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« on: November 01, 2011, 07:25:21 PM » |
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My son has built his first house with lots of renewable energy production ( he is only 9 so be kind to him )  No help from me all of his own work, he even put scaffolding whilst building the house complete with deliveries of the bricks. Lots of imagination. Turbine is a bit close to the house but is has built in in furling and also the whole tower rotates. so i was quite impressed, also this was done before we spent the weekend in a off grid log cabin in Wales and also we went to CAT for the day which he also liked. |
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« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2011, 07:43:04 PM » |
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Hey Peter, that's brilliant,you could have a future Architect there, does he have a ticket for erecting the scaffolding? you know what the HSE is like, Microdesp is impressed too. Don't tell Martin about the turbine though, sssshhh  Have a cow pie from all of us Desp |
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« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2011, 07:51:43 PM » |
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Good lad, independent tower for the turbine - full marks! |
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« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2011, 10:11:05 PM » |
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Well impressed too!
There's hope for the future yet.
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biff
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« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2011, 11:06:10 PM » |
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martin has definatly gone soft, !!  biff |
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« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2011, 11:23:07 PM » |
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oooh - I dunno - theres a dog leg in the chimberly there - might reduce draught a bit.  My son is still struggling to shove a lego man into a lego man sized driving seat at the moment - but hes only 15 months old. And the waterwheel is the same 'sign' (like deaf signing - but for kids) as a desk fan  long way to go for me. |
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« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2011, 06:07:54 AM » |
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Top marks Peter, give him a gold star from me  Though I'm not so sure about the ASHP on the side and can the mast be lowered quickly in a gale like Biff's Cheers, Paul |
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http://lifeattheendoftheroad.wordpress.com/12kw Lister 11m turbine tower 10 hundred ah 48v battery bank 900' pennstock 8kw woodburner 7kw Lister 6 bladed Rutland 50w of solar 4 and a half Kw inverter 3kw Lister 2 hydro turbines and a Proven in a pear tree :-) Raasay, 57 27 537 N 06
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« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2011, 08:32:15 AM » |
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Though I'm not so sure about the ASHP on the side At first glance to me this looked like a large sound system. Or are there builders who can work without a radio constantly turned up to max volume?  There even is a large mug of tea to the side of it. (...) and can the mast be lowered quickly in a gale like Biff's That's the beauty of Lego, the mast comes down at a slight push with your finger tip. Now, better that! K |
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« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2011, 09:04:48 AM » |
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Absolutely marvelous. Lego is so good for being creative and using your imagination and I take my hat off to you for encouraging your son to 'play' with it. I have happy memories of many hours spent building Lego houses, never became an architect though...
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« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2011, 09:12:14 AM » |
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Well I'm obviously not as nice a person as the rest of you.
I'd like to state my disappointment that despite an obvious abundance of brown field land being available as far as the eye can see, your son chose to build on the only piece of greenbelt available.
I will be dispatching 50 Lego policeman in riot gear to set up a base of operations under the radiator, whilst they consider there next move. They will also be carrying out night time monitoring, in case small piles of lego blocks begin to get fly tipped in the locality.
Martyn.
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« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2011, 09:16:32 AM » |
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PS. I should have added, I absolutely loved playing with Lego.
If you want a trick question to stump your mates down the pub, ask them to name the company that produces more tyres pa than any other in the world. I guarantee they won't come up with Lego!
Martyn.
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« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2011, 10:02:37 AM » |
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I've managed to obtain some original Meccano by keeping my eyes open at local markets, sales and bootfairs, which I'm saving for when my grandson is a little older, as I reckon it's another really excellent toy for inventive children, and gives them a real "feel" for things mechanical |
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« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2011, 10:34:42 AM » |
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I reckon it's another really excellent toy for inventive children, and gives them a real "feel" for things mechanical You mean the cussedness of it and the taste of blood as the screwdriver slips off yet again? But yes, I used to love Meccano. |
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Cheers, Dave
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« Reply #13 on: November 02, 2011, 11:35:04 AM » |
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Hmm, I'm slightly perturbed by the lack of solar gain. I assume that we're looking at the south(ish) elevation given the solar panels, but there don't seem to be any windows. This leads me to think that all the windows are on the north side, and will leak heat but get very little solar input. I'd recommend tweaking the floorplan to get the windows on the south side if possible but be careful of overheating risk. Otherwise, it looks like a great effort - well done. (My son adores lego, although more playing with made up sets than building his own creations, but that will come as he gets a little older. Hopefully he won't be looking to build something like http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/lego-aircraft-carrier for a while - apparently around 30,000 bricks.....) |
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« Reply #14 on: November 02, 2011, 08:04:29 PM » |
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Thanks for all of the comments . First off i think i might have misled you a little the house Design is a lego one, he was following all the instructions but the panels and wind turbine are his own design. He also assures me that he does in fact have a lego scaffolding certificate for safe working at heights  I too thought the things on the side of the house were ASP but when coming back from Cubs i was told these were in fact the inverters for the solar and the wind turbine ( we have our SMA mounted on the side of our house ) The red one is for the solar. Solar gain should not be an issue as there are panels on both sides of the house and this house being movable can be turned in to the sun if needs be ( the ultimate tracking system!!) Antony also Loves Meccano as well. We have already made a boat out of a foil turkey breast tray mecanno motor with a lego propeller. We had to shield the prop as the boat went round in circles otherwise. Antony if following the posts with great interest. |
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