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Links to Reel to Reel Tape Recorder Sites

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The Website Dedicated to Reel to Reel Tape Recorders. Telephone: 0843 289 3125. Here's some useful information on restoring old sticky tapes. By Eddie Ciletti. The problem of sticky tapes such as Ampex from 20 years ago is very common and causes many machines to get so gummed up that they eventually grind to a halt. The cure for the tape is detailed by Eddie, but the machine must be thoroughly cleaned. As well to prevent the problem recurring. We are building up quite a collection. Formerly Federation of...

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Wood Stove

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Alternative Technology at Home in Suffolk. Click the titles below to view all our pages:. See our other websites:. Reduce your Gas Bill. Home Alternative Technology Blog. Generate Electricity at Home. I'm on Twitter too! There is a nice cosy wood burning stove for heating the lounge. It is a Becton 11 multifuel stove made by Aarrow. And came from Countrylife Stoves in Ipswich, who also supplied the Chimflex 316 stainless steel liner. It has less rated output than the Becton but is more efficient, smaller...

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Standby Lighting

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Alternative Technology at Home in Suffolk. Click the titles below to view all our pages:. See our other websites:. Reduce your Gas Bill. Home Alternative Technology Blog. Generate Electricity at Home. I'm on Twitter too! Two large carbon fibre batteries in my workshop are used to provide standby AC and DC lighting for the house. The Elecsol 270 AH 12 volt is a carbon fibre type from 12voltz.com. Provides emergency 12v DC lighting. We have several 12 volt fluorescent lamps. A 12 volt energy saving fluores...

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Garden Watering

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Alternative Technology at Home in Suffolk. Click the titles below to view all our pages:. See our other websites:. Reduce your Gas Bill. Home Alternative Technology Blog. Generate Electricity at Home. I'm on Twitter too! Water is pumped from a shallow well to provide water for the garden vegetables and flowers. 81 M-P pump was purchased, which is powerful enough to draw the water from the well and provide enough pressure for a 20 m garden hosepipe. As well. Check eBay for jet pumps. The high water table ...

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12 Volt Lighting

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Alternative Technology at Home in Suffolk. Click the titles below to view all our pages:. See our other websites:. Reduce your Gas Bill. Home Alternative Technology Blog. Generate Electricity at Home. I'm on Twitter too! 12 Volt DC Lighting. Two large carbon fibre batteries. In my workshop are used to provide standby AC and DC lighting. For the house. The batteries are the huge Elecsol 270 AH carbon fibre types from 12voltz.com. And PV solar panels. The thing to remember about using a 12 volt lighting.

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4kWp Home Solar PV System

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Alternative Technology at Home in Suffolk. Click the titles below to view all our pages:. See our other websites:. Reduce your Gas Bill. Home Alternative Technology Blog. Generate Electricity at Home. I'm on Twitter too! Home Solar Thermal (hot water) System. The system was installed for me by a local firm called Solarworks. Who I would fully recommend to anyone. Mark, the MD, worked hard to give me exactly what I wanted and nothing was too much trouble for him and his team. My hot water was originally h...

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Home Loft Insulation

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Alternative Technology at Home in Suffolk. Click the titles below to view all our pages:. See our other websites:. Reduce your Gas Bill. Home Alternative Technology Blog. Generate Electricity at Home. I'm on Twitter too! I have upgraded the insulation of the house by increasing the thickness of the loft insulation. The difference last winter was quite noticeable. We have the upstairs radiators on a separate heating circuit with its own thermostat and in the evening the upstairs heating rarely came on...

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Phantom Loads Steal Energy

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Alternative Technology at Home in Suffolk. Click the titles below to view all our pages:. See our other websites:. Reduce your Gas Bill. Home Alternative Technology Blog. Generate Electricity at Home. I'm on Twitter too! I have been checking how much electricity my home is using when nothing is switched on. There are always things using power even when you think nothing is operating. These are called phantom loads because they are using power without you doing anything! Obviously some of these appliances...

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Chicken Keeping

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Alternative Technology at Home in Suffolk. Click the titles below to view all our pages:. See our other websites:. Reduce your Gas Bill. Home Alternative Technology Blog. Generate Electricity at Home. I'm on Twitter too! We keep several hens in the garden to provide us with delicious organic eggs and point us on the road to green living. Latest development is the installation of an electric poultry fence from Electric Fence-Online. This was done to give them a much larger scratching area, with the advant...

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Emergency Generator

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Alternative Technology at Home in Suffolk. Click the titles below to view all our pages:. See our other websites:. Reduce your Gas Bill. Home Alternative Technology Blog. Generate Electricity at Home. I'm on Twitter too! A medium sized petrol generator provides an emergency electricity supply for the whole house.