After a bit of a silence for many varied and not terribly good reasons I now find myself in a hotel some 100km or so from Bilbao which, by lucky coincidence is where I get the boat across to Portsmouth tomorrow afternoon, so to continue the saga...

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The journey on from Chaves started well on some interesting back roads through many vineyards with the promise of a stop or two to investigate further till a certain yellow warning light flickered, disappeared and intermittently came back. ProTune said it was high battery voltage but wasn't showing on the voltmeter till after a stop for photos suddenly not enough volts for the starter. After a downhill bump start and change of route from interesting to dull but shorter roads a few miles were covered before the battery was obviously not going to get me to Caramulo so it was time to park up and fit the spare regulator and hook up the booster pack to get some volts back in the battery.. This was going well till I realised that said spare regulator instead of having one short black lead to earth and one long black lead to the positive connector had two basically identical long black leads...you can guess which way round I got them. Bugger. After a very few more miles it was apparent that things were not as they should be and another stop was had to try them the other way round.
Success!
Sort of.
But not really.
Charging voltage was now running at between 13.2 and 13.6V or thereabouts which did not exactly give that warm, confident feeling. But it got me to Caramulo.

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