jacob

Worst we had was a small tyre that slipped itself quite neatly round the whole prop

Cheers both, have removed the two old batteries from the circuit

Morning all, I'm having a bit of a headache with my batteries, wondering if you could help me diagnose the issue. For context, we're liveaboards at a marina, so we're almost always plugged in to a shoreline Around 3 months ago one of our batteries started offgassing pretty badly - I assumed it was just a knackered battery, so took it out the circuit. Then a second battery started offgassing a day later. I did some fault finding and reckoned that the old dusty battery charger was the issue. I got another new battery and a shiny 12V 30A Victron blue smart charger. I set that all up and everything was working flawlessly... ...until last night - at around midnight I noticed the smell again and another battery was offgassing. I disconnected everything from the circuit and this morning inspected everything. The dead battery is another of the old ones that came with the boat. Looking at the victron app (pictures attached) it seems the last cycle lasted 50 days and the vast amount of this was in storage mode. I've also attached a picture of the batteries, the duff one is the second from the bottom (although the bottom one has also lost its green 'healthy' indicator) Any ideas what's going on? My plans for temporarily fixing this is to either remove the old battery from the circuit, or to go all the way and set up the charger as a power source, with no batteries connected. A long term fix would be much appreciated as I don't have the funds to replace my battery setup every 3months... Thanks

Cheers both, I'll try tracing it back and see where that gets me

Hmm, I've given that a go but the problem is still there no matter which of the three are connected (and even when they are all disconnected) The only other thing I could think of is something else being connected, but the only other things that are remotely near are the horn and the water pump, both of which are on seperate circuits.

Afternoon all, I'm trying to fix a recurring problem we're having with the electrics. Every now and then, a string of lights (all on the same 12V spur) will stop working. This happens pretty randomly - today I dropped something heavy on the floor and they switched off, but other times it's happened with no apparent cause. I've done some digging in the cables, this is what I've found. The problem is with a spur of 3 lights - a 12V strip light and two 12V touch led lights. When this spur is disconnected, the voltage across the terminal block is 13.5V. Once I connect the spur, the voltage drops to just under 3V. At this low voltage, the lights just don't turn on. When the lights are working and on, it measures about 12-13V across the terminal block. I'm struggling to work out what the problem is, and why it's so intermittent. I'm fairly sure that it's only those 3 lights connected, but I can't easily access the wires as they're buried into the ceiling. Any ideas what the issue could be, and any possible fixes? Cheers, Jacob

Cheers all - we drained it out, sprayed it down and shovelled out a carrier bag full of silt and crud from the bottom, it's running clear and fresh now

Evening all, I recently repainted our well deck, which was pretty much caked in rust. The water tank hatch was also rusted down, so I drilled out the bolts and prised it out. The paint job was a success, but now about 5 days after the event our water smells of white spirits and has a bit of a chemically tang to it - I used white spirits to wipe down the metal before painting it, and reckon that a small amount got into the tank through now unsealed hatch. Does anyone have any ideas for how best to go about flushing the system clean? My current thinking is to just leave the taps running and a hose in tank to cycle everything, but if anyone's got any experience with this fairly niche incident that'd be helpful Cheers! Jacob

Installed mine over the summer - £1360 for a Hobbit stove and flue kit, then maybe a good 2 days work building the hearth and installing it. At £50/hour, that'd come to roughly £2.5k all told

cheers all - I've dropped an email to Beta

Heya, The belt for our leisure battery alternator is knackered so we need a replacement, and I'm struggling to identify the belt so I can get a new one online It's a beta 43 engine, and the belt is 10mm wide. There's a few codes and numbers on it that are a bit worn, but from what I can make out they're 3108, 13AY1087, 661 1130 54940 161 and FA1 AUTOMOTIVE <something> - pic below I've found this one at midland chandlers, but it doesn't match any of the codes on the belt so I'm not sure it's the one... Any ideas? Cheers, J

£0.15/unit, £0.11/day for service

I screwed the batons straight to the steel beams using self tapping screws (had to predrill a small pilot hole first). The batons I used were pretreated - I've got a few spare I don't need so if you happen to be around the Limehouse area you can have them

Heya - I recently replaced my deckhead too Essentially get rid of as much loose rust as you can, paint the rust with vactan, add a layer of primer to seal everything in and then replace the insulation

A nice sharp chisel will easily shave off the tongues