How to thrive on a non 240v site!

Not with sufficient ventilation. Remember gas lights? 

Get gas appliances checked, make sure they are burning safely.

NHS LINK

Good one brue. Just had the fridge serviced and the cooker checked- vital for Non EHUers. Took the trouble to service the loo cassette. We have the C250 model and it’s 6 years old. Having finally got the mechanism out, I realised why it had been so difficult. The loo tank was plastered with lime scale! Every bit of mechanism and internal was covered with the stuff! I was quite surprised due to the fact that I had use biopods. Obviously they don’t clear lime scale! With rubber gloves with long gauntlets 🧤I cleared it all out and will remember from now on to use a descaler on it once a year!! New lip seal fitted- no obnoxious drips on my way to the emptying point now! 

The snow that fell last week and must have swathed the SP seems to have had no effect on the effectiveness of the it I couldn’t get there to clear the snow off the panel because of blocked roads but was able to go a week later and all was well with full batteries. 

Snow has to be pretty deep before it totally blocks out light.

Yes, it has to be pretty deep Cyber but with the shorter days, cloudier skies and the sheer cold, I thought it might have an effect and if it did, there was no evidence of it. Now looking forward to our first foray in April to Norfolk Safefill and Panel at the ready! 

I checked my battery level yesterday and was somewhat surprised to find it was down at 12.55 and I only had a bit of snow on my panels for a day. The alarm runs off the MH battery so AFAIK there is no residual drain. I know we have had a lot of grey days but I would have thought there would have been sufficient to keep the voltage up to around 12.7 or even slightly above.

mmm- I wonder if it was the sheer cold?? My panel has kept my Elecsol batteries at ‘full’ for four years. The problem being now that ‘full’ is not as full as it was 4 yrs ago. Still showing 13.8v but I know from last year that the batteries are weaker- a lot weaker than they were. Time to change them. Now looking at Lion battery from Roadpro who are just down the road from me relatively speaking. Non EHU demands good battery/s  and panel/s  and I ain’t going back to EHU. I will also add to the SP - another 100w will do nicely. 

You'll run out of roof space soon.

Nah! I have loads of space. Flexible panels will be the ones to use though due to weight.