No umbilical for a week!
have just been away for a week and survived without plugging in to the leccy! Weve just been down to devon and cornwall. And thru having a dodgy fridge we couldnt plug into electrics (the element has gone on fridge)because when plugged in the fridge automatically tried to work on 240v so we didnt bother and used gas , it was fine everything worked ok the only bad thing was we were paying for electric but didnt use it! Stayed on a ths at porth beach £13.00 a night ,for 4 nights and oakdown at sidmouth £23.00 for five but left sidmouth two nights early cos was sick of lousy weather, even managed to tune telly in (first time ever) couldnt miss the durrells and grantchester lol 12v didnt work last year but just had it serviced (it was a fuse) so shall hopefully be using more ths and maybe try some cls this year( altho must admit felt like packing in altogether due to using hols and having such foul weather)..... Craving some current bun ,mrs bc:)
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you could have hooked up to EHU but still set your fridge to gas....
however, a little eye opener that you can stil,camp away from ehu and have a great time, weather excepted.
THS are great fun, your experience here should e courage you to try a few more.
good luck
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Amazing how we have come to rely on having electricity. Our first van didn't have a battery so we used to connect to the car using an extended 7S lead and make sure we took it for a run once a week.
Although vans are more luxurious now there aren't many extra things fitted that require a power supply. Microwave I guess, but we hardly use ours. The Thetford had a manual flush (I wish the current models did!). Lighting has improved but how many lights do you need to read a book?
Still, for those who want TV, satellite dishes and receivers etc. I guess you could say things have progressed.
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why sites charge the E.H.U. inc in the site fee, they should charge it as extra, then if you want E.H.U. you pay for it, if you dont thats O.K.
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Hello again , could anyone explain how i get the fridge freezer to work on gas ? And still have electric plugged into site? Because if i have 240v the fridge works for about 10 mins and then just has red flashing light and stops working (the caravan service man has said it needs a new element and will be fitting one ) however i cannot see a switch on fridge that allows you to pick your method of choice ..... The fridge does it itself eg 1st choice 240v 2nd choice gas and when travelling 12v , so please tell me where switch is and i can use it next time im away
) cheers mrs bc ps wildwood i never plugged it into site so it never blew any fuses , and i cant unplug fridge cos its wired into caravan it hasnt got a socket plus it always needs some form of electric eg 240v or 12v to work even when running on gas 0 -
Yes same here , but nothing so straightforward with this old van lol , altho i must say it was great not having to wind up a wet mucky electric cable when we were leaving , am looking for another ths for a few days , i cant do rallys cos they seem to always be at weekends , and am at work ,
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Every fridge I have had was plugged in and not hard wired. Assume you have checked adjacent cupboards? Also there may be a separate circuit breaker for your fridge supply on the main panel although often circuits are connected together.
Assuming you don't have the instruction manual have you tried looking online for the instructions? It seems a bit strange that there is no way of manually selecting gas or mains.
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Perhaps there is a problem with the gas supply to the fridge, so it keeps trying to switch to electric?
When ours wouldn't light, I tried the old PC trick - turned it off, waited five minutes and tried again - it worked!
Another problem we had with the fridge was that the gas burners rusted and didn't burn cleanly (a common fault in fridges of a certain vintage - ours is about 10 years old - because they didn't use stainless steel, apparently) We had to have them replaced as there was a nasty (and dangerous) smell. Perhaps your fridge is detecting a similar fault and tries to turn to electric.
I've noticed in our instruction manual that some versions of our fridge have a similar control unit to yours - where it selects the best power source automatically - but ours is a more simple 'self select' version. Sometimes technology is not such a good thing
I agree that it will be plugged in somewhere - often in a cupboard or under a bed or similar.
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Every fridge I have had was plugged in and not hard wired. Assume you have checked adjacent cupboards? Also there may be a separate circuit breaker for your fridge supply on the main panel although often circuits are connected together.
Oy - I said that!
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