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Perhaps brokers will alter their stance when they find more and more boats being sold privately, rather than through their businesses?

@ditchcrawler - it’s the wave form that I was worried about, particularly as so much modern stuff seems to be rammed full of electronics. @Alan de Enfield - how old is your cheapo freezer, please?

We have a 12v fridge which has started becoming unreliable - not running when turned on at the switch, compressor running more often than it did when it does run - and we’ve just lost confidence in it. The options are to replace with a new 12v unit or ‘upgrade’ to a 230v unit, which poses a question: The present charger/inverter is a 1500w Sterling quasi-sine wave job - will that output a good enough wave to run a modern 230v fridge, or is this a ‘try it and see’ scenario?

Thanks for the comments, folks. Much appreciated.

A quick question, born out of curiosity. It is mandatory for a side-hatch to be fitted with steps, so that it can be used as an additional fire escape route, or is it merely good sense to have steps?

Thanks for all the responses - very helpful. The answer seems to be likely to more picky than less, which is probably what I guessed / expected. Many thanks.

Sorry, should have thought to include an example! https://www.zanussi.co.uk/laundry/laundry/washing-machines/front-loader-washing-machine/zwf824b3pw/

So far as I understand it, inverter motor washing machines use the inverter function to control the speed at which the drum rotates and helps iron out voltage spikes. Does this imply that an inverter motor machine will be more tolerant of a ‘dirty’ input current, and therefore less picky about what DC to AC inverter in supplying the AC current??

We have just had the ‘alternator on the way out’ experience. Symptoms were the buzzer not going totally silent on engine start and, when I looked closely enough, the domestic alternator warning light was glowing faintly. I took the old alternator to Electrostart in Daventry, who ran it up on their test rig and confirmed that it wasn’t working properly. They gave me the option of them rebuilding it, fixing the failed diode pack and whatever other problems they found, or just buy a replacement, which would be quicker and cheaper. They transferred the pulley from old to new, checked I had the right electrical connections, and altered a fixing point on the alternator to suit the bolts I had. Friendly people, excellent service, and the only retail place I have ever seen left hand twist drills on sale! Recommended. https://electrostart.co.uk/

Northampton gets more weedy and shallow the closer you get to Northampton. The section through the Washlands is brilliant; mooring is a little sparse on the river generally but much better if you join the Friends of the Nene - I see you have already had the link. You might want to check if the river is still on reds but the river itself is a nice place to be. Oh yes - Oundle has a Waitrose within easy walk of the stone bridge after Aston Lock, which is probably the easiest shopping spot after Northampton and Peterborough; Elton has a good little village store.

Computers systems are not cheap to have in operation; staff are not cheap to have just “sitting there”. If these things are not actually doing stuff, they wouldn’t be there e.g. smaller servers would be running at higher capacity, fewer staff sitting there doing nothing.

This stoppage is due to be completed on March 1st. Does anyone have a view on how realistic that is?? Thanks in advance. Forget that - I’ve just received the mail saying it’s been finished early!

Any chance of a link???

Genuine question - how would one do that test?? The only way I can think of is to run down the LA bank to 20-30% of capacity and then start recharging at tick over. Any better ideas?

I have used bio-ethanol as the fuel for Gauge 1 locos - it works ok but, used indoors, smells just as bad a meths!