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A pump at gunnel level will freeze in winter and even if it is only a few drops left after draining can wreck the impeller if power is applied. A pump near the base plate at the bottom of the boat is far less likely to freeze as the base plate is unlikely to go below 5-6 degrees C, this is why most people have the pump low down and the pipe from tank to pump also low down. Boxing the pump in with insulation from the air but not the steel bottom has been good for me over several winters, I do drain down though but you will never get every drop out.

Use you sons address but if you need a CRB/PNC check for work it may be a problem.

In the case of my marina they just want proof the tradesman has third party indemnity insurance in case of accidents. Only other thing they are concerned about is hot working (welding and grinding) needing proper training, and Gas for obvious reasons, don't want workers blowing boat up although I can.

My first canal trip was in a Chas Boat from Beeston and we did the 4 counties. We got good tuition on locks from the boatyard I would expect the same for you if not demand it it is their boat after all. The Caldon canal is very pretty as is the Llangollen so it would be nice to do them both as well, 3 weeks is the minimum I would plan, and we are 2 up and we know about locks, so for a beginner single handed I suggest 4 weeks as it is very hard work and there are a lot of locks on the ring. Enjoy yourself and you will probably meet a fellow antipodean on the trip I have met several along the Shroppie and the Llangollen.

That controller would be fine with 2 of those panels. Have you worked out where you can put the panels cos they are big. Width - 992mm Height - 1650mm will take up a lot of space on a narrowboat roof (typically 1250 wide so you are talking about having 3.3 meters or nearly 11 feet in length

NO it depends on sunshine / cloud cover level as well as time of year, also flat panel or tilted right right way or tiled wrong way not to mention trees. The current delivered usually depends on battery SOC i.e. you will usually get more amps at 09:00 on a sunny day than at 14:00 even though the sun is higher then due to batteries being fuller (I am assuming normal battery levels of 60% after overnight and sufficient solar to give a real helpful charge).

May be designed for macerator type of loo, not dump through. As said you need large bore vent pipes to get airflow and thus aerobic bacteria, this looks small bore and will reduce airflow encouraging anaerobic bacteria thus a stink, the filter may keep the stink in the tank but when you come to pump out!. Lee San sell a filter that is 40mm bore but again they only effective if you have two pipes for airflow, but then the smell is less anyway and so filters are not needed, unless like my friend his vent is only 2 foot from rear hatch (tank under step), the Lee San ones did work.

There is also Overwater on the Llangollen but near Audlem, Natwich has a boat club and a small marina, Aquaduct who advertise in every boating magazine/paper will do it for a price they are near Middlewich, If you want you can try Venetian marina at Nantwich just make sure they don't sell it. there are several small boatyards and marinas on the Llangollen itself.

Anyone heard of pins?

No because they don't have people living full time at their mooring. People come and go boating, moving around the canal system and return having had a nice break. Then they go home and someone else comes to do the same.

I have noticed that the default mode (quoted as 1.7 amp) which reads on my ammeter as 2 amps (it is rounded up as no decimal point). However I can use a DAB mains radio and / or charge a phone with no increase in the ammeter reading, and when running larger items the amps is close to watts divided by 10, so a 60 watt laptop charger reads as using 6 amps. I recon I need to use above 20 watts of 240v before the inverter reads as drawing more than 2 amps from the 12 volt batteries (don't forget no decimal point so coarse readings only). I have tried running a 240 fridge off a MSW inverter and found that although the Victron uses 6 amps fridge running door closed, the MSW inverter pulled 9 amps from the batteries when fridge running door closed, so it wasn't worth using the smaller MSW instead of the big Victron as the standby on the MSW was 0.5 amps (different ammeter)

I doubt that a bath tap mixer shower uses anything like 11LPM, a big rain head shower will but that is a totally different beast.

The wording is about boarding the boat to go across it to get to the boat alongside. nothing about entering the accommodation. I think they would only enter if safety made it necessary, or someones well being required it i.e. you on the floor unconscious.

ebay is the only place I found.

MDF and chipboard have a poor performance when they get wet. I know it is inside but there will be condensation and mushroom vent weeps to cope with as well as water streaming off windows when it is cold and you have left the kettle on whilst going through a lock etc.

From the other thread (http://www.canalworl...63235&p=1214919) mention is made of a RJ12 plug with the following wires Blue - voltage sense Orange - not used (except in BMV 602?) Green - current sense (battery end of shunt) Green/White - monitor power negative (load end of shunt) Orange/White - monitor power negative (load end of shunt) Blue/White - monitor power +12V (from battery via fuse) These seem like standard telephone wire colours used in house extension phone sockets, if so the wire could have solid cores and not multistrand cores. This could easily lead to a cracked core in the cable leading to all sorts of weird faults, Victron though are a good company and if they are supplying the lead I would expect it to have stranded cores. If you bought the wire online or at shop though? solid core is more commonly available. I do not have a BMV 60x monitor though so cannot check.

Pleased to see that you have thought it out.

Do these meet the RCD requirements? or BSS which we all know has some strange interpretations of normal connection practice.

Are you sure it wasn't halon gas which is/was frequently used in data centre's as it does not conduct electricity, The mist is caused by the expanding gas chilling the air and causing the moisture in the air to form droplets as the air cools. Halon has been replaced or phased out as it contains CFC's but a similar gas is used nowadays. The one thing you will not find in a data centre is a water sprinkler system as the water landing on the power rails in the computers would probably cause total destruction of the electronics.

If you are waiting for a lock to be emptied/filled etc. practice just holding the boat in the centre of the channel and even reversing a few metres. you will find after many practices it will get easier but you are unlikely ever to be able to get a narrowboat to travel backwards, more than it's own length, with no problems when there is anybody watching.

From a caravan web site the suggestion was to open the oven door for a few seconds after lighting for the flame to allow it to settle and then close the door. It has worked very well to date.

The OP mentioned starter motor so I assume we are looking at an engine battery isolator no the domestic bank. The paddle type isolators regularly fail both open and short circuit and even melt mode ie a blob of plastic with some bolts in it. The engine isolator has to be able to withstand the starter motor cranking a cold diesel engine, and whilst doing that will probably be carrying over 500 amps, but only for the few (if lucky) seconds it takes your engine to fire.

seconded. Swapping the top and bottom (at the calofifier (hot tank)) engine connections will stop the thermo cycle. As the engine water is pumped around it will happily flow uphill when the engine is running.

Have you thought of using both coils in parallel in a twin coil calorifier, it won't give you a 25mm bore but it will give 22mm, if both are 15mm.

In 2013 many people were still downsizing their assets as the credit/earnings squeeze bit. Now we are in 'recovery' people have a bit more certainty and don't need to sell, and some have bought.