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gailbonney

28/2/2009 at 10:08pm
Location: Cheshire
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Only used ehu for first time last year once at end of season. Am wanting to get a utility tent as I don't want to cook in porch of Hartford. What do others do re ehu, I would like electric to tent and to utility for fridge kettle etc. Not intending to overload or trip but not sure how to proceed..?put kettle fridge in tent and keep utility for gas?? Any comments greatfully received

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28/2/2009 at 11:11pm
Location: kent
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hi Gail

i dont know if you are meant to but we bought an extension lead from wilkinsons with a heavy duty cable and ran that between the tent and utility tent. We kept the fridge in the utility so it was handy.

katluce

01/3/2009 at 12:00am
Location: leigh
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we dont have electric running in kitchen tent,just gas bottle,campstove and a rechargeable light,however we store all our food in camp larder and keep the fridge in the tent

3madboyz

01/3/2009 at 12:34am
Location: Essex
Outfit: Bell Esvo Bedouin 280 Flagstaff 4ATC

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We keep electric to the confines of the tent- for safety reasons mainly!

We use the dayroom for cooking/using kettle with the gas stove and storing food in the larder (as it does not get as warm as the main tent)

We then keep the fridge in the main tent and charge up a rechargeable light to hang in the dayroom.

AngelicMinx

01/3/2009 at 10:21am
Location: Netherlands
Outfit: De Waard Esvo (3) Hypercamp

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Quote: Originally posted by gailbonney on 28/2/2009

Hi

Only used ehu for first time last year once at end of season. Am wanting to get a utility tent as I don't want to cook in porch of Hartford. What do others do re ehu, I would like electric to tent and to utility for fridge kettle etc. Not intending to overload or trip but not sure how to proceed..?put kettle fridge in tent and keep utility for gas?? Any comments greatfully received

One tip is... dont put 2 things on that produce heat at the same time then you shouldnt trip the EHU

As for where you put the kettle etc... thats just personal choice but in the utility would be better regarding condensation.

Angie

star1234

01/3/2009 at 10:29am
Location: Glasgow
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I am the same as you Gail only got utility tent this year, I must admit I was just planning on using an extn lead for the kitchen tent, as don't see the point having it if going to still cook etc in the tent! I have an outdoor one for xmas lights so was planning on taking that! As for lighting I was planning on getting some of the ufo lights from asda and just keeping one of them in the utility hopefully should be bright enough!

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TraceyD

01/3/2009 at 10:41am
Location: East Ull
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We have a day tent and we put our EHU in there and run an extension into the main tent, as the day tent is pitched right up to the tent we don't have a problem. We have fridge, toaster, george and light in the day tent, which we set up as a 'kitchen' but need electric in tent for radio, heater, chargers, etc. We didn't have a problem doing things this way last year.

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mphigham

01/3/2009 at 2:25pm
Location: Preston
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Quote: Originally posted by TraceyD on 01/3/2009
We have a day tent and we put our EHU in there and run an extension into the main tent, as the day tent is pitched right up to the tent we don't have a problem. We have fridge, toaster, george and light in the day tent, which we set up as a 'kitchen' but need electric in tent for radio, heater, chargers, etc. We didn't have a problem doing things this way last year.

We do exactly the same, never had a problem !!

Martin.

gailbonney

01/3/2009 at 4:37pm
Location: Cheshire
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Thanks for all advice, just got utility tent so can now kit it out. Did want to keep everything together as cuts down number of tables etc

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Izzy 15.11.02 -25.12.12 RIP my beautiful girl
Lottie 15.08.99 - 07.12.13 RIP dottie Lottie
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