Hi to all,
I am new to caravanning is there anything at all you can buy to plug into your electric hook up that will trip out before the caravan site electric trips out. Never having had electric hook-up so just a bit concerned I do not overload the power supply.
Morphy

My two pennyworth here...

Personally I wouldn't worry Morphy.

In all the years we've been vanning we've only ever knocked out our EHU pillar once and that was when our first Remoska was going U/S. As you may have read they have a habit of developing a leak into the innards of the top which contains the heating element. Steam gets inside and causes a short, which kicks out the supply.

We're on our third Remoska now, all swapped without an issue. If you have one of the new ones they reckon they've curred the problem, time will tell.

Generally you've got to be using a lot of juice to cause an issue and as you are obviously aware of the problem I doubt you would do that.

If you are worried about tripping electric hookups learn how to avoid doing it

Electricity for campers and caravanners

under the seat the hook up wire travels from the plug in eriba body wall into a box with a window in that box, it has a
t (test button), the wire then goes into the main box that distributes power but also has trips this is the one that has all the fuses in and charger...
if plugging into house you could buy an rcd that is used with power tools hedge cutter, electric lawn mower,

all you really need to buy is the hook up cable.

On hook-up we use a 3-way RCD distribution board into the awning,...then power the van up from there it usually trips our switch before the post.
Just be aware of what you have running, before plugging any High-drain appliances in,
Only problem we ever had was at a private site that boasted 10 amps but was only providing about 5

Quote: Aaron Calder wrote in post #6

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The easy way to work out how many amps an appliance draws is to assume that it's approximately 4 amps per KW.

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Thank you all very much for the information it will come in handy for me and any other new caravaner's I am sure thank you Morphy.

Thank you Deeps, this is most useful. Have booked my first trip away near Poole in April and will visit AL. The canvas on my pop top is mouldy and I am hoping to order a new one.
Due to the amount of PINK in my Pan due to my young granddaughter we have changed its gender and renamed it Ermentrude. Looking forward to meeting other Eribafolk this year.

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Looking forward to meeting other Eribafolk this year.

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