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Personcraig b
25/5/2011 at 9:39pm
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What electrical equipment do you use in your vans? Do I need to buy low wattage kettle, toaster, tv etc etc ??? Or do you the normal stuff?

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Personmurano
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We have slowly replaced all our stuff over time,with low watt stuff, as we use CL sites a lot and rely just on battery power.
I think you are better off , a normal kettle uses 12.5A a camping kettle is 6A this is because you only have a 16A supply in total , if you have anything else on can overload your supply and trip it out.That's if you use to many things at one time.


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Personneil and lena
25/5/2011 at 9:51pm
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A low wattage kettle is a must as a standard domestic House kettle draws 8 amps and some UK site's are only a 10 amp supply and your fridge draws 1.5 amps and your battery charger 1 amp so would trip out .
Most Caravan Club and Camping and Caravanning sites are 16amp supply but if you were to switch on a house toaster and domestic kettle at the same time you would still trip the site electrics .
If you ever venture abroad European site's are often only 6amp supply so low wattage electrical appliances can only be used


PersonJusy
25/5/2011 at 10:28pm
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We use a low watt kettle and not bothered it if takes it time to boil

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Personjhsw
26/5/2011 at 12:02am
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Hi, Only use Water heater,Fridge,TV, use gas for making tea and cooking, have small low wattage halogen blow air heater if very cold at night. changing to Propane so used butane gas for all appliances this time out, to use up the butane.

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Personjeff juke
26/5/2011 at 5:45am
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We use a house hold kettle on site but switch off the blow air or water heater when doing so or anything else that draws a high amp.

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26/5/2011 at 9:22am
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we use a low watt kettle, and have a tesco value toaster (as its low power).
dont take the tv...but usually have the lappy.

we can run everything when on 16A without issue as within limit.

i am a bit more concious of what is plugged in when on 10A though.

never tripped it yet !


PersonKevin Massey
26/5/2011 at 9:51am
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At the moment we use all normal household appliancies.... not had a single problem as of yet using EHU's on sites (we always look for EHU pitches) and aslong as you box clever should'nt come across too many issues, We do however have a kettle that will go on the gas hob and an inverter if we should ever need upto about 150w but have never used it also never used the gas in tha caravan either...........  Must say I do like my creature comforts like TV ,satelite,dvd etc but if location dictates we can easy do without.

Its our first year and as of now only had 14 nights out so things may change



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26/5/2011 at 9:51am
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Low wattage kettle, TV also have a fan heater, 1-2KW useful to take chill off if we don't want to use blown system.

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