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Yara Kastelijn had a big off on Sunday, and got take to hospital, just a popped shoulder. She is perhaps the only one in that team that has been featuring up front, although she does have a deeper history on the road cf to the other girls, but great to see them in a team, in CX you are on your own!

UCI needs to catch a reality check... Banning the supertuck and tri position whilst having no protocol on the hideous and dangerous behavior of the likes of Bouhani yesterday - there should be suspensions, fines, not mere relegations. Yet they want to tell others how to ride their bikes. How many accidents have happened from supertucks and tri positions? zilch as far as I know. This is where a effective riders union should act.

It was proper racing it should be said.

Yes, great to see that. But did you see how bad boy Bohanni behaved in that final sprint? pushing someone in the barriers - this guy needs to get booted,

Eish just been reading the relevant thread on Avcom adn all the manne having their say .. eish who knows what went down, and who will ever know given all the 'dynamics' at play https://avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=239077

"Alpha floor is a thrust function which provides TOGA thrust regardless of thrust lever position in Airbus. From Airbus Technical Digest FAST 20: Alpha Floor is a low speed protection (in normal law) which is purely an autothrust mode. ... The aircraft will pitch up to max Alpha, engage TOGA thrust and climb away."

Asked google .. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/24160/what-does-alpha-floor-mean "Alpha floor is a thrust function which provides TOGA thrust regardless of thrust lever position in Airbus." "Alpha Floor is a low speed protection (in normal law) which is purely an autothrust mode. When activated, it provides TOGA thrust. As the aircraft decelerates into the alpha protection range, the Alpha Floor is activated, even if the autothrust is disengaged. Activation is roughly proportional to the rate of deceleration."

Okay cheers. They finished together 15 Thomas Pidcock (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers 16 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep 17 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Ineos Grenadiers

i think it was Tom

The whole CX season just about happened there in Belgium during the pandemic (sans spectators tho), they feel a bit different about their cycling there, so I am sure they will find a way, lets hope the same for PR

If PR is going to happen what with another sort of lock down in the north of France. I am really looking forward to the 1st women's race.

Talk about snelheid!

I think they were playing two cards: Kwaito (based on past victory) and the lad from Yorkshire, it was also about giving him (Tom) experience in this race, he was up there at the end which is amazing. but that last bit after the Poggio is always tricky. All the favs wasted too much time trying to shake each other off their respective wheels there, and Jasper got away. If two or three had an alliance they could have gone together, would that happen though? Ganna pulled like that because .... he can

Great to see Tom ripping it down the Poggio and leading from the front - his time till come. Awesome performance given that he is all new to this and still only 21! Also had some knee issue since Strade. I see he is down for all the MTB XCO Wordl Cups leading up the Olympics, which he plans to do (on MTB it seems)

Antonov An-2 or the Polish licensed built version Polish PZL-Mielec : worlds biggest multipurpose single propeller biplane with 9 cylinder 4 stroke 30 L (1830 cui) aircooled radial engine (An-2R)

SAA, Denel, Transnet, Eskom, ja nee wat a *** op. Aloota Continua. Have you guys had a chance to watch the video I posted above? I must say its had a deep impact on me, Its a brilliant interview, Blonco's best by far. This is why I love YouTube, One might think or assume an engine failure is adequately dealt with in training and simulation but I doubt they were prepared for this. Sudden deceleration and pitching up to 45 Deg? Just a battle to regain control and level out. No amount of AI or smart assed algorithms would cope with that situation, Elon Musk is wrong on this, This why you need humans at the controls. Experienced people who can make sense of a nonsensical situation and act accordingly. The drag on the aircraft was such that there was just one sweet spot to fly the thing so as avoid stalling and avoid the hectic vibrations. Just made it to the airport in Honolulu with the subsequent forced glide slope. Chapeau to this fantastic Captain, what an incredible person and story teller. Persian American I believe.

If you do the VPN connection on the router. then it should not be an issue, all devices will still be on the same local IP address range. Most routers support VPN of various flavours, but does require some understanding of networking. TP LInks and cheap and powerful.

CT coil is just one part of the solution there, you need a controller in the Inverter that can make sense of it all and act accordingly Victron has an interesting accessory in this kind of realm but takes it a bit further, its a DIN module you put in the db, connect live and neutral and it reads current, voltage, power, theta etc quite accurately (over Modbus protocol made by an Italian company) how they use it is a configuration where you can put essential loads upstream of the Inverter and what the Inverter will do is feed back enough power to power these loads but not send back to the grid. Do I sound like a Victron saleperson? I am kinda so apologies in advance but they are great products. About Vetties location, my advice would be that inside the house is not a good idea for batteries and inverter for a few reasons, locate outside in cool room with good access and cable 230V mains in and out, but please get a 1/2 decent electrician involved, even if just to advise cabling and check the work. If the work is not complaint you will loose your house insurance cover if there is a fire or accident/incident. CoC should actually be done after this kind addition or modification to the installation, but in reality anything actually goes. Safety is really the issue.

But when the demand is more that the input power of the PV array? Axpert & friends is back to Mains, unless it can dip into the batteries (SBU) but that can present other issues

Cheers - yea I should have know, that's a code requirement and common sense. Do you have a feed to an earth spike there? Panels bonded and connected to the same? not the same as the Mains Earth

Kill switch aka transfer/bypass switch every system should have one. Then the AC feed to the Inverter should have a two pole isolator And the feed back back to the main db should have a 1p circuit breaker of suitable rating (to protect the cable) Not sure what the cb is the right of the transfer switch, one of the above? In your combiner box, there is a fuse for each string? how many strings? I can see maybe 4 fuse holders, what is between them? Generally one has a 1p DC CB for each string as well in the combiner box, useful for a number of reasons.

I've recently spent some time figuring out how those Axpert/Kodak/Synapse type inverters - solar chargers, picking up stompies at various sites after customers realise they have been over promised and under delivered, Recently been looking very closely at one system that was installed with the promise 'it does everything' but no one knew was was going on and the supplier got the boot after wanting to charge R5k for a 'service' which was to wash the PV panels. I set up a PC with that Watchpower software and remote access, so been coming to grips with how it works (or doesn't work) So from what I can figure out in the modes Solar-Batter-Utility or Solar-Utility-Battery. The load will be powered from the solar providing the load is less that the PV power input. In SUB mode, the load will be switched back to mains when the load is more that the PV power, and the PV will charge the batteries. Battery power will be used when no mains/utility. in SBU mode, the inverter will dip into the batteries reserve until the set voltage discharge level is reached, and then back to mains/Utility. Looking at the daily data, what seems to be the effective PV power out to the system is total charging current, even though Mains is on, the solar charger puts DC power on to the bus, and the Inverter takes it from there to produce mains AC. This does not really correspond with the daily PV power graph, that is the issue I have trying to figure out. The BIG limitation with these types of Inverters is that the PV power can not be combined with the Mains, so generally PV is not even used unless you manage the loads carefully. I see these Axpert type products primarily as a backup system, its functionality is limited compared to Victron architecture, which I have worked quite a lot with. If I can give some advice, besides lithium batteries, is stretch the finances and get a Victron Multiplus if you want to set up a versatile system. What Victron can do is synchronise its Inverter generated AC with Mains and 'combine' accordingly. Solar Chargers also feed power onto the DC bus as needed, but this is all managed by the magic of the Venus controller via various signal buses. I've not seen any regs here about Firemans switches (besides power supply to an outdoor sign) but what I have seen is totally dodgy electrical work by just about every other installer here in Jhb (for clients who are paying top$ btw), particularly bad when it comes to separating boards into mains powered and standby powered sections, ie generally not done even remotely properly according to acceptable practices and SANS 10142 codes. Mind you that's been very good business for me sorting all those gemorses out. I normally install a 4 pole bypass switch at the sub db by the Inverter system, Mains in and Mains Out feeds, so the system can be completely bypassed if and when there is an issue.

The lifespan of Lead Acid depends on depth of discharge, its on any data sheet. Also on temperature and a few other factors but mainly on how deeply they are discharged, rule of thumb is do not dip below 50% Can you provide some reference on your claim that "Lithium gets damaged when fully charged" - generally the BMS makes controls charging voltages and current to remain within specs. They will likely get damaged if these are out of range on the parameters of the appropriate charging regime,.

You can't really get into energy harvesting with Lead Acid - daily charge / discharge so bear that in mind. It is strictly for occasional standby power use, okay, also bear in mind only 50% of energy should be used, dip below 50% SoC and you are going into severely reduced life expectancy. I have sites going down to 20% on Pylontechs every night, so far, so good.