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By Accident... Just came across this Crash Test Dummy .

( A play on words, "Crash Test Dummy", "Accident" )


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This is a VERY odd one! The past few days, my desktop machine has been "losing time", and I've been having to literally set the proper time each time I sat at the thing. I actually paid attention to it this time, and it's not just losing time, it's running BACKWARDS! :O Ad 9:00 this evening I set my cell on the desk, set the time to the proper value on the computer, then played some Minecraft. About 10 minutes later, I looked, and the cell said 9:10PM, while the computer indicated it was 8:51PM

I suspect it's the CMOS battery, but as I haven't shut the computer down, this also makes little sense. I'll swap it out anyway, tomorrow, and see if that helps. I'll keep you all posted. Have any of you blokes come across this before? I have, with computers that lose time when shut down, but not while they still run.

Made a little slideshow.

Exciting to watch. Flying by boats on the river in the background.



What makes it resemble a helicopter has no motor spinning it. **

It is powered by the smaller rear propeller, which is what makes it unique

** A mechanism starts it spinning up to speed, but then disengages.

Just some tips that we can take to reduce the price of our bills, some well known but other not so. This is a case of every little helps, come the end of the year you will have saved money. I've done these and they do work

Light bulbs, OK we should all know about this one already, LED are the most efficient and cheapest to run.

Fridge/Freezers they are on all the time, modern units take considerably less power to run.

TV backlight, by turning down the backlight brightness on your TV you can half it's power consumption, I dropped my TV power consumption from 90 to 40 watts. ( only works with LED and some florescent TV's, look in your TV's menu for backlight brightness setting ).

Washing machines, some cheaper machines take considerably more power than others, when buying a new machine seriously look at its efficiency rating.

Boiling the kettle, kettles take a lot of power, only fill it to the level of water you need.

I have others but that will do for now.

Please feel free to add any more tips that you have found and put a tick in front of your tip.

I suppose this fits here as well as anywhere.

The bungalow has been fitted with a Hive Hub and one of these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Home-Kitchen/Hive-Heating-Thermostat-Professional-Installation/B011B3J6F4/ref=sr_1_1

Later I might see how it works with Alexa, but I'm happy just to use it manually.