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Most of the so called sealed batteries have a row of stoppers under the label..easily checked by rubbing your thumb over it or looking for the indentations ..if not then of course buy a drill.

If you stop in rugby there is a 200 yard path from the canal bank to a Large Tesco..You will see all the shops from the elevated canal positon and the path is just after the next bridge.

what part of if its treated it will be stamped as such dont you understand? This is so that customs in countries with real border controls ( ie australia) can check. They open and unload every container that goes into the country. Australians will not burn treated wood on open fires because of the toxins in the smoke.....

If its got preservative in it it will have a burnt in stamp saying so ....That is so you can use it to send goods to say australia where they dont want wood bugs ....unstamped its OK

If they cannot get it right on a Boeing 787 why do you think you can do it on a narrowboat..??

but such thinking goes a long way to explaining why people find diagnosing electrical faults difficult. Excellent logic Tony I hate technocrap

A wire from the B+ to the WL terminal will put all the alternator output via the field diodes and bugggger them ...you should have put a 5w bulb from B+ to WL to substitute a known good excitation circuit...Even if you burnt out the diodes it will still charge with the wire in place........

First remember that you must test dont guess ( or it costs time and money) You must put a voltmeter across the battery and read the voltage when the fault exists. 12v or more would be good. Then check across the cables out of the batteries andwork your way towards the pump where you can get access. If the batteries are good and charged it is certain you have a bad connection which is reducing the voltage and causing the light problem. Ignore incorrect statements like the appliances are robbing each other of current ..never happened

Personally Ive never seen a flat battery ..is that when its been run over by a truck? All mine stay brick shaped even when discharged

If your main isolator switch was causing a drop of 1v then yes it will make a big difference. Ocasionally operate the switch as this will help keep the contacts clean. I think you are being told rubbish about your inverter ...microswitch ??? total load of bullshit....If your inverter is working /powering your loads fine ,not over heating or blowing its fusing then its fine.The only place power can disapear to is heat ..... Bet the person who told you this sells them . I suggest you dump the person who is your electrical advisor

140 A is only the maximum output into a resistive load. When charging a discharged battery you will get a max of 25 A per 100AH of capacity and that will fall very fast as the batteries come up. If it did charge at 140 A your batteries would get very hot as you have 3360 Watts available!!!

The vent on that cell is probably blocked so the vapour etc has forced out via the built in hydrometer /eye

batteries dont gas till over 14.4v.........and he said 14.4v

Retirement on health grounds is the way to go ..get your pension now ..I retired at 45 ..bit like winning the lottery slowly....

Fabreze is good just spray it on and that it

dave you forgot to read post no 7

Well it wont be in the contract just on a bit of paper saying contract ammendment to stuff under the jobsworths nose.....

Canal trust put me on to itsalocation.com who run the lisence for them..... Quote "Hi Steve, Thanks for your email, as the images are not for commercial use you will not need to get permission from us for the shoot. Hope its a good day! So to be sure I have added to my contract that all photography taken in Birmingham canal basin is outside the contract and will be undertaken free .The images will only be available for use by friends and family of the couple . Check out how I go on at www.1and1photography.co.uk so with a copy of he Itsalocation letter and a copy of the contract that should shut the jobsworth up long enough...say 1/60 at F11.....

have written to canal trust..will let you know .....permission is fine £££ is not

I got some vague idea that you need a lisence to photograph on the canal bank ..maybe if its of a commercial nature..doing a wedding in birmingham and hoped to do photos by the cut ....does british waterways only own to 6 ft from the canal bank..??

Portabote is the international market leader www.porta-boat.com

Tried the yawcam software on my windows 7 laptop and it worked great....sad they have already given me a full refund !!

Well anyone who got one ...mine only seems to have infinity focus and if used in daylight just whites out..the controls on the software dont seem to work ..ie auto exposure which with the focus is the main problem

Well tony I only got one word for it ...JUNK REVISION With the www.yawam.com software it worked great so do I conclude the supplied software is not up to bottle...??

still waiting for mine ordered 29/Aug. I dont think its the shipping that slows it up ..some of these chinese have been bitten by pay pal re calling the money so I think some wait up to 14 days before they post or they wait for orders to build up to get in bulk supplies .....Still £12 is cheap..