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Well the whole implied but unspoken message in the advert is that eating Anchor butter can get you smashed in a similar way to consuming excess alcohol or cannabis, don't you think? The lads on bikes observing, for example, that she's not responding to calls for help because "She's absolutely buttered". A little irresponsible, some might claim...

You have misunderstood. They don't generally catch fire if abused as you describe. There is little or nothing to burn other than perhaps some dust inside it, or the laquer on the windings. Automotive alternators are not designed to run at full output indefinitely. They don't catch fire if you run them at full chat for hours on end, they simply get so hot that diodes fail or soldered joints melt and they just stop charging.Permanently. You have clearly not run yours long enough to reach this point. Yet! Just monitor the temp of your alternator and stop charging if you think it is it getting too hot. Use your 'engineering judgement'. If you introduce a small resistance into the cable charging the LFP, you can limit the alternator output to a current low enough to prevent the alternator ever getting so hot it damages itself. This technique is (weirdly) dismissed as a bodge here, even though it works brilliantly. This bit I really don't understand. If you are disconnecting your start battery from the alternator shortly after starting, its no great surprise it isn't getting charged. Why not leave it connected to the alternator all the time, just like everyone else does?

I'm not sure a photo of a row of wires in holes is going to be a great deal of help unless we know what is on the other end of each wire. But yes, either the OP has wired it up wrong or he has been had by that Ebay seller.

Yer average AI has looked at all of the internet already!

That's partly what I found irritating about the video. Most of the pics being shown were entirely unconnected with the audio narrative over them.

Is it a sealed, pressurised system? I.e. do you have a 'radiator cap' on the header tank? Or is the water level open to the air?

Well the evidence suggests, given it has never worked for you (and probably not the previous owner or they would have fixed it) that the above is not the case I would suggest, unhelpfully! Whatever header tank you have needs to be higher than the top of the coil for starters. Is it?

Never assume. Read the manual and find out for sure. Did the coil ever work? If yes when did it fail? How is the coil filled?

Otherwise it will be scuppered?

And they think the fire brigade will mess about reading labels to find the gas bottles!

Yeah... AI fake, obviously. Far too good to be real! As any fule kno.

I was putting forward the way lawyers think, not engineers. I think there is every chance that Will will lose this one.

Are you SURE about that? I reckon I've seen recent pics of the NORWAY on here looking dead spic and span. You should have a search

Have you actually watched it, right to the end? If yes you have a stronger stomach than me!!

Give it up Thistle!! If you have a look back through LG's old posts especially the first hundred or so, you'll get a good flavour of the crazies she radiates and why none of her posts are taken that seriously on here!