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Onewheeler

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  1. 1 hour ago, another paul said:

    Thanks for the replies,I will look at wiring at weekend to see if I can recognise this layout, I'm basically stripping out previous owners power hungry luxuries such as TV, microwave, kettle and toaster he apparently ran these off the two 110 amp batteries fed by the panel, from my understanding 2x110ah at 12v =@2500 wh .2.5kw would disappear very quickly using any of these, my jetboil stove makes a brew in about 2mins that's all I need till I start cruising

    Did he have a charger run from shore power, or a separate shore power circuit for them?

  2. 3 hours ago, matty40s said:

    I didn't actually look at that picture, it looks like Junior already has the bricks, or shaped metal plates at the sides in place of the bricks. The rear brick is almost certainly there.

    It's a while since we got rid of our squirrel but I vaguely recall that you could buy very expensive metal plates to replace fire bricks if you wanted more room in the firebox. Or did I imagine it? 😳

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  3. 3 hours ago, Quatre_Bougies said:

    I'm living in France at the moment.

     

    In all the cities, composting waste bins, have been built everywhere and people are expected to use them, if they cannot compost at home.  It’s working well and as far as I’m aware and is not being

    Where a friend lives in France the council banned compostable waste from the bin collection, but didn't provide an alternative. It was therefore dumped outside the mairie. I must ask if another solution has been found.

  4. 59 minutes ago, blackrose said:

     

    Mine's a Thermotop C. I wonder what the benefit of the Thermotop E is if it's using nearly 3x as much fuel?

    A good question! I'm not clear what the difference is between the models C and E, but ours is getting on for 20 years old and doesn't drop back in power when hot which I understand some of the more recent models do. Whether the quoted fuel consumption is realistic I don't know, but we do have to top up the fuel tank after a winter on the mooring with a couple of days on board most weeks.

  5. 43 minutes ago, cheesegas said:

    I'd also like to add that toilet emptying intervals is very very variable if there's two of you living on board but you both do a combination of working from home and from site/office.

     

    Sometimes a 12 litre urine container takes over a week to fill if we're both not working from home and the hours are long, other times it's a few days if both on the boat working/eating/drinking there.

     

    Likewise, the poopy bit of the toilet can go well over a month, or sometimes it's under a month.

    My missus used to be in a medical research organisation. Someone was studying piss and the staff were provided with 5 L containers to collect their micturate over 24h. She was the only one to need two containers and was thereafter known as Pisser Douglas. She can fill a portapotti very quickly.

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  6. 7 hours ago, Scholar Gypsy said:


    I use a couple of cheap volume meters, one just downstream of the pump and one on the filler hose.  There's only a 20% difference between the readings so either 20% of my water  tank is ending up in the bilges or they are not very accurate (I said they were cheap). 

    We've got one of those on both boats. Very good for the price. Something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gallon-Garden-Counter-Connector-Adaptor/dp/B01EAIUFVQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_16 Good for keeping an eye on consumption.

  7. 2 hours ago, cuthound said:

    If your phone has a micro USB socket it may have failed. I paid about £40 to have replaced in a local phone shop about a year ago.

     

    USB C sockets can get blocked with fluff. Clean it out gently with a tooth pick. There are also reports of USB C sockets on phones failing after a couple of years. A quick Google says about £60 to replace in a phone repair shop.

    I find USB C sockets can get fussy about which cable goes into them. I have my 'special' cables that the missus isn't allowed to take 😅😅

  8. The android OS will tell you estimated time to fully charged which gives you an indication of how fast you are charging. No fanboys here so no idea about apple. There are plenty of crap cables on sale, and the connectors at the phone end are notorious for wearing out.

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  9. 2 minutes ago, blackrose said:

    I don't understand how accumulator pressure can exceed a pump's cut-out pressure? Isn't the maximum pressure of a system dictated by the cut-out pressure of the pump?

    If the accumulator is pumped up higher than the pump outlet pressure it won't do anything and might as well not be there.

  10. 10 hours ago, NB Alnwick said:

    Ah! I remember Elecsol - they took me in and ran off with more money that I have today!

    I could have sworn that elecsol batteries had a timer in them. All three of ours went tits up about a week after the warranty period.

  11. 6 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:

     

    Are you sure macerator toilets have a "closure mechanisms". Those I have seen LOOK very similar to domestic toilets, they are not dump throughs.

    Ours has a joker valve but it wouldn't affect the flush mechanism. In fact we bypassed the solenoid valve as it failed and would have been a bugger to access to replace so have a switch which is one way to add flush water and the other to macerate.

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