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Topic: electric hook ups 6 amp
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21/4/2010 at 8:45pm
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I have noticed the caravan site I am going to book onto only has 6 amp hook ups. Will this be adequate for a hair dryer and GHD hair straightners?
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21/4/2010 at 9:22pm
Location: North Devon Outfit: Fifth Wheeler
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21/4/2010 at 9:23pm
Location: Scotland. Outfit: Conway Camargue Lots of Vangos. .
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Depends on the wattage of your appliances. 1200 watts would be about the maximum for a 6amp ehu, I think. One appliance at a time, of course!
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21/4/2010 at 11:01pm
Location: Cumbria (Upper Eden Valley) Outfit: Cabanons SunValley Michigan Khyam ABI
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What Val said
Maybe they have a socket in the shower block where you can plug the straighteners in.
------------- Keely :-))
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21/4/2010 at 11:50pm
Location: Nottingham Outfit: Motorhome
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WATTS TO AMPS CONVERSION
60 Watts = 0.26 Amp
100 Watts = 0.43 Amp
200 Watts = 0.87 Amp
300 Watts = 1.30 Amp
400 Watts = 1.74 Amp
500 Watts = 2.17 Amp
600 Watts = 2.61 Amp
700 Watts = 3.04 Amp
800 Watts = 3.48 Amp
900 Watts = 3.91 Amp
1000 Watts = 4.35 Amp
1100 Watts = 4.78 Amp
1200 Watts = 5.22 Amp
1300 Watts = 5.65 Amp
1400 Watts = 6.09 Amp
1500 Watts = 6.52 Amp
1600 Watts = 6.96 Amp
1700 Watts = 7.39 Amp
1800 Watts = 7.83 Amp
1900 Watts = 8.26 Amp
2000 Watts = 8.70 Amp
2100 Watts = 9.13 Amp
2200 Watts = 9.57 Amp
2300 Watts = 10.00 Amp
2400 Watts = 10.43 Amp
2500 Watts = 10.87 Amp
2600 Watts = 11.30 Amp
2700 Watts = 11.74 Amp
2800 Watts = 12.17Amp
2900 Watts = 12.61 Amp
3000 Watts = 13.04 Amp
3100 Watts = 13.48 Amp
3200 Watts = 13.91 Amp
3300 Watts = 14.35 Amp
3400 Watts = 14.78 Amp
3500 Watts = 15.22Amp
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22/4/2010 at 12:16am
Location: CM7 Outfit: Vango Icarus 500 & Khyam Day Shelter
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The hair straighteners will be fine. The hairdryer won't.
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22/4/2010 at 6:57am
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The hair dryer will be ok if used on one of the lower heat settings.
To be sure you need to have a look on the side of the dryer to see what power it is, if it is a big dryer it will probably be about 2KW which will trip the supply on full power, one of the lower setting will be OK.
The strighteners will be OK.
As said before any thing 1400w or below will be fine, the wattage of a appliance is nearly always printed on it.
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22/4/2010 at 6:09pm
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I've just bought my GF a Babyliss Tiny Titan 1000W Hair dryer as we're camping on a site with 6 amp EHU soon. You can get them from Amazon and the like for less than a tenner.
I'll report back on how good it is when we're back from our trip.
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22/4/2010 at 8:29pm
Location: Leeds Outfit: Elddis Hurricane xl Mazda 6 ;-)
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my Julie uses hair straightners that plug into car cig lighter and she was pleasnatly suprised how good they was.
------------- Craig and jules
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22/4/2010 at 10:00pm
Location: Cheshire Outfit: Elddis Avante 636
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Quote: Originally posted by AndyT23 on 22/4/2010
I've just bought my GF a Babyliss Tiny Titan 1000W Hair dryer as we're camping on a site with 6 amp EHU soon. You can get them from Amazon and the like for less than a tenner.
I'll report back on how good it is when we're back from our trip.
I've got this hairdryer & used it in France last year on 6amp hook up no probs at all - despite being small its really very powerful and would highly recommend it to anyone as probably the best travel hairdryer you can buy! Just make sure all but your fridge is switched off when you are using it.
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22/4/2010 at 11:05pm
Location: Scotland. Outfit: Conway Camargue Lots of Vangos. .
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Quote: Originally posted by valellis on 22/4/2010
Many thanks everybody that has put my mind at rest and I will not be going to this site as cant be with out my dryer!!! x
In the long ago days when few tent pitches even had access to electricity and I still had the kind of hairdo that needed drying....I used to plug my hair drier in at the loo block, or even the laundry room. Why not do that?
I got bored with drying my hair a few years ago though, and grew it long. Wash, comb and go. I reckon I've reclaimed several years of my life back between giving up drying hair and giving up ironing.
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23/4/2010 at 8:14am
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Ooh no I fully sympathise with the hair thing. I rarely wear make up and Im happy slobbing around in my jeans & crocs but the hair!!!! My hair is fairly long but its that shaggy sticky out stuff - I'd love to be able to wash and go but I need a hairdryer just to look human. I was ecstatic when hook ups came to camping as when I was younger you had to phone the site to find out if they actually had a socket in their shower blocks and very often queue for it.
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23/4/2010 at 8:24pm
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Snap Fiona, I am just the same, my hair is short and that sticky out stuff. I need to use a dryer to tame it, I hibernate whenever we have a power cut at home!, would love to be able to wash and go!
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