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So sorry to hear this and my thoughts go to his dear ones.
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23 minutes ago, SteveO said:
looked into putting solar panels onto our south-facing roof recently
We have them Steve, but on the old, more economic (to me) Feed in Tariff. I don’t know all the costs, wattages etc but we have 12 in a south/southwest facing roof.
I usually run the appliances, including oven apart from startup and kettle for the little time it’s on, for no cost and all the extra then goes to the hot water tank for lovely hot water instead of the boiler doing it. The surplus then goes to the grid, but being on the old scheme, we get paid for exporting 50% whether we do export it or not. We get about £500 in total a year recompense too, generation and export.
We have two cars, Tony’s is mainly a run-around/ farm type vehicle and mine for family trips and long journeys. This is the only reason I’d even slightly consider a hybrid car instead of Tony’s panda. To trickle charge, using the bit we don’t send to the grid. But the cars are far too costly for me to seriously think about it.
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2 hours ago, Mouldy said:
I’ve been saying for years that every newly built warehouse should have a roof covered in solar panels.
At Richardson’s yard, a new structure is going up. It looks like it’s going to be some sort of covered walkway between offices and toilet block (which are also being refurbed at the same time which will be nice). I wonder if the new walkway will have a solar panel roof.
I think that all supermarkets /shopping centres and the like that provide car parking could put up similar structures, protecting shoppers from the rain but providing a structure on which to put solar panels, it would provide a lot of electricity. And as people have already said, every warehouse and other expanse of roof to have them and why not wind turbines doubling up as lampposts all along the side of motorways and other large roads. Each one could be small but it would add up to an enormous amount without us noticing. After all we don’t notice lampposts after all these years.
You’ll all probably tell me it’s impossible through problems with supply etc, but I like to dream!
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There you go, Andrew.
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Pilot’s notice board rather out of date! But it’s nice it lists boatyards of yesteryear.
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2 hours ago, Andrewcook said:
My Dog Benji has got a Clock in his Head
Mine too Andrew. 6pm is his moment. Wierd ‘cos I don’t necessarily feed him then. He just thinks that’s tea time. Perhaps it’s ‘cos if I’m at home, I often watch Pointless’ which finishes at 6pm and I get up to go in the kitchen to start cooking the tea.
Finlay clears his bowl and then brings it to me for washing up.-
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2 hours ago, YnysMon said:
Feeding time. Personally, I'm not sure that Graham's tactic for trying to get Pozzick to quieten is working. Pozzick ..our big baby. 😊
He’s a chatterbox isn’t he? ❤️❤️
I think there are three options
1. Put up with it
2. get earplugs
3. Prep his food when he’s not around
4 And the only one that’ll solve it. Take ages preparing his food due to taking him to another room each and every time he starts. When he’s quiet, let him in again and carry on. Put him out again a few seconds later when he starts again!! It’d work eventually but Graham might spend the whole day prepping his food till he gets the message.
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I’m sorry I don’t recall. But well remembered yourself.
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A pootle across Barton Broad to Wood End staithe for a rather muddy walk on Catfield Fen and then along to Catfield has meant we’ve been out for most of the morning in brilliant sunshine. It’s reminded us that spring is well on its way. Nice to not be wearing a waterproof.
Back to Stalham this afternoon to give the batteries a well earned drink of electric juice. I just hope I haven’t knackered the batteries, time will tell on that front.-
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1 hour ago, garryn said:
The basin and parts of the dyke were iced in this morning but had cleared by mid morning. It was a good job you got under wroxham bridge when you did as the water has kept rising since then.
After posting about the ice, it soon melted and I had to ask myself why I was being worried instead of using common sense. I suppose I feel responsible for my friends on board.
We did have a plan B for Wroxham. A bus ride up to Stalham to fetch a car and a land based holiday. I’m not under any time pressure to be going home so could have sat on the moorings for ‘as long as’.-
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Oh dear. Moored at Gays staithe with a thin layer of ice. It’s only for the few yards around us but makes me wonder what it’ll be like up towards Richardsons.
Forecast for bright sun all day and above zero temps so if we delay our departure a while, I expect we’ll be ok.
This week seems to have included more errors of judgement by me than usual. Wroxham Bridge height catching me out (pressure dropping and wind turning to north/north east I think), mooring the wrong way round at Ranworth in a gale and now ice when I knew full well it was going to be cold last night. We should have moored on the main river.
Yesterday afternoon we had a lovely walk round the lanes of Neatishead, three hammer common etc. The main objective of course being a stop at the ‘Fudge Lady’, with her nice new wooden hut for keeping it in. I do wonder if it’ll get a little hot in the summer, fudge sauce anyone?
Starting in sun, then a bit of that ball bearing type dry snow, then proper wet snow, so thick it was a bit of a wipe-out for a few minutes, back to sun. Brushed the snow off my jacket and it was more or less dry when I got back to the boat. Bonus!!!
For info, the water is on at Gays staithe. Didn’t check at Ranworth.
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Oh dammit. All this brain work about electrics must have fired my grey matter as I did too well in the quiz tonight and came second. Unfortunately Turnoar who won is unavailable next week so it’ll be me, a newbie quizmaster. Could prove chaotic!!!!
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3 hours ago, twowrights said:
Cream
Yes, you’re quite right!!
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You seem to have seen more wildfowl in one visit to cockshoot broad than I’ve seen in my many times there.
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I have both those in my car Grendel. They are brilliant as long as you remember to charge them. Didn’t think to be able to use the jump starter on board. I’ve used it a few times lately in the car before I decided my battery really had gone into terminal decline.
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2 hours ago, Regulo said:
This is a last resort, and is usually done the other way round - to use the domestic batteries to pull up the starter battery. Not to be recommended, in my opinion.
Thanks. That’s what Roald said too, a last resort, not recommended, but useful to know if the worst happened.
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2 hours ago, grendel said:
why hasnt the fuse blown, because the current hasnt exceeded its value,, if you had a short, the fuse would blow, but a bad connection just bleeds some electricity out of the circuit as heat, and may not exceed the fuse rating.
2 hours ago, Meantime said:Fuses are very good protection devices for protecting against over current or short circuit type faults. However they are not able to protect against bad connections, corroded connections or loose connections. When you get a bad connection, it doesn't draw anymore current, therefore the fuse will not blow, but what it does do is generate resistance, which in turn generates heat which can deform or melt things, or worse still start a fire.
Super thanks both of you. Again, makes sense when explained well. Why was my physics teacher at school not able to tell me such a common sense simple thing? And why could I not work that out for myself?????
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2 hours ago, grendel said:
deformed, that would indicate to me a build up of heat, as a junction box really only has connections inside, that would then lead me to the fact you have a bad connection, a bad connection will genrate some intenal resistance and heat up. so my guess is that if you open the junction box, you will either have a blackened wire, or a connection that is loose (maybe both, in which case the solution is to tighten the connector (or replace it) and make sure any blackened sections of wire are replaced.
I would advise checking this sooner rather than leaving it as the heat from a bad connection can start an electrical fire.
Thanks Grendel. That all makes sense and was what I asked Roald about last night. Odd as I hadn’t found anything loose and generally my electrics are very sound.
The bad junction box is now removed and new connection crimped in. Everything multimeter tested and we’re now sitting feeding the batteries with power, hungry little so and so’s.
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2 hours ago, bucket said:
if strong winds are forecast I would always try to moor somewhere the wind is coming off the land rather than across the water
Thanks bucket. That does make sense but I’m always a bit wary of mooring where the boat will be blown off the quay wen I’m on my own as I have a nightmare fear of being in land and not being able to hold her and the boat sailing off down the Bure with just Finlay dog on board. I suppose the answer might be to do as you suggest but sort my lines better so I can release the final one once i’m back on board.
This morning we were pinned onto the taxi rank at Ranworth. The forecast said 45mph.
My two guests pulled her round to face the bins/grass and I was able to reverse up the side and out. They got soaked in the process though.
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Thanks. First two, fenders and slack were done. I should have moored nose into the wind I think to keep surface area to the minimum. But being a law abiding citizen I moored as I should, even though no-one else here to witness!
Bottles are another matter. Maybe my knitting friend can make some knitted cosies for them, or alternatively I can just replenish the stuff so they can’t budge.
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Thursday
A rather restless Malthouse Broad this morning.
The night was akin to being in a washing machine, the noise and thumping sounding like a washing machine that hasn’t been loaded correctly.
The bottles in my, by now rather depleted, ‘drinks cabinet’ were clanking in my ear all night.
What is all the advice for minimising bow slap please? I’m attached, in the taxi rank at Ranworth, in 4 places, but I’m obviously not getting it right!
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That Lemgo phone box must have been acquired from Hull. We have white phone boxes there, courtesy of our own phone company KCCom.
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4 minutes ago, kpnut said:
Junction box is the culprit for some reason unknown at present, seeing as it hasn’t had any work done to it. Looks like it’s deformed itself in some way.
Just a thought that someone might answer for me.
If the junction box ‘deformed’ why has the fuse not broken? It’s only a little half size yellow fuse. The fuse comes after the junction box on the way to the positive terminal on the battery.
From the charger, positive and negative wires go to the junction box, then after the box they split with the positive going to the positive terminal on the battery and the negative going into a square box that has a lead coming from the negative battery terminal in there too.
Sorry if I sound really hopeless, but electrics puzzle me. That’s why I triple checked with him before every single thing he asked me to do this evening.
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1 hour ago, Mouldy said:
and also moorhens on the Ant last weekend
I said just the same to my friends. I hadn’t seen a moorhen since buying my boat in 2021.
News On Pozzick and Seren
in The Broadscot Lounge
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They know the drill, Simon.
I saw a video of a gundog trainer feeding all his dogs, about 10 of them, out in the yard. One cocker spaniel collected up every bowl after they’d all finished and took them to the big sink in the corner of the yard.