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Thanks for your advise. To be honest, the ideal of converting the old satelite dish was one I came up with whilst I was working on another project (totally unrelated). I've since moved onto a larger model for that experiment, leaving me with my smaller dish to try and put to good use elsewhere. As I...

Thanks Martin. I've found a few websites with designs for making a basic solar tracking devices. One guy actually sells them on Ebay. Only problem is that they dont come with servo's to actually turn the thing around. May have to enlist the help of my sparky mate to manage this one

I've managed to get the dish to power a multiple LED light which gave off enough light to light up the cupboard under my stairs. I know that a sterling engine can be used on the larger more commercial dish's but I dont have the know how to build a crude one or the money to buy one. That's why I was ...

For anybody interested in home composting, cheaply, try www.recyclenow.com/compost enter your postcode and see what offers are currently available in your area. Untill recently our council were offering free 220ltr composters. They are £4 with free postage and packaging now. Why not see if your l...

How do people? Our dept are current recomending a company called Naturebotts to our residents as a suppier for natural nappies. They seem to be very reasonable in price and offer 2 great gift packs, one for mother and baby and the other just for baby, which work as a great trial anybody currently ex...

How do people? I'm Shane, after thinking about this a lot I've finally decided to go for it and convert my back garden to try and support myself, to some extent. (Too many hours of river cottage and a boring back garden :lol: Well I've just made my first patch ready to grow some produce and took del...

Hi guys, I've recently converted my old sky dish into a solar dish using 1cm by 1cm square mirrored tiles. Now the dish itself works perfect for concentrating the heat and light on the focus point. However, I am finding it a little hard to find an efficent concentrator to tap into both the heat and ...