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I am looking to buy two new ones, any suggestions as to where I can get some from not at the stupid prices the dealers are asking. £32!!!!!
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Similar price on ebay £32 for a quality unit doesn't sound too bad to me.I am looking to buy two new ones, any suggestions as to where I can get some from not at the stupid prices the dealers are asking. £32!!!!!
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I can only presume that the light or orange colour is to prevent people tripping over them, a difficult to see known trip hazard placed across a walkway could cost you your life savings. Bet not a lot of people have thought of that. "Caution trip hazard" signs along the cable might alleviate the blame but beware it is a mine field out there.....someone is just waiting to make a claim from your bank account.Am sure a sparky will be along soon to explain, but personally I would not make one up from an orange extension lead. I have 2 hookup leads, one blue and one grey. They are both much thicker and heavier than a normal extension lead. Dont forget vehicles will be running over it and there will be times that there is a lot of ampage going through it. Dont be tempted to cheapskate on a hookup cable, all the electricity in your van goes through it.
I can only presume that the light or orange colour is to prevent people tripping over them, a difficult to see known trip hazard placed across a walkway could cost you your life savings. Bet not a lot of people have thought of that. "Caution trip hazard" signs along the cable might alleviate the blame but beware it is a mine field out there.....someone is just waiting to make a claim from your bank account.
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If my warning is something that you will think of in the future when you are plugging in then it was not a waste of time.Am on an Aire in France with around 40 vans on it. Am the only Brit here and not one has an orange cable, not even the Dutch. Maybe its a Brit thing. If anyone is waiting to make a claim on my bank account, first they will have to find Smudger, as he drank it dry and secondly I wish them luck.
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If my warning is something that you will think of in the future when you are plugging in then it was not a waste of time.
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.. all ehu posts in the UK are within 25mt of the pitch.
Seldom will you need more than that
I was on a site in North Devon last year and had to join a 25mtr and 10mtr cable to reach the post.
It only just reached at that.
It was a busy site and well laid out and organised, not a work in progress so to speak.
Maybe they don't know the rules
PS There were four sockets on each post (2x posts) serving 8x pitches and ours was the nearest post.
clearly they don't.. IEE regs state ..
There must be at least one supply socket for each pitch, the socket positioned so that it is between 0.8 m and 1.5 m above ground level, and no more than 20 m from any point in its pitch.
The regs also state that the max length of the extension cable is 25mts.. so the installation is not legal if you had to join two cables to reach the socket.
I thought it was odd at the time, but to be honest, I didn't know the rules either.
Until now, that is.
Thank you for the useful information.
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We stop often at a small CL, where because of the weight of our unit, we park on the concrete, by one of the farmers barns. Loverly view, anyway, I have made up a 100m yellow artic cable , for that site. But then, I'm not on a pitch.
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