Amicus

Taint in the listings. hit Services-Other Channels and it should be in there. I've put all the ITV channels in there, dunno why I hardly ever watch the drivel. Spect it whas the tech. challenge

For program listing on ITV channels other than your home one Digiguide from http://www.digiguide.com/ does the biz

John, Alastair, thank you for your perseverance, I know this subject keeps coming up and must be pretty tedious for yous guys. About the FAO thing, I regret that and I apologise to the members of this forum. I am a newbie to this board but am not a newbie to the internet. Being the miserable old git that I am entitled to be I do get irritated with the poor signal/noise ratio on the internet, for which I’m sorry. It was silly of me to pick the 6CS-21P as an example and I mentioned the 20 quarts to indicate just how big and silly this was for an example. The HT-1 is a much smaller and sensible choice from the same list. I am not suggesting that I or anybody should buy or specify this type of battery. I used them here because I believe them to be genuine and unambiguously Deep-Cycle types and the data is available on the internet. I don’t think they are available this side of the pond, although I have seen them on yachts. These extreme examples were used to get away from the “Duff Guff” syndrome. I see now the in series truth, the Volt double, the Amp/Hrs stay the same and I guess the Watt/Hrs double, clear as a bell I believe I am up to speed with starter batteries and alternators and my interest lies purely with the domestic bank side of fings. A little background as to my interest in the quest for “The Truth”. In about 4 years I, Imshalla, retire. One of two things will then happen. (1) I sell the house and buy a 57ft shell and fit-out myself, I was a boat-builder for 25 year and a carpenter for nearly as long. (2) I sell the house and ship to Crete. I have spent some time on Crete and have learnt that the power supply is not very reliable, especially in the remoter parts that I prefer so I will invest in a solar/wind powered back-up system. Hence my interest in deep-cycle batteries. Time for a brew, I’ll be back With part two

Sorry John, my post crossed with yours, I was reping to Alistair

Nay nay, thrice nay, a 110AH is a 110AH battery no matter what use it is put to. As I was typing this reply the fog cleared a bit, I think I can see that I had hold of the duff end of the stick. So editing this prose I came up with 110A for 1 hour, or, to look at it another way, 1 amp for 110 hrs. Or 55 amp for 5 hours Have I just answered my first question? (correctly?) I can understand that one wouldn’t get this capacity in service and it would knacker the battery to attempt to do this. Or would it, assuming genuine Deep Cycle batteries? It would shorten the service life, as in http://www.dcbattery.com/rolls_cs_cell_cycle_life.html but 110AH ought to mean to a sensible end point?? If the above is something resembling the truth, can I ask how this compares to the battery mentioned, the HT-1 which is quoted as 105 Amp Hr 20 Hr Rate. What capacity would one get with two in series, compared to the famous 110AH

I’ve just noticed the battery above has 20 quarts of acid, so perhaps that one is over the top, can we talk about the smallest 6V jobby, the HT-1

One for John `Squeers.’ John, I’ve been lurking around alleys like this and uk.rec.waterways trying to get a handle on things narrow-boat, I still have trouble with batteries, like cutting thru the copy-writers bull-shit and the “lax terminology”. It seems that the going rate for the domestic bank is X no @110A, now 110A don’t mean much to me without some sort of time component, is 110A a 10 hour rate, 20 hour rate, 3 day? Kindly look at this page http://www.dcbattery.com/rolls.html Scroll down the table of 6 volt batteries and have a shuffty at the one labelled 6CS-21P, I picked this one at random, I don’t really have much clue, say 2 no of those in series (12V), how would that shape up against the 110A that seems popular? I can guess that the Rolls/Surrette batteries are pretty fierce dollar, but how do the capacities compare. TIA I appreciate your indulgence.

on my posts above, on left-hand header thinngy it says "Warning 0%" wass that about then

2 chances, slim and none!

Seems he will need a wedge to pay the redundancy for about a third of a million civil servants he intends to lay-off..................to save money. We had to put up with all the tripe from the Merrikins election, now it all starts here, does it never end? fink I'll ship out for six months. Amicus

This over my head but Maplin do http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?Module...ldID=9&doy=10m1 @ £70, is this the kit we is talking about? a

Tis a 20meg download, dialup users may prefer to use a cover-mount CD-Rom from one of the comics

Spect he would fail the boat

As an after thought I feel that ALL owner and operators should own and be familiar with this document! should stir fings up a bit......

I think this might help http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/final_brochure-2.pdf appendix 10 I think a

Hi, I’m a newbie trying to get up to speed in the fascinating world of narrow-boat electrics, till now everything I’ve read indicates that domestic batteries are connected together into one gert battery. I’ve just found this; http://www.leisure-electrics.co.uk/images/Wiring.PDF and am wondering what the panel thinks of the concept therein of keeping the three domestic batteries separate and supplying individual services/circuits. Regards Amicus ps. I'm trying to stay away from the pros and cons of Sterling,Advert, et.al.