rusty69

You don't. Does that mean other people shouldn't? The OP already gave his reasons.

Sounds to me more than just coincidence. Have you not considered they bought the BSS in because you started living on boats?

Me too.I'm not sure I suggested otherwise.

I think lady g might have suggested it For the record, I despise the BSS and all it stands for. I remember when it first came in. What a PITA.

I'm not sure it would be fair to claim on my insurance (I have turd party) for an an empty bottle I returned three months ago. I think I would be far more likely to go after the company that knowingly sells bottles that potentially leak. They probably have more money than me too.

Well, I dunno if I mentioned my bottle wasn't secured. It wasn't fwiw, but then the boat is not subject to the BSS, so if I kill a passing group of schoolchildren, could be in big trouble.

That makes sense.Kinda. I would have thought the plastic maybe the first thing to fail. I wonder if its affected by extremes of temperature, that places like a gas locker might present, or being left out exposed to UV. Probably not, I was just unlucky, and had a leaky one. I don't spose it was operating as a pressure relief device, as we managed to use the bottle for a good 6 months.

Cheapskate🤣

I haven't got a dodgy bottle. Besides, I didn't actually say I didn't tell anybody. FWIW, I didn't but thats not the point. Anyway, when I returned it, it was as safe as it possibly could be, it was empty. Only an idiot would fill it back up and install it in a school without checking it.

It has it built in, yes. How effectively it operates is debatable. Its not called 'drift' for nothing. Still, I understand you are a cheapskate, and 30 quid for a pi is rather a lot, not to mention the cable. Hope you can find a way for teamviewer to allow you to do more than view. I will read with interest.

Hey. I didn't supply the dodgy bottle to the school. I didn't then install it without checking its leaking. As much as I would like to take an imaginary guilt trip, its too early in the year. Besides. How do we know it wasn't your dodgy bottle,and due to its location in your gas locker, you were unaware it was leaking.

Raspberry pi then, about 20 quid on ebay. Works for me, although you would ideally require a smart shunt. The BMS, if its a JBD can be connected to a pi I believe (check this), but you would then have to trust the state of charge reading from it. The good thing about the victron mppts and cerbo/pi is that you can remotely turn on/off the charger if required (as well as other things), though I haven't had reason to do so.

Im quite surprised they only check them every 10 years tbh. I would have thought when refilling the things, it would not be much of a hardship to do a pressure test at the same time. I certainly don't feel its my place to be doing their job for them, and having read various accounts of the hoops required to jump through to get an exchange bottle, I didn't bother. Having said that, maybe if everyone started writing a label on the ones they return,leaking or not, they would get checked more often. I suppose the price would have to rise accordingly.

If you have victron gear and an always on internet connection, you can use a cerbo or raspberry pi.

I think it was from the plastic plug on the valve stem. I did check it with washing up liquid, but the smell was obvious, and a good reminder to switch the bottle off after use. The bottle was kept outside, so there was no danger of explosion as such, just wasted gas. Hopefully the bottle supplier checked it on return. I was certainly not going to go to the faff of trying to get a refund out of them. Oh, in that case the next person to get the bottle I returned will have a leaky bottle unsless it happens to fall on the 10 year check. Knowing my luck, I will get the same bottle back.

Nope it was from the valve.

I got a water carrier with two caps, bit like that.

I use my big nose to detect any gas leak. I did have a calor bottle that leaked at the bottle valve last year. Had to keep turning it off after use. Not ideal. I thought they were sposed to test the bloody things.

I have one of those Forrest Gump toilets, cos shit happens. If I can't empty it in the nearest woods, I take it to a proper gump out point.

Rumour has it that Rod has given up singing in 2024 to spend more time with his trains and pursue his much loved passion of painting. Apparently he loves painting casseroles. Rod Stew Art

Also the cable entry from the top of the connector into the boat is not ideal, and will likely let water enter the socket. Some kind of grommet may help.Those gray plastic things go brittle after a few years.

That looks like it might be an inline galvanic isolator

I thought having a stove at each end of our (69ft) was the solution a few years ago, so installed a second squirrel. In practice, it hardly ever gets used unless we have access to free wood as its just too expensive to keep two stoves running. As I am a lazy sod at the best of times, what I want from a stove is something that I can light in October and run through to April without much intervention. I certainly wouldn't want to be faffing about lighting two stoves, but can see your point that two smaller stoves might work if you dont mind loading them both twice a day. I load our stove once a day.

Wow, thats impressive. Though I guess that helps with the faffing about not having to re light the thing the next morning, I can't imagine 10 bits of smokless will give you much heat output in the depths of winter. Probably ok in autumn or spring.

Whilst I am sure these tiny stoves are fine in smaller boats, they certainly would be no use on ours. The size of the firebox alone means you would be severely limited to what you could get in there, and forever feeding the beast. Not to mention that they are almost impossible to keep in overnight, one would imagine. Did I mention that. Still, I suppose it is a problem that all smaller boat owners have (the boat, not the owner). Too big and it will either overheat your cabin, or be run on too low a settings, physical restrictions aside. Too small, you have a full time job tending to it.