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  1. I couldn't work out which one was Naughty Cal.
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  2. Royal Family : Income for the Country vs Costs to the Country Nett economic benefit to the Country £36.6 Billion (Source: Business Insider UK)
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  3. I can reply. I have nothing to add but I can reply. Me thinks this is an anti royal thread. I'm not convinced the royal family can be accused of free loading. After all they do work to earn their keep.
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  4. As you all know, I am a secret mod here. And I've set the 'freeloaders' thread so freeloaders cannot reply to it, but proper boaters can. Hope that helps.
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  5. I only need 2 more greenies and then I too will be able to reply to this post...
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  8. Not for me thanks, I've just had my lunch.
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  9. Because AmpHours are a quick are dirty approximation for doing quick sums in your head. The following is much easier in Ah compared doing it in kWh. So I have 2 off 110Ah batteries, which are a bit old, so I guess 75Ah each. I don't want to go below 50%. My 'just living' usage (fridge, a bit of water pump, toilet etc) is 60Ah per day which therefore leaves me 15Ah to play with. My tv uses 2A and my lights use 1A and my radio uses 1A. Today I had the radio on for 5 hours and tonight I will have the lights on for 6 hours, so how long can I watch tv for without going below 50%? So as I said I had 15Ah to play with, 5 used by the radio and 6 will be used by the lights which totals 11Ah, leaving 4Ah. TV uses 2A, so I can watch for 2 hours. Now do the same with kWh where the daily 'just living' is 0.72kWh, the radio is 12W the tv is 24W and the lights 12W. Added - and don't use a calculator.
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  11. Yeah, you might be right - I feel a bit inadequate. Dr Bob got through with fewer too, so that really rubs it in!
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  12. A little taste of winter boating: In other news, the Tring summit was well watered, and after a bit of filling had plenty of water down the flight. Even had plenty of water through Berko for a change.
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  13. Ok Goliath, tell us what your real problem is. You come up with a couple of words and that doesn't convey anything. Are you a troll or just a sad person?
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  15. Two points arise: 1) Everything I wrote still makes perfect sense to me and I've only had one bottle of Thatchers Vintage 7.4%. 2) Back in the summer DMR and I elected you a fully paid up member of the Talking Shyte Club we started, after three bottles of Thatchers Vintage 7.4% each. Did we forget to tell you? 3) A smiley back
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  16. I thought the Royle family were quite poor.
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  19. I would not expect you to openly release your budget, and I was not suggesting you are stupid. My view is that there are no unconverted motors that are worth in excess of £45k - £50k, and for that it would have to be exceptional. Consequently the purchase price plus restoration costs should not exceed this figure when added together - at least that is what the head says but the heart can let things run away quickly. I am sure that most owners of 'historic' narrow boats have exceeded the true value of the boat with ongoing restoration work by a considerable margin edit - I must be getting old as I can remember when a good motor cost a couple of grand !
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  21. He wouldn't like this one. When I'm finished with it, it will work fine again. And from what I read that would be a great disappointment for him. Ho Ho merry Christmas
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  27. I remind you again, I have THREE Ecofans! One real one on my stove and two fictitious ones on my fridge and galley counter top respectively! Harumph!
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  28. led is a possible solution, I recently changed my aquarium lighting and the vegetation went ballistic as a result. you may be able to replace the 40w mains fan with a 12v fan with similar flow rates but check how much air pressure they can pull / push, if your chilli's are anything like some grown by a friend there is likely to be a charcoal filter in-line
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  29. More seriously, and assuming your grow light is only mains powered, then you will need an inverter that also consumes (give or take) 20W, so your load for 12 hours is 200W (light) + 40W (fan) + 20W (inverter) so 260W which is 21.7A which is running for 12 hours, so 260Ah, which is a lot. You will not get this from solar. To run this lot would require about 600Ah of batteries with a recharge time of more than 12 hours per day which is probably not feasible. You would be better running this of a small suitcase genny and not an inverter & batteries, but then I would not leave the gennie running unattended, so that is also going to be a problem for you. Added - and a problem for those around you if the generator is running 12 hours per day. In conclusion it's shore power or Sainsburys for your chillies - assuming Sainsbury's sells the right sort of chillies.
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  30. As I said earlier in this thread, I use WUB - Windows Update Blocker. Some of the many background services that run when you boot windows provide the update service. Basically, WUB stops these background services. If Windows attempts to restart, (which it sometimes does) it just stops them again. When convenient, WUB can be used to restart the update services such that updates are downloaded and apllied. Whilst non-Home editions of WIN 10 now have various options that supposedly allow you more control over updates and you can set 'metered connection' for wi-fi, its all rather complex and does not guarantee downloads will not happen. The only gotchas with WUB I have found - It disables Windows Defender Updates. It disables the App Store http://www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-0/ PC with Windows installed - very very common PC with no operating system installed - very very rare PC with Linux installed - very very rare
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  31. Top of the Garrison, Tawny Owl vs The Cat... We won, then locked them down the flight Richard Those Polis boats are powerful!
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  33. Cos domestic users don't use batteries.
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  34. Same with me - the whole site works as normal except for this particular thread. However, I'm neither a luddite nor do I have a closed mind to reasonable suggestions, so I'm off out to buy a duck! They do now!
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  35. Rare footage from the BCN challenge.
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  36. The ones near supermarkets can lose capacity due to "trolleyation"
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  37. You'll be waiting at Sawley for the Trent to drop for at least 2-3 days, and if you haven't done any river boating before then you really should use the time to make sure that both your boat and yourselves are up to making the downriver passage to Keadby. Give all the mechanicals and fuel system a thorough checking over, and also do some running trials/tests to be certain that your engine is capable of operating continuously at full power for long periods - at the very least 3-4 hours. You should also equip yourselves with a suitable anchor and cable as well as navigation lights. With only around seven and a half hours of daylight at this time of year, and short working hours at Cromwell and Keadby locks, you'll need some advice on the best choice of days, and times, for the last leg downriver from Cromwell to Keadby. It would probably be best to go in company with another boat with a skipper having had some previous experience of that stretch of the river, or employ a pilot for this part of the journey, but at the very least, get hold of some copies of the navigation charts for the lower Trent - try Sawley Marina. If you would prefer to have a pilot aboard try someone called Tony Dunkley to see if he's available to help you. He's been boating on the Trent professionally on commercial barges and tugs, with some pleasure craft time as well, for nearly 60 years, so he's beginning to get to know the river quite well by now. You can contact him on 07553 294325 , or e-mail at > tony@canalrivertransport.com <
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  38. Most of us; UK tap water, containing traces of chlorine, IS sterile.
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  39. One reason that occurs to me is as follows. In a conversation in car if you need to break off and concentrate the passenger can easily understand why, over a phone they can't. Couple that with the fact many calls taken in cars are to do with work the drive will be thinking and concentrating on two things at once. A conversation with a passenger is generally lighter and doesn't require deep thought or concentration. At least that is how I would see it.
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  41. I'm disappointed by your inability to imagine being born with a sold gold spoon in your mouth, and being totally unable to spit it out. Trapped in inescapable privilege. I bet they long for the anonymous life we lead.
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  42. Best keep an eye on that Mr Bizz, it only takes a crank to start a revolution. ..............Dave
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  43. Ignoring the argument regarding the correct method of expressing energy usage. Some real world information. This year we changed the way we use our boat, for twelve years it has been used for holidays and weekends, for that purpose six 110 Amp Hr Numax leisure batteries have been satisfactory, the first set lasting nearly eight years, we replaced them with the same type. This year we used the boat as liveaboards cruising from Newbury to Leeds covering all the waterways we could on the way. It became very obvious early on in the journey that the now four year old batteries were not performing as we needed. We have a Smartgauge and a Smartbank fitted, so we know we were charging correctly but we were dropping to around 60% after a nights use. We have all LED lights but the fridge and TV both run from a PSW inverter. The fridge was the problem even though it was new A+ unit it could easily cause the inverter to trip not long after we had moored up because the compressor starting current was greater than the batteries could supply to the inverter. I replaced the six Numax batteries with five 170 Amp Hr traction batteries, these are flooded tubular plate beasts, they weigh twice as much as the Numax at 40 kilos each. The difference is amazing a nights use sees a drop of less than 5 % on the Smartgauge and the fridge has been tamed. We have had this discussion many times but so called leisure batteries are for the most part simply larger starter batteries and therefore not ideal as domestic batteries, easy to tell, if there is a CCA figure quoted in the description it is a starter battery. Traction batteries are more expensive but they work and provided they are looked after will last longer. I have no idea how the OP uses his boat but my experience suggests that for liveaboard use a simple starter battery will have a short life as they are simply not designed to be used as domestic batteries. Ken
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  44. Maybe this will help the understanding of the units of capacity / consumption. A current of one amp for one hour is 1Ah (Amp Hour) A current of 2 amps for 1/2 hour is one 1Ah A current of 20 amps for 3 mins is 1Ah If you have an average current of 3.33A for 6 hours that would be 19.98Ah (3.33A multiplied by 6 - the time in hours) Likewise if you use 20Ah over an evening you have taken 20Ah out of your battery. Now some people will (wrongly) shorten Ah to just amps, and whilst people may guess what you mean, they may be wrong, so one should always use the correct name for units. So for example, when my headlight is on it uses 35W which is a current of about 2.8A (assuming a supply voltage of 12.5v) so I have a current of 2.8A. If I use it for 2 hours in a tunnel I have used 2.8 (amps) multiplied by 2 (hours) which gives me 5.6Ah. So you can see that if you say you used 5.6A people will be confused as they know the lamp draws about 2.8A, but when say you used 5.6Ah and everything is clear. Added - You can use other units of time if you want, such as Amp Minutes or Amp Days, but nobody normally does, so best you don't. When doing a power usage estimate for short duration loads like water pumps, microwaves etc I will estimate in amp minutes as I find it easier to do this in my head, but when I have added them all up I convert to amp hours.
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  45. John Noakes went up Nelsons Coulomb once. From up there I bet the people looked like ants. I reckon if he had counted them, he would have seen 1000 ants/hour. I suspect he was rather busy bricking it instead.
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  47. I’d guess it’s a new product from Apple , it must be like an iPhone or iPad , the iRon .
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  48. The mission is ON! Departed Thames Lock 101 at midday, currently finishing a pub dinner 20 canal miles later where their weekly quiz just started: "Who is older, Tony Blair or Theresa May?" I'm keen to get outside of the M25 tonight, so I'll walk another hour now, probably more; There is no snow on the ground, the towpaths are good, and I want to cover a marathon+ a day. It's warm enough to wild camp this evening. Targeting Manchester Piccadilly Lock (i.e., the 2hr 4min train I could have taken and have a ticket for in my pocket) by Friday next week. Fitbit stats so far: 4,799 calories; 51,655 steps. Miles Done: 20 of 226 Best quotes of the day: "Hang on, you're really REALLY walking home for Xmas? What the f*ck?" - Helen "Just jump in a canal with a boulder roped to your feet" - Nathan "That would be my course of action at the thought of being in Manchester" - Matt, commenting in reply to Nathan "I feel like such an alcoholic standing outside the pub trying to open a locked door at 8am" - Sarah, referring to the Wetherspoons farewell breakfast meet up. Where the Grand Union Canal hits the Thames: Pretty demoralising:
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  50. No more easier than "Meals on Wheels" "Care for the Elderly" "Mental Health Services" "Libraries" "Social Services" "Emergency Services", "NHS" and a mass of other essentials that the greedy so]]ing bankers stole from us nearly ten years ago.
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