We just signed up for a Battery for our home. There are 2 rebates available. There’s the Australian Rebate for the installation of the battery, which covers batteries […]
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Choosing when to export power with a home battery in NSW
We just installed a 50 kW alpha ESS battery. The most logical usage would be to charge the battery during the daytime so that we are capturing our solar energy into the battery and then to feed any excess power that we are not using back into the grid in the evening from 6 pm to 9 pm when there are bonus rates for exporting. Here’s the problem. There is no way to set your home battery to export manually during these peak times.
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WordPress ‘Incompatible Archive’ error
In WordPress 6.4.3 there’s a bug that when you try to upload a zipped theme to your self-hosted WordPress installation from a Mac you get this error. The […]
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LoRaWAN in Node-RED
When you are entering the device ID, it needs to be lowercase. Here: application/depthdam/device/a84041d0a1886fb0/rx uppercase does not work I think this is because it’s a simple text match […]
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My sudden hearing problem
In July 2023 I went instantly deaf in one ear and to cut a long story short it turns out I have something called SSHL or Sudden Senseroneural […]
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Gourmet Mouse Pizza
Here’s the crazy mouse Pizza video that went a bit viral and even made it into the Netflix annual year in review!
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Some reflections on death
I just found this painting I did 3 months after my Dad died. Death’s no friend whatever mask it wears. It breaks our fragile worlds apart and in the hearts […]
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Old memories
Just found this photo of when we replaced the engine in the falcon. We were working late into the night with torches because the crane had to be […]
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Year 12, 89
At School Wayne was destined for a bright future. Here he is proudly wearing his School Council badge in his Yr 12 School Photo.
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The Great BBQ Challenge
Well, the great BBQ challenge finals were last week. Earle and I entered. Here’s a photo of us at the auditions. We didnt’ even make it into round […]
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A town in Canada…
I kid you not, Jill’s parent sent us this picture they took on Holidays in Canada.
Music / Wayne
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And so it goes – Billy Joel
Went to see Billy Joel at the Acer Arena on 17th November, 2006. Musically it was great, lots of energy, and we had good seats right up close, […]
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Some reflections from John Chapter 11.
Today I preached from John 11 where Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. The chapter talked a lot about the emotions associated with death. It reminded me of […]