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Think I’m with @LadyG on this. She does after all have a solid scientific background and worked in the water industry including the inspection of treatment plants from what she says. The other point is that this company is relatively new. If they’re a success that’s great. If they go bump where do you get your spares, filters etc from.

Well good luck to you then but I’ll stick to my tank of tap water if that’s ok? I think a lot of folk are getting rather carried away with their enthusiasm for this system. Drinking water that has recently been polluted with cyanide to the point where it has wiped out all life would not be something I’d consider sensible no matter how well filtered it was. I posted Water Freedom’s own words on the subject in another thread and I think it’s worth repeating here. This is buried in their small print and I had to use Google AI to find it. This is their words (or the words of their lawyers) not mine… Important Considerations: Legal and Insurance Limitations: Water Freedom explicitly states they can't guarantee the safety of drinking water for legal and insurance reasons. Recommended Additional Filtration: For drinking water, Water Freedom recommends using a medical-grade 0.05 micron undersink filter and/or a ZeroWater filter jug to remove any remaining pathogens or contaminants that might have slipped through their filtration process. Regular Maintenance: Maintaining the system with regular flushing and filter changes is crucial for ensuring its continued effectiveness. Source Water Quality: The effectiveness of the system depends on the quality of the source water. While they can filter water from various sources, the higher the initial contamination, the more thorough the filtration and additional purification may be required. In summary: Water Freedom systems are designed to provide safe and clean water for various purposes, including potentially drinking water, but they require additional filtration for drinking water purposes and regular maintenance to ensure continued effectiveness.

I keep thinking about that cyanide pollution incident near Walsall recently. If I was using one of these systems nearby and hadn’t heard the canal around me was full of Sodium Cyanide, well it doesn’t bear thinking about.

Do you really talk to them like that?

Yeah, you may have a point there. 🤔 Still, I hope they try, and don’t just let it go. We all indirectly pay for these incidents after all.

It all sounds pretty horrendous. You sound like you’re taking it in your stride though and probably more philosophically than I would! Hopefully CRT have ‘clocked’ the offending boat and their legal team will get onto it in due course and try to recover some of the costs? They’re going to be pretty significant I would think.

@Jonny P beat me to it. I think in these cases we have to assume the CRT engineers know what they’re doing. There’s obviously a reason.

The gates at Watford are huge. I’m not surprised a crane is needed.

How many boats like you are stuck there? I bet you’re seething.

I think I’ve done it. Not 100% accurate but good to satisfy my curiosity. I found a calculator online for working out the volume of prism shapes. It’s made it roughly 950 litres (210 gallons). The margin of error is that it doesn’t take into account the curvature of the boat. The horizontal curvature would increase the volume and the vertical curvature would decrease it, so I’ve assumed for rough estimate purposes those two will more or less cancel one another out. Had to use a bit of the old Pythagoras to get the a & b measurements - knew my o level maths would come in handy one day! Here’s a screenshot…

Blimey I don’t think I could be bothered to go to that trouble. I’m well impressed by your ingenuity though. 👍 I read that someone had worked out the litres per second flow rate from their filling hose then timed how long it took to fill their empty tank and extrapolated the result. Don’t think I can be arsed to do that one either. 😂 How badly to I want this information I ask myself? 🤔😂😂 Perhaps I’ll go and do something else. 😊

Mine was doing this exact same thing intermittently a couple of years ago, I have a Beta engine too. I checked all of the connections to the back of the gauge and one spade connection seemed loose and I pushed it back on fully but also around the same time I cleaned all of the connections in the main wiring harness multi plug connector as @Tony Brooks has suggested. This was actually to sort another fault but the tachometer has been fine since then. Never really worked out which of my interventions solved the problem.

I understand. Funny enough my wife’s reaction when I suggested treating the tank was about the possibility of it tainting the taste of the water. She wasn’t keen on me doing it.