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On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 15:51:19 UTC, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
what sort of cable runs to those ev vehicle charging units you can get fitted with a gov grant? -- I believe in a better world where Chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned Ask your doctor if medical advice from a TV advert or brian reay is right for you What if the hokey cokey IS what it is all about ? Slow chargers are 2Kw - 3Kw. 220Vac Intermediate chargers are 6Kw - 8Kw. 220Vac. They use the on board rectifer. It depends on the size of the on board rectifier in the car, The fast chargers are DC as the on board rectifier is not big enough. Around 60Kw. |
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On 26/02/2019 17:08, Brian Gaff wrote:
I think for me the question is. If you are charging your car on a streetside charging point, what sort of cable is uses and is there any circumstance where it can become a trip hazard to a blind person. I remember when electric cars first came out the idea was mooted of a kind of swing arm at a high level with the cable on it to drop down past the curb to charge the car. To me that looks like a vandals paradise, and to leave a cable trailing is a h/s nightmare for being sued. Brian A very valid concern. I've not seen any chargers where the cables would/ should lay in the path a pedestrian not associated with the car or charged would normally take. Of course, that doesn't mean there aren't any nor that someone couldn't set out to place a cable in a way it would cause a problem. When you get a 'free' charger installed under the gov. scheme (if it is still running), it must be installed on a private drive or in a private garage etc. You can't, for example, park in the street and have it somewhere in your front garden and run the cable across the pavement. You are required to send photos of the planned installation point when you apply. I suppose people could obtain their own chargers and self install- it isn't complex (I watched the chap do ours), just a 16A spur (or 30A in some cases). While I fully appreciate your concerns, I think the problem of cars parking on pavements etc is probably far more of an issue. |
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Yes indeed, but the council are talking about converting some streetlamps
for charging cars, and I was wondering being as these will be in the street if there might be some vandal sitting there relishing the havoc they could cause to such an installation! Brian -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "Brian Reay" wrote in message ... On 26/02/2019 17:08, Brian Gaff wrote: I think for me the question is. If you are charging your car on a streetside charging point, what sort of cable is uses and is there any circumstance where it can become a trip hazard to a blind person. I remember when electric cars first came out the idea was mooted of a kind of swing arm at a high level with the cable on it to drop down past the curb to charge the car. To me that looks like a vandals paradise, and to leave a cable trailing is a h/s nightmare for being sued. Brian A very valid concern. I've not seen any chargers where the cables would/ should lay in the path a pedestrian not associated with the car or charged would normally take. Of course, that doesn't mean there aren't any nor that someone couldn't set out to place a cable in a way it would cause a problem. When you get a 'free' charger installed under the gov. scheme (if it is still running), it must be installed on a private drive or in a private garage etc. You can't, for example, park in the street and have it somewhere in your front garden and run the cable across the pavement. You are required to send photos of the planned installation point when you apply. I suppose people could obtain their own chargers and self install- it isn't complex (I watched the chap do ours), just a 16A spur (or 30A in some cases). While I fully appreciate your concerns, I think the problem of cars parking on pavements etc is probably far more of an issue. |
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On 27/02/2019 08:09, Brian Gaff wrote:
Yes indeed, but the council are talking about converting some streetlamps for charging cars, and I was wondering being as these will be in the street if there might be some vandal sitting there relishing the havoc they could cause to such an installation! Brian Vandal proof socket which only becomes live after negotiation with the car. The cable and charge security equipment carried by the end user. For example:- https://www.electrive.com/wp-content...-london-uk.png |
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In article , Brian Gaff
wrote: Yes indeed, but the council are talking about converting some streetlamps for charging cars, and I was wondering being as these will be in the street if there might be some vandal sitting there relishing the havoc they could cause to such an installation! For at least a year, I've been walking past pavement edge charging points in Berekley Square - they still seem to be working - at leat cars arev plugged into them. But, in general, a lamppost takes 1 or 2 amps at most; a charging point will need a lot more current than that. -- from KT24 in Surrey, England "I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle |
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Brian Gaff wrote:
I think for me the question is. If you are charging your car on a streetside charging point, what sort of cable is uses and is there any circumstance where it can become a trip hazard to a blind person. I remember when electric cars first came out the idea was mooted of a kind of swing arm at a high level with the cable on it to drop down past the curb to charge the car. To me that looks like a vandals paradise, and to leave a cable trailing is a h/s nightmare for being sued. Brian Most people at sometime will have seen a metal channel with a 1/2 or so slot laid across a pavement to take rainwater from a downpipe to a roadside gutter.Many date back to Edwardian times but are still in place. It may be that where EVs have to be charged in residential streets a similar channel could be laid from premises to curb, problem would be that the fast charging cables tend to be a lot thicker than 1/2 so to get a cable small enough would need a rethink on chargers and voltages. GH |
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In article , Marland
scribeth thus Brian Gaff wrote: I think for me the question is. If you are charging your car on a streetside charging point, what sort of cable is uses and is there any circumstance where it can become a trip hazard to a blind person. I remember when electric cars first came out the idea was mooted of a kind of swing arm at a high level with the cable on it to drop down past the curb to charge the car. To me that looks like a vandals paradise, and to leave a cable trailing is a h/s nightmare for being sued. Brian Most people at sometime will have seen a metal channel with a 1/2 or so slot laid across a pavement to take rainwater from a downpipe to a roadside gutter.Many date back to Edwardian times but are still in place. It may be that where EVs have to be charged in residential streets a similar channel could be laid from premises to curb, problem would be that the fast charging cables tend to be a lot thicker than 1/2 so to get a cable small enough would need a rethink on chargers and voltages. GH Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and during the day sometimes you simply cannot get parked anywhere near your home so how ya gonna charge?.. https://goo.gl/maps/DeNuubYa6wL2 -- Tony Sayer |
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On 28/02/2019 13:25, tony sayer wrote:
snip Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and during the day sometimes you simply cannot get parked anywhere near your home so how ya gonna charge?.. Small generator? Cheers -- Clive |
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On 28/02/2019 14:09, Clive Arthur wrote:
On 28/02/2019 13:25, tony sayer wrote: snip Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and during the day sometimes you simply cannot get parked anywhere near your home so how ya gonna charge?.. Small generator? Cheers The obvious thing is to suggest the council sets up residents only bays that are short enough they can assign them to one or two houses. They can make a lot of money out of that, fines, permits, etc. so they would probably consider it. |
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Clive Arthur wrote: On 28/02/2019 13:25, tony sayer wrote: snip Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and during the day sometimes you simply cannot get parked anywhere near your home so how ya gonna charge?.. Small generator? Electrically driven, of course, if you're out to reduce local pollution. ;-) -- *Generally speaking, you aren't learning much if your lips are moving.* Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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"Clive Arthur" wrote in message ... On 28/02/2019 13:25, tony sayer wrote: snip Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and during the day sometimes you simply cannot get parked anywhere near your home so how ya gonna charge?.. Small generator? Going to get stolen. |
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More Heavy Trolling by Senile Nym-Shifting Rot Speed!
On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 04:46:39 +1100, 2987fr, better known as cantankerous
trolling senile geezer Rot Speed, wrote: Small generator? Going to get stolen. Whose killfiles are you now trying to avoid, senile 2987fr? LMAO -- Norman Wells addressing senile Rot: "Ah, the voice of scum speaks." MID: |
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tony sayer wrote:
In article , Marland scribeth thus Most people at sometime will have seen a metal channel with a 1/2 or so slot laid across a pavement to take rainwater from a downpipe to a roadside gutter.Many date back to Edwardian times but are still in place. It may be that where EVs have to be charged in residential streets a similar channel could be laid from premises to curb, problem would be that the fast charging cables tend to be a lot thicker than 1/2 so to get a cable small enough would need a rethink on chargers and voltages. GH Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and during the day sometimes you simply cannot get parked anywhere near your home so how ya gonna charge?.. https://goo.gl/maps/DeNuubYa6wL2 Go along that road and you will see another version of the rainwater channel I mentioned except it is the covered type rather than the slotted by every downpipe. https://goo.gl/maps/seVDykDrsQy So put the outlets on the house walls alongside the phone junction boxes replace the metal channels with the slotted type that a cable can be laid in and job done. In practice nothing will be so straightforward and the lack of a dedicated parking spot will be a problem. One way would be what some areas already have is a residents parking schemes and as EV use develops and an acknowledgment that the concept of your own personal charging point is just not practical ,and though an outlet may be on your front facing wall all such points are common use and agreeing to that is part of getting a residents permit. Working out how costs are apportioned to the right account Ill leave for someone else to work out but possibly with outlets connected to the web and a terminal pad like found on railway ticket barriers that people place a card /smartphone on. Some may not like the idea of their infrastructure being used by others but many others no longer have such worries and accept that people using a WiFi point on their premises is just part of normal life. Still it is all conjecture at the moment and until EV use becomes the rule rather than the exception who knows how things will turn out. It may be that for some car ownership will just become too awkward. GH |
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2987fr wrote:
"Clive Arthur" wrote in message ... On 28/02/2019 13:25, tony sayer wrote: snip Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and during the day sometimes you simply cannot get parked anywhere near your home so how ya gonna charge?.. Small generator? Going to get stolen. See where the natural thoughts and instincts of an Australian with the genes of criminal stock coursing through them leads to straight away. Insert standard Rod Troll response below this line. GH |
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tony sayer wrote:
Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and https://goo.gl/maps/DeNuubYa6wL2 Going off the subject and more to your daily work what is the round antenna on this chimney on one of the houses in that street? https://goo.gl/maps/DgfY6TQYCgL2 GH |
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"Marland" wrote in message ... 2987fr wrote: "Clive Arthur" wrote in message ... On 28/02/2019 13:25, tony sayer wrote: snip Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and during the day sometimes you simply cannot get parked anywhere near your home so how ya gonna charge?.. Small generator? Going to get stolen. See where the natural thoughts and instincts of an Australian with the genes of criminal stock coursing through them leads to straight away. You never could bull**** your way out of a wet paper bag. |
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Going off the subject and more to your daily work what is the round antenna on this chimney on one of the houses in that street. it is a bit hard to tell from that angle but it appears to have corners so could be a leftover "squaerial" Cannot remember the company name but it was a satellite TV provider which was taken over by Sky and is one of the Bs in BSkyB. Richard |
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On 01/03/2019 09:59, Marland wrote:
tony sayer wrote: Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and https://goo.gl/maps/DeNuubYa6wL2 Going off the subject and more to your daily work what is the round antenna on this chimney on one of the houses in that street? https://goo.gl/maps/DgfY6TQYCgL2 GH A couple of houses have them. Looks like microwave, maybe a link to somewhere with good broadband? Cheers -- Clive |
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Lonely Psychotic Senile Ozzie Troll Alert! LOL
On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 21:08:44 +1100, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot
Speed blabbered, again: See where the natural thoughts and instincts of an Australian with the genes of criminal stock coursing through them leads to straight away. You never could bull**** your way out of a wet paper bag. YOU certainly keep bull****ting your way fast in to your grave, you obnoxious, senile pest! -- dennis@home to know-it-all Rot Speed: "You really should stop commenting on things you know nothing about." Message-ID: |
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On 28/02/2019 13:25, tony sayer wrote:
In article , Marland scribeth thus Brian Gaff wrote: I think for me the question is. If you are charging your car on a streetside charging point, what sort of cable is uses and is there any circumstance where it can become a trip hazard to a blind person. I remember when electric cars first came out the idea was mooted of a kind of swing arm at a high level with the cable on it to drop down past the curb to charge the car. To me that looks like a vandals paradise, and to leave a cable trailing is a h/s nightmare for being sued. Brian Most people at sometime will have seen a metal channel with a 1/2 or so slot laid across a pavement to take rainwater from a downpipe to a roadside gutter.Many date back to Edwardian times but are still in place. It may be that where EVs have to be charged in residential streets a similar channel could be laid from premises to curb, problem would be that the fast charging cables tend to be a lot thicker than 1/2 so to get a cable small enough would need a rethink on chargers and voltages. GH Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and during the day sometimes you simply cannot get parked anywhere near your home so how ya gonna charge?.. https://goo.gl/maps/DeNuubYa6wL2 Does each house currently (NPI) have its own petrol dispense point? No of course not. You will take your car to the nearest garage to fill it up. Battery and charger technology are already available to chatge to 80% at 350kW. For an average 200/250 mile EV with a 40kWh battery that will charge to 80% in about 7 minutes, just a tad longer than the normal petrol tankup time. Plus you will be able to top up at virtually any public parking place eventually - supermarkets, public car parks etc etc. Yes the infrastructure is not quite there yet, but give it another 7 - 10 years and we will be there. Battery and charger technology development has never had so much money and manpower thrown at it in the history of the universe. Battery capacities and charge power will steadily evolve. Andy |
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In article ,
Tricky Dicky scribeth thus Going off the subject and more to your daily work what is the round antenna on this chimney on one of the houses in that street. it is a bit hard to tell from that angle but it appears to have corners so could be a leftover "squaerial" Cannot remember the company name but it was a satellite TV provider which was taken over by Sky and is one of the Bs in BSkyB. Richard Neither! its an Ionica aerial an ill fated phone service via microwave radio that, well seemed a good idea at the time, but they could only supply a two line service and that was it at around the time the cable co's who could do phone lines, TV and although it maybe wasn't realised at the time Broadband albeit at 512 K down luxury after dial up so with competition like that the customer database from hell that No one else wanted they didn't last that long. In fact a local aerial firm made more then they did by charging punters to take the things down!.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionica_(company) -- Tony Sayer |
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In article , Marland
scribeth thus tony sayer wrote: Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and https://goo.gl/maps/DeNuubYa6wL2 Going off the subject and more to your daily work what is the round antenna on this chimney on one of the houses in that street? https://goo.gl/maps/DgfY6TQYCgL2 GH Try this link instead Its an Ionica aerial see the other reply.. https://goo.gl/maps/YxfQxfxZGcy -- Tony Sayer |
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On Friday, 1 March 2019 12:24:22 UTC, Andy Bennet wrote:
On 28/02/2019 13:25, tony sayer wrote: Does each house currently (NPI) have its own petrol dispense point? No of course not. You will take your car to the nearest garage to fill it up. My nearest and second nearest don't have charging points. It would be great if every petrol station had charging points. My nearest one appears to be in a hotel car pack which I do't; think you're allowed to use unless you have a room booked. Battery and charger technology are already available to chatge to 80% at 350kW. Not much use if you can;t get to them though. For an average 200/250 mile EV with a 40kWh battery that will charge to 80% in about 7 minutes, just a tad longer than the normal petrol tankup time. are there enough charging points though, as I said ZERO at my closest garage. Plus you will be able to top up at virtually any public parking place eventually Eventually but how much are these public carparks ? - supermarkets, public car parks etc etc. Yes the infrastructure is not quite there yet, but give it another 7 - 10 years and we will be there. Then I guess people might wait until then. Battery and charger technology development has never had so much money and manpower thrown at it in the history of the universe. Much more is thrown at petrol and oil. One of the reason electric vehicals aren't doing as well as they should in teh US because those selling Electric cars don't make as much profit on them as they do selling petrol cars so they aren't marketed as strongly and some even discorage a potential buyer from buying an electric car, because they also make less money on the petrol sales. Battery capacities and charge power will steadily evolve. But fossil fuel use has also become more efficient. Andy |
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On 01/03/2019 12:24, Andy Bennet wrote:
Does each house currently (NPI) have its own petrol dispense point? No of course not. You will take your car to the nearest garage to fill it up. Does each garge require you to stand there for a couolke of hours while you fill it up? No of course not. You are a stupid **** aren't you? Battery and charger technology are already available to chatge to 80% at 350kW. For an average 200/250 mile EV with a 40kWh battery that will charge to 80% in about 7 minutes, just a tad longer than the normal petrol tankup time. No production lithoum is safe to charge at much less than 1 hour for a full charge. If you want it to last. If its nikeltechnology its only going to have about 20 miles range for a 20 minute charge. Plus you will be able to top up at virtually any public parking place eventually - supermarkets, public car parks etc etc. This is finally half way sensible comment. Yes the infrastructure is not quite there yet, but give it another 7 - 10 years and we will be there. Battery and charger technology development has never had so much money and manpower thrown at it in the history of the universe. Battery capacities and charge power will steadily evolve. No they won't. Not capacity. That's already near maximum. Andy -- "Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them" Margaret Thatcher |
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On 01/03/2019 12:24, Andy Bennet wrote:
On 28/02/2019 13:25, tony sayer wrote: In article , Marland scribeth thus Brian Gaff wrote: I think for me the question is. If you are charging your car on a streetside charging point, what sort of cable is uses and is there any circumstance where it can become a trip hazard to a blind person. I remember when electric cars first came out the idea was mooted of a kind of swing arm at a high level with the cable on it to drop down past the curb to charge the car. To me that looks like a vandals paradise, and to leave a cable trailing is a h/s nightmare for being sued. Β* Brian Most people at sometime will have seen a metal channel with a 1/2 or so slotΒ* laid across a pavement to take rainwater from a downpipe to a roadside gutter.Many date back to Edwardian times but are still in place. It may be that where EVs have to be charged in residential streets a similar channel could be laid from premises to curb, problem would be that theΒ* fast charging cables tend to be a lot thicker than 1/2 so to get a cable small enough would need a rethink on chargers and voltages. GH Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and during the day sometimes you simply cannot get parked anywhere near your home so how ya gonna charge?.. https://goo.gl/maps/DeNuubYa6wL2 Does each house currently (NPI) have its own petrol dispense point? No of course not. You will take your car to the nearest garage to fill it up. Battery and charger technology are already available to chatge to 80% at 350kW. For an average 200/250 mile EV with a 40kWh battery that will charge to 80% in about 7 minutes, just a tad longer than the normal petrol tankup time. Plus you will be able to top up at virtually any public parking place eventually - supermarkets, public car parks etc etc. Yes the infrastructure is not quite there yet, but give it another 7 - 10 years and we will be there. Battery and charger technology development has never had so much money and manpower thrown at it in the history of the universe. Battery capacities and charge power will steadily evolve. Andy If I had an ev I would take it to ikea and fill up free while eating a cheap breakfast and drink free tea. |
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On 01/03/2019 13:44, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 01/03/2019 12:24, Andy Bennet wrote: Does each house currently (NPI) have its own petrol dispense point? No of course not. You will take your car to the nearest garage to fill it up. Does each garge require you to stand there for a couolke of hours while you fill it up? No of course not. You are a stupid **** aren't you? Battery and charger technology are already available to chatge to 80% at 350kW. For an average 200/250 mile EV with a 40kWh battery that will charge to 80% in about 7 minutes, just a tad longer than the normal petrol tankup time. No production lithoum is safe to charge at much less than 1 hour for a full charge. Of course there are, you just need to cool them. Car batteries tend to have cooling. |
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dennis@home wrote: If I had an ev I would take it to ikea and fill up free while eating a cheap breakfast and drink free tea. Is the service at IKEA really that slow? -- *When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds* Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On Friday, 1 March 2019 10:47:49 UTC, Tricky Dicky wrote:
Going off the subject and more to your daily work what is the round antenna on this chimney on one of the houses in that street. it is a bit hard to tell from that angle but it appears to have corners so could be a leftover "squaerial" Cannot remember the company name but it was a satellite TV provider which was taken over by Sky and is one of the Bs in BSkyB. Richard Astra. |
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On 01/03/2019 15:11, harry wrote:
On Friday, 1 March 2019 10:47:49 UTC, Tricky Dicky wrote: Going off the subject and more to your daily work what is the round antenna on this chimney on one of the houses in that street. it is a bit hard to tell from that angle but it appears to have corners so could be a leftover "squaerial" Cannot remember the company name but it was a satellite TV provider which was taken over by Sky and is one of the Bs in BSkyB. Astra. I thought it was British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) and Astra was the satellite. -- Max Demian |
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harry wrote:
On Friday, 1 March 2019 10:47:49 UTC, Tricky Dicky wrote: Going off the subject and more to your daily work what is the round antenna on this chimney on one of the houses in that street. it is a bit hard to tell from that angle but it appears to have corners so could be a leftover "squaerial" Cannot remember the company name but it was a satellite TV provider which was taken over by Sky and is one of the Bs in BSkyB. Richard Astra. BSB -- Roger Hayter |
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On 01/03/2019 13:09, tony sayer wrote:
In article , Marland scribeth thus tony sayer wrote: Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and https://goo.gl/maps/DeNuubYa6wL2 Going off the subject and more to your daily work what is the round antenna on this chimney on one of the houses in that street? https://goo.gl/maps/DgfY6TQYCgL2 GH Try this link instead Its an Ionica aerial see the other reply.. https://goo.gl/maps/YxfQxfxZGcy Ah yes, thanks. fx: vague sound of ancient bells ringing. Cheers -- Clive |
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Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Marland wrote: Working out how costs are apportioned to the right account Ill leave for someone else to work out but possibly Mmm, a typical cat-beller. Not really, I gave one suggestion below but the adoption of EVs is still at such an early stage for most people that any suggestion made now could be picked apart,argued against discussed ,made obsolete so until adoption becomes more mainstream there isnt much point in anyone claiming a good method at this point. with outlets connected to the web and a terminal pad like found on railway ticket barriers that people place a card /smartphone on. Some may not like the idea of their infrastructure being used by others but many others no longer have such worries and accept that people using a WiFi point on their premises is just part of normal life. They certainly won't like it when they get presented with the electric bill. When I said with outlets connected to the web and a terminal pad that can be touched by a smart card,phone like the railway barriers then most people would realise that was a suggestion to apportion the charge to those who were plugged in at the time, not the person on whose premises the charger happens to be on, did that point pass you by? Perhaps to make such a system workable no one would actually own the charger even if it is on their property with a publicly accessible outlet . No one seems to worry that they have gas,electric ,water meters in their homes that they dont actually own but accept that is how it is done to get the service so if people want to charge their vehicles when they and their neighbours mix and match parking like now they would have to accept it. Those who have a Broadband contract with BT can use the WIFI provision of other BT users apart from some who have opted not to allow it. Using one doesnt put their bill up and charging points run in the way I suggested would not either, though I suppose there could be some initial cost in making sure the house infrastructure is capable of supporting a charger that could be used for hours on end but an installation should be done safely anyway. That is if the mains supply to domestic premises is adequate in the first place which it probably isnt, still if gas goes ,wood and coal burning gets banned the electrical infrastructure in streets may well need a serious upgrade anyway and that still doesnt solve the problem of where all this electric is going to come from. GH |
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In article , Marland wrote: Tim Streater wrote: In article , Marland wrote: Some may not like the idea of their infrastructure being used by others but many others no longer have such worries and accept that people using a WiFi point on their premises is just part of normal life. They certainly won't like it when they get presented with the electric bill. When I said with outlets connected to the web and a terminal pad that can be touched by a smart card,phone like the railway barriers then most people would realise that was a suggestion to apportion the charge to those who were plugged in at the time, not the person on whose premises the charger happens to be on, did that point pass you by? You were comparing, or appearing to compare, people blagging wifi (at no significant cost to the owner) with people blagging volts to charge their battery, at very significant cost to the person in whose name the meter is. And you appear to have got the wrong end of the stick. The charger or the property may be yours but the energy cost would be apportioned to whoever activated it by using their card/phone/ palm print ,retina scan etc on the external pad/ reader on the wall by the socket. Blagging implies a degree of unapproved use, BT broadband customers can legitimately use other BT customers WiFi to gain access legitimately on a reciprocal basis , it is possible if people are really concerned they can alter their router settings so that cannot happen but most dont bother which is what I mean by many people no longer worrying about others using their infrastructure. And if you're talking about someone providing a connection point in the street, I'd certainly object to someone running that through my home wifi connection. They can provide their own. Not that there's any room for any sort of charging infrastructure in streets like the one shown. The charger and its connection need not be yours, just located on your property. There is room enough for a socket on the walls of many houses in similar residential streets, the charger itself will be inside somewhere .A future descendent of You living in such a street may not have much choice in the matter if as part of getting a residents parking permit reciprocal use of charging outlets is made a condition of obtaining such a permit. You dont want to be part of such an arrangement and allow room for a charger in the premises then you wont get a permit and will have to park and charge your EV elsewhere. You sound the type who hates the idea of a utility cable deigning to cross your property or a common sewer running underneath , but those are are well established examples of infrastructure serving others for the common good even if they impinge someones property. GH |
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scribeth thus tony sayer wrote: In article , Marland scribeth thus Most people at sometime will have seen a metal channel with a 1/2 or so slot laid across a pavement to take rainwater from a downpipe to a roadside gutter.Many date back to Edwardian times but are still in place. It may be that where EVs have to be charged in residential streets a similar channel could be laid from premises to curb, problem would be that the fast charging cables tend to be a lot thicker than 1/2 so to get a cable small enough would need a rethink on chargers and voltages. GH Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and during the day sometimes you simply cannot get parked anywhere near your home so how ya gonna charge?.. https://goo.gl/maps/DeNuubYa6wL2 Go along that road and you will see another version of the rainwater channel I mentioned except it is the covered type rather than the slotted by every downpipe. https://goo.gl/maps/seVDykDrsQy So put the outlets on the house walls alongside the phone junction boxes replace the metal channels with the slotted type that a cable can be laid in and job done. In practice nothing will be so straightforward and the lack of a dedicated parking spot will be a problem. Yes it isn't that simple is it?. If its on your property and you can't park there;(.. Any cables from the wall someone will trip over them, only possible way is to have a sort of overhead coupling device a bit like some very old petrol pumps that had hanging hoses? Perhaps we need an Overhead line system, bit like the railways up pantograph Running a tad less than the usual 25 kV.. One way would be what some areas already have is a residents parking schemes and as EV use develops and an acknowledgment that the concept of your own personal charging point is just not practical ,and though an outlet may be on your front facing wall all such points are common use and agreeing to that is part of getting a residents permit. Working out how costs are apportioned to the right account Ill leave for someone else to work out but possibly with outlets connected to the web and a terminal pad like found on railway ticket barriers that people place a card /smartphone on. Some may not like the idea of their infrastructure being used by others but many others no longer have such worries and accept that people using a WiFi point on their premises is just part of normal life. Still it is all conjecture at the moment and until EV use becomes the rule rather than the exception who knows how things will turn out. It may be that for some car ownership will just become too awkward. GH -- Tony Sayer |
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scribeth thus On 01/03/2019 13:09, tony sayer wrote: In article , Marland scribeth thus tony sayer wrote: Heres a side street in Cambridge as can be seen theres hardly any room to put anything anywhere. I reckon this photo was taken on a weekday and https://goo.gl/maps/DeNuubYa6wL2 Going off the subject and more to your daily work what is the round antenna on this chimney on one of the houses in that street? https://goo.gl/maps/DgfY6TQYCgL2 GH Try this link instead Its an Ionica aerial see the other reply.. https://goo.gl/maps/YxfQxfxZGcy Ah yes, thanks. fx: vague sound of ancient bells ringing. Cheers Just for amusement anyone know what the cable box and loop is for in the bottom left hand side of that image?... -- Tony Sayer |
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Just for amusement anyone know what the cable box and loop is for in the bottom left hand side of that image?... Several of the houses on both sides of the street have them. Further down the street there is a loop but no box fitted and it seems the cable that loops down is one continuous run down the whole street. I wonder if this is FTTP that avoids digging up the street. Richard |
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Tricky Dicky scribeth thus Just for amusement anyone know what the cable box and loop is for in the bottom left hand side of that image?... Several of the houses on both sides of the street have them. Further down the street there is a loop but no box fitted and it seems the cable that loops down is one continuous run down the whole street. I wonder if this is FTTP that avoids digging up the street. Richard Nope! It was a wired distribution system called British relay in a way the forerunner of Cable TV a documentary here explains why and how they came into existence. We had to adopt TV's to take their set top box and they did provide the much sought after ITV London which many considered to be a much better station than the local Anglia ITV service. It distributed the signal in Video base band on a balanced HF pair not too bad when it left the base at Kings Hedges road but it wasn't too bright after it got to the other side of town. The advent of UHF single aerial reception and colour TV saw it gone but bits of the infrastructure are still in place!. In fact the old mast on the left is still standing in this Pic I think it fell down a year or so a year back. https://goo.gl/maps/gmF5i36QZbz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltI09lTuGjk -- Tony Sayer |
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Ah! Yes we had British Relay about late fifties early sixties. I remember the cables and the rather fat cable snaking round the room from the window to where the TV was ending in a multi pin plug not the neat wall plate shown in the film. I can remember the cables attached to each house but do not remember those circular joint boxes. I am surprised any of that any infra structure still exists theses days.
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On 03/03/2019 17:04, Tricky Dicky wrote:
I am surprised any of that any infra structure still exists theses days. The cables are too high for the diddies... -- Climate Change: Socialism wearing a lab coat. |
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