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Fly agaric mushrooms eh? I should have guessed, that explains everything!

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Is the pump on constantly? If so have you turned the speed pump up to max. Sounds like the water might be getting too hot in the boiler. Can you check the flow and return temp at the boiler when the noise starts.

You are not drawing air in through the header tank and vent by any chance?

Fuses are there to protect the cable and for no other reason unless of course they are built into a unit in which case they are there to protect the unit.

Good point. We can fit a bigger unit up to 900h 600w and almost 600 deep. I suppose that the older style with clockwork like controls are less sensitive to boat electrics. I have come across a Candy 4kg which must be the upgraded model.

I believe it’s thread is 3BA I hope😊

More than anything it's price that's working against the sale of HVO at the moment – currently £1.39/litre + VAT @ 5% as opposed to gas oil @ £0.83/litre + the VAT. That's the price for 'red' with duty @ £0.11/litre as opposed to road fuel that carries duty at £0.56/litre & VAT @ 20%. So 'white' HVO is still costing close to £2.00/litre. As long as you able to state (and sign a declaration) that you are legitimately using the fuel for propulsion purposes, Crown will send you a 1000 litre IBC. The cost of the IBC and carriage (it's effectively the standard pallet rate) works out at an additional £0.10/litre, although if you can return the IBC there should be a refund of around £40. Similar arrangements can be made for 205 litre drums. Otherwise if you are within the area of their distribution network (Beesley's in the Midlands, Speedy Fuels in the Home Counties and Crown in the Bury/Manchester area) 1000 litre+ deliveries by tanker are possible. All in all getting hold of HVO on the inland waterways is currently nigh on impossible, especially if you have no means of handling an IBC. Please PM me if you want further, detailed information.

Its a debate for somewhere else.

I put in an application for the EBSS £400. This was for a boat where I pay council tax but the electric comes from a commercial supplier. This was what I got as confirmation (reference number redacted) Now I don't know if someone using another form of ID would receive the payment from "their council" or the DWP and not sure if they do verify council tax but it looks like it. The only option was to have a "houseboat" on a long term residential mooring. The mooring has an individually allocated street number so CT is per boat not paid by mooring operator (CRT). I think they will pay.

Elections don't ask the public for opinion on fees that should be paid by minority groups. Is it not obvious the results will unfairly discriminate against minority groups ?

In late Feb/early March?

One seemed very hire fleet turn round orientated, so maybe you tried on a turn round day. Luckily for us we were only half an hour or so away from the Prees branch so filled up there.

Burning a grateful of raw house coal might well turn out to be a quicker way to get the police to turn up than dialling 999, from the way things are going these days.

If your main concern is battery state when discharging why can't you just supplement your existing method by monitoring the rested voltage? The only system I have is a cheap plug-in voltmeter in the cabin (initially checked for accuracy using a multi-strengths voltage reading on the solar MPPT controller) to make sure the voltage at bedtime is at least 12.6 and in the morning it's still well above 12.3. I have managed to get a decent life out of cheap lead acid batteries so far using only this method of monitoring. I did consider a smartgauge but wasn't at all sure I'd do any better than I do without one.

Update: new job found so that panic is over. Worked out nicely, amazing career move. I have filled my diesel tank since and the stove went back to it's old self - very very easy to boil. So the trim of the boat DOES make a difference, it's not just about the inititial vertical rise. I will fit a pump and be done with it. Using a PC watercooling pump was mentioned in this thread. I did some digging and I am 95% sure this pump is the same as the £350 Jabsco one from midland chandlers. At £150 it's quite the saving. The price difference is madness. https://www.aquatuning.co.uk/water-cooling/pumps/d5-series/d5-pumps/1253/laing-d5-pump-12v-d5-vario-1/2-ig?sPartner=googleshoppinguk&gclid=CjwKCAiA9NGfBhBvEiwAq5vSy9hs7NkQHsdEyQKQ7zApCEeKh4x0zA_6B2B9UwJP0xbSc7uPjA-v-BoCiQYQAvD_BwE