Bazza954

Why don't you wire up the eber to your existing domestic battery and try it, there may be nowt wrong with it, if you're worried about the power consumption, run your engine at the same time. bazza

Taken from the Webasto manual When the temperature rises to reach 72° C the heater switches to the energy saving part load operation. A rise in temperature up to 76.5° C causes the heater to enter a control idle period. This also happens when exceeding a total heating operating time of 76 minutes. After cool-down of the coolant to 71° C the heater resumes part load operation. Another rise in temperature to 76.5° C causes the heater to enter again the control idle period. A drop in the coolant temperature during part load operation due to an increased demand in heat will cause the heater to switch to full load operation at 56° C. hope this helps bazza

Hi, I'm presuming you are talking about connecting into your existing fuel tank on your boat ? The chemical metal idea would not be a good idea, not in my opinion. Surely you must be able to connect into the fuel pipe that feeds the engine, after the main isolation valve from the tank, much safer. bazza

same craft with new paint in 2016 carrying oil to Rotherham from Goole .

thanks WotEver

I used one of these, it works great https://www.t7design.co.uk/products/heating/heaters/1-7kw-panel-mounted-cabin-heater.html did a post on it in boat building an maintenance, in 2015, but don't know how to link to it.

I've been on board

you can't always be right Mike

Mike, no engine , no fuel system, no gas, but it does have a stove

not sure how it gets a bss, but it has a reg no. and displayed a license, so it must comply.

I think this is still floating its way around the system, man powered !!

My first boat had a vetus 4.14 engine, I had a similar problem where there was just a clunk/click sound when the key was operated, if you gave the starter motor a clout with a mooring pin it turned over no problem, I stripped down the starter to find it was bone dry on the end bearing and rusty. Cleaned up and lubricated and no more problems, it could be the same problem. bazza

Would that not give you a hole on both sides of the boat !

Starrett hole saws are best . (not the cheapest ) If you are drilling cast iron do not use cutting compound or oil, it's best drilled without and at slow speed, the cutting compound /oil just turns the cast iron swarf into a paste which blunts the cutter in no time at all.

Thanks for that , I'll give it a go.

Ooops, forgot to mention that , it's canvas.

hi all, my pram hood has recently started to get covered in mould (inside). It's not the usual green algae type of mould, but more of a white substance like a fungus. I've tried steam cleaning it, which makes it disappear for a while, but then it returns. I've also tried a Renovo product on it after steam cleaning but it still comes back. Does anyone have any suggestions for another product to try to remedy this problem ? cheers bazza

£8.95 for 25kg excel

Ok then, that's all done and dusted, as they say, ended up with a mixture of somewhere in the region of 28%, worked out roughly using my hydrometer and the dilution information on the antifreeze drum. Given it a good run and all appears to be ok, even temps through all the radiators and plenty of hot water in the calorifier May as well check the engine coolant while I'm at it, it's been in there 5 years must be due a change and I have some spare. Cheers for all the replies on this subject bazza

Nope, I'm not sure either, but it's got to be better than the tap water, I'm sure somebody will explain !

That's interesting, maybe start off at 25%, I'm live aboard, so heating gets used most days during winter, not too worried about freezing up.

I'm going to use deionised water to dilute the antifreeze, not tap water as ours is from a borehole and goes through a softener which adds brine to alter the ph, so don't get salty water in the mix. Thanks for the reminder to pre mix, I did know about that though.

Thanks for the answers so far, I give it some thought. Although I do have a drum of the blue stuff already !! bazza

hi all, just serviced the boiler and decided to drain down the system and change the water as it's not been changed for a while, I have been advised by a Webasto dealer that the antifreeze level in the system should be 50%, this does seem to be rather a strong mix. Any advice from the collective before I go ahead and do this ? The system holds 30 litres, so that would be 15 litres of antifreeze in total, is this too much ? bazza

a lot of the controls have been moved to the towpath side,at Bradley, dock road Shipley, millman bridge at apperly bridge and micklethwaite.