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There have been several reported cases of dodgy SIM card slots, the design of it certainly doesn't help. OTOH there are huge numbers of these router out there, so it's difficult to say if this is really a worse problem than other routers. The slot is certainly in a poor position and badly labelled as well as badly designed, but I guess it's not intended to be used for a lot of SIM swapping...

Just measured 295Mbps down / 55Mbps up at Westport Lake, so the NR5103E/1pMobile must be doing something right... :,)

We're going through Harecastle and up the Macc tomorrow, so I hope the leak stays fixed... 😉

There have been many apocryphal stories about this over the years -- usually with swans -- but little or no actual evidence, birds wings are relatively fragile otherwise they'd be too heavy to fly, and children's arms are relatively robust otherwise they're break them every time they fell over. If you actually saw this happen (where a goose broke a child's arm with its wing), you should probably tell the fact-checking sites who say pretty much what I just did... 😉

A high tilt like 75 degrees will give the highest power in winter (when there's less sum anyway) but less in summer and over the year than a lower tilt -- assuming the boat is moored E-W with sideways tilting panels, which is the usual case. I looked at this for my boat and got the following: "I ran the numbers for my setup (2100W panels), assuming all the solar energy can be used. For flat/30deg/60deg tilt (south-facing) I get (daily averages using real weather data): Dec: 830/1660/2140Wh (50%/100%/129%) Mar: 3750/4660/4700 (80%/100%/101%) Jun: 7130/7090/5940Wh (101%/100%/84%) Sep: 3940/4870/4900 (81%/100%/101%) Year: 3960/4640/4480Wh (85%/100%/97%) So flat-mounting loses nothing in midsummer compared to tilting, 15% averaged over the year, but 50% (of much less) in midwinter. A steep tilt in midwinter gains another 30% compared to 30deg tilt."

That was already pointed out earlier as an advantage of series panels -- however cable losses are small compared to the gains with parallel ones when partial shading happens (but cabling is thinner and cheaper with series panels). MPPT controller efficiency depends mostly on output current, meaning output power and battery voltage -- so a 24V system is more efficient than 12V and 48V is better still because the current is smaller.

That's not how solar panels work... They'll reach close to full voltage with even a small amount of sunlight, the current generated then determines the power output -- they're effectively photodiodes which act as current sources, with the current proportional to light intensity, and into an open circuit they'll simply rise up to their open-circuit voltage -- which only changes slightly with light intensity, see these curves: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Voltage-Current-characteristic-curves-of-a-PV-module_fig2_263243375

As they should be, surely?

If a volunteer does something stupid and kills themselves, the site owner is liable only if they knew about (or should have known about) the risk and didn't put reasonable safety precautions in place.

Same here. Lovely pub, shame about the beer... 😞

Still called "ordinary" down here, it just doesn't taste the same as it used to... 😞

Loads of people have bought them and had no problem -- but a few have had problems like you... I assume you inserted the SIM with power off, then turned on and did a reset? They don't like having the SIM changed or inserted when powered up. DAMHIK...

There has been a lot of FUD about this, AFAIK there is no instance of the router IMEI being blocked -- you could be the first, but it's unlikely. Most of these secondhand routers are ones which were returned to Three, they can't send them out again to new customers so they sell them off cheaply in bulk to resellers like eternalcomms -- this is why it's better to buy from a vendor who has sold lots of them, a single sale might be an end user flogging theirs off against Three's T&C and this could -- in theory! -- lead to it being blocked. A SIM slot problem is much more likely. Did the supplier say that they'd tested it before sending it out? (mine did, and I had no problems) https://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/threads/new-three-5g-hub-nr5103e.38663/page-115#post-330407

Young's is certainly not what it was before the takeover/closure, regardless of what they claim... 😞

When you say "doesn't recognise", does it detect that a SIM is inserted or not? Or does it detect the SIM but fail to connect to the network? Are you sure you've inserted the SIM the right way round? It's not very clear which way it should go, and you can easily put it in the wrong way round so it doesn't work. DAMHIK... Also this: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/threads/new-three-5g-hub-nr5103e.38663/page-150#post-352731 Mar 15, 2024 Add bookmark #2,998 The Wee Bear said: I would imagine it might be a faulty SIM slot wagner_1, as the three NR5103E isn't a locked router, any network SIM works in it. Any specific error given? If it just says SIM not recognised with various network SIM's, it does sound like it may be faulty. It turned out that the sim slot is probably defective because I pressed the sim against the pins with an object and it worked, when the sim is in normally it doesn't work. There is no further error only "Sim card Status: None". Anyone else having a similar problem?

That's strange, especially if another SIM works in the 5013E -- have you tried this? Sometimes the router SIM socket can be flaky or damaged...

That's one view. An alternative is that the marina employs and pays for onsite staff and facilities to do maintenance for the benefit of all the boaters in the marina who use them, and it's in everybody's interest to make sure they're fully utilised -- because if they're not there's a risk that the marina shuts them down as uneconomic, or puts the prices charged to boaters up to make them economic. It's just like a pub with a kitchen insisting that you buy their food and don't bring in your own, which I don't think most people think is unreasonable since they have to pay for the kitchen and staff. If you don't want to eat their food, go to another pub you do like, or one without a kitchen that will be happy for you eat your own or order it in... 😉

I never said that was a good thing, I agree with you -- but it's the law we've got and there's little chance of it changing. Why? Because just think how bad it would be for all the company directors and CEOs (like Paula Vennells...) who pay lobbyists and donate to political parties if they risked going to jail, instead of getting off scot-free while the company pays the price... 😞

I agree with both your sentiments, but unfortunately the law is not sentimental... 😞