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Hi, I'm Damon Hart-Davis and this is a mini Earth Notes diarycast for 13th April 2020.


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In the spirit of short'n'sweet this is an experimental brief diary piece from EOU Towers.


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Coronavirus lockdown has pros and cons. Some pros are more homemade sweets today was honeycomb and


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baking and thus also contributing in a small way to a UK flour shortage. Also the brewery at the


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end of my road has started home deliveries and I have tested several for science. More research is


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needed. On the downside apparently mowing our lawn is allowed and I did it today. The fifth was a very


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good day for PV generation with a very smooth generation curve and a total yield of 21.57


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kilowatt hours and imports of only 360 watt hours. On the ninth a shiny new Blue Yeti mic arrived to


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be the new microphone of choice for recording this podcast. Tomasz said on Twitter "The quality improvement with the Yeti is fantastic..."


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On the 12th, though my off-grid (gel) lead-acid battery bank
is old and failing it did manage to keep a reduced six watt extra dump load off-grid all night in


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addition to powering my Raspberry Pi server. Indeed I'm managing to run my MacBook Air laptop


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off-grid for much of each day too. In January while investigating unexpectedly low output from


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my off-grid system even with decent sunshine I found that the junction box for the part in the


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back garden was full of water and had suffered significant damage. I think that the downspout is


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partially blocked and very heavy rain has spilled over onto the box from the gutter above. The system


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as a whole and the Raspberry Pi server for this site kept running in part because I have a second


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independent solar charger which includes a couple of panels at the front of the house.


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Given our recent lack of torrential rain likely to continue I put the box up again yesterday


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though I should move it a bit and try to prevent the problem that caused the deluges in the first


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place. On the subject of the EOU site please tell me if the new dark mode support works for you.


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When your operating system or browser is set to dark mode does EOU correctly flip to light


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text on a dark background? Do other things look right or do they need fixing? Please tell me which


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operating system and browser versions you are using. Contact me on twitter @earthorguk or email me via


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d@hd.org. There's more on my Earth Notes Web site at Earth.Org.UK.