Grrrrrrrrrr.............

boatone

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Get off early I thought.......ha ha.......

Sitting at Marsh Lock.....nice pretty new electrics box with pretty lights.....lock half empty with sluices closed at both ends...and it wont bl**dy work!!!!!!!!

Oh, guess what.....if leccy is on hand winding is disabled.......grrrrrrrrr.....

I will spend the next twenty minutes drafting a letter....

Oh, and who the hell ordered the rain??
 
Yep the new electrics are very frustrating, also you can't open a gate unless the sluices are wide open, felt a right plonker until a Narrowboater came along and told me, oh the shame of it /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
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Yep the new electrics are very frustrating, also you can't open a gate unless the sluices are wide open, felt a right plonker until a Narrowboater came along and told me, oh the shame of it /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

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And you can't drop the sluices before you shut the gate, at least you only have to push the buttons once for sluices (not three times, with waiting as for the older units).

It's all very NuLabour - control, do as you're told /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

Once you've got the hang of them they're great, but you do have to RTFM (read the instructions)
 
Had to work Bray Friday coming upstream on arriving at control panel the lock was empty and the sluices were fully open but the gates wouldn't open Grrrrrrrrrr after scratching head found the solution was to close sluices then open them when green light stops flashing then you can open the gates,,
 
Marsh was definitely faulty and confirmed by Lockie when he arrived. Both sets of gates and sluices were closed when I arrived and lock was half full/empty.

Lockie confirmed that for some reason was not working properly on Public power but was ok when he switched to lock-keeper control.
 
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Marsh was definitely faulty and confirmed by Lockie when he arrived. Both sets of gates and sluices were closed when I arrived and lock was half full/empty.

Lockie confirmed that for some reason was not working properly on Public power but was ok when he switched to lock-keeper control.

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Had exactly the same problem.
 
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