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I thought is was Igor that did yours

How big (Amps) is the alternator? That's one of the limits, and it won't like 100% continuous output either!

Yeah, but he has got permission to overstay ....

Quite common on bottom fired gas ovens. Try putting an empty baking sheet/tray on the shelf below whatever you're cooking, and remember the bottom shelf isn't the cool part of the oven! Add: Heh, cross posted with @nicknorman.

I tried that once. Didn't work out too well for me ...

I noticed that too, and it doesn't appear to have a corresponding one on the other side (at least not in that photo.) I think the whole tray rotates clockwise when that bolt is undone, allowing the batteries to be slid and lifted from a better angle. How to rotate the tray "is left as an exercise for the reader" as my textbooks used to phrase it!

That's the trick. You don't need to deliberately dawdle, but rushing - or worse allowing yourself to be rushed - is for idiots. Once you get into a smooth rhythm it tends to speed up, but doing all the steps of the process carefully and deliberately is far more important than doing it quickly. It's not actually that difficult if you can climb ladders, but as Arthur says above sometimes it's just easier to not bother and line the boat in or out of a drained lock than it is to keep climbing up or down. Where you choose to do it matters as well - on a 5' deep lock it's fairly trivial, on a 15' lock it feels harder!

Wasn't that pretty much the whole idea of setting up CRT in the first place? From the government's perspective at least ...

Ah but that suits you - it might not suit everyone!

Ideal for the CMers then!

Are you donating yours to them then?

From the blurb on the linked page: "We've already hosted one at Leeds Lock which took place in November but we have two more confirmed at Caen Hill, near Devizes and Hatton in Warwickshire which will take place in February. More details to be posted soon." Also from previous experience, they only choose locks that are suitable/accessible for visitors - there's no point doing an open day on a lock that's miles from a road as hardly anyone would turn up. I don't know if you've ever been to one, but they usually put a complete staircase and viewing platform inside the lock built from scaffolding, so it's quite a big job.

I'm not a rocket scientist, but I don't think I'd recommend installing a gas stove with an external flue in a spacecraft ...

One per person, maximum! 😁

Carry on as you were then Mike. The people who have financial risk in your battery purchase have told you what you should do. As have I. You do what you like, and I'll stop trying.

Listen to the people who have given you a warranty, not the drama queens. If one of your batteries stops charging, then the other one will charge until it's full too. This is what you want to happen, and then both will be fully charged, then they will be in approximate sync. Or you can panic and never have your two batteries anything like in sync. Cell balancing on a hand rolled battery from bare cells matters. You bought two separate premade batteries and if they are both out of balance it doesn't matter - just charge the bank until they close the gap. The individual cells inside the batteries will cope. If you choose to ignore the advice from your battery supplier - again the ones who warranty the product - then stop whining on the forum!

Charles Sterling the younger told me exactly the same in person about the AMPS/Sterling LFP batteries. He pointed out that the BMS can either do it's job or not, and if it can't you should not be relying on it for emergency cutoff. In fairness, it's mostly those who "rolled their own" from bare cells that suggest this, which is reasonable. Especially as the early adopters didn't have the range of simple BMS systems available.

Ah, but they were strapping fellas ...