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Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 16 4:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Treacodactyl wrote:
wellington womble wrote:
Does that kettle mean one can remotely put the kettle on!?


If you're Nick it means you can remotely trip your electrics.




Yes, that's exactly what it means. I saved more than seventy quid, however. Alas, I now have to press a button on the kettle about 2 minutes before I get boiling water. Such. A. Chore.

dpack



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 16 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Treacodactyl wrote:
wellington womble wrote:
Does that kettle mean one can remotely put the kettle on!?


If you're Nick it means you can remotely trip your electrics.



Nick



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 16 11:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Boiler man, he come, he go.


Hot water pump was broken, preventing the boiler from firing up. He thinks it's probably unrelated to the electrics tripping, but not 100% sure. Either way, boiler is running, kettle replaced, and no further trips.

And I've drunk a lot of coffee from my new machine. I can probably run to the kettle, and switch it on manually, faster than an app could do it.

dpack



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 16 1:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

a broken pump is a likely candidate for tripping the electrics but mending the pump does not address the basic issues of one piece at a time wiring and/or other moody electrical equipment

i know im a nag but around 20% of fatal house fires are caused by faulty electrical distribution or equipment. if one includes non fatal ones that just ruin one's home the figure is quite a bit larger.

Nick



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 16 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I know.

Behemoth



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 16 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

You've got a kettle with an ap?

sean
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 16 3:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

No, Nick hasn't. Chez probably has by now but is still trying to make it work with Ubuntu.

Nick



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 16 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

sean wrote:
No, Nick hasn't. Chez probably has by now but is still trying to make it work with Ubuntu.



Yeah, it works seamlessly with Apple, and pretty well with Android. However, despite buying a £100 boiling pot, she's 'saving money' by spending 36 hours in an online forum counselling group getting it to work via Linux. It doesn't boil yet, but she's got the printer working. In black and white, one sided. 48 point text. Comic sans.

Ironically, she'd had to boil the kettle manually 48 times during this process to produce sufficient tea.

Behemoth



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 16 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Sorry I'm not really keeping up here.

chez



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 16 5:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That's ok. Nick is avoiding addressing the fact that his house has wiring put in by Thomas Edison by hating on my perfectly valid techno-choices. I'll fiddle with Ubuntu while his house burns ....

Hairyloon



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 16 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Would it be impertinent to ask why not sort it all out properly?

NorthernMonkeyGirl



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 16 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

wellington womble wrote:
Chez wrote:
I like problem solving electrics, it's binary.


Come and solve mine, then. I keep tripping over the bloody extension leads!

Does that kettle mean one can remotely put the kettle on!?


Ah see what you need to do there is daisy-chain more extensions until you have enough length to go around the doorframe or round the room edges.
Safety first!

joanne



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 16 3:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:
wellington womble wrote:
Chez wrote:
I like problem solving electrics, it's binary.


Come and solve mine, then. I keep tripping over the bloody extension leads!

Does that kettle mean one can remotely put the kettle on!?


Ah see what you need to do there is daisy-chain more extensions until you have enough length to go around the doorframe or round the room edges.
Safety first!


Well when you can dictate how many plug sockets you have in a house such as in a new build or if you are having a house rewired it's fine however when the house comes from the dark ages and in our case still has a bakelite fuse board and about one socket per room, sometimes you don't have any choice about it.

Nick



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 16 3:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hairyloon wrote:
Would it be impertinent to ask why not sort it all out properly?


No, not at all. It's a job that needs doing.

NorthernMonkeyGirl



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 16 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

joanne wrote:
NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:
wellington womble wrote:
Chez wrote:
I like problem solving electrics, it's binary.


Come and solve mine, then. I keep tripping over the bloody extension leads!

Does that kettle mean one can remotely put the kettle on!?


Ah see what you need to do there is daisy-chain more extensions until you have enough length to go around the doorframe or round the room edges.
Safety first!


Well when you can dictate how many plug sockets you have in a house such as in a new build or if you are having a house rewired it's fine however when the house comes from the dark ages and in our case still has a bakelite fuse board and about one socket per room, sometimes you don't have any choice about it.


No snark intended, I have a stash of extensions for precisely this purpose.
Also I have now unplugged said extensions due to massive thunder storm rolling in. I even remembered to shut the window above the hi-fi

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