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Post by kris on Nov 20, 2018 19:51:03 GMT
What kind of tent is it? We once saw a small narrow boat with a tent erected inside it. Camping inside a boat. Slightly bizarre. There are always interesting tents on Ebay. Have you invited him to sleep in your warm & cosy boat? On a different astronomical plane, has anyone noticed Venus in the mornings recently? Very bright! Venus and Jupiter That would make a cracking photo competition entry 🙈 🤗 If only he hadn't posted it some where before.
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Post by naughtyfox on Nov 20, 2018 19:53:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2018 20:29:20 GMT
That is one of the best films ever made - up there with 2001 a space odyssey ðŸ¤
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Post by JohnV on Nov 21, 2018 8:19:36 GMT
Its a 35 amp charger at 24 volts it also creates 5kw of heat from the cooling water, it use about three quarters of a litre per hour at full bore which drops to one quarter of a litre per hour when its idling, temp is at 70 degrees in the radiators or the batteries are full. It really is silent, and when you are off grid like I am, its great in the winter heats boat and charges batteries. Sounds a great bit of kit. I read up on the Sterling design/principle donkey's years ago, and had assumed until now that the design had been forgotten about. Who's building them, and what range of power outputs are available ? unfortunately the New Zealand earthquake put the only builder of domestic sized units out of business There are makers of MUCH bigger ones ....... (the Swedish navy has a sub powered by them)
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Post by naughtyfox on Nov 21, 2018 8:35:40 GMT
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Post by peterboat on Nov 21, 2018 9:15:41 GMT
Sounds a great bit of kit. I read up on the Sterling design/principle donkey's years ago, and had assumed until now that the design had been forgotten about. Who's building them, and what range of power outputs are available ? unfortunately the New Zealand earthquake put the only builder of domestic sized units out of business There are makers of MUCH bigger ones ....... (the Swedish navy has a sub powered by them) They were building natural gas ones in Spain my mate Ian has two of them! and I nearly had two of them for free but a numpty threw them in the skip!!!
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Post by kris on Nov 21, 2018 9:21:20 GMT
I think numpty is being very polite.
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Post by bargemast on Nov 21, 2018 9:34:50 GMT
unfortunately the New Zealand earthquake put the only builder of domestic sized units out of business There are makers of MUCH bigger ones ....... (the Swedish navy has a sub powered by them) They were building natural gas ones in Spain my mate Ian has two of them! and I nearly had two of them for free but a numpty threw them in the skip!!! The ones they were building in New Zealand for domestic use were running on gas too. It's too bad that they never took off, possibly due to their high price, thereby forgetting that they never needed expensive maintenance. Some people had problems with them because of the bad (dirty ?) fuel they were running them with, that sooted up their burners. I would have loved to have one. Peter.
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Post by peterboat on Nov 21, 2018 11:29:15 GMT
They were building natural gas ones in Spain my mate Ian has two of them! and I nearly had two of them for free but a numpty threw them in the skip!!! The ones they were building in New Zealand for domestic use were running on gas too. It's too bad that they never took off, possibly due to their high price, thereby forgetting that they never needed expensive maintenance. Some people had problems with them because of the bad (dirty ?) fuel they were running them with, that sooted up their burners. I would have loved to have one. Peter. I bought four of them last year and sold three for enough profit that mine was free! But in my defense I made them up into working kits and also gas tested them to make sure they were all serviceable . I am going to fit my new one this/next month, the old 12 volt one I sold last month with 6000 hours on it still going great.
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Post by bargemast on Nov 21, 2018 12:33:34 GMT
The ones they were building in New Zealand for domestic use were running on gas too. It's too bad that they never took off, possibly due to their high price, thereby forgetting that they never needed expensive maintenance. Some people had problems with them because of the bad (dirty ?) fuel they were running them with, that sooted up their burners. I would have loved to have one. Peter. I bought four of them last year and sold three for enough profit that mine was free! But in my defense I made them up into working kits and also gas tested them to make sure they were all serviceable . I am going to fit my new one this/next month, the old 12 volt one I sold last month with 6000 hours on it still going great. In the hands of someone that knows how to do the little bit of service they occasionally need him/her self, they're hard to beat. You've been very lucky to finf 4 of them, I suppose that you got these through this friend that you wrote about a couple of times on another forum of which I've almost forgotten the name . Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2018 12:53:46 GMT
Sounds like an interesting unit. Another thing I had been wondering about was getting a small electric supply off the wood stove using peltier cells. These days the solar usually looks after the summer and "shoulder seasons" but a winter charging option would be good without resorting to generators. This assumes you have low electric requirements. The fire is going anyway so it seems sensible to take advantage of it.
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Post by kris on Nov 21, 2018 13:59:48 GMT
Sounds like an interesting unit. Another thing I had been wondering about was getting a small electric supply off the wood stove using peltier cells. These days the solar usually looks after the summer and "shoulder seasons" but a winter charging option would be good without resorting to generators. This assumes you have low electric requirements. The fire is going anyway so it seems sensible to take advantage of it. It would need some way of using the temp differential between the fire and the hull. So one side of the pad would have to be connected to the hull somehow. As these work through the difference in temp of both sides.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2018 14:09:27 GMT
I was thinking of using a little tank which you pump canal water into occasionally with a tiny brush less motor pump. Then put the cold side onto this tank. Would save clearing lining or cutting holes in the boat.
I don't really know how it works but it might make an interesting project. Obviously the pump would use some power not a lot and could be thermostatically controlled. Canal water is very wet. And cold.
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Post by kris on Nov 21, 2018 16:07:01 GMT
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