Monday 2 July 2018

The Firs and Additions

Came back yesterday from five days at The Firs CMC site near Belper in Derbyshire.

We have been before but just to reiterate that this is a cracking little site,spotless with very friendly wardens,the glorious weather helped of course.

Even got the satellite dish up and running.

( Incidentally I recently read of an easier way to set it up to get Astra 2.
 When you get it set up with the dish pointing south turn it as far east as it will go then slowly bring it back and Astra 2 is the first satellite you should hit as there are various others up there to confuse things ).


Nearby is the Tramway Museum and Heage Windmill both worth a visit.

Nothing of note Cadiz wise but here are a couple of recent additions to my caravan gizmo's.

Decided to equip the Avtex TV with an Avtex soundbar which projects the sound forward as the Avtex like all slimline TV's these days has the speakers at the rear.

It fits with the provided bracket to the bottom of the TV using the holes where a stand would fit.


Works very well plus we also use it on the TV at home in between trips.



To keep the Aquaroll water clean and just as important the van pipework free of biofilm I have,since we started caravanning,used Elsil.

Nothing wrong with Elsil at all but I get through a fair few bottles a year at about £7-£8 a time so it works out quite expensive over the year plus you have to remember to add it.

Decided to go down the route of an Aquaroll Filter which is not a filter as such but uses silver ions to do much the same as the Elsil does.






Just drop it in the Aquaroll and it does its wonders for a whole season.

If purchasing try E-Bay first as mine was £21 wheras on the Aquaroll site they are £39.

Ian



1 comment:

  1. Ian
    Thanks for alerting us to this system. I use chemical dosing but it's almost impossible to do it right when you have an 'autofil' system attached. Adding Elsil or whatever, relies on knowing how much water is fresh - easy when filling a barrel with 40 litres, but impossible when the autofil system runs around half full and continually tops up the barrel!
    Going to look onto this - seems an easy 'fit and forget' procedure.

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