Items Tagged With carbon footprint

Submission by Steve Jones - I wanted to improve the control of my central heating system by utilising my home automation controller (HomeVisionPro) whilst still retaining the original central heating timer so it could easily be switched back on if the controller was down or if I needed to take HV out if we moved...

This item featured on lots of Tech News sites today, looks interesting...

"It's possible in Japan (just like in almost every other country in the world) to get solar panels to feed your house with electricity through a "control panel". Sharp presents their type of control panel today, the JH-G51X series. This panel gives you in real-time the power consumption in your house, the power charge the solar panels are generating and an indication that the energy generated by the panels is enough to satisfy the need for power in your house at that moment (we could call this the Consumption/Production ratio, and this will also give you an indication on how much kW you can sell back to your local electricity supplier and how much profit this would generate). All in all, this is a very complete control station and it's really easy to read too...

I was interested to hear about this new switch from AEI Security. The idea of an internal PIR controlled switch seems so obvious (indeed these are readily available in the States - like everything else). The clever bit of this switch is that it doesn't require a neutral wire (like all those external PIR security lights for example). It can also be used with florescent bulbs as well as non-lighting appliances (fans etc). Here's a quote from AEI's website...