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https://www.parkers.co.uk/vans-pickups/best/2019/most-reliable-vans/ Oops. Fiat at number 9. And Ducato not in the top 10 at all.

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I watched the video and saw the bit about raising them 150m off the roof. I guess this is mostly to make room for actuators in the future but you did mention it also allowing some light into the roof lights. Just wondered how much gets in?

Sounds like whatever you buy, you need to read the instructions carefully! I notice on the link that Neil kindly included that the picture of their Accumulator tank actually says “Expansion Tank” on it and it’s clearly identical. Confused or what..... This link, which I need to read more...

The internet can be dangerous but I found something like this in a couple of places “Water suppliers’ statutory service standard level of mains water pressure is 10 metres/head (or one bar). This means there is enough force/pressure to push the water to a height of 10m. This is measured at the...

So your Ariston heater, Wildebus, says its for low Right, after a bit of research, I think I’ve found that “vented” heaters, like the Stiebel, need “vented taps”. This is because when the water expands on heating it makes its way out of the tap (it drips....). So I suppose the tap must allow...

Love it: "The end result is a portable water heater that normally is my trash can."

Good spot. I'm nobody's expert on plumbing, but I think 'low pressure' is a gravity fed type system where the pressure is less than 0.1 or 0.2 bar, whereas 20psi from a Shurflo is about about 1.4 bar. So I guess it would only work with the pump on demand type systems, with the expensive taps...

Quite pricey at about £150... I saw one allegedly on eBay for less but not convinced it was the same

Crazy idea? Two of these: https://www.stiebel-eltron.co.uk/en/products-solutions/dhw/small_water_heaterswallandfloormountedcylinders/small_water_heaters5to15l/snu_5_sl_anti-dripcomfortsnu10slcomfort/snu_5_sl_1_kw.html Two 5litre/1kw heaters 'in series', so to speak. You could turn them both on...

An alternative to using a meter is to pull fuses one at a time from the 12V distribution box or equivalent and see if it's one particular circuit that's the problem. If there is an isolator switch (our Electroblok unit has one) you can also disconnect the 12V completely and see what happens. We...

I've been sizing battery/solar etc for our possible all-electric van and I've been thinking about water heating. It's the biggest consumer of power. We need a 10l heater if we have showers and one heat cycle will do both of us, plus probably the breakfast washing up. But we might also need hot...

Thanks, good tip. Think your fridge is an 'Inventor'? Sure I read that on another thread which I can't find now, of course.

Indeed. Not least solving the problem of wife's hair straighteners and hair dryer :) every morning...!

Thanks. So I reckon at night it’ll be pretty much silent unless it’s powering my fridge, which will be a tiny load compared with what it’s capable of. Thank you!

I'll wait for the right moment to mention the ear-plugs idea..... What make fridge have you got, if you don't mind my asking?

The layout I'm working up seems almost inevitably to place the electrical gear under the bench seat which I'm putting behind the driver's seat. This turns into a bed at night and I'm wondering whether the gear will make enough noise to annoy us - I just take my hearing aids out but my wife seems...

You’d have to buy a car to get something with enough power to charge it :)

Just sloppy writing in the article. The next sentence points out it's only the number of applications they're talking about. There's an old adage that if you know the story behind something you won't recognise the write-up in the paper....

Was in the paper yesterday, 21st.