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    New Old Merc and Needs a Good Clean

    Yes - Has an Electrolux Fridge, large cooker, shower and toilet - fixed double bed. There is a Carver Gas water heater that I need to find out more about and a small solar panel so getting extra solar will be first thing I think. Discovered pool of water this morning on passenger side sill, so...
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    New Old Merc and Needs a Good Clean

    Talbot up for sale and pictures here New Old Merc Purchased 2000 Year, 311CDi, kind of smaller space wise inside but a lot nicer and easier to drive than the Talbot Also surprisingly has 3 leisure batteries, all matched Bosch. 3 x 90AH - need to work out the wiring Carver Cascade that I need to...
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    Victron Cerbo GX controller\monitor

    Manual for the Victron Cerbo GX controller\monitor
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    Victron Controller

    Was sent a manual by tech, click here and told that peripheral connections are by VDE cables
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    Balancing Batteries / Mixing Types in Battery and Solar - Problems, Issues & Solutions ?

    What about mixing Solar types @Nabsim and @wildebus ??
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    Victron Controller

    Only used Venus OS on the PI, I like the remote console and the Data View on the VRM Portal. This is the email I sent back to Onboard regarding some tech question as mentioned above: --------------- Dear ****, That's very kind and thanks for your offer. On a technical note, do you know if the...
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    Van Cam - Security Cameras - Reports ?

    Is anyone using any Camera's inside their Van(s) for security I am using one by Genbolt (Chinese Amazon) Cheap, but you get's what you pay for ! Image quality not fabulous and for quick security snaps there is often a delay in getting the image captured by trigger mechanism Some examples of...
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    Victron Controller

    Please let me know Onboard got back to me and said the price would be £301 + VAT but they would not be in stock for 3 weeks, they also offered me a discount, maybe because I have bought from them before.
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    Batteries under the bed

    Going for high profit there with a Cheap Battery, would expect better from Adria
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    Balancing Batteries / Mixing Types in Battery and Solar - Problems, Issues & Solutions ?

    Thanks, that's pretty much what I have on Sylvia now so will do something similar I guess, and to answer your question, I may soon buy another van, and it will have a Leisure Battery which if in a worse state or lower AH than the 110AH one that I won on EBAY will go back into Sylvia. Cheers...
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    Victron Controller

    Interesting I would hope that this would have support for Victron Bluetooth dongles added to Charge Controllers, like I have on my 100/30 with a Victron VE Port BT dongle which cannot at present, as far as I am aware, be integrated with Venus OS on the Raspberry Pi ! That is a bit of a bind as...
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    GPS units

    Got a Garmin Drive Smart 50, secondhand - Seems pretty good Got an old Motorola Xplore 500 - With WINCE OS you can have it for £20 plus postage if you want, touch screen you need to use a Pen device so not great sensitivity. Works alright but old tech
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    Batteries under the bed

    I guess if the battery is Sealed then it does not need venting So AGM sealed Sealed Lead Acid is Sealed Lithium Sealed ?? Correct me if wrong
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    Balancing Batteries / Mixing Types in Battery and Solar - Problems, Issues & Solutions ?

    I am not that well off financially..... So what is best practice in saying mixing Leisure Batteries, if I wanted to Mix 160AH AGM and 110AH Sealed LA then how best to go about it. Also I know it is not best to Mix Solar Panels, but if I was adding to an existing Solar set-up what would be best...
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    Heater controls

    Are you 100% heater is diesel as sounds maybe like a Propex control ? You could always take a picture and post here plus do a reverse image search with tineye, works well https://tineye.com/
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    OLDER DAF - Any feedback please or comments ? TIA

    Yes and Yes - Robust old diesel engine and lots of spares with it.
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    OLDER DAF - Any feedback please or comments ? TIA

    Seller said when very cold engine needed some starter spray ! :confused:
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    OLDER DAF - Any feedback please or comments ? TIA

    NOPE Overnighting in Newquay at Premier Inn, drove down in Car as would have been a mission from Yorkshire in Sylvia, the old Talbot Some images and videos here https://photos.app.goo.gl/CZiCJr9J9JRG6NEw8 So in short she needs more work than i can commit too and also will suck up some money...
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    OLDER DAF - Any feedback please or comments ? TIA

    Just regarding this and for anyone reading, is there anything in Particular you would look out for when inspecting ? TIA
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    OLDER DAF - Any feedback please or comments ? TIA

    Last panel I got was a home one and it's great Unisol 285W and cost £95 plus VAT from Ian at XErogrid it's 285W and has excellent output, well handled by the Victron MPPT I have If I can fit a couple of those on the roof would be great, especially if I can create an angled structure for moving...
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