Recent content by pilchard

I need some advice as to if I can safely exceed the input to my 10Amp MPPT solar charge controller. It is rated at 130W max, but will it take 140W without ever it causing any problems? I installed 2 solar panels to my campervan roof ( 50W & 80W) with a total rated output of 130W, and...

Now, now Damian... I think you go too far. If you want to criticise, then just make sure you get your facts straight. I have never said I'd never worked with gas... Christ!... I spent years working on domestic gas installations. As to "butchered"... that is my own objective view and should...

aA long and anguished plea for help, so don'y give up when it gets boring. No.1. I thought I'd hit on the perfect solution for our gas cylinder problem here in Italy. The largest cylinder our internal gas locker will hold (it's an Auto-Sleepers Symbol Motorhome/Campervan) is a Calor 7kg...

Rotten Eggs = Hydrogen Sulphide = H2S. Am no chemistry buff, but I'd have though H2S is not a by-product of the charge or discharge process.

I'm just loving this thread! Where do you get so many techno-buffs in one place all chipping in? I feel I'm learning more than my little brain can absorb! Anyway, we are at altitude. Today at M1300+. But we have been, and will be again, staying at M2400. Having said that, the evenings just...

From the general trend of advice being given so far, I think the best course of action is to do nothing and stop stressing. In fact, the same evening I started this thread, we used the heater again and it seemed a little improved. Maybe, like me, it'd got a little out of condition from lack of...

Christ you lot... it must have been a bad TV night! ;) That's a hell of a lot of really good replies. And there's me thinking you'd all say... "no mate. they don't fit them to caravans, don't know anything about them." But some of it makes depressing reading with the distinct possibility it...

Our Trumatic E2400 Space Heater... to you and me that's a gas powered blown air heater... well it makes an odd noise. Like some kind of ghostly pregnant cow making little short mooing sounds. It resonates inside the van, but unfortunately it can also be heard outside. Just worth mentioning...

Hi camel. If I'd had one, I would have used it. But the big deal on this job was taking the fridge out... cos you never know what can of worms you are opening... and it needed removing to open the gas line to the jet even if just to use a pressurised can. But there was one moment when I thought...

Final verdict... Total success. Fridge was arctic this am and we might have to turn it down a bit. Because the help here has been so superb, you'll be getting more of this from me. The next will be ... why does my blown air gas heater moo like some ghostly grief stricken cow? Another thread I...

Dusty... why are we talking about grills? My missus, Liz, sez our grill and oven, are excellent. She made home made pizza in it a couple of nights back... made dough and rolled it out with a wine bottle on the table. She's nuts! Why would we want to turbocharge our grill? It ain't broke. Now...

Well, we went for a walk... lovely easy valley bottom cycling round here, wish we'd bought some bikes with us... and we returned after about an hour.... today has turned into a clear blue sky scorcher and the views... oh the views are to die for... the van had not burst into flames... and...

So, three hours later and the fridge is reinstalled and running. How well it's running, we'll have to see. I could kick myself for not cleaning the back of the ridiculous flame viewport because the large blobs of condensation on the window not only obscure, but have a lense effect...

I think Damian's enthusiastic professional gas safety approach, re his advice in replacing not cleaning the jet, can be excused in this instance. I've written a lot on this thread and my mention that I'm in Italy is probably buried too deep to flag up on just a cursory read through. I've...

I strongly suspect that the gas thermostat on my fridge is nothing more technical than a simple flow regulator with no capacity to sense heat or cold.