(with apologies to any non-Austrian readers for the utterly untranslatable title...)
Today we turned this:
into this:
and here's the story.
click here for the rest of the story...
Saw this ludicrously impractical toy in the IKEA carpark two days ago, and thought 'now that's not your typical IKEA customer...'
The laundry and the water heater are renewed and I'm declaring the
renovation work in this place done, finished, over.
(I know, I know, famous last words and all that - but at least
I don't plan any further biggies).
Here are some photos of the exercise.
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Not bad: since the new meter went in, I consumed electricity worth $81 - and received $43 credit for the energy my solar panels created.
but then that's maybe a good thing? Because Tron = pretty cool for 1982, but Tron Guy = doubleplusuncool, anytime.
Recently I bought some pretty cheap LED strips (5050-type, 60 LEDs/meter, flexible, waterproof and self-adhesive, can be cut every 5cm, cost $72 for ten meters) for overhauling the under-cabinet lighting in the kitchen. One old laptop PSU went into the range hood casing (displacing the trashy light sockets that thing had) and the left side is powered by a low-profile LED transformer. Mounting the stuff is a breeze: cut to size, cut and peel back a little of the silicon waterproofing, solder on wires, then peel off the backing paper and stick it in place, done.
I think it looks great - I'm pretty sure my sisters will say it looks like an abattoir... It's certainly very nice for working and it's also pretty frugal for the amount of light (about 2A at 12V on the left side, a bit less on the right).
IMNSHO the cablegate-gate serves assange right, after dribbling
out just some of the cables and in homeopathetic amounts over a year.
Information wants to be free after all:-)
