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30/6/2020 at 10:12am
Location: Paisley
Outfit: Chausson Flash 22
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An inverter will take 12 volt from your leisure battery and convert it to 240v which allows you to use normal house hold appliances, they produce a lot of heat in the process and waste a lot of power, many people only use them for short bursts where 12v or gas wont do i.e hair straighteners or similar.
Your bongo should be fitted with a leisure battery which will power most things in the van like your lights, fridge, water pump for taps, night heater if fitted.
If the van is fitted with 240v sockets these will only work when you are on hookup though you could power them via generator, though in a bongo your limited for space to carry one and they are rather antisocial.
Best bet is to look at what you need to use and then see if they are available in 12v, i.e. TV
If your planning on doing a lot of wild camping I would consider fitting a solar panel and possibly a second leisure battery though this may not be possible in a bongo due to lack of space.
There are loads of Free/wild camping groups on Facebook which are a huge source of information.
As for the ridiculous comment above about fines being issued, there are many reasons why people wild camp- festivals/following sport events/ rallies to name but a few where hook up is unavailable, I regularly travel all over Europe using stelplatz and Aires which is perfectly legal and encouraged but hookup is simply unavailable at many, comments like this are completely unhelpful and show a total lack of understanding and ignorance of the subject.
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30/6/2020 at 10:17am
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Without knowing some details it's technically impossible to answer your question absolutely, but a rough answer is, almost certainly not!
The dumbed down technical explanation may well be gobbledegook to you, but here goes!
Firstly, an inverter converts low voltage DC electricity (12v car/leisure battery) into high voltage AC electricity (something akin to 240v domestic mains). They come in a variety of power ratings and with varying sophistication as to 'quality' of AC voltage they deliver, things like accuracy of 50hz frequency and how close to true sine wave.
Even a low powered mains electric kettle is likely to be 1kW (most are 2-3kW), inverters are also inefficient in their conversion, so the load on the battery would be about 1.2KW, that's a current draw of 100A. A good healthy fully charged typical 100Ah leisure would pretty much be killed dead by a couple of uses of the kettle!
You may have a high powered inverter fitted and a bank of batteries to support it, but I very much doubt it in a Bongo!
I suspect your inverter is a low powered one more suited to charging phones etc. Your lights would most likely be low voltage and run off the leisure battery, you may have a mix with some mains powered from the EHU (Electric Hook Up - a mains electric connection point, which allows you to feed 240v mains electricity into your camper to power whatever mains rated equipment there is, usually as a minimum, leisure battery charger and a few mains outlet sockets, maybe a microwave oven).
EHU's are available on some (if not all) pitches on most camp sites, but usually have a higher pitch fee or are metered for payment by use.
Hope that's some help.
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