How to operate electric canal locks - Cruising on a narrowboat - Episode 6
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- čas přidán 12. 01. 2017
- In this episode we're taking a look at the electric locks that you'll find while narrowboating on the Aire & Calder Navigation. We hope that you enjoy a virtual tour through the lock on our narrowboat and that you find this video interesting.
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I have an assessment tomorrow to design an automated water lock system for collage might just rob this idea thank you
When we've rented a boat we have operated manual locks, but never had the opportunity to work an electric one. Looks easy when you do it. Thanks for sharing with us :-)
It is, once you know the sequence there is nothing to it and it's a lot less strenuous than the manual locks!
Great narrow boat videos - keep making them - some of the best on CZcams - you have a knack for it
Wow, thanks so much. Glad that you're enjoying them, we're still new to making videos so hopefully we'll get better with practice :-)
That was really good. Thanks.
You're welcome, thanks for stopping by :-)
Great video
Thanks, glad you liked it :-)
Interesting. We have to go through a similar setup here in the US. I'm not so sure it's better than the manual locks. The homeowners inside the lock here actually have a device similar to a garage door opener which allows them to operate the lock entirely from their boat. Enjoy your blog.
Hi Bob, thanks for stopping by! I didn't realise that you had similar in the US. The fob device sounds like a genius idea and would make our locks much, much easier to operate.
Kind of like the gauging lock in Brentford ... :)
Thanks for stopping by Graeme, that's on the Grand Union isn't it? Haven't travelled down south yet but when we do we'll know what to do :-)
Interesting. I had no idea they were all electric up there. Now we just need a phone app so it can be set wirelessly on approach :-)
Yes, it makes for a more chilled out cruise, but once you get out onto the Calder & Hebble the locks there more than make up for it with their fiddly hand spikes! Wireless operation would be the solo boaters dream :-)
Oh, the hand spikes! Absurd things...
The hand spikes caused my one and only dunking...unfortunately in a river section, rather than a canal section! I've never forgiven them!
Oh dear!
This made me laugh - great idea and would be the cream on the coffee but if one did not check as approaching the lock that someone else was using it, I can imagine the poor people about to exit the lock only to find the gates mysteriously closing on them, trapped inside and off they go for another rise/fall. As you triumphantly approach and push "open" on your key fob, you would be met with rather indignant glares from the lock's occupants! Just fantasising - what a hoot!
As Cruising the Cut, (subscribed,) says, phone operated, without need to leave tiller. CCT Camera to HQ to confirm legitimate boat, maybe. How would a single-hander control the boat in lock with control panels where they are.
Hi Tom. It would be difficult as a single hander. You need a long centre line as most of them are quite deep.
Enjoying the vlogs, although the sound when you're speaking tends to be a little quiet. Could just be my hearing as nobody else seems to have mentioned it!
Glad you're enjoying them :-) Trying out a new mic in the next vlog so hopefully you'll see a difference!
Good for that, I had trouble too, especially with the unnecessary music.
That's the way to do locks, but I must say that the protection around that paddle lifter is rather sparse. If that had been an industrial robot there would have been a cage, and these things are operated by uneducated persons that don't understand the forces involved, so robot safety standards would by appropriate.
That's a valid point you've made there. Locks in general are dangerous places not only have you to watch what you're doing but also keep an eye out for other people who may be hanging around.