Sorry if this bursts your bubble, but the Philips we knew is not the Philips of today. Google it - Wikipedia gives a good account - for more.
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Sounds like the Phillips is a similar design to be honest..
However meant to have 35000 hour life..or constantly on for 4 years. Lovely solid feeling thing though we shall see.. warranty is 2 years.
I need a light out the back, there's no street light so out the back door is pitch dark which given that's where the Toyota lives is a problem. To be fair original went out sometime in July but there was no real need for it over summer.
However meant to have 35000 hour life..or constantly on for 4 years. Lovely solid feeling thing though we shall see.. warranty is 2 years.
I need a light out the back, there's no street light so out the back door is pitch dark which given that's where the Toyota lives is a problem. To be fair original went out sometime in July but there was no real need for it over summer.
Nice looking bit of kit. I need to do something like this too. My back garden is partly illuminated by next door's cctv illumination but it would be better if I had my own light. Mrs J wants one at the front door too. Street lights provide some light to the front but a sensor controlled light would be a good idea.
Having posted this picture...just realised it's the wrong lamp.
Fahksake I ordered the PIR one, it's on the email...but erm something is missing! So it's gonna have to go back.
Fahksake I ordered the PIR one, it's on the email...but erm something is missing! So it's gonna have to go back.
Does the gas lighter man not come down your street?
Seriously my daughters got a professional electrician in to wire in security lights at a fair cost, none of them lasted more than a year, it was the same with the gas central heating it seems a few weeks at college and they are let loose on the public, similarly I got a plastering quote from a young "professional" so disgusted at the price I did the job myself for the cost of the materials. Re the security lights I got cheap ones off eBay and soldered the connections and covered them with heat shrink and they were still working when they sold the place.
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Disabled the VGA switch on my mobo, and now got no gfx output.... had to take the gfx card out to get to the switch 
Moved the card up one PCIe slot, so I wouldn't have to remove it if changing the setting didn't work as expected (which it didn't). Put the switch back as previous setting and it still don't work .
Moved the card up one PCIe slot, so I wouldn't have to remove it if changing the setting didn't work as expected (which it didn't). Put the switch back as previous setting and it still don't work
.Lost me at mobo.Disabled the VGA switch on my mobo, and now got no gfx output.... had to take the gfx card out to get to the switch
Moved the card up one PCIe slot, so I wouldn't have to remove it if changing the setting didn't work as expected (which it didn't). Put the switch back as previous setting and it still don't work
Me too!Lost me at mobo.
That's why we knew about the gas lighter, but few other do.Me too!
Been for X Rays for back and hip issues today and now now getting the other side of a glass of McEwans topped up with Navy rum.
Navy rum, 'Genuine Grog' will either 'kill or cure' !Navy rum or Cointreau works for me.
if it ain't broke, don't mess with it!Disabled the VGA switch on my mobo, and now got no gfx output.... had to take the gfx card out to get to the switch
Moved the card up one PCIe slot, so I wouldn't have to remove it if changing the setting didn't work as expected (which it didn't). Put the switch back as previous setting and it still don't work
Either of those in isolation, yum yum. But mixed? not so sure.Been for X Rays for back and hip issues today and now now getting the other side of a glass of McEwans topped up with Navy rum.
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
I just bought and fitted one to my daughters place. I rather stupidly fed the wire indoors and connected it. WHen it fils I will have an issue if the wire has deteriorated. I was thinking cut it at the lam and reconnect. I could add an IP68 box but think it will wait. There will be spare wire in the roof Ican pull out if required and the box can be added in the future.Mine was a cheap light with short wires.
My old local used to do Pussers Rum, but I think the genuine original was way stronger in the past.Navy rum, 'Genuine Grog' will either 'kill or cure' !
My old local used to do a really good pint of Guiness as the Landlord cared and cleaned the pipes very well, so that with a Cointreau chaser separately before my Sunday lunch set me up well, thinking back it was nearly 50 years ago. I agree about not mixing the McEwans normally, but my back needed it.
Not sure whether this post would be most appropriate here or in the "smile" thread. It starts off with me being grumpy though so I'm putting it here.
Back in the summer months, maybe sooner, our built in double oven started doing strange things with it's small top oven/grill. You would turn it on and then, as you turned away, immediately turn off again. If you operated the knob a few times it would eventually behave itself and I also found that if you pushed it inwards, towards the front panel, it seemed to work normally. I assumed the switch was developing a fault and was going to ask an electrician to come and fit a new switch when it started, all of it's own accord, switching itself on with no intervention from either of us. We started switching it off at the big red switch on the wall unless we were actually cooking with it. Rang a couple of electricians who said they couldn't help as we'd need a domestic appliance engineer. I rang one who couldn't come for weeks but said it wasn't worth trying to repair a 10 year old Hotpoint double oven and we would be better just getting a new one. Then, about 3 weeks ago, we had my oldest boy and his family round for the afternoon and an evening meal. We'd just eaten the main course, Mrs J's legendary Steak Pie with roast veg and potatoes dauphinoise, the rhubarb crumble was already in the top oven and Mrs J had gone through to the kitchen to open a bottle of Prosecco when she reappeared at the living room door looking quite shocked and quite quietly said "We've got a kitchen incident going on". I jumped up not knowing what she was meaning, and rushed through to the kitchen to find the crumble well alight in the top oven. I grabbed a towel, flicked the big red cooker switch of and soaked the towel in water as my boy opened the top oven door so I could throw the towel over the crumble. Luckily it went out immediately. I am surprised the crumble topping caught fire but Mrs J says it would be due to the butter in it. So, as you would imagine, that convinced us to scrap the oven and buy a new one. Thinking back to the incident I noticed the heating coils in the roof of the oven - it's electric - were bright red so I'm guessing the thermostatic control failed in some way and just switched the thing to max heat?
I think we've been very lucky. The flames, when my boy swung the door down, were spilling out the top towards the control knobs! Luckily this was for such a short period of time before I got the wet towel over it that there's been no damage to the unit it's all mounted in. I dread to think what might have been if Mrs J hadn't gone through to open that bottle of booze though!
So then the hunt for a replacement was on in earnest. As it's only 20 minutes on the bus, we went up to John Lewis, where we've bought stuff before and had good service. Mrs J requires the top oven to be wide enough to get both her oven dishes in and we took them with us only to find many were too narrow, but not by much, and only the relatively expensive examples had self cleaning linings - a "must" according to her. Unfortunately they didn't have many double oven examples on display for us to try the dishes in - just 4 - so we went home thinking we may have to spend quite a bit more money than we'd planned on. Next day we went to Currys (I'm nervous about buying from them but, from their advert it looked like they had a much bigger display. When we got there it actually transpired they didn't have many more but did have some Lewis's didn't. I'd pretty much decided we were going to buy something like a Bosch, AEG, or other Upmarket brand - When our kitchen was remodelled - about 12 years ago - our kitchen fitter friend had a contract with Hotpoint and got us some fantastic prices so he fitted Hotpoint white goods. For the price we paid I really shouldn't complain but we had Bosch before and the Hotpoint just seemed built down to a price. Also the machines were noisy by comparison. The dishwasher in particular was noisy enough you could hear it in the living room over the TV. It broke a year or so ago and we replaced it with a Bosch which you can hardly even hear standing right beside it! For a couple of days Mrs J had her nose buried in white goods websites and kept coming up with some pretty expensive options. It seems it's the more expensive machines which have these catalytic self cleaning linings. Then, suddenly, she came out with "we're daft"! "At our age we don't need an oven which is going to last 20 years - Look at this", and she showed me this ad: https://www.currys.co.uk/products/hotpoint-dih-82g-b-electric-double-oven-black-10280855.html Oh dear, it's a Hotpoint and it's Currys! However, it does tick all the boxes. Spent ten minutes or so looking at the specs and it does fit all the parameters. Also, being black, it'll match our new microwave and contrast well with our white shaker style kitchen. Lets sleep on it.
This is were we change to a "what's made you smile". Quite soon the next day she noticed the price had been knocked down over what they had been selling it for and that tipped the balance so we got on the website and ordered one. It's been over a week since we did that as, due to family commitments, we couldn't commit to a fixed time for installation until today. The delivery and installation went entirely according to plan and the Currys electrical fitter and his assistant were very friendly, efficient - he was in inspecting our consumer board and ran a number of tests withan impressive looking meter before installing the new unit. Very neat worker, left no mess behind and even took away our old broken Microwave which has been cluttering up my workshop. I really couldn't fault them. I've just had it running on a hot setting for 30 minutes to burn it in - as they suggest doing - and now have the back door and kitchen windows open trying to get rid of the burnt smell you get with new elements.
So, OK, we bought from Currys and it's another Hotpoint, the two things I'd intended to avoid, but actually the purchasing and installation have been good experiences. Hope we don't need to get any warranty/repairs claims lodged as that seems to be where most of the negative stuff I've seen is relevant to - which reminds me I must go online and fill in the Hotpoint extended warranty. The machine itself? much more sleek and up market looking than the one it's replacing and the fans run so quietly they are not intrusive at all. Mrs J is studying the settings and controls - it has more cooking options than the old machine - and is almost excited about cooking a meal using it. I feel very thankful that we we are not looking at recovering from a burnt out kitchen, or worse, I'll never deny her a bottle of bubbly ever again!
Back in the summer months, maybe sooner, our built in double oven started doing strange things with it's small top oven/grill. You would turn it on and then, as you turned away, immediately turn off again. If you operated the knob a few times it would eventually behave itself and I also found that if you pushed it inwards, towards the front panel, it seemed to work normally. I assumed the switch was developing a fault and was going to ask an electrician to come and fit a new switch when it started, all of it's own accord, switching itself on with no intervention from either of us. We started switching it off at the big red switch on the wall unless we were actually cooking with it. Rang a couple of electricians who said they couldn't help as we'd need a domestic appliance engineer. I rang one who couldn't come for weeks but said it wasn't worth trying to repair a 10 year old Hotpoint double oven and we would be better just getting a new one. Then, about 3 weeks ago, we had my oldest boy and his family round for the afternoon and an evening meal. We'd just eaten the main course, Mrs J's legendary Steak Pie with roast veg and potatoes dauphinoise, the rhubarb crumble was already in the top oven and Mrs J had gone through to the kitchen to open a bottle of Prosecco when she reappeared at the living room door looking quite shocked and quite quietly said "We've got a kitchen incident going on". I jumped up not knowing what she was meaning, and rushed through to the kitchen to find the crumble well alight in the top oven. I grabbed a towel, flicked the big red cooker switch of and soaked the towel in water as my boy opened the top oven door so I could throw the towel over the crumble. Luckily it went out immediately. I am surprised the crumble topping caught fire but Mrs J says it would be due to the butter in it. So, as you would imagine, that convinced us to scrap the oven and buy a new one. Thinking back to the incident I noticed the heating coils in the roof of the oven - it's electric - were bright red so I'm guessing the thermostatic control failed in some way and just switched the thing to max heat?
I think we've been very lucky. The flames, when my boy swung the door down, were spilling out the top towards the control knobs! Luckily this was for such a short period of time before I got the wet towel over it that there's been no damage to the unit it's all mounted in. I dread to think what might have been if Mrs J hadn't gone through to open that bottle of booze though!
So then the hunt for a replacement was on in earnest. As it's only 20 minutes on the bus, we went up to John Lewis, where we've bought stuff before and had good service. Mrs J requires the top oven to be wide enough to get both her oven dishes in and we took them with us only to find many were too narrow, but not by much, and only the relatively expensive examples had self cleaning linings - a "must" according to her. Unfortunately they didn't have many double oven examples on display for us to try the dishes in - just 4 - so we went home thinking we may have to spend quite a bit more money than we'd planned on. Next day we went to Currys (I'm nervous about buying from them but, from their advert it looked like they had a much bigger display. When we got there it actually transpired they didn't have many more but did have some Lewis's didn't. I'd pretty much decided we were going to buy something like a Bosch, AEG, or other Upmarket brand - When our kitchen was remodelled - about 12 years ago - our kitchen fitter friend had a contract with Hotpoint and got us some fantastic prices so he fitted Hotpoint white goods. For the price we paid I really shouldn't complain but we had Bosch before and the Hotpoint just seemed built down to a price. Also the machines were noisy by comparison. The dishwasher in particular was noisy enough you could hear it in the living room over the TV. It broke a year or so ago and we replaced it with a Bosch which you can hardly even hear standing right beside it! For a couple of days Mrs J had her nose buried in white goods websites and kept coming up with some pretty expensive options. It seems it's the more expensive machines which have these catalytic self cleaning linings. Then, suddenly, she came out with "we're daft"! "At our age we don't need an oven which is going to last 20 years - Look at this", and she showed me this ad: https://www.currys.co.uk/products/hotpoint-dih-82g-b-electric-double-oven-black-10280855.html Oh dear, it's a Hotpoint and it's Currys! However, it does tick all the boxes. Spent ten minutes or so looking at the specs and it does fit all the parameters. Also, being black, it'll match our new microwave and contrast well with our white shaker style kitchen. Lets sleep on it.
This is were we change to a "what's made you smile". Quite soon the next day she noticed the price had been knocked down over what they had been selling it for and that tipped the balance so we got on the website and ordered one. It's been over a week since we did that as, due to family commitments, we couldn't commit to a fixed time for installation until today. The delivery and installation went entirely according to plan and the Currys electrical fitter and his assistant were very friendly, efficient - he was in inspecting our consumer board and ran a number of tests withan impressive looking meter before installing the new unit. Very neat worker, left no mess behind and even took away our old broken Microwave which has been cluttering up my workshop. I really couldn't fault them. I've just had it running on a hot setting for 30 minutes to burn it in - as they suggest doing - and now have the back door and kitchen windows open trying to get rid of the burnt smell you get with new elements.
So, OK, we bought from Currys and it's another Hotpoint, the two things I'd intended to avoid, but actually the purchasing and installation have been good experiences. Hope we don't need to get any warranty/repairs claims lodged as that seems to be where most of the negative stuff I've seen is relevant to - which reminds me I must go online and fill in the Hotpoint extended warranty. The machine itself? much more sleek and up market looking than the one it's replacing and the fans run so quietly they are not intrusive at all. Mrs J is studying the settings and controls - it has more cooking options than the old machine - and is almost excited about cooking a meal using it. I feel very thankful that we we are not looking at recovering from a burnt out kitchen, or worse, I'll never deny her a bottle of bubbly ever again!
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Looks like we jumped on this one at just the right moment, I notice the Oven is "Out of stock" now. Bet it's not at that price when they get more stock. I did ask the installer whether it was a runout model but he said no, it's brand new and mine is the first he's fitted.
We'll have to get used to not turning it off at the red isolator switch again! Can we ever trust things like this again?
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Jusy buy a PIR and attach to it. More reliable than the tiny bult in PIRs in these flood lights. The stand alone units seem much longer lasting.
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