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07/6/2016 at 12:41am
Location: South Yorkshire
Outfit: Geist Aktiv 495
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Hi
We went off in our new toy over the half term. Great time, but the kettle tripped one of the RCDs. It reset after several attempts, then the kettle tripped it again on the next brew-up. Nothing unexpected there (my fault for buying a fast-boil kettle); what WAS unexpected is that the RCD refused to reset at all afterwards, even when I tried it with EHU disconnected. The switch that's gone AWOL seems pretty 'hair-trigger' by feel (ie, not much finger pressure at all required to manually trip/reset it). One of the others is not much better, the third takes a solid amount of pressure to click it either way (with a solid 'thunk'). As I've tried it with no power to the van to cause a trip/prevent a reset, is it likely I have a defunct RCD box?
Annnnd another thing... with no leccy getting to the Thetford fridge, I went to fire it up on gas. This worked fine outside our house as a tester before we left, with the red line tipping into the green on the 1st attempt, and staying there when I took my thumb off the temperature selector. Not this time! To start with, the fridge fired up and the line went to the green zone no problem. However, releasing the pressure on the temp dial caused it to switch off again. So I tried again. Same thing. And that's how it went until I gave up. Giving it another bash later on, there was no sign of life at all, not a flicker on the green dial/red line. The cooker/hob next to the fridge works fine, as does the Truma heater (which had also lost it's mains due to the aforementioned rogue RCD); all the internal gas selection valves are in the same 'on' position.
Despite only having half our mains leccy sockets working and no fridge, we STILL had a great time mooching around York and Fountain's Abbey. We finished off each day with a BBQalike, cooked on our ultra pricey electric griddle plate, powered by the (still working!) external socket and bought from the York Aldi for 30 quid. A cold beer would have been welcome though...
I'd appreciate any advice to help us have an even better time (ie, with our broken bits working) on our next trip in a couple of weeks.
Thank you
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