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Google isn't my friend in this case - no sign of my monitor on the sterling site as far as I can see. The screen says "Sterling Battery Manager with Ah Counter" but gives no model number or anything else. I am fairly sure that it is wrong but I would like to try resetting it to zero at a time when I know that the batteries are fully charged. To 'give it a last chance' before disconnecting it for good.

I have a (18+ years old) Sterling battery management screen which, allegedly, shows the current state of my batteries. In the course of a previous topic on here someone was good enough to tell me how to reset the Ah counter to zero. I was not on the boat at the time and now I can't find the post. Can anyone help please?

I have had this particular boat for 7 years and the dog for 6. In that time no one has been swept off the back, nor tripped over the dog. The dog and I could be in an area the size of Texas and the dog would still be under my feet so I have learned to be careful where I step.?

We have a trad stern and a (slightly larger than average) golden retriever, she, my wife and I can all fit on the back. One of us (not the dog) just steps onto the gunnel if the other needs more room.

When I bought my (used) boat, it was tiled throughout. I would have preferred almost any other flooring as access to the bilge is practically impossible. It looks great but is more trouble than it's worth.

No, didn't need to, a CaRT guy and some workers were there by accident (they wanted to get a CaRT boat through) and were trying to sort it out. The ground paddle was broken in the open position so it was impossible (unaided) to open the bottom gates against the flow of water. Luckily they were big guys and muscled us and other boats through. This was obviously a temporary solution and the CaRT chap thought it would take several days to get a permanent repair. Just seems strange that I have seen nothing on the site.

There was a problem with the ground paddle at Colwich lock as I came through a few days ago. There is nothing on the CART site about this; does anyone know if the problem is fixed now? Thanks.

No apology needed. I will ring Phil's guy and open the front of the combi to contemplate the innards but in the end, I suspect, I will get another one (or perhaps separate inverter and charger).

I suspected that I was answering the wrong question, sorry. The answer to your question is "yes", the on position will give a result similar to yours.

The combi cannot be set to 'charger only' manually, it has one, three position, switch. The three positions are "off", "on" and "remote" but it (or the boat) did not come with a remote.

That is a very useful idea, although I don't know if the charger element can be disconnected, I'll have to see. I will give him a go next week. Thanks.

My Mastervolt combi has a problem with the battery charger. It's a pre 2003 model so the only answer may be replacement but it may be worth running the problem by you folks first. When on 16 Amp shore-power it always goes to float too soon but if I switched it off and on again, it got there eventually. Now, it's allowing my batteries to discharge rather than charge. For example, last night my battery management display showed "0 Ah with 0.3A going in". This morning it showed "-6 Ah with 1.2 A" going in. Is there a solution other than getting a new one?

When I'm off the boat I walk the dog along that stretch and while it is pretty grotty, you need to remember that it passes through the 'inerest' of inner cities. Beyond Yardley there are some nice surroundings, you just need the bottle to explore a bit. I see quite a few boats moored along this section and have never seen one come to harm.

Yeh, of course, but you don't, do you?

Most years, presumably.

Strangely those threads annoy me as well. Even though, in most cases I do not have the experience to be of assistance, the lack of meaningful communication is obvious and frustrating. Particularly so, as I try to follow technical threads to the end in the hope of learning something. But it works both ways. If I, worried, post about an overheating problem, comments about my wife changing the oil (however light-hearted) do not assist much.

that's fine, thanks for the reply.

I don't know how busy you are but you can miss a lot of entertainment by ignoring the idiots - some of their stuff can be very amusing (inadvertently or not).

I haven't, would not dream of inviting you (or others) into my life. There are some that I cannot watch, some which I see occasionally (when the subject interests me) and two which I am subscribed to and follow. Perhaps it's me but they are definitely not all the same. If they are boring just don't watch them.

Do you know, or perhaps you are about to find out, the state of the pubs in Stone? The Swan and the Star would be good starts if you can help me.

Indeed there are. It says something (I'm not sure what precisely) that the thread, asking for better behaviour, had to be closed due to the opposite. Things don't change a lot in 13 years.

I have no dog in this fight but did read the earlier comment and immediately took it to be sarcastic, as it is now claimed to be. Obviously it could be misinterpreted but surely not by anyone who knew Durham.