I have absolutely fallen in love with you two(and I'm not even gay) but I don't care , I love the banter between you two , I wish i could give you both a big cuddle in these trying times, keep doing what you do and I will be happy
This is an application that should be more universally adapted to residential and small businesses that will help reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels. A great byproduct is that during power outages homes and small businesses can have some limited power to supply essential needs like computers and refrigeration. Clearly, there are some limits, but I think all new construction should allow for solar applications with appropriate tax incentives. In the states such applications and incentives are already in place. Great blog!
Your boat is really nice. The solar panels that you have got match the boat perfectly, I have never seen panels look so neat, Thank you for explaining how they are connected and what you get from them. Thank you for sharing your ideas and results. Much appreciated.
A big thumbs up from me. These are the kind of vlogs I like the best and handily for me, I think you do best too. I sometimes think you missed your vocation and somewhere up north a classroom exists that should have had you in it teaching.
Thank you very much - this is the exact vlog I have hoped you would produce one day. It’s informative and it’s comparative .... and it’s ideal. Thank you again.
One of the aspects of your boat that is striking, is the clean and sleek line. Those roof hugging panels look like they belong to the boat. I suspect they are not inexpensive, but they sure look good.
Thank you for a wonderful vlog, it was very informative and helpful with out getting to into all the technical stuff that can confuse.Colin you do a wonderful job explaining things, I hope you will do more like this about canal boats and life.Thanks for making the present troubles nicer.
You guys do have the nicest looking boat on the canals and the flexible panels help in that matter as well. It is good to see you can still sit next to each other. lol. Take care and God Bless, Paul from Florida,
I fully understand that when you build such a beautifull boat you don't want to destroy the slick looks with these rigid panels! And the flexibles you have work fantastic! Well done!
Wonderfully done, Colin! We love that some of your videos are so educational. We have no need for solar panels but this helps to understand how they work. Thank you! PS Thanks to Shaun for asking for layman’s terms!! LOL
Colin and Shaun, That was one of your best videos yet, you're getting even more confident with a very slick presentation style. You must have spent an awful lot of time on researching the technicalities of your solar panels, besides putting into words your own experiences as users of them. Thanks a lot you two, now what's on the agenda for next week?
Hi Colin and Shaun,I enjoyed watching your brilliant blog,so interesting to see how the solar panels work on your narrowboat,just awesome, Stay safe and carry on entertaining your bloggers
Excellent explanation! 👍 My hubby is always looking into solar panels, we've been looking at an RV, so he was thinking of installing them. I am terrible at reiterating explanations, so he can watch this on his own, from someone who is actually using them...so thank you so much! Please give Dillon a hug for me! 💖Enjoy that sunshine! 😊 Thank you for sharing...stay safe, take really good care!
A very informative vlog boys. Well explained. Collins, you could of been a school teacher. Keep up with your Day In The Life vlogs, we love hearing from you.
I'm most unlikely to ever put what you've imparted to work but it was darned interesting and should I ever want it, I know where it is. Late to the party, nice bit of nature study with the goose, last vlog and I've never studied the finer points of lock operation, just know they work so thanks for that. Keep safe guys.
Great info.... sounds like they are working out very well for you. I quite like the flexible panel approach, it's much more aesthetically pleasing. Silver Fox is absolutely the best looking narrowboat in the cut.
Great VLOG Colin. My Missus moans every time we see solar panels saying they are an eyesore. I must show her yours. You don’t even know they are there! Darn sight better than running the bloody engine!! John- NB Cherry
Fascinating vlog as always, you are really good at explaining the technicalities in ways that folk can understand. I also feel envious of you two sitting there in the Sun, next to a fantastic narrowboat on a lovely looking slice of canal. Keep 'em coming!
I have rigid panels which generate a lot of power (as much as rated output +25%), but I do like your tidy installation - really clean and neat, with nothing to catch on bridges or tunnels. I was put off the idea of flexible ones, as I was told they don't like being heated by the steel roof - but your evidence seems to refute that. Might be worth a re-think...
Yeah, there's a lot of information still going around for the old style panels. Our roof gets so hot that you can't touch it, but the panels performance is unaffected. last weekend one of our 120W panels was bringing in 145W at 12.30pm while the roof was red hot.
@@FoxesAfloat Just had a look at the dimensions... the trade-off is that my rigid panels produce more power per square metre than the flexible ones. Yours are peaking at 161W/m2, mine are 251W/m2. Even quality rigid panels like Panasonic are also much cheaper to buy (per Watt), but do look messy in comparison. Given your relatively low power consumption, no doubt you made the right choice.
I first started watching narrowboat videos when researching solar power options (Journey with Jono!). Your system looks to be simple, yet powerful - something you don't have to fiddle with, and you get good results.
Thanks guys for another very interesting and informative vlog, I think that you'd use less diesel to power your boat with your very light weight panels that will cause alot less drag against the wind also. Take care and all the best. Stevie
@@Krieghandt Sorry dear chap but the drag on a canal or river boat especially at low speed is crucial, anything upwards of the roof surface of a narrowboat or a river cruiser acts like a sail, try helming one. We're not talking about speed boats. Steve
Another excellent vlog, Colin. I have traveled for years with solar panels on my RV here in the western US and thought I knew quite a bit about it, but I was very pleased to learn a couple of new things from your superb post. As always, thanks for your beautifully-produced presentations, gentlemen.
Most people will always go for a rigid one, it's surprising to see that you have the figures showing the bendy ones are just as good. I have a couple on my shed roof, but as it tends not to move around the back garden much, or go through many tunnels, it isn't really a choice I needed to make.
I appreciate that! Ah, most of those are in the first few minutes after posting, so they haven't even watched it yet. It's the same sad haters every week. It doesn't bother us at all so don't worry about it 😛💜
Great vlog, really informative, and well explained, for me the flexible panels are more appealing to the eye and are less obtrusive as they do not spoil the original clean lines of the narrowboat due to their low profile., I am not a great fan of the fixed ridged panels you see stuck at 45 degrees on the roof of a narrowboat, I personally think they look horrid.. Stay safe…. :-)
Great advice superbly delivered..great vlog.... personally I would prefer the flexible panels because they look a lot tidier making the roof less cluttered... good to hear that they can in the right circumstances work as well or at least keep up with the angled rigid panels... get well soon Colin.. take care guys..
Right! That's me sold on flexible panels - another advantage is they're a lot less nickable. Another really informative vid. Your production standards are amazing.
Great to see you guys during the week! Really interesting vlog, the solar set up on Silver Fox is very nicely done 👍🏻 take care and be good to see you soon with another vlog. Stay safe guys 👍🏻
Hello Sunshine! This vlog was electrifying and so very illuminating. But do the panels work at night? I'm thinking maybe not but watt do I know? You're probably plugged in to the shocking state of current events so please 'Stay Safe, Keep Grounded' - that's the mains thing. Thanks for the vlog. Cheers, Hollers.
Sold me, nice work and excellent video. One question, without the engine running is there enough power to heat your water or do you use the gas/diesel burner
The engine heats the water but we also have a separate diesel powered system for water and radiator heating which isn't connected to the engine or solar, although I'd love to be able to install a thermal solar heating system one day 👍🏻
Speaking from across the pond. When our panels produce excess engery our power providers are forced to buy it, Ive still never gotten used to recieving a check from our provider instead of a bill.
Hi guys, I can definitely think of worse places to moor up 😉. With the panels I know this will be a silly question but do the panels still generate any power when it's cloudy ??. Thanks for sharing this very useful information. Stay safe and take care, much love. xx🙏🏼💖
Thanks for sharing the information regarding your solar power system. I had been wondering how it was working for you. I live in a home in the Southwestern United States and installed roof top solar several years ago. It has been fantastic, power bills are $11 per month (that is basically the fee to be connected to the power grid with Net Metering). Also, it has made a major impact on reducing our carbon emissions. Love your videos. Keep up the good work.
First of all, I love your boat! Everytime I see it it looks so good! I like the way your solar is so unobtrusive to the roof of the boat, it helps maintain those sleek lines! Your explanation of the solar was perfect. Thanks for the great video! Stay safe!
This is a pleasant surprise and very interesting as well I can see your both hard at work , I really liked the Silver Fox name etched into the roof very stylish it's a shame it can,t be seen under normal circumstances. Don't work to hard lads
Loved to detect the top name tag, too. It must be made for drone flight - how else to identify their boat? ;) These panels, adapting to the roof's shape, contribute to the elegant outlook. Stay safe!
One of your best ever edits! Loved the washing machines. Awesome job explaining the solar set up, very interesting. Watched vlog #2 yesterday with your water world footage. Please bring back the curls.
I have been a " fan" of solar power since the 70's . This is a great promotion for the production of power thru solar. The installation makes for a really smart look. A really good explaination ! Would like to know what can be done during winter electric wise.....
One of the best how to vlogs. I for one understand the work and planning it has taken to make this and other videos. You certainly dont have to explain any shortcomings you may have either as we all have them and I hate generators as well and other things but you guys are a lesson to us all. Thanks you for being who you are and for what you are doing. Your ways of explaining things without the down sides etc is supreme. I wish I had your skills and ways of explaining what to some is a mundane subject. Stay safe both of you,
Thank you boys for the update, I personally like the flexible panels. They make a clean look and seem to have held up well thru the first year and you don't have to muck about with them other than washing debris off them. Stay safe and healthy.... Cheers...
Great informative vlog guys ! Solar is the future. Imagine a building roof tiled in solar panels, electric cars with solar roofs to charge batteries while parked. I think this is just the start of things to come 👍
Do you remember 'think of a number' by Johnny Ball.. ? He had a knack of explaining things in a way that you could understand. Spot on explanation here too. Well done. Informative as ever.
Great VLOG guys! Love your narrowboat, and your solar panels look way better than the rigid type and if they are as efficient it's a no brainer. Keep up the good work, always look forward to your new VLOGs. One day I will have saved up enough to buy my own narrowboat but till then I will just dream and watch you. Just used your Amazon link and have bookmarked it. x
Love the attention to detail on how your boat is always presented- warps always laid in Flemish flakes are always nice to see and tell so much about your attitude (and really appeals to my need / sense of order). Fantastic!
Guys I've been waiting patiently for this vlog for ages... Absolutely cracking video you really get the details across in all your descriptive vlogs in a way a layman can understand, thankyou👌... Hope the leg is healing OK...😁👍.
Hey you guys it's Tuesday!!! I know I'm going crazy in lockdown but are you trying to confuse me more than I am already? Anyway lovely to see you today & interesting although I'm not electrically minded or claim to understand it but I'm happy to see you are keeping us & yourselves interested. Keep safe,stay happy.x
I really, really enjoyed this one guy's. I'm an Aircraft Mechanic by profession, so I get into some of the geeky stuff. Most Mechanics I work with I would say, a thorough knowledge of electricity is not their strong suit. Colin, you did a stellar job of explaining in easy to understand terms, a subject that goes right over the head of many. This was especially true in your explanation of series and parallel wiring; the graphic overlay of the Christmas fairy lights was spot on. The only bit I would add is that when batteries are wired in Series, the voltage is additive, and when they are wired in Parallel, the current is additive. I was very interested to learn how you wired up an odd number of batteries and applaud your using a separate controller for the fifth-single battery. I believe you are using 1 Starter Battery, 1 Bow Thruster Battery and I think maybe four leisure batteries to run everything else. I'm wondering if there would be any advantage in running a fifth leisure battery or simply batteries of a higher amp/hour rating? Or, do you already have plenty of stored power even for those winter months? I suspect you have nearly a perfect setup the way you have it now. I also am a big fan of your solar panels both aesthetically as well as practically speaking. There is no need as you say to remove or fuss with them going through tunnels, nothing to bang your shins on. Perhaps as a follow-on video, you may do one on the battery setup and how they are all wired into their respective controllers. Are they sealed type, etc? The production quality as well as the technical application/delivery was Spot On! Well done you! P.S. Oh, I must add, the bit about the Diodes was very surprising! I had no idea Diodes were imbedded in the solar panel circuit to compensate or deal with shady areas! This was a huge surprise to me! I think you entire boat was so very well thought out in its' build and design, you guys did a superb job.
Cheers, Michael. I'm not planning any other tech videos for a while. They tend to get less views and cause a lot of 'educated opinions' (not you), which are a ball ache to deal with 😂 Some of our earlier build vlogs have details of the battery layout though 😉 The jellybean battery demo is classic! 😂
@@FoxesAfloat That's right, I remember that one! I'll have to give it a second look. Any way, you did an EXCELLENT job on a somewhat technical subject! Something to be truly proud about ;)
I would like to know about the storage batteries, capacity, inverter, and power usage. I would think a lot of people would want to know about this. Thank you for a nice video series.
I'm with you on the generator front. My neighbours had their monoblocks jet washed last week over 4 days. The guy used a petrol powered cleaner and successfully gave me a headache on each day. It was so load, it was knocking out nearly 80db in my garden and 50db + inside. It went on for hours each time, I seriously thought I was going to flip! The cracks were appearing! 😂😂 stay safe as always.
I tend to limit my comments, but this explanation was simply outstanding. Educators should take your lead for clarity.
That's so kind. Thanks, William 💜
Agree my simple mind understood 👌
I've never noticed the name Silver Fox on the roof before!! Nice touch!😊
Understated 😉
@@FoxesAfloat I very much like how everything you do is considered and well thought out! There is a great finish to everything you do!
I have absolutely fallen in love with you two(and I'm not even gay) but I don't care , I love the banter between you two , I wish i could give you both a big cuddle in these trying times, keep doing what you do and I will be happy
Haha! I LOVE this comment. Thank you! 💜😛
@@FoxesAfloat and I live in Australia so would be a BIG cuddle
This is an application that should be more universally adapted to residential and small businesses that will help reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels. A great byproduct is that during power outages homes and small businesses can have some limited power to supply essential needs like computers and refrigeration. Clearly, there are some limits, but I think all new construction should allow for solar applications with appropriate tax incentives. In the states such applications and incentives are already in place. Great blog!
I totally agree!
What no out takes ??? Well done that was a complicated vlog to get it across so clearly 👍
Thanks 👍
Your boat is really nice.
The solar panels that you have got match the boat perfectly,
I have never seen panels look so neat,
Thank you for explaining how they are connected and what you get from them.
Thank you for sharing your ideas and results.
Much appreciated.
Thanks mate! 👍🏻💜
I was really impressed with how clean the installation was, I can't see anyway to improve it.
That is one beautiful boat! I love the "Silver Fox" Logo on the roof.
Thank you very much!
That Silver Fox logo on the cabin top caught my eye as well. It is little details like that that make things stand out from others.
Usual high calibre vlog ,you have a knack of making highly technical subjects understandable , thanks and keep well .
Much appreciated. Take care ☀️ 💜😛
A big thumbs up from me. These are the kind of vlogs I like the best and handily for me, I think you do best too. I sometimes think you missed your vocation and somewhere up north a classroom exists that should have had you in it teaching.
Thank you so much! Not with today's generation of kids though 😬
This was a brilliant explanation. You fellows have learned so much over the last year. Very impressive. Excellent video, as usual.
Our pleasure! Stay safe ☀️
First time I've spotted the Silver Fox sign on the roof, looks brill. Great Vlog.
Thanks, Rick 👍🏻
Do you have a hidden production crew somewhere on your boat? The quality of your videos always impresses me.
Hehe! Thank you, Kira. Take care ☀️ 💜😛
Thank you very much - this is the exact vlog I have hoped you would produce one day. It’s informative and it’s comparative .... and it’s ideal. Thank you again.
No problem. I hope you got something from it 👍🏻
One of the aspects of your boat that is striking, is the clean and sleek line. Those roof hugging panels look like they belong to the boat. I suspect they are not inexpensive, but they sure look good.
Thanks! They're actually no more expensive than similar rated rigid panels.
Thank you for a wonderful vlog, it was very informative and helpful with out getting to into all the technical stuff that can confuse.Colin you do a wonderful job explaining things, I hope you will do more like this about canal boats and life.Thanks for making the present troubles nicer.
Glad it was helpful!
You guys do have the nicest looking boat on the canals and the flexible panels help in that matter as well. It is good to see you can still sit next to each other. lol. Take care and God Bless, Paul from Florida,
Thanks guys. Stay safe. I hope the sun is shining in Florida! ☀️ xx
@@FoxesAfloat I may be big, 6'2" and 306 lbs., but I am just one guy. LOL. And yes, it will be shinning when it comes up. Thank you.
Your production values and your personalities made this an interesting vlog.
That's very much appreciated 💜
Another advantage is they look damn smart on the boat!
They really do 😏
Fantastic explanation that's better than what the experts have ever done. Thanks for sharing ... Vic
Our pleasure Vic 👍🏻
Nice to see my two favourite things: boats and sustainable energy in a single video.
Hope you enjoyed it 👍🏻
Love the sun! Love solar! It's lovely being off the grid! 😁
We're being spoilt rotten with all the sun were getting at the moment! I could power most of Warwickshire! 😂😛
I fully understand that when you build such a beautifull boat you don't want to destroy the slick looks with these rigid panels! And the flexibles you have work fantastic! Well done!
Wonderfully done, Colin! We love that some of your videos are so educational. We have no need for solar panels but this helps to understand how they work. Thank you! PS Thanks to Shaun for asking for layman’s terms!! LOL
Awesome, thank you!
It has to be said. Silver Fox is a beautiful and very well appointed vessel. Cheers
Thanks, Greg! 👍🏻
Colin and Shaun, That was one of your best videos yet, you're getting even more confident with a very slick presentation style. You must have spent an awful lot of time on researching the technicalities of your solar panels, besides putting into words your own experiences as users of them. Thanks a lot you two, now what's on the agenda for next week?
Thanks, Brian! Agenda... naked sunbathing, editing, and filming for new vlogs (but not the sunbathing) 😛
@@FoxesAfloat lol fear getting booed and hissed at by the joggers? Or is that worried about asked for a date by a cute female jogger... ;-)
Hello, Guys I pray all is well this wonderful Tuesday and may you guys be blessed. Much Love!❤✌
Same to you! Take care ☀️ 💜😛
Hi Colin and Shaun,I enjoyed watching your brilliant blog,so interesting to see how the solar panels work on your narrowboat,just awesome,
Stay safe and carry on entertaining your bloggers
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent explanation! 👍 My hubby is always looking into solar panels, we've been looking at an RV, so he was thinking of installing them. I am terrible at reiterating explanations, so he can watch this on his own, from someone who is actually using them...so thank you so much! Please give Dillon a hug for me! 💖Enjoy that sunshine! 😊 Thank you for sharing...stay safe, take really good care!
That is awesome! Glad I was helpful 👍🏻💜
A very informative vlog boys. Well explained. Collins, you could of been a school teacher. Keep up with your Day In The Life vlogs, we love hearing from you.
Thanks so much. Stay safe ☀️
Where we live at the moment we have no planes and quiet often no traffic noise and it’s so nice to hear the sound of silence, keep safe 😷😷
It's bliss! There's so many positives to the lockdown. Stay safe ☀️
Foxes Afloat 👍enjoy the rays 🌞🌞
If there is one thing I love is educational stimulation. Loved this from start to finish. Thank you both for yet another perfect vlog. :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice to see you two pop up mid-week....
Excellent vlog.
Glad you enjoyed it. Take care! ☀️
Hey Colin & Shaun! VERY interesting vlog. Colin, you are a SUPERB "presenter"...clearly laid out, and nicely done! All the best to you both... :)
Glad you enjoyed it
@@FoxesAfloat
I'm most unlikely to ever put what you've imparted to work but it was darned interesting and should I ever want it, I know where it is. Late to the party, nice bit of nature study with the goose, last vlog and I've never studied the finer points of lock operation, just know they work so thanks for that. Keep safe guys.
Thank you so much for appreciating the videos. That means a lot. Thanks, Peter! 👍🏻😛
Great info.... sounds like they are working out very well for you. I quite like the flexible panel approach, it's much more aesthetically pleasing. Silver Fox is absolutely the best looking narrowboat in the cut.
Thanks, Shawn! 👍🏻
Great VLOG Colin. My Missus moans every time we see solar panels saying they are an eyesore. I must show her yours. You don’t even know they are there! Darn sight better than running the bloody engine!! John- NB Cherry
Silent, clean, free... No brainer 👍🏻
If I had a narrowboat, I would certainly have the flexible type of solar panels, they are invisible and don't ruin the sleek look of the boat.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Fascinating vlog as always, you are really good at explaining the technicalities in ways that folk can understand. I also feel envious of you two sitting there in the Sun, next to a fantastic narrowboat on a lovely looking slice of canal. Keep 'em coming!
Thanks for that! Stay safe ☀️
I have rigid panels which generate a lot of power (as much as rated output +25%), but I do like your tidy installation - really clean and neat, with nothing to catch on bridges or tunnels. I was put off the idea of flexible ones, as I was told they don't like being heated by the steel roof - but your evidence seems to refute that. Might be worth a re-think...
Yeah, there's a lot of information still going around for the old style panels. Our roof gets so hot that you can't touch it, but the panels performance is unaffected. last weekend one of our 120W panels was bringing in 145W at 12.30pm while the roof was red hot.
@@FoxesAfloat Just had a look at the dimensions... the trade-off is that my rigid panels produce more power per square metre than the flexible ones. Yours are peaking at 161W/m2, mine are 251W/m2. Even quality rigid panels like Panasonic are also much cheaper to buy (per Watt), but do look messy in comparison. Given your relatively low power consumption, no doubt you made the right choice.
@@Strutty1956 It's really not a competition 😂😂😂
@@FoxesAfloat Lol, I know, but we all like to get the best value for money! 😊
Ampen Spekersohn Cool. You win 🙄
I first started watching narrowboat videos when researching solar power options (Journey with Jono!). Your system looks to be simple, yet powerful - something you don't have to fiddle with, and you get good results.
It really is!
Thanks guys for another very interesting and informative vlog, I think that you'd use less diesel to power your boat with your very light weight panels that will cause alot less drag against the wind also. Take care and all the best. Stevie
at max speed 4kph, drag is a non-issue. That rears it's ugly head starting around 40kph.
@@Krieghandt Sorry dear chap but the drag on a canal or river boat especially at low speed is crucial, anything upwards of the roof surface of a narrowboat or a river cruiser acts like a sail, try helming one. We're not talking about speed boats. Steve
Cheers Stevie!
... the pannels you went for help maintain the clean lines of Silver Fox, all the best ... ;o) ... mb
They do. We love them! Take care! ☀️
I love your channel Colin and Shaun❤️ I have just subscribed and every video is worth every minute of watching it✌🏾
Thanks so much and welcome! x
Another excellent vlog, Colin. I have traveled for years with solar panels on my RV here in the western US and thought I knew quite a bit about it, but I was very pleased to learn a couple of new things from your superb post. As always, thanks for your beautifully-produced presentations, gentlemen.
Glad you enjoyed it. Stay safe, Tao!
That was a very Interesting video guy's..thank you keep up the good work
Cheers! 👍🏻
Most people will always go for a rigid one, it's surprising to see that you have the figures showing the bendy ones are just as good. I have a couple on my shed roof, but as it tends not to move around the back garden much, or go through many tunnels, it isn't really a choice I needed to make.
Yeah, that's why I did the vlog. A lot of people were sceptical when we said we were going with flexible.
Well done, I actually understood the way the panels work. Love you guys.
Yay! Thanks, Peter
Thanks, that was valuable to watch.love the look on Silver Fox. Can’t understand why some people could give it a thumbs down!??
I appreciate that! Ah, most of those are in the first few minutes after posting, so they haven't even watched it yet. It's the same sad haters every week. It doesn't bother us at all so don't worry about it 😛💜
Great vlog, really informative, and well explained, for me the flexible panels are more appealing to the eye and are less obtrusive as they do not spoil the original clean lines of the narrowboat due to their low profile., I am not a great fan of the fixed ridged panels you see stuck at 45 degrees on the roof of a narrowboat, I personally think they look horrid.. Stay safe…. :-)
I do seriously agree with you the flexible solar panels are easier to make good locking, and silverfox is a prime example of this.
Totally agree!
I really like the redundancy of two controllers... and two sets of panels... and the bypass diodes... glad it is all working well. cheers
Cheers, Daniel. Yup, happy bunnies here 👍🏻
Well done.
Thank you! 💜
Great advice superbly delivered..great vlog.... personally I would prefer the flexible panels because they look a lot tidier making the roof less cluttered... good to hear that they can in the right circumstances work as well or at least keep up with the angled rigid panels... get well soon Colin.. take care guys..
Totally agree. Take care! ☀️
Extremely well done. I must ask, how do you keep the top of your boat, and the the solar panels, so CLEAN?
We mop it 😂
Right! That's me sold on flexible panels - another advantage is they're a lot less nickable. Another really informative vid. Your production standards are amazing.
Glad it was helpful! thank you SO much! 👍🏻
Very interesting lads, thanks 🙏🏻 I would definitely have solar panels, think they look really smart. Anything to avoid generators x
We agree!
Great to see you guys during the week! Really interesting vlog, the solar set up on Silver Fox is very nicely done 👍🏻 take care and be good to see you soon with another vlog. Stay safe guys 👍🏻
Thanks so much! Take care ☀️ 💜😛
Hello Sunshine! This vlog was electrifying and so very illuminating. But do the panels work at night? I'm thinking maybe not but watt do I know? You're probably plugged in to the shocking state of current events so please 'Stay Safe, Keep Grounded' - that's the mains thing. Thanks for the vlog. Cheers, Hollers.
Be honest. How long did that take you? 😂😂😂
@@FoxesAfloat : 2 years, 7 months and 36 days. Approximately. It's my life's work. LOL
@@davehollingworth5537 😂😂😂
Well don I have always liked your solar system very clean looking. The part on the 5th panel surprised on how it affected the system. Take care.
Cheers, Kenny! Take care ☀️ 💜😛
Sold me, nice work and excellent video. One question, without the engine running is there enough power to heat your water or do you use the gas/diesel burner
The engine heats the water but we also have a separate diesel powered system for water and radiator heating which isn't connected to the engine or solar, although I'd love to be able to install a thermal solar heating system one day 👍🏻
Speaking from across the pond. When our panels produce excess engery our power providers are forced to buy it, Ive still never gotten used to recieving a check from our provider instead of a bill.
That's an amazing idea. Imagine if everyone in the world had solar! ☀️
Hi guys, I can definitely think of worse places to moor up 😉. With the panels I know this will be a silly question but do the panels still generate any power when it's cloudy ??. Thanks for sharing this very useful information. Stay safe and take care, much love. xx🙏🏼💖
Yeah, they generate good amounts even on rainy days 👍🏻
@@FoxesAfloat Oh cool, thank you. xx
Thanks for sharing the information regarding your solar power system. I had been wondering how it was working for you. I live in a home in the Southwestern United States and installed roof top solar several years ago. It has been fantastic, power bills are $11 per month (that is basically the fee to be connected to the power grid with Net Metering). Also, it has made a major impact on reducing our carbon emissions.
Love your videos. Keep up the good work.
I love it!
You miss one thing, they look nicer it's a nice clean look to your boat.
True!
My neighbour has a small one, he doesn't get it out very often. Mine is large so I get plenty of use out of it. Wife loves it.
Good length and girth are vital. I like mine. Take care ☀️
@@FoxesAfloat definitely gets more use in the summer months. Ha, take care guys.
@@FoxesAfloat are you talking about the chimney stack?
@@BobMuk08 no no, solar panels
Has the system paid for itself yet?
It was included in the price of the boat.
Foxes Afloat as standard equipment and not as an option?
First of all, I love your boat! Everytime I see it it looks so good! I like the way your solar is so unobtrusive to the roof of the boat, it helps maintain those sleek lines! Your explanation of the solar was perfect. Thanks for the great video! Stay safe!
Thanks, Jeremy! 👍🏻👍🏻 Stay safe ☀️
Sod the Panels this guys got sexy legs
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Tuesday Technical Foxes? Super. You guys look very relaxed in this one - great to see that. Peace from NY!
Thanks, Jeff. Stay safe ☀️
Tidiest roof in showbiz.
Haha! Thank you 👍🏻
This is a pleasant surprise and very interesting as well I can see your both hard at work , I really liked the Silver Fox name etched into the roof very stylish it's a shame it can,t be seen under normal circumstances.
Don't work to hard lads
We like understated 😉
Loved to detect the top name tag, too. It must be made for drone flight - how else to identify their boat? ;)
These panels, adapting to the roof's shape, contribute to the elegant outlook.
Stay safe!
Well explained my son. Be safe, stay healthy. Cheers
Thanks, Ross! Stay safe ☀️
One of your best ever edits! Loved the washing machines. Awesome job explaining the solar set up, very interesting. Watched vlog #2 yesterday with your water world footage. Please bring back the curls.
Haha! Shaved at the moment 😂
I have been a " fan" of solar power since the 70's . This is a great promotion for the production of power thru solar. The installation makes for a really smart look. A really good explaination ! Would like to know what can be done during winter electric wise.....
Well, we still bring in about 500Wh during winter but we do have to run the engine sometimes in the darkest months.
If I had a boat I would have flexible....they look much better...and doesn’t spoil the boat....very useful vlog....stay safe guys...Regards Mick
Cheers, Mick. We're happy with the choice 👍🏻
One of the best how to vlogs. I for one understand the work and planning it has taken to make this and other videos. You certainly dont have to explain any shortcomings you may have either as we all have them and I hate generators as well and other things but you guys are a lesson to us all.
Thanks you for being who you are and for what you are doing. Your ways of explaining things without the down sides etc is supreme. I wish I had your skills and ways of explaining what to some is a mundane subject. Stay safe both of you,
Thank you for making me smile! Getting a message like this, appreciating the work, makes my day. Thanks! 💜
Thank you boys for the update, I personally like the flexible panels. They make a clean look and seem to have held up well thru the first year and you don't have to muck about with them other than washing debris off them. Stay safe and healthy.... Cheers...
Cheers Kurt. No regrets here 👍🏻☀️
Thank you so much for your vlogs. I live in Central Florida so canal boating is something we never see. Enjoy watching the both of you.
Thanks, Debbie 👍🏻💜
Great informative vlog guys ! Solar is the future. Imagine a building roof tiled in solar panels, electric cars with solar roofs to charge batteries while parked. I think this is just the start of things to come 👍
That would be cool!
Many homes being built with solar panels.
Do you remember 'think of a number' by Johnny Ball.. ?
He had a knack of explaining things in a way that you could understand.
Spot on explanation here too. Well done.
Informative as ever.
Haha! A bit before my time but I've heard of it. Thanks, Richard! 👍🏻👍🏻
You guys are a rare ray of light in the present murk 🌞
Stay safe and sound 👍
Thank you! Take care 👍🏻💜😛
@@FoxesAfloat You honestly earned it and yes, I will take care 👍
Who needs the Tiger King in lockdown when you've got the Fox Queens? Thanks again for the entertaining Vlogs.
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Great VLOG guys! Love your narrowboat, and your solar panels look way better than the rigid type and if they are as efficient it's a no brainer. Keep up the good work, always look forward to your new VLOGs. One day I will have saved up enough to buy my own narrowboat but till then I will just dream and watch you.
Just used your Amazon link and have bookmarked it. x
Thank you so much! Good luck with the saving! Stay safe ☀️
Love the attention to detail on how your boat is always presented- warps always laid in Flemish flakes are always nice to see and tell so much about your attitude (and really appeals to my need / sense of order). Fantastic!
Thank you very much, Simon!
Great stuff. I have 2 small rigid panels that are portable for my caravan, looking forward to next summer after lockdown when I can take it out.
Very cool!
Guys I've been waiting patiently for this vlog for ages... Absolutely cracking video you really get the details across in all your descriptive vlogs in a way a layman can understand, thankyou👌... Hope the leg is healing OK...😁👍.
Cheers! Yeah,I'm being nagged to rest. It's not in my nature to!
Electrifying! Thank you.
Our pleasure!
Hey you guys it's Tuesday!!! I know I'm going crazy in lockdown but are you trying to confuse me more than I am already? Anyway lovely to see you today & interesting although I'm not electrically minded or claim to understand it but I'm happy to see you are keeping us & yourselves interested. Keep safe,stay happy.x
Haha! We're fine. Just released this because a few people were interested. Back to normal on Friday 😉 Take care ☀️ 💜😛
Middle of April in shorts and T-shirts! We got an inch of snow today in Tobermory, Canada. Love your vlog, Colin, Shawn and Dillon! All the best!
We haven't seen any snow at all this last winter.
With all the day's blurring into one i honestly thought I'd lost half a week and wondered how Friday snuck up on me so fast
Hehe! 😂
I really, really enjoyed this one guy's. I'm an Aircraft Mechanic by profession, so I get into some of the geeky stuff. Most Mechanics I work with I would say, a thorough knowledge of electricity is not their strong suit. Colin, you did a stellar job of explaining in easy to understand terms, a subject that goes right over the head of many. This was especially true in your explanation of series and parallel wiring; the graphic overlay of the Christmas fairy lights was spot on. The only bit I would add is that when batteries are wired in Series, the voltage is additive, and when they are wired in Parallel, the current is additive. I was very interested to learn how you wired up an odd number of batteries and applaud your using a separate controller for the fifth-single battery. I believe you are using 1 Starter Battery, 1 Bow Thruster Battery and I think maybe four leisure batteries to run everything else. I'm wondering if there would be any advantage in running a fifth leisure battery or simply batteries of a higher amp/hour rating? Or, do you already have plenty of stored power even for those winter months? I suspect you have nearly a perfect setup the way you have it now. I also am a big fan of your solar panels both aesthetically as well as practically speaking. There is no need as you say to remove or fuss with them going through tunnels, nothing to bang your shins on. Perhaps as a follow-on video, you may do one on the battery setup and how they are all wired into their respective controllers. Are they sealed type, etc? The production quality as well as the technical application/delivery was Spot On! Well done you! P.S. Oh, I must add, the bit about the Diodes was very surprising! I had no idea Diodes were imbedded in the solar panel circuit to compensate or deal with shady areas! This was a huge surprise to me! I think you entire boat was so very well thought out in its' build and design, you guys did a superb job.
Cheers, Michael. I'm not planning any other tech videos for a while. They tend to get less views and cause a lot of 'educated opinions' (not you), which are a ball ache to deal with 😂 Some of our earlier build vlogs have details of the battery layout though 😉 The jellybean battery demo is classic! 😂
@@FoxesAfloat That's right, I remember that one! I'll have to give it a second look. Any way, you did an EXCELLENT job on a somewhat technical subject! Something to be truly proud about ;)
Just what I what I've been waiting for.Well done, cheers chaps. Keep safe. G
Glad you enjoyed it
Most excellent vlog. Well explained. Thanks Colin . You too keep safe.
Glad you enjoyed it. Take care lovely! ☀️
You two are gonna have a summer tan before the rest of us can even get out of the house. Love ya.
Already have 👍🏻 Stay safe ☀️
WOW....great vlog guys!! Loved It. Thanks for putting in the effort...it means a great deal to many!! Mark
Totally our pleasure, Mark 👍🏻
Thanks chaps really enjoi the how 2 video so to speak.. Currently renovating my 60ft trad.. No money for solar yet but hopefully one day.. 🙏
Thanks! Fingers crossed for a windfall 😉
I would like to know about the storage batteries, capacity, inverter, and power usage. I would think a lot of people would want to know about this. Thank you for a nice video series.
We've covered a lot of that in previous vlogs but always happy to share information 👍🏻
The quality of your videos is getting better and better with every video. Excellent explanation. Keep safe.
Thank you very much!
Solar technology really is something. I like the setup you have, really blends in and easily cleaned. Very nice :-)
Thanks, Mike. Take care ☀️
I'm with you on the generator front. My neighbours had their monoblocks jet washed last week over 4 days. The guy used a petrol powered cleaner and successfully gave me a headache on each day. It was so load, it was knocking out nearly 80db in my garden and 50db + inside. It went on for hours each time, I seriously thought I was going to flip! The cracks were appearing! 😂😂 stay safe as always.
I would have been out of there!
@@FoxesAfloat it took me all my time, energy & will power not to. Next time I'll be emptying a bag of sugar in his fuel tank, works a treat! 😂😂
VERY informative Colin, and appreciated. You’re showing more talent with your diagrams 👍😄 stay safe. Enjoy the sun 😄
Thanks, Graham 👍🏻