On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:46:14 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

On 28/08/14 23:27, Johny B Good wrote:
I guess I've now got a target price point for my local suppliers to
try and undercut. I suspect there's feck all chance of making a
cheaper purchase locally but I thought I'd seek out some opinions in
regard of there being any less greedy suppliers out there to which I
could turn

There comes a point where I calculate that to actually get in the car
and drive to a shop that carries most items costs me around £5...I don't
baulk at £3.95 postage at all, and if you spend more than an hour
finding a cheaper alternative you have in fact wasted at notional rates
another tenner.

This is all too true. :-(

I suppose it depends on how much value you place on the benefit of
having a functioning Mempac battery fitted into the controller. In my
case, it's not so critical for every day operation with the mains
supply proving, thus far, to be as reliable as it has been over the
past 30 years or so where I live.

My main hope in posting my query was that someone else in this group
may have already dealt with this issue in a remarkably economic way
and would jump at the excuse to disseminate their hard won knowledge.
:-) If you don't ask, you'll never find out so it's worth a punt
before wandering off into the wilderness of commercial reality.
--
J B Good