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  1. Thanks for the advice on this, guys. I'll contact some gas guys, but really would like to run the line myself. It's a single piece of pipe, so any help with diameters, would be great. Oven is 2.5kw with a 2.2 integral grill and I'm having the Thetford 931 hob which is a total of 5kw over three rings. Any advice helpful in the meantime but will also check with whoever I have to come fit things
  2. Hi All I wonder if anyone can advise, but I'm ideally wanting to 'run' my own gas line, in preparation for having a gas guy come to fit my hob and oven. Just to confirm here, I have NO INTENTION of fitting or connecting any gas appliances myself, I just want to run/clip the gas line under my gunnel so it's ready at the kitchen end and ready in my utility room end for the gas guy to then take outside to the gas lockers. I'll of course run a single length of copper pipe, but woudl rather do this myself. The gas line has to go out the back and my bathroom and bedroom are fitted, polished, painted and looking pristine and I now don't want someone with little care ripping it to bits to put the gas line in, dirty hands,etc. I know it must be clipped, but was wondering: a) what size/type of copper pipe to lay, i.e. 5mm copper brake pipe? and b) I'm sure the clipping had to be done every 20-30cm? What clips to use? Any advice appreciated. Thanks!
  3. Thanks! Yes, remembered re the earth, but that's useful so thanks a lot!
  4. Hi guys I've got a 240/standard house pendant that I want to wire into where there's a spot light in my ceiling.... I've got a bulb from bedazzled so it can run on 12v, but I'm just wondering on the pendant I have live/neutral/earth wires, where do these correspond to on the black and red cables on the 12v circuit? How should this be wired up? I should know this by now but can never remember!
  5. Thanks everyone. Had some further unusual activity yesterday when high revving. Called Barrus who said all of it doesn't sound quite right, so they're coming up on Tuesday to have a look.
  6. Hi guys, tahnks for the responses. My fuel filter has a drain on it, so I turned fuel lines off and drained it. I've drained into the end of a plastic pop bottle. All looked like diesel to begin with but now it seems like tiny little spots of water, on the inside of the bottle right at the very bottom.... It did just start raining though at the same time, so worried it could be those just showing 😂 Does it take a while for the water to separate out from the filter when you've drained like that or would it be two separate liquids straight away? I've then put the engine back on and seems to be fine, but popping the revs up to 1500 did see one or two instances of it 'missing a beat' (?) or changing tone, but I have heard from Barrus directly that if I've no load/batteries this can happen and I've just had an outage with my battery system so leisures are currently disconnected at the moment.
  7. Hi All I've a brand new Barrus Shire 43 on my new build narrowboat. It's barely been on... Last night, I turned it on for battery charging and after about 20 minutes, the engine revs started altering/hunting and the exhaust was pluming out thick white smoke.... I tried to rev it to see if that would clear it, but it actually made it worse. Smoke was white. Very thick. What are the chances on a brand new engine eh? Anyone any ideas? I'm thinking an issue with injectors or coolant?
  8. Thanks so much everyone for all the helpful information. Tom/Bex, do you know if the actual unit and tank could be installed (For ease) in my utility room - similar to an engine bay, it's at the back of the boat, not accessible by door from the bedroom only via the back deck doors. Or do these units HAVE to be in the engine bay themselves?
  9. Thanks Alan - yes it's not a Webasto or similar, a cheap Chinese one! So good if anyone does have any info on what needs changing and if this could be mounted in my separate-to-main-cabin "utility room"
  10. Hi All Looking to install a diesel air/fan heater and wondering where to put the unit. My boat is a cruiser stern, but limited space on the bulkhead walls in the engine bay now, plus as the heaters have their own little 10l diesel tank, could be fiddly/irritating having to go in engine bay to refill. My boat will be trad layout with bedroom at the back, but unlike most boats, I'll have a separate utility room after the bedroom.... this room is NOT accessible from the bedroom (i.e. no door to it) so I'm wondering if the heater could be mounted in there.... It's no different to if I had an engine room on a trad stern and there's also going to be no door between it and the bedroom for any potential leaks? Are there any issue around BSS does anyone know?
  11. Just changing tack slightly, what about a diesel heater - aka something similar to the cheap chinese blow heaters, to heat the water in the calorifier? Does anyone currently do this? Is it possible? I had Webasto on my last boat, but oddly, for it to heat the water in the calorifier I still had to have one rad open in the boat in summer otherwise it never seemed to heat the calorifier water up?
  12. Interesting, thanks. Just going back to an earlier point about lugging bottles in winter, the idea I think would be that the gas heater would be used mostly in summer - when I DON'T want to have an engine running if I'm not going anywhere. In winter, you'll have engine on more for charging, so you'll always have a vast array of hot water via the calorifier. Does anyone know how complex the Morco heaters are to plumb in? (I'm not talking about gas connection, but rather where abouts they need to sit on the plumbing line?)
  13. Thanks tony, interesting idea. So the main, larger calorifier would be linked direct the engine, with the smaller calorifier linked to the large, main calorifier, but with no non-return valve.... If water can pass between the two units, would the engine also eventually heat up the smaller 'solar' unit too?
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