Since having our Conway Countryman for a year we have always had some difficulty attaching the electric hookup to the camper end. Sometimes it would somehow come lose and the electrics would switch off. The lead came with our camper which is now 2 years and was serviced when we bought it.
The electrics have never tripped. This weekend the electrics went off again as soon as I switched on the halogen oven. I checked the cable and pushed it back in and heard a sizzling noise and took it off again and there was a smell and what looked like a bit of smoke. One of the metal connectors could not be seen in one of the holes. I was worried that the electrics had had it but there seemed nothing wrong with the connections or wires in the camper. We ended up buying a new hook up lead and everything has been fine since.
Do hook up cables often fault? The oven used was well below the 16 amps so this could not have been the problem could it?
If there was a problem with the electrics surely it would have tripped the fuse board or the campsite hook up.
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Topic: Faulty electric hook up cable
