Have you tried a different socket on the camp site power bollard ? Can you swop with your neighbour who is working, at least that way you will prove if its your camper or the site bollard
I think it must be our connection
The genny is AC mains, trek, 2.9 kw
It’s a bit too wet to mess with the outside plug in on the side of the van
So we’ve done without electric
Although they have a barn here with seats etc, so I’ve plugged our evening meal in there as I’d already started to prepare stuffed veg before I knew we would have no electric
So not the end of the world
As long as we can sort out what’s causing the problem so we can have electric some days on the rest of the trip , especially as sites are including electric in their pitch fees
Last time mine went pop you would not have noticed any thing wrong at a glance in the consumer unit .
After a process of elimination and opening up consumer unit to disconnect some circuits I just noticed a little bit of
scorching from under connector board within the unit itself.
Stripped it and found the solder had been weak and guess upon heating and cooling just let go and bang
Had some photos but they will not attach sorry
Short circuited this connection ( pun intended ) and was up and running again.
This sort of thing might be your trouble unless you running on Generator through same supply route..
Are you on a different site and tried the hook up only to find its failed again ?
So what is the difference in connection points for the genney and the external hook up? Are they both supply side of RCD AND MCB's so both go through these devices in consumer unit
There's a lot to be said for carrying one of those plug in checkers ...my leccy went off, tried plugging into a different leccy point, still no joy ...
Then I remembered me plug in checker ...nowt wrong with the site supply the fault was in my mh ...eventually sorted
Modern breakers are far too sensitive. Just checking with a lamp for live and earth will trip them.
Gimmee the old fuses you can boost with silver foil anytime.
Modern breakers are far too sensitive. Just checking with a lamp for live and earth will trip them. Gimmee the old fuses you can boost with silver foil anytime.
I can remember using a nail as a temporary replacement in an old fashioned fuse box until I could get a new fuse. Did the job and the house didn't burn down!
I must admit that nails are rather unforgiving Peter. At least with a limited amount of foil you can still just up the amperage slightly.
We used to feed 3 or 4 caravans, two RVs, make up and dining bus on film locations from one 13a outlet. We had some 30a cartridge fuses just for the extension leads. Not quite cricket but worked for the production team.
Apparently there are 20,000 vehicle fires a year in UK. So much for regulations and safer protection. As an electrician you became aware of the coefficient of utilisation and stay within acceptable limits. Regulations try to cover any and every dumb cluck user.
Did you swap yours and the other unit's supply connections as the fault may lay in the wall connection - water will cause a trip but usually dries out after a few hours.
Back when we ran Triple S, we had a ancient arc welder, it would only work with a nail in the plug, which did get quite hot, but we kept it on a seperate circuit just in case, 13amps just wasn't enough, we did one day put a meter on it and it topped out at 20 amps, we should have had a proper set up for it looking back, but we painted bikes, we weren't sparkies.
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