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Thanks Francais, I thought of doing this but the cable entry for the main tent and the kitchen tent will be on opposite sides and don't really want to lay the cable through the tent or under it.

Going round would also be a problem as the tent is quite large.

This is why I thought of seperating the hook up at the cable connection using a splitter and running 2 cables from there.

Just concerned we would consistantly trip the breaker or even overload the splitter and burn it out.

We plan to use the EHU in the tent for small 14" flatscreen TV, Small 800w heater if required, chargers for phones,Ipad etc, occasional air pump and tent light. In the kitchen tent would be Electric coolbox and travel kettle and maybe a mini oven in the future.

a lot of stuff I know but essential for us.

Quote: Originally posted by newbie2013 on 20/2/2015

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Thanks Francais, I thought of doing this but the cable entry for the main tent and the kitchen tent will be on opposite sides and don't really want to lay the cable through the tent or under it.

Going round would also be a problem as the tent is quite large.

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Cheers Mucker, went and had a look at one today with the thermal cut off. Thought they were good but the shop I went to they had a reel with weather proof covers for the plug sockets which I thought would be better. Had orange cable to so more visible. No cut off but as I'm plugging into my EHU that has got the cut off would it matter?

Thanks also to bob61 and daisy85 for confirming splitters are safe to use as splitting at the post and running 2 cables to each tent just seems better to me.  I know I would have to be careful not to overload but isn't that the case anyway with just using the one hook up cable.

Out of interest has anyone been stopped from using a splitter in the past? or one burn out?