Steve Manc

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14o3XZayzKb/ Hi I thought I was being helpful by doing a screenshot. This is a link to the post. It would appear other people are asking the same questions for more information. Sorry this is all I know

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Sorry I haven't noticed 😞 Thanks

Grumpy Thanks for your recommendation. Would you be able to recommend a regulator? Thanks

Grumpy I have tested the light fitting with light strips / bulbs that work and they don't work. Therefore I want to follow your Idea. The inside of the light frame it's 300mm long by 75mm wide. Can you assist me? What do you recommend I buy ? We have two more lights I would like to change. Thanks Steve

I was on about my spelling mistake ! Aside from the fact they have altinators and not alternators I count

That was useful 🤔

Tony It's a few years since the victron battery monitor was calibrated. Thanks for the information. I will look at recalibration of the victron battery monitor. See photo on the information of the splitter. Cheers

The battery set up is how I purchased it. I believe it's how the boat was built. When we purchased the boat there was 8 batteries on the boat. Yes there are currently 7 batteries on the boat. Inverter side there was 4 batteries when we bought the boat. We have reduced this down to 3. These are charged by their own altinator or the solar panels. The solar panels feed these batteries and are monitored by the victron battery monitor. On the domestic side there are 3 batteries. These are charged by their own altinator and solar panels. There is 1 starter battery. This is charged by the domestic altinator. It's not charged by the solar panels. Because the solar isn't connected to the domestic batteries directly there is a victron splitor fitted. The feed from the solar panels goes straight to the splitor. This sends 50% to each bank of batteries. Once the solar panels stop producing power, I.e at night, the splitor some how disconnects the connection between the 2 bank of batteries. You may wonder why so many batteries? We have a 1200mm corner bath jacuzzi. It still works. We don't use it. The boat was built as a honeymoon boat by the hire company. 😀 Hope this helps

I haven't listed the 'water pump' on the engine for the cooling or the 'oil pump' on the engine. These are engine parts. The engine is a izusu. The water pump is run via one of the alternator belts. I am unaware how the oil is circulated around the engine. As you can see by my comments or questions my engineering knowledge is very basic. Thanks for all your comments.

Yes I did thanks We had the solar panels and victron batteries monitoring fitted 2018. During June, July and August when we use the boat we don't normally have to run the engine to charge the batteries. If it's raining or heavy black clouds we may have to. Since buying the boat I think we are on our 2nd lot of 3 x batteries on the inverter bank.We have 3 x 110ah batteries and a 2,500 Stirling inverter. This bank has its own altinator. The only item we use these batteries for are the TV and sump pump We also have 3 x 110ah batteries for the domestic 12v side. These batteries have their own alternator. We replaced these in June We run the fridge freezer, lights, toilet, charge mobiles, water pump for showers, toilet and sinks. We have 1 x 110ah starter battery. This is charged by the solar panels or the domestic altinator. Thanks for all your replies. I think it's cold meat and salads going forwards

When we purchased our ex hire narrowboat it had a microwave on it. Soon after buying the boat we had solar panels and batteries monitoring fitted. Having used the microwave we found the batteries dropped down to 70 % ish. We removed the microwave. We have 3 x 110ah batteries and a 2,500 Stirling inverter. The only item we use these batteries for are the TV and engine sump pump. What strength microwave would you recommend? In this heat my better half wants a microwave rather than boiling water to cook veg etc. We also have 3 x 110ah batteries for the 12v side. We run the fridge freezer, lights, toilet, charge mobiles,

Re filling diesel tank. The depth is 670mm the most we have filled it for the last 5 years is around 500mm. We add Fuel set each time we fuel up. Todate we haven't had any issues 🙏