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All Lengths Caravan Camping Motorhome Hook Up Cable 16A Site Extension Lead Electric 16 AMP to 16 AMP (1.5mm 3183Y PVC Orange Flex) with FREE Cable Carrier Reel (10m)

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Much has been written about camp site electricity cables, caravan hook-up cables and mobile mains units. You can use the table below to see how much power you have available depending on the current available at the campsite. They mention that it's a well constructed lead, works great and that the cable with fitting is very useful.

Details of the hazards and ways of minimising the risks are outlined in the Club leaflet Using Electricity in Tents. We use a Y splitter if we are using our mobile mains roller power unit as well as our 25m campsite extension lead. And those little garden lamps with in-built solar panels make an ideal beacon to guide you back to your tent. Though handy when combined with solar panels, leisure batteries are designed to be recharged after use and must be preserved by maintaining a good charge and not being allowed to run completely flat.

If you're hooking up to a camp site power supply socket, you need a cable with one plug (male) and one socket (female) or a mobile mains unit if you're in a tent. Because your unit is mobile there is a greater likelihood of things going wrong with an electrical installation than with the fixed installation within your house.

Owners of motorhomes must not leave their hook-up cable connected to the site bollard as a marker for an occupied pitch when temporarily off site.This type of unit is suitable for use in a tent or awning where power will be used separately from a vehicle power supply. Hence, when camping, to keep within the limits of the campsite supply and prevent a loss of supply if a circuit breaker trips, you need to be careful about the appliances you use and how many you use at one time. This is an adapter which plugs directly into the power supply bollard and turns one power access point into two (or three). Many campsites only provide a 10A supply, and you may even find sites with only 5A (especially in Europe), so don't assume everything you could run at one site can be used at another. This secondary power unit is only brought along on our trip if we have the drive-away awning with us.

I've got a three socket Sunncamp EHU and have at times had a fan heater, kettle and something else all plugged in and never had a problem - yet! And having seen what you can use an electric hook-up for, here is our handy beginners guide to EHUs. Such leads now come supplied with new caravans and motorhomes constructed under the National Caravan Council (NCC) approval scheme, but suitable leads fitted with the appropriate blue plug and socket are available from most camping or caravan dealers, these connecting leads must be PVC/PVC flexible cable, with three cores, each core being 2.Fortunately, with the coming of standardisation within the European Union, voltage supply problems are fewer than before. There is always the option of adding a multi-USB plug for adding USB ports to a Electric Hook Up cable. As an extra check – especially if you are camping abroad – you can plug a proprietary mains tester into a socket to check the polarity of the supply and the presence of an earth connection (see Camping on the continent).

Mains cables for campervans, motorhomes, and caravans have a 3-pin campsite female end socket to plug into the van’s external electric point.

Most new caravans and motorhomes will carry a three-year National Caravan Council approval certificate covering the electrical installation. On a modern double-pole installation this is not a problem, however it is always worthwhile unplugging items that have exposed elements such as toasters and electric fires. When compared with electrical hook up it can be difficult to work out exactly how much energy you have to spend. I completely stand by the IP44 cert products (and not misleading at all) – they’re MUCH more safer than a standard domestic multiplug.

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