Message Forums

Morning, well almost..

  Well after reading your posts I'll def give the generator a miss and to be honest after reading your comments about most toilet/shower blocks having sockets I don't reckon I'll need one..  My hair isn't that bad to be honest and it would just be me that noticed it but you know what its like ladies, if your hairs a mess its all down hill from there especially in the bad mood department...  I'm just being too fussy and I hadn't given it a thought about 12v girlie appliances or even gas, I'll check that out..

I need to get into camping this year properly and see what I do need and probably find its not a lot as like you say thats the idea of camping.

Someone mentioned a leisure battery, how long in general do these last once charged up ? It would be as said only as a back up and wouldn't be running anything huge, maybe a small fan at night when and if it gets really hot ( i can only hope), and possibly a hairdryer if plan a was A no go (i.e..  no socket in the loo's)  Oh, and my husband has one of those cooler boxes in his truck we were thinking about maybe taking that to keep food fresher for longer, thats 12v too..

I can't wait until camping kicks off for us again shortly, I so loved it last year just getting away from total normality and having quality time out in the open air with a glass of red in one hand in the evening, music quietly playing in the background and a few laughs, camping heaven :-)

  Thanks for all your help

Oh my word, they look really good, I'm already well impressed, thank you for the link   I'll be investing in some of those too...

Quote: Originally posted by wongers on 30/1/2011

---

 a stand alone battery will last very long with the likes of a coolbox or hair dryer pluged in i'm afraid.

---

Please remember, that if you are using a car or other type of motor vehicle, then you are driving about in a "generator".

IE, if you had two leisure batteries, then you could be recharging one battery during the day and then changing them over to recharge the other the following day.

So if you particularly wanted to use only 12v electricity, it is possible with very little expense and a little bit of ingenuity.

To Saxo 1. I did say in the first sentence, " then you are driving about in a "generator". "

To Hacksaw Bob. There is no need to "know your Radio Code" because we are talking about "Leisure Batteries" here and not vehicle batteries.

There has been a lot of discussion on here in the past regarding the ins and outs of using and recharging leisure batteries both on site with generators and in vehicle using your alternator and like most subjects of this sort, there are a lot of very different opinions.

I have, up until recently, been using a Uni-Charger by Furnvo Design Ltd to recharge my Leisure Battery from my car but as this is no longer made, I cannot give you a contact email address.However, if you are lucky enough to own one of these, you will know that it will complete charge a flat 85Ah leisure battery over two nights just from a car battery that has been used during each day of normal running. It will further leave enough power still in the car battery to start the car the following morning.
We originally used this bit of kit in a Morris Minor when we camped with a TT.

This was a brilliant bit of kit and I am surprised that it is no longer in production because it had a potentially large market amongst the camping fraternity.