Lenny's Heading for Germany

[nicholsong]

I'd have expected no less from you, Lenny. Made sure that you got full value for money from your EHIC before the end of the year .

UK government advice is that EHIC for Brits will last beyond that if one is already on a trip on 31st Dec.

How does the hospital know when you started the trip?

 

[scousebird]

How are you feeling today Lenny?

 

[Lenny HB]

Its not all about you!!
I feel sorry for your wife. She has had an absolute shyte holiday. A lot of the time on her own worrying about you. Not knowing if the water/batteries And cassete will last!
she must of been living the dream!

She enjoyed being on her own once she had found somewhere to empty the cassette and like all sensible Motorhomers we carry a spare. She bought a shopping trolly bag in Woolworth and there was an Aldi 5 min walk she used for bottled water.
Worry about me, you must be joking, it was me that had the crap holiday she enjoyed it. Hospital told me to ring her after the op, I got a right earful for waking her up at 3 am.
When I was back in the van I was left to suffer while she went off for country walks.

 

[Lenny HB]

How are you feeling today Lenny?

Really good today after 3 crap days, thanks for asking. Been down daughters carving the grandaughters pumpkin.

 

[Lenny HB]

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[scousebird]

Really good today after 3 crap days, thanks for asking. Been down daughters carving the grandaughters pumpkin.

Glad to hear it

 

[Littlewheels]

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WOW! Talk about a man of many talents, the likeness is amazing.

 

[Lenny HB]

Thank you for that. This is what I would try for 1-2 weeks and see if the percentage of SOC is in sync with voltage.

-Battery capacity 210ah, average 2,5% decay per year and a total of 10% derate; unless you do a capacity test, this is a fair average derate based on shallow cycling and low peak draw.
- charged voltage 14,1v with absorb set on all charging sources at 14,2v. Unless you have temperature compensating charging, you have no reason to move higher. If you set this any lower, it will trigger sync prematurely.
-discharge floor 50%
-tail current 1,5%, any higher will again trigger premature sync. It has to be low to account for low solar harvest.
-charged detection time 15 mins, you can increase this later if needed.
- charge efficiency factor 75%, this is because you shallow cycle and you are replacing most of the energy on the most inefficient stage absorb).
- peukert exponent 1.25, you can decrease this if soc estimation is smaller than voltage, and vice versa. But it’s a good middle ground for Pb since the effect is not linear, it is all dependable on rate of charge/discharge.
- current threshold 0.1a ,

Once you have all this dialled into the bmv, it should sync close to 100% soc. It will take more than one synchronisation to adjust its efficiency, and peukert effect, under various charging and discharging rates. The bmv will account for c20 to c100 load/charge, and will adjust accordingly it’s time to go, based on the rate.

Thanks Raul,
I had the discharge floor set at 25% as this appeared sensible for Gels. I'll probably leave the charged voltage at 14.6v as this will stop auto sync and manual sync is supposed to give better results (providing you remember to do it).

These were my settings, now I'm starting to feel better I will have a play over the next few days.

 

[Just smiffy]

Good to know your feeling better Lenny....

 

[Lenny HB]

Good to know your feeling better Lenny....

A lot slower progress than I was hoping for but feeling a bit better every day.

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[f6c]

A little at a time Doctor Orders

 

[Abacist]

At the doctors and the hospital just gave them my EHIC card.
When I got home did have a bill from the hospital for the part that wasn't covered, stays of less than 28 days they charge you €10 a day so €70, less than the insurance excess.

Frankly that's a bargain! You probably had about £5k or more in terms of examinations, treatments, tests, procedures, post op care and the hospital bed.

 

[Lenny HB]

Just had a result.
As I only had a €70 hospital bill & €78 taxi fares I wasn't going to bother with a travel insurance claim as I didn't think they would pay the taxi fares anyway.
Just over a week ago I was tidying up some paperwork and came across travel insurance info noticed there was a bit that said Hospital benefit £50/day.

So I put in an online claim including the taxi fares, they have just paid me in full didn't even ask for receipts
£387 (£427 less £40 excess).

 

[SOOZANDIAN]

That’s a great result! Lenny which travel insurers did you use? Worthwhile knowing for our next trip (whenever that will be of course).

 

[Lenny HB]

That’s a great result! Lenny which travel insurers did you use? Worthwhile knowing for our next trip (whenever that will be of course).

Just the free one with our bank account Lloyds.

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[DerryW]

Well Done Lenny. Nice little bonus just before Christmas. I had a similar experience a few years ago, I broke my ankle whilst in France, tripped coming out of a shop in Anancy (clumsy ar** ).

Luckily I had my EHIC card with me, however there were lots of stuff not covered under the EHIC, I wont bother you with all the details, needless to say having read through the small print in the policy I thought I might get a few bob back if I'm lucky, anyway submitted a claim along with all the receipts and hey presto they (Red Pennant CMHC) paid the claim in full no arguments. Worth every penny of the policy.

 

[SOOZANDIAN]

Thanks Lenny I will certainly have a look at Lloyd’s.

 

[Lenny HB]

On a more important note wine tastes like wine again, finished a 5 Lt box in record time.

 

[Phill D]

On a more important note wine tastes like wine again, finished a 5 Lt box in record time.

you is lucky...... not me though, it tastes fine but i just cant drink more than a small glass stomach cant seem to handle it.

need more practice perhaps!!

 

[scousebird]

On a more important note wine tastes like wine again, finished a 5 Lt box in record time.

That's great news Lenny

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[mitzimad]

That's great news Lenny

not for his liver

 

[G-RMPS]

Especially as decent wine doesn’t come in 5litre boxes

 

[Lenny HB]

Especially as decent wine doesn’t come in 5litre boxes

Nope it comes in 45gal oak barrels but I can't manage them.

 

[Gellyneck]

Nope it comes in 45gal oak barrels but I can't manage them.

Not in one sitting anyway!

 

[scousebird]

Nope it comes in 45gal oak barrels but I can't manage them.

But he'd give it a good go

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[Taran_Las]

Nope it comes in 45gal oak barrels but I can't manage them.

If you need help, just ask​

 

[sweet caroline]

Thank you helen so kind of you to respond