PeterF

Is that the sign that days empty the lock slowly, only half paddles until the lock is half empty. Presumably because of the raft of Anderson hire boats often below the lock.

Domestic battery voltmeter and ammeter so you know when they have been fully charged.

Dymo tape

Fenders not of any use in Standedge tunnel because the narrow bits that catch your boat are not at the water line, they are bits that stick out at taff rail or cabin corner height because the tunnel shape is so irregular and was not cut for boats with cabins per todays boats.

If you have already cleaned and checked the shower mixer and replaced it and it still does the same I am with Tony that you have a restriction elsewhere in your system. The other area for a restriction is in the shower hose and spray head, especially if you are in a hard water area, the nozzles cab block.

Dodgy thermostatic shower mixer closing off the water when it gets to temperature so the only way to get any water is to set the temperature gauge hotter than the water, or at full so it can not close. Is water from the cold supply getting to it. Some mixers have a fine gauze strainer on the inlet unions, remove the mixer and check for blockages. While the mixer is off put it full cold setting and try to blow air, flush water through from a hose and then the same for full hot setting. Then repeat the process and blow / flush backwards from the shower hose connection.

One chance of queues is Stanthorne lock on the Middlewich branch which has limit stops on the bottom gate paddles which make it very slow to empty. We have been in 7 boat queues several times that take 90 + minutes to get through. Oddly enough the longest queues that develop are going downhill, I have never been held up for long going uphill. Do more people do the four counties ring clockwise.

You can join RCR at a higher level than is included in your insurance, but this costs may be £200 annually. Then there is no call out fee. But even with the higher cover they still do not cover the domestic alternator, but once out they can usually fix for a fee.

How long before the mobile antennae get broken, hopefully if it works a more robust design will be used when rolled out properly.

Nothing on Canal Plan boat listing, Builder unknown.

There have been several people on this forum reporting problems with solar charging performance that has been tracked down to the poor performance of that type of breaker. The cylindrical type also have a bad reputation.

We call them turbo ducklings

Hopefully out of the towpath side window.

A simple voltage sensing relay will not be ideal. Consider the case where you have 250W solar available, the batteries are taking 100W and the heating element is 300W. Batteries are taking 100W so voltage is at 14.4V, the VSR closes, 300W goes to the heater, 50W is drawn from the battery, the voltage drops to 12.7V, the VSR opens, 100W solar goes to batteries, voltage goes to 14.4V and the cycle repeats every few seconds. That is why with lithium you use the battery monitor and SOC to control it to avoid the rapid cycling when not enough excess is available.

If the system is 12V limited to 300W then there is less load so it is more likely solar will keep up and not draw down the batteries, but you would still need some over rides on low SOC.

There will still be a thermostat switch to switch the element off just like normal.

I think the doing it automatically with lithium is much easier because they do not need to be fully charged like lead acid batteries. I looked into doing on my boat, big enough bank and solar but the batteries are AGM so I have not gone any further because you only want to use excess solar and not pull the batteries back down.

I thought I would take a look as I used to boat the area covered in the 1st episode. The drone footage was interesting seeing areas from a different perspective. I laughed at a great bit of continuity, at one point he is moaning about getting effluent on him when doing a pump out. The next clip has him cutting up logs with a bow saw, but to the quick view it looked like he was cutting the bespoiled hand off. My wife commented that it was a bit of over reaction which drew my attention to it.

The problem with the dual elements is that they are limited to around 300W so it takes time for heating the water, but on the plus side if you lose the sun you are not dragging 1 kW from your batteries. It is harder to do for lead acid because of the desire to fully charge them and then not deplete them. A fully automatic system could be developed on the Cerbo GX if you used AC Out2 and the node red programming option. You coyld use AC2 out and as mentioned above use assistants to control this and stop AC2 out if the batteries fell below say 95% SOC.

I do believe you are well out of touch, boats from the better builders are currently £180,000 - £200,000 new and £200,000 - £220,000 for hybrid so this boat does have a hefty discount from new. In terms of selling, it will sell, one of the early hybrids from Ortomarine has recently turned up in our marina after being sold.

The BSS committee can just say that they are bringing the BSS into line with international standards, i.e. ISO Technical Specification ISO/TS/23625, Small craft - Lithium-ion batteries. This states 4.9 In normal operation, different battery chemistries should not be connected in parallel or in series. Combining/automated charging relays should not be used between systems using different chemistries.

Paddle is open on Anchor Pit flood lock to keep the section downstream to the Kirklees locks in water.

Would it make any difference if you started charging at 15 minutes after midnight to clear the economy 7 start time. I no this is a silly point as changing from standard tariff to economy 7 should not result in a transient power loss. But sillier things have happened.

Try joining the Facebook 12V boating group as they advocate this method and may provide advice. The general consensus here is that this method is not the safest. It relies on the drop in BMS isolating the battery when it is full as the lead acid charge voltage is too high. The view is that the BMS should be used not as charge control but as emergency isolation when things go wrong and have charge control by for example the correct settings in solar chargers, external alternator regulators. This way you have 2 layers of protection, a single failure will not result in battery damage. The drop in lithium hybrid method relies solely on the BMS.

It depends on what the Terms and Conditions state that you agree to when you make the booking, you know that button or tick box on the web page that most people agree to thevT&Cs without actually read them. Most savvy companies will have some clause in there about price rises.