Dangerous usage of coiled up electric cables
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. . . and what sort of view do they get out of the side windows (if fitted)?
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mustnt digress, but as you asked....
no tethering of dogs, no BBQ, no pegs for separation, no EHU connection (no cables, thin or thick) and no caravans allowed, what could be nicer?
....oh, and the view over the harbour and La Manche was lovely through our large windscreen....
.....it's a MH thing so I didn't expect you to understand...
now, back to coiled cables.....
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Aluminium is not used for small flex diameter cables. The insulation is fairly standard thickness. The smaller diameter cables you see on the continent are, just that, smaller. Probably 1.5mm2 but the EHU is not 16 amps. Horses for courses.
I do worry though when the black, small diameter, hook-up lead is trailed across the access road with everybody driving across it.
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Thread drift or digression is part and parcel of internet forum etiquette, after all most posters use them as a pastime
Have fond memories of some stunning views through the windscreen of our MH we had for over 9 years and toured both here and over there on sites, aires, stelplatz, wild camping etc. Most memorable was high on a hill overlooking a lake in Poland at sunset.
We did use a generator with a short uncoiled cable at times, most memorably at Le Tour de France Grand Depart in Yorkshire just below the peak of Buttertubs where we had 2x MH in a very tight space with our roll out fiamma canopy across the gap. Our friend was sat atop his as the peloton arrived and passed.
Happy days
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'happy days'.......they still are for you.....I hope.
or do caravans change the 'happiness' level, then?
dont have a generator, happy with free sunshine....
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We were able to do ad hoc spur of the moment adventures in those MH days without the restrictions schools put on holidays nowadays, hence some of the trips we were able to do. Although as we went to the MH from tenting it was the natural journey at that time to us. We didn't consider a caravan at all as the MH seemed the way to go.
The making up of beds nightly as our daughter grew became a chore we didn't enjoy. She is 5'9" at 11 years old, so the caravan became a better proposition for us now.
Our time restrictions have changed our style of trips. For example last week I was able to tow solo to a CAMC site on Thursday, pitch up, attend a funeral in the afternoon without hassle of driving through a city in a MH. Drive to Birmingham to collect the girls, a MH wouldn't get into the pick up area at New Street Station, on Friday night. Go to Alton Towers on Saturday, all in the tow car. The caravan works well for us now, probably better than a larger fixed bed MH if we had gone that route. Certainly using the MH for work caused a few issues with some clients, that having the 'invisible' caravan has alleviated. I can stay out of hotels, which Ive spent my working life living in all over the world for decades.
Its all happy days, getting away is great whichever leisure vehicle you use
In time, who knows what we get next once we are empty nesters. Fortunately we have the opportunity to do lots of different holiday types from camping, to cruises, to long haul month at a time where we explore far off lands, skiing; but seldom hotels.
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Goodness how did we get from coiled up cables to a lengthy list of MH pros and cons?
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As Toyah Willcox would say...
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...married to my favourite musician...
...like most threads, hasn't it all been said after 10 pages?
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I had to look that up
Interesting chap and career he had/has
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I did not mean that there was actually a 10" rule, I was just trying to................Oh! never mind.
One good thing to come from all this is, if you are going to visit somewhere like the dentist, reading through a few pages of this will dull any pain.
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Well I personally don’t and wouldn’t use a reel to store our EHU cable and like CY just loop it around my arm and store it loose so it’s always uncoiled when hooked up on site and on the drive at home .
But I just want to add that I have just left one forum because of the responses that are given to some people’s questions .Very negative and patronising.Some of the smart ar*sed remarks can be very insulting to some one that has just asked a question simply because they don’t know the answer and that is one of the reasons they join in on a forum like this ,it can be very off putting to them.
just my thoughts .
Brian & Jo
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EHU cable & T.V. cable always kept loosely coiled & stored in a zipped round container, made for the job. Anything to avoid damage to the cables impairing their safe use. ( I know co-ax ain't going to become unsafe, but they do store together nicely )! One thing about loose coiling before storage -- It allows me to re-coil the leads thro' a thin damp cloth held in the hand to clean the cable & allow me to feel any nicks or similar damage in the sheath.
As for the "Push Button To Release" style of EHU Bollards, it seems that the club has gone back to the earlier type of "Push - in" as opposed to "Push in Then TWIST " for the refurbished sites.
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As for the "Push Button To Release" style of EHU Bollards, it seems that the club has gone back to the earlier type of "Push - in" as opposed to "Push in Then TWIST " for the refurbished sites.
I have noticed that, seems a retrograd step. However, presumably cheaper and less prone to damage if someone trips over / yanks on the cable. Or of course drives off while still connected.
Although given the angle a few have been at, I suspect reversing into them is more of an issue.😀
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i suspect that all of us have a lot in comon and would get on really well on site.
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Colston Hall '73, Lark's Tongues in Aspic tour.....a Crim since then...
many line up changes since the original line up but still into the music, even now we've lost Adrian Belew and gained a Jakko Jakszyk, amazingly a guitarist in a KC tribute band that made it to the real thing..
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As a matter of interest how many fires or melting of cables on site were caused by cables not uncoiled fully ?
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That is something that can't be quantified so holds no weight in the discussion.
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It’s a perfectly valid point - at least as valid as your question.
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