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The camping and caravan club prefer orange cable for safety, also yellow cable is normally used on 55 > 110 Volt outdoor equipment and 3 phase transformers where as a hook up is 230 Volts. Its a matter of personal choice but with electrics I dont want to take any chances. I am all for supporting UK companies, I am one, but you need to ask yourselves why do all the EHU's sold in camping equipment shops etc all have orange cables and only the ebay and internet jobs have blue and yellow ?

Im not being funny or awkward just careful.

Gary

Remember that just because you have 5 sockets, you probably won't be able to have 5 appliances plugged in and in use all at the same time.

We have the Sunncamp EHU which has 3 sockets which are ample for our needs (family of 5) and only having 3 reduces the risk of trying to use too much stuff at once.

Also that one looks very bulky to me but thats just my opinion - I prefer ours.

WOW calm down Saxo, Snowdog asked for our joint opinions and I said what I still feel, your opinion is that its a good unit as you have one and thats fine. All I am doing is stating fact and also quoting what the caravan and camping club prefer on their sites (Orange Cable) for as you rightly suggest high visibility.

The fact that you use all 5 of the sockets at once is great as long as people understand that it is not like using household plugs and that you can easily trip the system by overloading it.

The fact that there are so many dodgy EHU's on ebay and the likes is more of a reason to be extra careful and still in my view buy a unit that are sold in the thousands by reputable outlets which tells me that they cant be all that bad. The fact that these units are the same price at the moment in Go Outdoors and Towsure than the one Snowdog has asked us about then I know which one I would still buy if only to comply with any future health and safety regulations that may be introduced and we all know what they are like. As it stands if a site warden at a camping and caravan club site feels that an EHU lead is not suitable then they can refuse you a supply so would it not be best to simply get what will most probably become a must have anyway ?

And to reply to you last message, does that not tell you that these units are made by someone who is buying their cable from such a place like screwfix to make the units and then sell them on the internet rather than through a retail outlet ?

Quote: Originally posted by saxo1 on 29/7/2009

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you need to ask yourselves why do all the EHU's sold in camping equipment shops etc all have orange cables and only the ebay and internet jobs have blue and yellow ?

I think the answer to that question may be that yellow and blue are more widely used and therefore more readily available,a lot of online cable suppliers Screwfix etc only sell Yellow or Blue.
Saxo1

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Actually blue cable is technically better than the orange. It is made to have a wider temperature range than the orange cable. After all, the IP44 plugs and sockets are blue. I bought a reel of blue cable from a car boot sale many years ago for next to nothing and use this as my main EHU hookup. It has stood the test of time and the cable is still in first class condition. I always know which is my cable when I come to unplug from a multiway campsite EHU.