We keep everything together at one point and the excess coil is kept outside the tent. I tend to keep all electricals off the ground and leave the 3 plug bit of the EHU on a table with the cable hanging off the back of the table and going straight outside. Hope this makes sense!
I do pretty much the same as Nicolaburns but I also use an ordinary household extension lead plugged into one of the EHU sockets to give me a bit more flexibility...just watch the amps to make sure I'm not overloading.
On my Outwell Carolina 3 the EHU inlet zip is really on the wrong side of the tent. It is on the same side as the side door, hence there are less places to put the sockets without trailing a lead all round the tent or having it running across the bedroom pod door or the front door. If you have a tent with lots of pods it must be very difficult securing the lead safely.
We leave lead coiled outside tent, sockets inside tent under table with the cooler plugged in, and as Bob61 suggests we are going to take a 4 gang extension lead and watch our loading.
Hard to explain but I'll take as much of the slack as poss and run it along the edge of the fly sheet round the edge of the tent.
Our electric entrance slot is at the back of the tent and we tend to have the fridge/kettle at the front of the tent in the porch, so rather than using the proper slot we just pop it under the fly sheet.
When I've get to the back of the tent, I'll zig zag it with each zig being a few metres alongside the tent so it doesn't get tripped up on.
The EHU we have has clips on the back and we have cliped it onto the table leg before as our tent doesn't have the poles required for this.
We leave the excess cable loosely coiled behind the tent. Our EHU has two clips on the back too, so we clip it onto the centre back pole (which just happens to be right next to the kitchen area) in our frame tent.
Just like adrian axle said, put it around the tent. and i use 2 cables 1 of 10 meter and a 20 meter. just chosse the right one, in case of a realy long way just put them together. Eeeeeeeeeeh maybe i should say i use Nato standard CEE sockets (not cheap but waterproof :-) ).
best regards,
Marcel
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