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hi all,ive yet to buy my electrical hook up lead for FC.ive noticed you can get different lengths.would 10 metre be around the norm for campsite hook up? thanx  googie.

Googie

The standard length of an EHU cable is usually 25 metres. Mind you sod's law often comes into this. Buy a longer cable and you always pitch next to the electric bollard! Buy a short canble and you are miles away!!

David

Hi Googie

IEE regulations(bs 7671) state that a flexible cord or cable connecting a caravan or moter caravan to a pitch socket shall be 25mtr +/- 2mtr. This is the measurment all sites have to work from. Therfor I should make sure you're cable is 25 metres long, you should then find you are never found short. 

I used to have a 25 metre cable. On one trip someone exchanged it for a 15 metre one with a broken plug, I didn't notive till I packed up.

Quote: Originally posted by peacockwhitaker on 13/02/2005

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I would recommend that you get the shop to try out the lead b4 parting with your hard earned as when we bought ours we only found out it didn't work when we arrived at site and needed to put up the lights!

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Yes - I was in France for 3 weeks with a faulty unit.

I always thought most campers were honest until the day my husband left the washing up to come and get 20p for the meter and - yes, you've guessed - somebody pinched our dirty crockery!!

Ronni