Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

KevinG

Nice start to the month with 6.27 Os

JKenH

I’ll keep on track today. East 3.4 west 5.0. More than 5kwh came after 6pm.

Coastalwatch

A comfortable 4.6 O's today starting the month off optimistically!

1961Nick

A solid start to the month...

4.5 O's

onomatopoeia99

Month started with a bang on PVGIS average required 4.1 O

On Thursday my Powerwall 2 should be arriving with the new gateway that allows it to power the house in the event of grid failure. My plan is to switch to the Octopus tariff for EV charging at 5p/unit 12-4am and let it top up the battery overnight. That will probably increase both my grid consumption and export, but give me overall better energy supply stability ( we get power outages locally from time to time, the substation seems a bit rubbish) and means I can do away with the UPSs that all my computers and PVRs are attached to.

onomatopoeia99

zeupater wrote: »

we replaced our main plasma TV with an efficient LED unit quite a few years ago,

Only way I'm replacing the Pioneer Kuro if it breaks and is unrepairable, despite the 500W/h power use. Even though it's 'only' 1080p, the latest high end 4k OLEDs are only just starting to get close to matching it for picture quality.

I do only have it on when I'm watching it, I'm not like my parents who seem to have their TV on as background noise!

Martyn1981

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

Only way I'm replacing the Pioneer Kuro if it breaks and is unrepairable, despite the 500W/h power use. Even though it's 'only' 1080p, the latest high end 4k OLEDs are only just starting to get close to matching it for picture quality.

I do only have it on when I'm watching it, I'm not like my parents who seem to have their TV on as background noise!

Tune in to one of those 'peaceful' channels that just shows a recording of a nice fire, and then at 500W you can turn off the central heating.

zeupater

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

Only way I'm replacing the Pioneer Kuro if it breaks and is unrepairable, despite the 500W/h power use. Even though it's 'only' 1080p, the latest high end 4k OLEDs are only just starting to get close to matching it for picture quality.

I do only have it on when I'm watching it, I'm not like my parents who seem to have their TV on as background noise!

Hi

As always it's your decision - but just have a think of what that would mean if you're looking to invest in batteries as JKenH is ... your decision to not replace the plasma TV costs an additional ~450W of consumption over a modern LED panel, so around 2.5kWh per evening for an average TV using household which results in upsizing a household battery system by an equivalent capacity to cope with the additional draw ... 2.5kWh of storage at current storage costs (~£600/kWh) just added £1500 to your expenditure whereas replacing the plasma TV would cost ~£1k less (unnecessary storage), and that's before accounting for the source of the 450W at around 7p/hour (~35p/day) giving a potential purchase decision payback of ~4years even if batteries weren't being considered! ...

... expensive decision if you're looking at it from a money saving viewpoint, but additionally, although the Pioneer Kuro was a decent screen for it's time, there are critically far better performing TVs with just as good to far better LED (motion, rendering, colour, contrast & definition) screens available on the market these days ...

HTH
Z

JKenH

zeupater wrote: »

Hi

As always it's your decision - but just have a think of what that would mean if you're looking to invest in batteries as JKenH is ... your decision to not replace the plasma TV costs an additional ~450W of consumption over a modern LED panel, so around 2.5kWh per evening for an average TV using household which results in upsizing a household battery system by an equivalent capacity to cope with the additional draw ... 2.5kWh of storage at current storage costs (~£600/kWh) just added £1500 to your expenditure whereas replacing the plasma TV would cost ~£1k less (unnecessary storage), and that's before accounting for the source of the 450W at around 7p/hour (~35p/day) giving a potential purchase decision payback of ~4years even if batteries weren't being considered! ...

... expensive decision if you're looking at it from a money saving viewpoint, but additionally, although the Pioneer Kuro was a decent screen for it's time, there are critically far better performing TVs with just as good to far better LED (motion, rendering, colour, contrast & definition) screens available on the market these days ...

HTH
Z

This is my dilemma. My plasma is 12 years old and everyone who watches it says wow what a great picture. I go look at modern TVs and come home and think this is pretty good. I am waiting for it to break down as I can’t bear to just scrap a perfectly good tv anymore than I can scrape perfectly edible food into the bin. Maybe its an age thing but I abhor waste of any kind. I have just spent £85 having my 15 year old CD player repaired. For years we have been washing out our plastic food bags and reusing them. I scavenge wood from skips, not to burn but to construct my wood sheds, shelf brackets or whatever. My neighbours come round and offer me their rubbish before they take it to the skip. I want a cheap to run tv but can’t bear to scrap my old one.

zeupater

JKenH wrote: »

This is my dilemma. My plasma is 12 years old and everyone who watches it says wow what a great picture. I go look at modern TVs and come home and think this is pretty good. I am waiting for it to break down as I can’t bear to just scrap a perfectly good tv anymore than I can scrape perfectly edible food into the bin. Maybe its an age thing but I abhor waste of any kind. I have just spent £85 having my 15 year old CD player repaired. For years we have been washing out our plastic food bags and reusing them. I scavenge wood from skips, not to burn but to construct my wood sheds, shelf brackets or whatever. My neighbours come round and offer me their rubbish before they take it to the skip. I want a cheap to run tv but can’t bear to scrap my old one.

Hi

Same here, we still have our original Panasonic Viera (the one with the expensive curved stand option!) that was replaced a few years ago, it's still excellent so has simply been relegated to another room where it rarely gets used ... it just looks so good even when it's off, so it's too hard a decision to see it go!! .. :cool:

HTH
Z