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People on here are such a help and as always, I very much appreciate it. We have 3 sets of skts. Round pin are 12v. Square pin are off the inverter. Square pin marked MAINS ONLY are the shorepower ones and also the Travelpower as I've today from the replies. Now I'm happy about the relationship between shore and travel, I have a start. I'm not getting anything from the washer so I'm thinking it's a hands and knees job looking in the cupboards to see where it is plugged in, rather than assume it is.

Good evening. After owning our boat for a year, I've finally sussed the inverter. What I haven't got my head round is the shore power and travel power. There is a rotary switch with shore/off/gen. Am I correct in thinking that when underway, Travelpower does the job that shorepower does when hooked up? Assuming I select gen on the rotary switch. We have two sets of skts with some marked mains only. Until I suss this, the washing machine is pretty much a white elephant.

I'll check what Mastervolt it is. The boat is over 20 yrs old, so I suspect the electrics may have been put in over time. When cruising, I'm happy everything gets charged, so I'm not sure I want to mess too much. As it only seems to be an issue when she's parked up over the winter on shore power,, as long as I can get them all charging via a jump lead, I can live with that. If the starter doesn't charge, I'll take it on the chin and swap it out and hopefully be forewarned for next winter. The 5 house batts are brand new, so the point made about looking after them due to expense is very valid indeed.

Many thanks again. Think I will give it a few days and go down to try the jump lead thing if I know for sure the house batts are getting a charge. I'm assuming that would only be for when the boat is "stood" and on shore power. There are a couple of stickers next the Mastervolt that say house is 1 and starter is 2. The voltage suggests that is correct. Now that I know I have shorepower and mains outlets, I have had an idea. When I park my bike up in the garage for any length of time, I plug in a Tecmate battery optimiser. Just wondered if one of those plugged in would keep the starter batt topped up. Just a thought.

Been down to the boat and taken a pic of my Mastervolt thing. Starter batt still reading zilch. One thing I did notice was that my house batts were reading 11.9v. I switched my inverter from 'off' to 'charger only' and they immediately went up to 13 plus. Can I take it that indicated there was now charge going to the house batts? This didn't happen with the starter batt. I'm thinking that I may have figured out how to charge both banks, albeit seperately but the starter batt is now beyond help.

we had the eberspacher changed out to a Webasto in October. Might get them out to test the batt, replace if necessary and give me a quick run down of what I need to set all the switches to for various scenarios. It would be worth a few hours labour charge to get it right. I may have a pic of our Mastervolt thing.

Interesting. Surprised there isn't some sort of facility for this to be enabled in the system. thank you all for your help. I will see what it looks like in a few days. The jumper idea. Is that just one lead? pos to pos?

Greetings all. I have just been down to the boat full of enthusiasm with Spring approaching to find my starter battery dead. House bank is fine. I'd finally got my shorepower sorted before chistmas and set the rotary switch to shore. Thought that would all my batts in order over the winter. I have a Mastervolt combi thing which seems to allow one bank only to be selected at a time. It had domestic selected. Not sure if this matters for this problem but I have now selected starter. Is there any chance that there may now be charge going to my starter battery? I can go back down and take pictures of the set up, if that is useful. Anyone know of a suitable electrian near Leeds? Any help, much appreciated

Tied up at Pollington back in August All a bit much for our baby girl

On the A and C heading to Woodlesford last Sunday Woodlesford Lock

Again, many thanks for all your replies. What a great bunch of people on here. Good luck with all your boating.

thank you for your replies. It just seems odd for CRT to quote Summer times but not Winter. It leaves on pondering if there are no restrictions in the Winter at all or if the L and L is effectively two long cul de sacs between Oct and March. If anyone has been through in November recently, that would give an answer. My brother is coming up 1st week in Nov to hire from WR Boats in Leeds with the intention of us convoying with them out towards Skipton. Furthermore, that blue sign in the reply from Peter suggests that it is possible to remove the anti vandal padlocks. Watermate key or handcuff key, do you think?

A query about the restrictions on these locks. Sort of clarified it with CRT but the inclusion of the odd "should be" in the conversation made me feel checking was worthwhile. I get that you can only get through between 8am and 3/4/5pm depending on the guide you read from March until October. CRT say that continues through the winter. If so, one wonders why March-October is mention at all. I wondered if anyone knew what the definitive version of this was. We aim to go through and back during the first week in November. Thanks in anticipation

Thank you very much for all your replies. We were going to go up from our end, overnight at Rodley then come back down. We'll probably wait until we have a bit more time so we can go up and keep on going. My good lady is still getting the hang of steering so until then, she would have to do all of the donkey work. Once she's happy steering it into locks, we can swap over or I'll do most of them. Always fancied the L&L as a trip

thanks for the info. We're pushing up that way soon and until the dog gets used to the whole idea of someone getting off to work the locks, she'll make a racket. Electric would have been quicker. Not to worry. She'll settle