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DevonGuy said:
Evenin volks.
Ennyboddy had any experience uv they solar panel battery chargers wot yer leaves in yer car a plugs int fag lighter socket? Us not usin car much and seems gude idea.
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Yes, I have one on mine, but @Datatek is your man.
Mine is directly wired to the battery because the cigar-lighter is not live when key is out.
 
derwendolly said:
I have now - the ones that I have just paid £400 for! I also have sunglasses - not a lot of use in the rain we have had and they are way out of date, too..

For the last 6 years I have annual tests because of cataracts forming but each time the prescription has needed changing my optician has only changed the lens not the frame, hence my only spares are way, way out of date. I did have to use a pair of these for the week's wait for the £400 pair to arrive but I couldn't have used them for long if driving.
I had just had the latest eye test in early December but when this present 'emergency' happened it was not MY optician on duty so another one kindly saw me between his booked appointments and this is really where the disaster started - long story - he used the new prescription but then did the fitting measurements for the wrong frame!! When the specs came they were a total disaster so I went down to see them - now a different optician, I explained about the frame mishap so she checked and said they 'should' be the same. :eek: The strength was in the lens but not in the right places!!! She fiddled with them and I came away to use them again - still not right ........ and then I found the repairer on line so acted immediately and hey presto! The 'old' ones are back on my nose and are perfect . My optician had said that there was so little change he didn't recommend changing them anyway. I will make an appointment next week to see him but as he is only here on a Friday then when I can get an appointment is anyone's guess.
And this is the shortened version of the story!!
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My sympathies!
I too have cataracts forming, but my eyesight is a lot better than many, I can manage without glasses in good light, but cannot drive without them. So I do feel for you with all your difficulties. and of course the money it all costs.
This is why I am still using a pair of temporary glasses sold to me abiout 3 years ago.:rolleyes:
 
Stanleysteamer said:
My sympathies!
I too have cataracts forming, but my eyesight is a lot better than many, I can manage without glasses in good light, but cannot drive without them. So I do feel for you with all your difficulties. and of course the money it all costs.
This is why I am still using a pair of temporary glasses sold to me abiout 3 years ago.:rolleyes:
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Getting old sounds fun even if I've worn glasses last 7 years or so
 
WMine's not from getting old said:
Getting old sounds fun even if I've worn glasses last 7 years or so
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Mine is not part of getting old, except for the cataracts, I've had to wear glasses since the age of 10/11. My older sister brought home from school one of the childhood diseases - measles or mumps, I can't remember which, and after me contracting that - bingo! That was my eyesight affected, although my mother did not realise how bad it was until we got a TV in 1952 and I kept asking her what was happening on the 9" screen.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
My sympathies!
I too have cataracts forming, but my eyesight is a lot better than many, I can manage without glasses in good light, but cannot drive without them. So I do feel for you with all your difficulties. and of course the money it all costs.
This is why I am still using a pair of temporary glasses sold to me abiout 3 years ago.:rolleyes:
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I can see perfectly until things get further than 5" in front of me!
 
derwendolly said:
Mine is not part of getting old, except for the cataracts, I've had to wear glasses since the age of 10/11. My older sister brought home from school one of the childhood diseases - measles or mumps, I can't remember which, and after me contracting that - bingo! That was my eyesight affected, although my mother did not realise how bad it was until we got a TV in 1952 and I kept asking her what was happening on the 9" screen.
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I was mentioning the cataracts and the old together. Sight loss is a nasty thing and especially how you got it.
 
derwendolly said:
I hope you are luckier than I was. I've just paid £400 for a pair to replace mine when the nose pad wire snapped and I was told that they were unrepairable - I am entirely dependent on mine so had no choice but to act immediately if I was going to be able to see! The new ones came and they are hopeless. I've been back three times and am still not happy, I've been wearing specs for seventy years so know very well what to accept and when to complain.

Mr Google pointed me in the direction of a postal service for repairs (Alphaomega Frame repairs) so I submitted my pics, paid the small fee, sent them off and had them returned 36 hours later - perfect! £400 against a £30 repair is a no brainer and I can see perfectly and comfortably again. One lives and learns.:)
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Whats wrong wiv the noo ones? I had trouble with them adding lens thinnening. They also seem to have different lens suppliers. One did it different to the other so they swapped over. Perscription was the same but where tgey put the centre ov me eye to the lens were also different. In the end they wouldn't tell me what the change was.
 
Mornin volks.
Us boys bin shortsighted since 4 yo, twer an arse an us hated it, laike lukin oat uv a birdcage orl dai an mistin up if it weren’t rennin.
Us got contak lenses wen us wuz 30, changed us laife! Twuz oanly then us lurned ow tu rite propper English.
Vunny thing be, prescription got up tu -7.5 wen us wuz fifty but since then has gone doan, now only -5, us hopin tu av 20/20 vizzion when us dyes.
Cattaracks be annuver ving. Us got them started tu but not at all bad yet. Us veels fer orl us frens wiv awkward sight, it be a narseole.
 
Hippo said:
Whats wrong wiv the noo ones? I had trouble with them adding lens thinnening. They also seem to have different lens suppliers. One did it different to the other so they swapped over. Prescription was the same but where tgey put the centre ov me eye to the lens were also different. In the end they wouldn't tell me what the change was.
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They wouldn't tell you because it was their measuring that was at fault!

In my opinion my whole frame seems to be set at an incorrect angle and this makes it impossible for the lens to have the power in the correct places, if you can get what I mean. The second optician I saw did try to adjust the angle but it hasn't worked and seeing as the frames are so thin and delicate I am not prepared to fiddle wif 'em.
My lens are the lighter, maximun thin ones too, otherwise they would be as thick as jam jar bottoms and just as heavy!
 
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