Saturday day off today, sort of. Clare is working so just me and the boys at home. No car, so a great excuse for not going out and doing anything. Meant to hop my new home brew last night but I forgot. The temperature has been a bit on the low side so luckily my new aquarium heater 1 has arrived. I've hopped the beer already, but now I'm going to sterilise this and pop it into the brew. It has it's own thermostat, so I can compare that with my own temperature readings too. It has its own power supply, there's no external transformer or anything so I can even connect it to the relay that I have for the raspberry pi that is already measuring the temperature and use that to control it rather than its own in built thermostat. It's 100 Watts, which is a lot of energy usage for me, but you can't really get a low energy rated heater. If I connect it using the relay, or a lightwaverf socket I could turn it off when the tumble dryer is on. Don't have a spare socket right now though. Could try the lightwaverf relay at last I suppose.
Very annoyed today that a low energy bulb I bought from CPC has failed after only about two months, if that. That's a seven quid dimming bulb, that's not saving me any money, so going to complain.
raspberry pi: Credit card sized super cheap computer, awesome.
⬅️ Getting an aquarium heater for my home brew :: Aquarium heater is in ➡️
Paul Clarkeʼs weblog - I live in Hythe in Kent. Married + father to two, I am a full-stack web engineer, + I do js / Node, some ruby, other languages ect ect. I like pubs, parkrun, eating, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, family tree stuff, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.