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jenevers

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  1. So after all these years are we now saying that the distilled water we buy from supermarkets, with pictures of car batteries and domestic irons on the labels, isn’t the right stuff to be using in our batteries?
  2. I drained some diesel from the bottom of my tank into a plastic bottle and it’s still cloudy after several weeks. Normally water separates out and sinks to the bottom of the bottle, leaving clean diesel. Any ideas why?
  3. Actually, I’ve just remembered, the starter battery is charged by a separate solar panel and not connected to the alternator at all. The alternator only charges the leisure battery bank.
  4. Yes to your first paragraph? I'll check re the starter battery. Thanks.
  5. Had a look at the shunt. One end is connected to the battery negative, the other to the negative busbar which has the solar negatives connected too. But there are two small cables as well, one connected to each side of the shunt blocks?
  6. It's an Android phone so will it "talk" to an Apple iPad?
  7. I don't have a router. I have an ipad and a mobile phone. The phone is OK for the internet so if I put them both on Bluetooth, could the ipad get internet?
  8. Will an Echo Dot work on a boat via blue tooth from a mobile phone?
  9. So can two ipads/chromebooks run off one mobile sim card simultaneously?
  10. I think the controllers are wired direct into the batteries. I'll have to check. How should it be wired?
  11. Well from a reading of 100% it has gradually dropped down to 70% despite the voltage showing 13.3v. Strange.
  12. I’ll fire the Genny up and see what happens. I’m pretty sure the batteries will be close to 100% as they’re being charged with 400 w of solar panels and no electric is being used.
  13. I checked if the inline 2A fuse was OK. I was surprised to see that the 230 v supply to the ring main was disconnected when I took the fuse out. When I put it back the batttery status read 100%?
  14. I’ll check if there’s a loose wire somewhere. Do you mean the solar wire from the panels to the MPPT then to the batteries? Maybe I’ll just do a factory reset and then fine tune to my setup.
  15. Getting ready to cruise after boat being moored up for 7 months (on solar). “ Ah-time” read out is showing battery percentage 0%, which is not correct as voltage is 14.5v and I’ve been running the fridge/Vax /TV etc on the batteries (12 v, 670Ah Trojans). I can’t work out from the manual, how to change the read out to 100% or is it possible that there’s a lost wire somewhere?
  16. Hmm. Wynn’s have been around for 80 years. Think they would have been found out by now if their products didn’t work. NASA uses them so that’s good enough for me.
  17. I’ve whacked a bottle of Wynn’s in the fuel tank. Maybe my ears won’t be able to tell a difference but I’m sure that if these cleaners didn’t work, the world of science would have proved them useless by now.
  18. My 60 gallon tank has only 20 gallons in it at the moment. So I thought now would be a good time. Plus I want to run the tank down to get the old diesel used up rather than keep adding new to old.
  19. Injector cleaner.
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