Advice Please

S2SAP
S2SAP Forum Participant Posts: 75
edited April 2018 in Caravans #1

Advice please. When connecting the electric hook up cable / socket to the caravan socket beside the battery it is very stiff / tight pushing it on and pulling it off - my hands have cuts all over them from this. Anyone any useful tips for making the connection easier - I have attached photo to help explain. I tried lubricating it with Mr Sheen but no good.
 

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  • Cornersteady
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    edited April 2018 #2

    you could try spraying the blue with WD40? is it a new van?

    Is it stiff because the two parts don't match up in a perfect straight line?

    Try holding the plug in a different manner? ie pull up the flap align loosely then hold where the hinge is?

  • hitchglitch
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    edited April 2018 #3

    WD40 for the pins and silicon grease for the plastic contact area.

  • young thomas
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    edited April 2018 #4

    what's that satellite connection doing right where the two parts of the EHU join together?...

    surely, if there were a cable in this socket, it would make connecting the EHU even more difficult.

    conversely, if you connected up the EHU first, you'd have to unhook it to  connect the satellite cable?

    undecided

  • Cornersteady
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    edited April 2018 #5

    yes  I've never seen sockets like that inside/next to the battery box, indeed a separate compartment for the EHU? 

  • EmilysDad
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    edited April 2018 #6

    ive got satellite & telly aerial sockets in my battery compartment along with the 240v connection

    I think there's a 12 volt ciggy lighter type socket too, but can't remember embarassed

  • Cornersteady
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    edited April 2018 #7

    none of that fancy stuff for ussmile 

    we just have the mover isolation socket but it can't be used if the EHU is in and the EHU can't be used if the isolation key is in (as designed)

  • young thomas
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    edited April 2018 #8

    on our old Bolero there was a 'TV in' socket in the same (under a flap) area as the EHU connector but it was on a short length of cable, so easy to move if reqd.

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  • EasyT
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    edited April 2018 #10

    Makes sense to me. I use silicon grease on waterl plug-in as it tended to stick on previous 'van

  • Simon100
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    edited April 2018 #11

    All my Lunars have had satellite connections in the same housing as the ehu socket, as in the picture. I have never had a problem plugging the satellite cable in with the ehu cable in place.

  • lornalou1
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    edited April 2018 #12

    get some fine emery paper and rub round the male connector to remove a little of the plastic then lubricate with silicon grease.

  • Nuggy
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    edited April 2018 #13

    I keep a pair of thin cotton gloves for situations like that, the material can absorb any knocks, not your skin or knuckles.

  • S2SAP
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    edited April 2018 #14

    Thanks for the replys I sprayed the pins with wd40 and then cleaned it off and its working much better now thanks again

  • Cornersteady
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    edited April 2018 #15

    Good to know, thanks for posting back btw, a lot don'tsmile

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