to revisit the problems of power conditioning.

While this article focuses on the cause of false alarms in security systems and the power problems that cause them the appeal is universal. Wouldn't we all like to get a nights rest without the local burglar alarms going off?

Of course the best solution to protect your alarm system is to fit a CVT, we have one here at the Advance site and our provider now fits them to every new installlation

Lindy Hop Tonight

Tonight we are Lindy Hopping at the Bakery again.

Great fun and it keeps me fit, can't wait to go to Jumping at the Woodside at the end of this Month

G83/1 recommendations for connection....

Sometimes I worry about the world. The mains electricity in this country is some of the best power in the world, with arguably some of the best power quality.

It can be shown that most (over 90%) of the truly damaging things in terms of power interruption and corruption are local: ie generated by you or your neighbours, or environmental: ie caused by weather or local magnetic fields etc. In other words you import power problems whenever you buy power from the grid.

However it can also be shown that unless something drastically changes we will not have enough production to cover our demand, not in decades but in years maybe even months.

Nobody wants to build nuclear power stations or have even green alternatives like large scale wind near their house, so one of the saviours of our national grid is set to be small scale generation.

In other words each homeowner can have their personal choice of solar panels, hydro electric, wind power or domestic combined heat and power to reduce their electricity bill and thus the load on big power stations.

The standard or "engineering recommendation" that covers small scale generation is called G83/1, and its written by a committee of interested parties. What this means in practise is that instead of your DIY windmill or watermill being easily available at B&Q for a minor investment, the current minimum investment is around £5000 for DCHP or £10000 for a windmill.

But don't worry Windsave is here to "Save the Day", with Advance's help of course. On monday 11th we will be testing a low cost inverter to the G83/1 standard, look out world here we come.

Talking about birthdays

It was my nephew Joss' birthday in January and I just found the digital camera and got the photos. He is a fantastically cheerful child and very photogenic.

I won - I think they knew it was my birthday

We keep a track of the money in our poker night, it averages out pretty well over a long enough time span.

Talking about Poker have you seen someone selling a poker hand on ebay, I mean the actual 5 cards they were dealt nothing else? People will sell anything on Ebay, but lets by honest more shocking is that suckers will BUY anything on Ebay.

Still Ebay is helping me to recycle some unwanted IT gear