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Yep the new electrics are very frustrating, also you can't open a gate unless the sluices are wide open, felt a right plonker until a Narrowboater came along and told me, oh the shame of it

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And you can't drop the sluices before you shut the gate, at least you only have to push the buttons once for sluices (not three times, with waiting as for the older units).

It's all very NuLabour - control, do as you're told

Once you've got the hang of them they're great, but you do have to RTFM (read the instructions)