magnetman

I'm sure you are not the only one. This could easily be viewed as a potentially hazardous situation.. Or do you mean the battery would have blown up regardless. It is interesting because it doesn't happen all that often and I'm certain people do leave the bungs in. Other possibility is it was a dodgy battery in the first place.

It does seem so. Maybe this is partly why the regulations @Alan de Enfield often refers to seem to discourage the hybrid approach. I must admit it never occurred to me the result would be a lead acid battery explosion. Thats really nasty I hope everything is alright in there ! I still think the input voltage to the Victron Orion would be an interesting graph as presumably it would show at what point the lead acid battery failed.

It would be interesting to see the 'Trends' page on the app. If it is the same as the solar controllers it will have a data logger record of the voltage or current (selectable with a drop down menu) which might yield some information.

the website was constructed.by a gentleman called John Eade. It is a difficult site to navigate but here is a page with some other links. https://thames.me.uk/index.htm https://thames.me.uk/index.htm

I never watched star trek so would be no use for this either.

Also possible some people don't know that a hacksaw only works in one direction. If you put pressure on it in both up and down strokes it will blunt quickly. Only put pressure on the saw while moving in the direction the teeth are pointing in. Ideally lift the saw out then put it back at the beginning of the stroke but that takes extra time. Same with metal files. Tool only cuts one way.

The term 'drop in replacement' was originally used for vehicle installs such as campervans which retain the existing lead acid battery. Its basically about the size of the unit. It will 'drop in' to the space previously reserved for the leisure battery. Basic lead acid battery casing sizes. I don't think 'drop in' are two words which will be found one after the other on the Fogstar website because they have realised it is rather disingenuous. packaged consumer LFP batteries will most likely be designed to get past the suppliers warranty period. This could involve recommending higher voltages than one would like to see as a way to make them look like good direct replacements for existing lead acids. It is a consumable product so the supplier will only be interesting in how long their business stays afloat for or whether you are sending them back during the warranty period with a good argument. Other than that it is landfill or other people might want to dismantle them. But by then far better batteries will exist anyway. So its landfill. Unlike lead acid batteries which arrr actually one of the most highly recycled of all consumer products.

The other option is to just not have a bow fender. Yes I know! But in reality how much damage does having a bow fender avoid compared with how much damage it can potentially cause. If having a bow fender makes people think it is alright to impact the gates then that is bad psychology. It is okay to ride the gates but slamming into them whether one has a fender or not should never happen. If the bow is simply sliding up a down while in contact with the gate the potential for damage to the Boat and the gate is significantly reduced if there is no bow fender. I had a tyre for this. Pirelli P6000 cut in half and bolted onto the stem in the same orientation as if it had been a wheel. Like that (Grove Bridge 2004)

That is a handy weak link but more expensive to replace than a normal chain link cut on one side. Back in the day I used to regularly pull out opened up forged iron chain links with the magnet. They were forged in such a way as to have an overlap. A bit like a keyring. I wondered if these may have been a safety feature on the towing harness attached to the animal. Its nice in some situations to have this sort of thing. I think there would have been something to prevent a minor Boat handling error resulting in the animal going into the water.

I wonder if one were to take 1,000 uses of 'bolt croppers' how many times someone cut a bolt. I think they should be chain and lock cutters.

The M1 certainly curses the locks there above Whilton and its entirely plausible there is a plague mass burial pit* somewhere in the area. Its the sort of place one would do it. Not a settlement type area but a passing through area. A bit like [word removed]s dumping rubbish by main roads. Plague burial pits will be by main roads just a long time ago. * I don't know if there are maps but I usually find tarrying a while in such places one can get the vibe.