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We have a Morco F11 and it has never worked very well. We had one in our narrow boat and it was always wonderful, never any trouble always very hot water, so we wanted one in our next boat. This one however has always been a nightmare. Firstly the water pump we had wasn't powerful enough for the boiler, apparently, so we were advised to change it. Which we did, to a Johnson SPX WPS 3.5, which is really noisy and always sounds to me like its struggling with something but I don't know what. Secondly it didn't seem to like the Victron multiplus because (we suspect that) it was set to work on some kind of eco mode, which made the Morco, and the Belling cooker, switch off and on all the time, unless we had another 240 appliance switched on, in which case they happily stayed on. We think that these appliances also have some kind of eco mode in them and they weren't demanding a continuous supply from the Victron, so when we plugged in a 240 light bulb for example, both appliances would work fine. So we swapped the Victron to another one we had and everything seemed fine for a time. But still the Morco wasn't giving us water that was as hot as the last one we had. Also the burners in the Morco didn't seem to flare up as much as the last one. So we tried changing the pressure in the pressure vessel to see if it would be happy with more or less pressure. The last test was to increase the pressure in the pressure vessel to 30 psi. Now the Morco seems to be completely dead, even the start up light won't come on, and yes we've checked the plug fuse, socket, wiring, plugged it straight from the generator. We can't think whats wrong. Any ideas?
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morning all!! i recently replaced my water pump to something a bit more powerful as i had issues with water pressure and my paloma not working very well, now there is plenty of pressure, in fact so much so that the water does not have time to get hot enough now as it passes through the boiler too quickly (the opposite of what i had before which was water too hot, but with the addition of cold reduced the pressure and so stopped the boiler burning - they're pretty contrary and fickle these boats I'm finding out!!). the new issue is this: when i try and turn the hot tap down a little (or even the cold tap for that matter) the pump sort of only comes half on, judders a little and the lights flicker. what is going on with this???? with the old pump if i turned the tap down a little there would still be a steady decrease in pump speed, water pressure etc, now it seems like the pump only likes it when the taps are full on, not half on?? And why would this affect the electrics?? has anyone had this problem before? yours rather frustradedly SB
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Hi All! My wife and I have a 63 foot narrowboat. We recently had a Paloma hot water boiler replaced (the old one didn;t work when we bought the boat a few months ago). The Paloma is situated in the galley, around one third of the way along the boat from the bow. The water pump is on the inside of the boat, on the other side of the wall from the cratch. Our bathroom is another third of the way down the boat. When we turn on the hot water tap in the bathroom the Paloma (set on highest temp) ignites (only when water turned on full) and we get hot water - but too hot to shower under. If we turn the cold water on - even just a little - then the Paloma stops burning (presumably because of a lack of water pressure), so then we have cold water. If I turn down any of the settings on the Paloma (down to 'two flames', or down to anything less than '5') then it does not ignite even when hot water tap is turned on full and cold water off. So, we have either hot or cold water, but no happy medium. We are new to narrowboats! Can we turn the water pressure up on the pump? Will this cause leaks if we do? Can we make the Paloma more sensitive to water pressure? Is there anything we can do to solve this?? Any advice would be much appreciated!!! Cheers!!
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