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Hi there,

I know this has been posted about before so I won't labour (<-- Yes, UK spelling :) ) the point:

But is anyone else really fed up with the playscrabble.com ELO system?

In particular, how you deal with this situation:

I'm behind in points (40 or so) in relatively early game (mid 100 points apiece) against opponent with way lower ELO... then they "lose connection", and then I lose like 50+ ELO points? and they gain about the same.

I guess the engine goes "oh well, the game is over and the lower ranked opponent was "winning", so too bad"?

I was at 1890+ ELO (I think the highest I have ever gotten, so was really pushing to that sweet 1900 haha),

And then I won 4 games in a row.

Now I am at 1774.

Thanks Marie Callender.

Just weird that there is no security in your ranking. I understand losing a disproportionate amount of points if you actually lose from a high ranked position (have lost nearly 100 from a single loss before, so it makes games against 1400s players kinda nerve-wracking). But losing lots of points after constant, non-stop winning is exceptionally infuriating.

It seems only thrashing a lower ranked opponent by about 200 points is a guarantee of maintaining or gaining slightly on ELO after about 1800?

Hi there,

First off, this is purely out of interest as I was happy with the service and will be happily paying the invoice today!

Just want to know how this compares as I haven't hired many sparkies before. Certainly not trying to find the cheapest/nastiest option or (even worse) dispute the invoice or anything.

Curious to know if this is average, cheap, or on the expensive side for future reference.

Contacted an electrician in Perth. They gave, honestly, excellent same-day service. I emailed them at 5:40am, got a text within 3 mins from a real person requesting photos of issue, they had quoted by 10-ish am, and were on site by 1:40pm. Job completed by about 2:30pm.

The work took ~50 mins. All very standard household work diagnosing why hot water timer wasn't working, replacing a hot water timer and then checking it was working, plus some tightening of other connections in switchboard, and double checking earth was in order. Nothing crazy specialized or high end.

They supplied and replaced one component (Hager analog hot water timer), which I believe retails for $107 (not sure if they get it cheaper wholesale).

The total invoice was $396.51.

Is this cheap? Expensive? Average?

Cheers.

P.S. If this isn't the right forum for this question I apologise.

P.P.S. If the company who did this is on here and can ID the job from my description, thanks! Was a great service. Seems to be working! Just received invoice and will pay immediately.

EDIT: SOLVED:

Just in case interested (or for anyone stumbling across this in the future): Sparky came, found that the whole timer had been fried (said that cause was likely just use over time and possibly low quality brand). Replaced it with a Hager one which he said was better quality. And now everything seems to be working again. Whole thing, including getting on challenging roof to check actual booster was working, took less under an hour.

ORIGINAL QUERY BELOW FOR ANYONE IN FUTURE WHO THIS MIGHT HELP:

Hi there,

Thought I'd ask here in case there is some simple fix I haven't tried.

We have solar hot water but the booster (important for coming months) is controlled by a Legrand analog hot water timer.

It seems to have completely stopped working. But nothing in the house and none of the breakers have been tripped.

Have tried:

- full on (switching to the capital I symbol)

- turning every single time on the wheel to on position (and switching to timer mode)

- doing the opposite of the above in case it was wired in reverse or something (as in turning it completely to the off position, and switching every time on the wheel to off position when in timer mode).

All of them have resulted in zero heating.

Only thing I can think of that has changed since it last worked is maybe that our meter got upgraded from analog to digital?

Assuming I just need to call a sparky and get them to diagnose the problem but if anyone has dealt with something similar and there is an obvious solution I don't know about that would be awesome to know!

Thanks for considering my enquiry.

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