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Just ordered one Dave, also going to swap out the regulator in my new alternator with the one from my old one.

Just fishing Dave, it's the only thing the two batteries have in common. I guess I can prove the idea by adding a temporary link wire in before removing the fitted link.

Read or dreamt something about putting new batteries through a charge discharge cycle to improve their capacity. So each new battery got a charge and then 21 watt discharge for 15 hours. When charged again and after a day’s rest the voltage went from 12.9v to 13.1v. Anyways fitted now. Still...

I don’t expect I’ll get much more done this year. Again more demolition. I knew from the wheel arch repair there was hidden horrors, and the only answer was to remove the step. I also expected issues with the back lower door frame that was also hidden. To some it may look horrendous, but I’m...

I'm more concerned about needing so many batteries to start his engine. Murky starts with buggered ones.

Many people and some suppliers get confused between a wires diameter and the squared section e.g. 16mm2

After the embarrassment some years ago on a ferry, we were unable to start. The fridge had been left on the engine start batteries via an inverter. So out with the generator to charge the batteries enough to get it started. Now we are able to charge each way depending on the problem without...

I've figured out how to reset most of the data, but not the log from when it was first used.

Today hooray! Two batteries arrived for Battery Megastore. One @12.74 volts and the other @12.75 volts. Too be honest I don't think a battery guarantee is worth while. For just the time spent dealing with them we could have earnt enough to buy four of them. They will be going on charge this...

Just 200Wh for our last day. During the trip home a Sterling Inverter connected to the engine batteries charged the leisure batteries via a Victron charger. After a four and half hour drive in the dark everything was in the high 90's for state of charge. I think being stationary for a few days...

Day 3 and we are now in Minehead. 230 watts of solar charge. Not so good despite some bright spells. No hookup or generator yet.

310 watts of solar today. Very pleased as much of our drive was though woods. Visited Portland Bill, now in Martock.

Customer from Germany just left, so about to go home to pack. Despite emails and phone calls, no answer to when they will be supplied. Only overnight stops, so should be ok. We can charge the engine start from the leisure batteries, and vice versa. So should be ok. Will be interesting if...

So much for the replacement batteries, about to venture into the wilds of the south west for four days. Two old and sad batteries that I removed 18 months ago are going to have to work hard :(

Anita made another phone call to you know who. Apparently the batteries passed the capacity test??? That said they have agreed to send us a pair of replacements. Anita asked for them to be charged and checked against each other. So much better to have a matched pair.

From my experience, double it. In ideal conditions it will work. All fridges need ventilation, that's how they work. Extracting heat. The better you can get rid of the heat the better and cheaper it is to run the fridge. Don't say solar is free, it's an expensive way to make electric...

Yes the LHE Mercedes ‘Murky” is the one that we’ll be selling. It’s supposed to be pale lilac, but the blue bleached out quite quickly making it look more pink.

This is "Betty" the plaxton Cheetah. The one with bonded windows. This about 8.5 metres long and a bit wider and taller. I don't have any current pictures that show the whole of the outside, the paint work is more subtle now. The one I'd shown earlier has better designed widows. All the hard...

It's hard to explain, but I have very limited options of what I can do with the roof. The rolled edge you see above the windows is part of the roll over structure. Not somewhere to put big holes. When Anita is up to it we'll do a dummy fit of the solar panels and then see what options are...

With what I'm after the extractor fan mount in the roof.