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I had a cable seize, and managed to bend the clutch pedal, that was a 50 mile trip home with no clutch.

Maybe but we contacted silver line and they asked that speculation be held back until they made an official announcement . They obviously had a business reason for the request.

doing some research, and on the assumption that the hydraulic pump and motor would need to be similar in power to a diesel engine, (I worked on 40hp) the equivalent electric motor would be in the 30kW range, with a current draw of about 100A at 220V, so for each hour of usage you will require 30,000 Wh (1250Ah at 24V) thats a large chunk of batteries, and while boats dont have as much of an issue carrying a large battery bank, its still a consideration

thats the part Robin made up for Broad Ambition recently, I wonder if the same former would work (if he still has it.)

in the video I watched, they did have full control, including lift functions, I am just not sure how long it would run purely on electric

slightly related, but I have seen plant equipment that has a main hydraulic drive that also has a backup electrical pump, eg scissor lifts and cherry pickers, where if the main engine fails, the electric pump will get the person safely to the ground, but that is purely an emergency backup, I dont know how long it would run the hydraulics on the battery, I suspect power drain and the battery bank will be the limiting factor.

you dont have to, but sometimes its easier while you have things apart to do several things at the same time, as this saves further work when the part you didnt change breaks.

the southern rivers will be difficult, but there should be some win areas, any new moorings near norwich could probably be viable, pumping station supplies tend to be single supplies due to the voltage fluctuations and surges caused by the pumps starting, they also tend to already be on long runs of cable as the pumps dont care as much if the voltage is a bit low. I have access to some of this information through work, but it would be a very time consuming process, easy enough to ascertain whether there is nearby supply, above my paygrade to ascertain available capacity. for that you are generally in the realm of asking the incumbent DNO (and they charge for such information)

you could enter the idea into the Broads Authorities Alternative power competition, its bound to be a winner- after all as Sherlock Holmes would say- its a Lemon Entry my dear Watson

for optimal performance one end would need to be copper and the other zinc. but just going through the exercise shows how the logistics involved dont really work, similarly getting the electric posts at all moorings and changing over to electric motors cant be made to add up as far as the broads is concerned effectively all the same arguments as lemons apply.

whats more you will also need to discconnect the nails (6 1/2 hours), then unload 600kg of lemons, and load 600kg of lemons - every day, thus you are not going to get a lot of time for cruising.

at 0.1W per lemon, thats going to require a whole bunch of lemons to power a boat, then there is the lemon storage at the moorings, and the daily chore of poking in the nails to connect them, thats about 12000 lemons a day, just to replace a single leisure battery, I dont think thats quite practical, at 1 nail a second, it would take 6 1/2 hours a day just to connect all your lemons

its not as if diesel engines were originally designed to run on peanut oil, rather than fossil fuel, the issue is more that they have perfected these engines so far now that they can no longer run on neat vegetable oil, which lets face it is an almost infinitely renewable resource.

that should read that they can economically provide, spend enough money and you can get electricity anywhere.

well if the tolls have to pay for the electric charging points, they would need to price everyone off of the water, its just not practical, the energy companies are already coming to terms with not being able to deliver enough capacity to charge electric vehicles, south west london people asking for new capacity are being told it wont be available until after 2030 as thats how long the new substations to supply the power into the area will take to be built. as for the broads, each mooring away from a town or village will cost millions to get a supply to, some tens of millions, costs that cant be recovered from the cost of the electricity supplied, each fast charging point requires the equivalent capacity of 5 houses, the current cables cannot supply this if every house is to have a charger (and we are not looking at ultra fast chargers here- just the standard 7kW models. add to that the longevity of broads boats and engines, and I predict there will still be a large proportion of diesel powered boats in 50 years time (Water Rail is 90 years old, and with some love and care should be good for another 90 at least.

the old style genny, when overloaded would have adjusted the frequency to enable it to cope with the overload, for most equipment this wouldnt have been a major problem.

recently i took my car for a new tyre, i was informed that the brakes needed doing all round, new pads and discs, and that the front control arms needed replacing as the bushes were worn out and dangerous (over £700 in work), I left with just the tyre, at the MOT a couple of months later I asked them to do the brakes (i had a shudder) didnt mention the control arms, well they did the brakes - only the front as the rears were still good, the control arms bushings didnt even get a mention in the MOT and they said it was a pity there was a judder on the front brakes, as they were still only half worn, with the MOT, Brakes and an oil and filter change i was charged £435. i knew i didnt trust the tyre place. if my friendly garage did tyres, I would get them there.

me neither, I do as a courtesy turn it off though. I always find that if you have done some work and there is a shiney new part somewhere they take a kinder view of it (and if you mention you have just fitted a new xyz,) they then know you know your way around a vehicle, and are less likely to try and bamboozle you.

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they can only enforce the emission standard that was set for the date your car was built, they cannot enforce more stringent controls on cars not designed to meet them, that said, when I had my MOT, the emissions were a bit high, but a new set of filters and an oil change solved that issue.

this explains it -http://norfolk.broads.org.uk/wiki2018/index.php?title=Registration_Number_History but essentially from the 1930's up to the 1950s, B, W and Y were used (Bure, Waveney or Yare) hence Water Rail B77 (Herbert Woods Delight 7) from around 1933, then started through the alphabet with the letter first up to the mid 1980's, around 1990, they started again with the letter after the number. but thats not necessarily a true indication, because yards would be allocated a block of consecutive numbers to use on a series of the same boat, which could be several years apart. hence Delight 2 through 8 being B72-B78

and the next number I can find a date for A116 is 1954-55

http://norfolk.broads.org.uk/wiki2018/index.php?title=Main_Page

well according to the database A111 was built in 1952, thus A112 should be somewhat close to that

it will vary with the power curves of the two engines, at what revs they produce peak power, whether they have more torque at lower revs, or less. nanni - https://nannienergy.com/downloads/leaflets/Leaflet N4.40 ENG_april2017.pdf BMC - Those are just examples as I have no idea what the particular engines the boat had / has are