Alway Swilby

Ah! Didn't know about that one. Sorry for misleading @Nightwatch.

No. Facilities on the Bridgewater are not good. There some litter bins in the town. Thorn Marine in Stockton Heath have an elsan that is free to use. Stretford Marina in the other direction may be able to help.

You have to scroll down a bit (ignoring the map bit). Click on the "Boat" box and your boat(s) will apear, click on the relevant boat (if you only have one boat it will be the only one listed). Don't bother with dates, click on "Search" and a list of your sightings will appear. You can then, if you wish, use the "Functional Location" code to find that location on the map. The map doesn't show your boat.

Our Beko washing machine doesn't have just any old inverter. No, it has a Pro Smart Inverter. Anyway, it works fine on our Victron 3kw.

Yes. My thinking too. I asked them yesterday and they "aim to respond within 1 to 4 working days".

Has anyone ever programmed one of these before and managed to understand the erm...... "English isn't my first language" manual. I want the relay to operate when the voltage gets to 27.1V and release when it drops to 26.8V. . digital-relay-E1200.pdfdigital-relay-E1200.pdf

So, presumably a flashing red light at Castleford flood lock means don't lock up onto the river because it is in flood?

Good point. Maybe not such a good idea after all.

£15 per night including electricity is not expensive. Many marinas charge more than that for visitor moorings. Get the washing machine to work overtime and leave the immersion on. We can run our Alde gas boiler on 3Kw of shore power instead of gas when we are on un-metered hook up. We did think of taking a winter mooring in Liverpool and saving all our heating costs. But we would have had to stay the full five months and didn't fancy it.

I think that will be the case.

Do you think so? Our licence will show us as CC but we'll be in the same area for 4 months.

I agree. I expect to pay the CC rate all year. It's just that an extra £60 per year on top of that to change status seems unreasonable to me.

We can't be unusual in our mooring habits. Around about the beginning of March we leave a marina and change our status on the licencing website to CC. We stop paying the marina for the mooring at this point. We then CC all summer and sometime at the beginning of November we move back into the same marina or a different one depending on availability and start paying for a mooring again. We then declare our new home mooring on the web site. Up until now these change of statuses have been FOC. As it happens our licence renews on 1st January. It seems that the six month rule will mean we pay for a CC licence which is fair enough. BUT.... are we going to have to pay £30 for each change of status so £60 per year on top of the CC surcharge. If we don't update the status when we move back into a marina and leave it as CC what happens when we get spotted in the marina for 4 months? Will we get an overstay email?

Or just put a lead acid battery in parallel with the lithium(s) and if necessary a bit longer cable from said alternator and all is hunky dory. 😊

Yes, he is aware his web site is a bit naff. It's on his list to sort out. I don't see a reason why the BMS shouldn't be used as an on/off (its easier to type off than orf 🙂) switch. The supplier sells the batteries fully expecting them to be used as such and gives a 10 year guarantee whilst connected in a hybrid system.