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Hi all, hoping for some guidance and help on this one.
I recently noticed that my voltage across the domestic battery bank (bank 2) wasn’t being charged when the engine was running.
Engine battery, bank 1, is being charged and thus the alternator is putting out power.
It seems that the Sterling Split charge job isn’t putting power to bank 2 for some reason. Starter battery is at 14.3v so I suspect it’s fully charged I..e I would have expected the Split job to have switched and begun charging bank 2.
I’ve jumped the negative directly from bank 1 to 2 to rule out any earth faults.
I’ve jumped the positives too, effectively missing out the Split job, and the alternator does then chuck out its max 35ish amps and charges both banks.ive tried switching the Mastervolt Combi unit (it is wired directly to bank 2) off and it has not effect on symptoms.
I’m lost!! Is the Split unit just buggered?
if needed I will sketch out the wiring diagram.
cheers for any help / advice
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15 minutes ago, Chagall said:Why did you feel the need to highlight sirweste's post with the pious reply "Charming" ? Many of the replies you give are considerably less charming. I note you (or a mod) placed asterisks when you quoted him, did you also report it I wonder?
Off topic sorry:
Yeah my post broke a rule about swearing I didn't realise exisited. Anyhow, I used the words deliberately to emphasise my thoughts on the matter. I don't swear often on a public forum, when I do I mean it as a means of expression.
I didn't feel the "charming" post warranted a reply tbh, but as it's be brought up, I found Nomad's reply about lecturing to Matty's extremely heartfelt post was very distasteful and feel you should be ashamed of it. But, you didn't use any naughty words.
Every now and then I pop back in this forum and each time it's the same toxic people making the whole place feel hostile and unwelcoming.
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45 minutes ago, Simon Todd said:
Hi all and hope you are all keeping well. I’d like to discuss how you keep fit while afloat. I’m keenly researching for our early retirement and so far have found almost nothing on this site or any other.
We’re early 50s and pretty fit, usually running around 40 miles a week and strength training 5 out of 7 days. Not too much room for that on a boat and CC makes gym membership not practical. So what do you guys do?
cheers guysSimon
Yeah it is a bit off a faff having no space, particularly during the winter.
I have a couple of kettle bells, but motivation to use them out in winter is low! I also have a Beastmaker set-up so I can still keep climbing finger training up.
In the summer I try to moor somewhere quiet, with a decent width of towpath, so I can have space to exercise. Use my bike to do interval / sprint training where the towpath allows.
I loath gyms, but there are some national ones (AnyTime Fitness) that means you can use them in various locations, still not really viable in my opinion though.
Obviously running would be no issue for you, but strength exercise is indeed a hassle! I tend to haul the boat quite a bit, I work locks pretty hard and i have 25l drums that I physically carry in pairs back to the boat from the van (farm carries), which is usually a 5 minute or so carry.
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1 hour ago, Athy said:
Jim, and others: this topic is not in the political section, so no more controversial and/or inflammatory political comments, please.
thanks Athy.
I'm considering sticking where I am over Christmas, if I do I will notify CRT. Seems bloody daft to be shuffling about to some arbitrary rule at the moment. Just as daft as seeing shiny boats out for jollies over the last few weekends; though of course I'm judging them to not be CCers moving for water or whatever
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5 minutes ago, Rickent said:
pfizer and the other companies that have produced these vaccines have an indemnity so they will not be liable if anyone has an adverse reaction.
Pfizer have over the years paid out over 2.3 billion in lawsuits to people who have been damaged by their products.
So this is the first thing you've put in here that actually has validity. But you presented it as fact, which it is not.
From the article "A spokesman for the European Commission declined to comment specifically on Middleton's remarks, but said advance purchase deals "provide for member states to indemnify the manufacturer for certain liabilities incurred under specific and strict conditions" but "liability still remains with the companies"
So we can't confirm they "have and indemnity", but I'd agree they will be pushing for one and may get one. Either way, doesn't really matter does it, making loads of people really ill when you were trying to save the world isn't gonna be good for business.
1 minute ago, Rambling Boater said:Any 'immunity passport' concept should not be based on proof you have the jab. It should be based on prooving you have immunity and can't pass it on to others i.e Proof via reliable antigen test results. As I said, the virus can still spread by shedding and poor hygene even when immunity is present.
I think rather than using 'virtue signalling' and attempted guilt trips as a basis for an argument, perhaps it would be better if we stuck to the science and common sense at least.
I never stated it was proof of having the vaccine, I chose my words deliberately
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1 hour ago, The Happy Nomad said:
The opposition would still have had to lock us down, they would have had to wait just as long for a vaccine, they might (?would) have made a better job of track and trace but don't forget the infrastructure support available to them to implement it would be much the same and probably susceptible to the same potential failures under them as it was under the Tories.
There is clearly stuff that could have been done better but some seem to forget this was an unprecedented event in living memory. All will hopefully be revealed at any future enquiry of course.
Lawyer or not I bet Starmer would have struggled too, for now he can just criticise from the sidelines along with some of his party who don't really have to worry about anything other than seeking out things to criticise without having to do anything substantial to contribute to defeating the pandemic.
Little wonder Boris calls him 'Captain Hindsight'.
People often say 'what would have Labour done better'. That's utterly irrelevant and frustrating whataboutry.
Being critical of the complete mess we are in, the constant impression that it's all being made up on the spot is shared by many. The gov should be held to account for this. I don't care in the slightest what Starmer would have done, I care what has been done and how they will be held accountable, how we will reflect and improve and how we will put in plans and processes to prevent such a mess in the future; when the next pandemic roles through.
Personally I think the critical nature of Starmer probably would have been better than Johnson's insert nature here. But we'll never know and I don't really care what he might have done. I care about getting it right now, learning from mistakes made, which seemingly the gov haven't done at anypoint since Feb / Jan. The mistakes at the beginning were perhaps excusable, unprecedented times and all that. We've more than 6 months of precedent now.
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36 minutes ago, Rambling Boater said:
It's OUR choice actually, but I doubt our lifestyle will put many at risk as we're retired liveaboards in our 60s who don't go out partying every night.
Saw an article yesterday (Sky I think) about places potentially requiring you to provide proof you're immune before granting entry. Something I'd support, it's your choice not to prove you're immune yep yep, but then as a society we should reject inclusion those who refuse.
While you may not go out much, I'd still not be chuffed to be in a supermarket / shop / restaurant / pictures / theater / pub 'with' you; just as I don't like being in those places with e.g. someone smoking.
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15 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Well, I suppose 'nutters' are not always defined by their IQ.
One of my close friends and colleague messaged the other day to ask "what do I think about all this Covid stuff". Turns out she's a conspiracy theorist about it all. Quite the shock as she's well educated, successful professionally (aerospace firm) and doesn't hang out in weird circles (well I am weird but I'm not a circle).
I've quite enjoyed constructive discussion and reasoning things out. But yeah, not related to IQ at all. This lass has been influenced by other friends forwarding utter shite on whatsapp; like a video by that complete cunt Mike Yeadon, he's made a 30 minute video that's extremely time consuming to fact check and disprove.
Anyway. Yeah 14 day rule, mid winter, mid pandemic, seems a bit daft to me. But then I'm a CCer so it benefits me, normally I'm moving in the dark and cold this time of year.
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1 hour ago, gemmaze said:
inculding pro vax clowns who think people should inject poison into their bodies in order to make them feel safe because they cant be assed to maintain a healthy immune system without the use of chemicals peddled by big pharma.
Pardon..? You're calling people who understand and agree with vaccination (most of the population) clowns, because they "inject poison"...because they can't be arsed to maintain a healthy immune system...to fight such things as polio I guess?
Have I completely miss-understood what you said?
1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:Maybe as is the way with any other 'insurance' a high risk (Obese, smoker, drug taker etc etc) should pay higher 'premiums' and have a greater 'excess' to pay before the NHS kicks in 'for free'.
I dunno if you said this in jest or not, how would you then account for hereditary risks? What about the working class who do manual labour? You're effectively wanting to de-solcialise the NHS. Unless you said it in jest.
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1 minute ago, Machpoint005 said:
My point is made for me.
Thank you.
Glad you think so, I more consider it multitasking rather than impatience, but pleased to be of service!
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Anyway, I’m all for education and stopping pillocks from using the towpath I’m a way that’s unacceptably dangerous to others is a good thing no doubt.
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3 minutes ago, Machpoint005 said:
... and a lack of patience with it.
Which was my point in the first place.
Not at all, was a long message on a phone, swapped between it and the camera and WhatsApp. Pressed the Submit button, it didn’t work properly. Copied the text, reloaded the page, pasted, received a call, tried to Submit and it didn’t work. Realised it was due to navigate away from the post I was writing, so pasted one last time and added some more text and then it worked.
but it turns out it worked the previous two times, just without any indication that it had.
I assume you’ve drawn me as impatient due to my perceived stance in this thread?
im generally not. But I certainly don’t hang about when I’m cycling. I make no plans to slow down, will continue to use the towpath for interval sprints where suitable however I will still continue to cycle with consideration. Which is what should be advocated. Just as boaters should be being educated that the towpath isn’t theirs and they must use it with consideration too I.e. giving way to faster users and not stepping onto it backwards without looking or listening. It’s really not hard, be considerate of one another. That’s it.
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5 hours ago, Jerra said:
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31 minutes ago, Jerra said:
I accept and have never suggested the towpath should belong to only one group.
However sometimes groups (not just talking about towpaths) get banned from doing something because of general bad behaviour of a smallish minority.
I also believe no group should be allowed to endanger/injure any other group. In a single week I came very close to being injured and was certainly endangered with two incidents. IMO something has to be done when things get to that stage.
Apologies, I was writing in the royal sense, not to you specifically; other than the initial point about education.
I agree that that can happen to some groups due to minorities, such as gun ownership in some countries.
I do not agree completely that no group should be allowed to endanger any other group as such an definitive statement. There is risk in all walks of life. Engineers are allowed to endanger bridge users for example. Pilots are allowed to endanger passengers. Canal boaters are allowed to endanger smaller water users. - unless you are referring to deliberate endangerment? If so it would be incorrect to state that cyclists are allowed to deliberately endanger other users, there's just risks to others, just as there are in all areas of life.
Yes I would agree that endangerment / near misses you are stating are unacceptable.
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On 23/10/2020 at 17:01, Jerra said:
You seem against the idea so what practical suggestions do you have for slowing speeding cyclist. Education won't work, if it would there would be no crime, as everybody is at sometime in their life taught what is right and wrong.
Well, I mean education does work, but it depends on what you count as 'working' / 'success'. The more you educate and the more opportunities the better society generally becomes. So education for cyclist and better alternative routes at the pinch points.
On the Southern GU I don't have a problem with inconsiderate cyclists to be honest. I imagine there's hotspots for where the towpath is used more extensively by riders, thus you will end up with more of the bad eggs. Tbh the towpath section I cycle on presently is quiet, I rarely meet any walkers or other riders, though at night fisher men & women do have their kit scattered all over the shop, making for some wiggly courses
Ultimately, better education would help to solve a lot of these issues. But that, I expect, would be strongly fought against as it will deter people from riding places, which in the grand scheme of things is an exceptionally bad idea.
Best to just accept that the towpath isn't yours, it isn't theirs, it's everybody and it's use has drastically changed over the years. There's not a user group that has more right to be there I don't believe. So cycle considerately, look and listen before walking backwards (or forwards) onto it, let faster users over-take and be considerate when over-taking. Be nice to one-another, be considerate of one-another and everyone will get on better. It's a shared space, so lets share it nicely aye
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So yeah, with regards the topic, the signs aren't right in my opinion. They should be pushing for good considerate towpath use, not simply slowing down.
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10 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:
Why should you need to get out of the way, how about the bike stopping and getting off
I agree. I've never said the pedestrian needs to get out of the way.
It's a shared path so just as you would if you met a jogger / child / walker, both parties would make space for one another. As for the cyclist dismounting, that would require the cyclist to consider the situation, taking bike skill, space, risk etc into the decision. For cyclist to always dismount seems daft to me
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Just now, haggis said:
Why the need to shout? Is the cycling code not that they give way to pedestrians?
Not even a " please" or " thank you" ? Just a demand?
Haggis
I agree. I never suggested anyone shout or scream. I never suggested anyone demand. I never said ‘they’ should not have manners.
all I said was I found using a bell to be rude, and agreed with the points another fella made (back pedalling, braking etc)
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Is swearing frowned upon here?
i was trying to illustrate that some things are ruder than some other things. Just as cuthound had done.
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Hi all,
i genuinely don’t know if I want to know the answer to this. Am still in two minds about asking!!!
i live aboard and the Water tank gets emptied and refilled every 2 to 3 weeks. The tank is a ~350l plastic jobbie under the front deck.Had a potable water leak which I have traced to the water pump. Took the pump out to seal it back up and stop the leak and noticed some weird mostly white but also with some yellow deposits in the filter gauze.
they look like plastic shavings, but can’t imagine that they are. Terrified they are some creatures shed skin or something!! Though I drink the water from the boat and haven’t been unwell.
can anyone tell me what they are!?
cheers
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12 hours ago, cuthound said:
I think shouting at someone to "get out of the way" is much ruder thsn the tinkling of a bell.
I agree.
I think someone screaming “get the f*** out of the way you dick” is ruder than someone shouting “get out of the way”.
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47 minutes ago, magpie patrick said:
You seriously think that a waterside path used by elderly (and sometimes infirm) adults, children, dogs, mooring pins and wildlife, as well as other cyclists, is a suitable place for sprint training?
Yeah absolutely. Depends on the location aye, hence me saying "considerate about where". Where I am now would be good for them, short sprints max effort, horrible.
Not done any this year as racing hasn't happened, but usually I do em, despise training in general but need to stay fit to keep on pace with the young'ens.
Would people be happy for cyclists to ride slowly, say 5-6mph, but not use any form of alert calls or ever give way, or give enough space when passing etc?
Answer: No. (I assume)
Hence, why the sign should read "cycle considerately", not what it does say about going slowly.
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4 minutes ago, Jon57 said:
What if your walking on the towpath with a hearing problem. Or have headphones on/in. No amount of bell ring makes a blind bit of difference. Are you saying we should keep looking behind us every couple of seconds to step out of the way, which I do to protect myself. (Hard of hearing) And why should you have to jump for your life when people hear a bell. I too have a bike which I ride on the towpath but don’t ring my bell straight away. First I make the brakes squeak. If that doesn’t work l peddle backwards. If no response I ring the bell. If by then they have not herd me I say bike coming. I find the more gentle approach is much appreciated rather than ding ding get out of my way approach. I’m not against cyclists using the towpath as it’s there for everyone but i dread the coming of the speeding ones on a mission.
No I am not saying we should "keep looking behind us every couple of seconds", I never said or implied that nor do I have any idea how you've come to think I might have!
I also agree about the bell, I don't use one, find them rude, but understand they are used.
Sterling Pro Split R - Not charging second bank
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Yeah I’ve checked all of that sort of stuff. Measured volts (12.x) to bank 2 are all before the fuse / at the batt 2 terminal on the Split job
picture was taken with the engine running.
With engine off and genny running the charger, so bank 2 at 13/14V, it lights up the bottom 3 (as in picture) but the middle one (green) flashes.
the bottom one (blue) is on despite ignition being switched off.