Skip to main content

Featured

My first proper Earthquake!

 Last night at 3.07am was woken to everything moving, bedroom cupboard door rattling and general WTF moment! This is my first really quake, the previous one I had felt while I was offshore in Qatar, but thought that was just the crane driver being a bit rough with a load landing. Last nights was different, the whole place was shaking and lying it bed it felt really weird last a good 20+ seconds I would have guessed. Turns out it was a Magnitude 6.6, located around 48Km WNW of Polis, off the west coast of Cyprus. At least no damage here and everyone fine. Eldest daughter thought it was 'so cool', think that was her first experience of one as well. Full details can be found at: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000gaqu/executive
Post a Comment
Read more
Labels

Solar Spiral Pool Heater


Below is a very quick look at the home made solar pool heater.

It was made with approx 140m of 16x1.5mm black irrigation hose, rolled into a spiral and attached onto a frame. In total there was about 117m in the spiral, and the rest allowed me to move it around.

Important to carefully unwind the reel of new hose onto the spiral as not to twist and get all knotted.

Hose fed onto the spiral and wound round by turning the spiral and securing each rotation

Finished spiral

The pump filtration jet acted as the source, and had enough pressure to circulate around 120litres/hour of water. It was attached to the jet using a champagne cork, drilled out and barbed hose fitting inserted. once put into the jet, the jet nozzle was pushed to the side to clamp the cork.

As you can see in the video, this gave a temperature rise from 27.7c to 36.4c on a slight wispy hazy sunny day. When the sun was out of a perfect clear sky, I did see the temperatures rise to around mid 40s.

This coupled with the solar pool cover I had purchased the previous year meant that by mid April, the temperature of the pool was already over 25c and perfectly usable by the end of the month.



Labels:
Location: Tala, Cyprus

Comments

Post a Comment

Hi there, thank you for reading and sharing your comments, please keep it clean as my kids are probably reading and no spam/linking off to other commercial sites!

Popular Posts