8th May - Frustrated
Sealion
Richard Martin
Fri 8 May 2009 18:17
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I have been getting
irritated with the way we seem to always run out of water quickly so decided on
Wednesday to investigate. Firstly checked tank two and found that it was 2/3rds
full when meter showed nearly empty. Opened air vent - all ok - disconnected
feeder pipe connecting the two tanks - that was good water flowing
OK.
Looked at tank one,
opened air vent bolt - a little air went in but OK and again 2/3rds full. Pulled
out water gauge. Guess what, the probe/float only reaches down half way to the
bottom of the tank so when it shows empty it is still nearly 2/3rds
full.
Off I went and
bought a new v. expensive 12/24volt gauge - could I get it to work,
no.
Today found a guy
who was a marine engineer with volt meter etc. - For whatever reason my water
meter seems to be emitting 9 volts, that puzzled him. He then tried the new
meter to see if the resistance was varying when we put it into the water tank -
Nada. Seems it might be bust.
I give up!!!! - for
today anyway. Will have to take more advice from the Moody web
site.
We decided to get
the Bikes out today and have a ride around San Antonio - Bang Alison's 'big end
went'. Alison's bike was purchaed in Almerimar last year and clearly not the
same quality as mine as it has rusted quite badly over winter - We were planning
a burial at sea but thought maybe a local Bicycle shop might
help. Amazingly it didn't actually take long to find one and after a 7
Euro repair Alison is up and running and the bike has been saved a watery grave.
A shame that repairs to the boat are not as
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