That been done too. I understand all it needs is a Hand drill and heavy duty rubber gloves? Bingo! free lecky!.That's sounds a bit ominous.... Power supplied FROM the streetlights.
It was the reason that La-Manga campsite in Spain, installed metered power, Heaters left on in awnings night and day!. Some folk will always take the pee. They monitored it by computer from the office. You had a "free" daily allowance. and paid for anything over that.One site we stopped on outside York.Had electric. But was thinking of putting meters in.In the winter they we losing money due to campers leaving heaters on 24 hrs a day.Talking to a fellow motorhomer and mentioned this to him.His reply was a shrug of shoulders. I have paid for it so i will use as much as I like.
Watt do you need to know?
"James Watt (19 January 1736 – 19 August 1819) was a Scottish mathematician and engineer. He did not invent the first steam engine, but he did modify it to work better. There were other patented steam engines (such as the Savery and Newcomen steam engines) in use by the time Watt started his work on them. His major contribution is in developing the modern form of the steam engine. The Watt steam engine is credited for driving the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. James Watt was a brilliant engineer and he also transformed the Newcomen engine.
Today, most people honour him by naming a unit of power, the watt, after him."
His work also led to the phrase "Balls Out" when referring full power / speed.
I'm nothing if not helpful.
It's just about enough to heat your curling tongs...
Hence "Balls Out"
Obviously we haven't been this year.
movan poki a rough explanation.
First it's easier to convert amps into watts, a figure that's quoted on the back on almost every electrical appliance. Go look
Mains voltage is meant to be 230volts in Europe. To convert we multiply the mains 230 X the Amps 6.
230 X 6 = 1380 watts.
1000watts is also know as a KW kilowatt.
So as long as you don't power anything up more than that it should not trip the breaker.
When you look at so called "camping appliances" in shops they are just low power units.
Example a travel / camping kettle will often be 1000w your house kettle could be 2-3000w.
If you had a 10amp supply. Same maths. 230 X 10 = 2400 watts to play with.
An easy way to remember is think "Watts the answer to the question?".you have confused me even more now, i dont understand any of it
silvia
Actually, I seem to remember a few years ago that a ban was introduced on reselling electric, full stop. As a result, the clubs included it in their pitch prices. Not sure what the situation is now though!
Sorry mate but plucking one bit of info from a post can be misleading.whitch is why EHU pitches might have a picnic bench or tap or drain or be gravel or hard standing but non-EHU pitches are just grass. You aren't paying extra for just the electric but for all the other amenities.
The CL we use near my parents is/was £15 in the summer and included EHU and £10 in the winter and electric was charged by reading the meter. Water and grey drain on each pitch that has EHU, Elsan at the far side of the field, no toilets or showers. Works for us
Actually, I seem to remember a few years ago that a ban was introduced on reselling electric, full stop. As a result, the clubs included it in their pitch prices. Not sure what the situation is now though!
Electric heating, 6 amps will do everything else but not all at the same time,so the hot water has to go off before the kettle is put on etc. If you forget them it's a trip to the post to reset the breaker
Many many years ago when I was a kid in London, back of Clapham junction station, the street had no electric in the houses.
We couldn't do that. The street lighting was still gas lamps!. Only changed them in the late 50`s. By replacing the gas heads with electric adaptions.
Remember that Amps times Volts equals Watts so 6 amps is 6 times 230volts in the UK equals 1380 watts. But do remember that there will always be losses. BTW we changed in the UK from 240volts a number of years ago to save energy consumed in generation1kw - one bar fireis usually about the max for 6 amps. You will probably be ok to add the fidge. Truma electric shower is probably not an option
I have seen a whole bank of meters on a couple of German campsites connected to the EHU points and you get charged according to usage. Most sites take the easier route of charging a set amount per day and it seems that this year at least all the German sites we stayed at were 16amp.
Off topic a bit but in my childhood we lived in. arose which was lit by Calor gas and the bungalow we moved into, newly built in 1950, was lit the same until the farm was wired to the mains in 1954. The pipe work was still there in 1963 to my knowledge when I last lived there. We had two very large tall cylinders round at the back of the house on a manifold so that when one ran out we could change over easily. The lights were noisy and gas off a blueish/greenish light if I recall correctly
...and cue classic Abbott & Costello skit:
I rarely use ehu and if it were included in the fee I wouldn’t use the “Aire” why should one be charged for something one does not want and will probably not use, sounds like one of the reasons Motorhomes don’t like using sites, I.e. having to pay for facilities they neither want, need or intend using.What they do will depend very much on how the place is to be operated. If someone is only going to come round once or twice a day to collect money then this will be open to abuse if they intend to charge extra for electricity. Folk might wait until they have done their round, saying they don't want electricity then connect up as soon as the "warden" has left.
My suggestion would be to include an element for electricity (6A maximum) in the price whether they use it or not. This would be much easier to manage. Price might need to be higher in the winter as demand likely to be greater, for example because MHs with solar who wouldn't need it in summer may do in winter. The price will probably have to be adjusted in the light of experience based on usage.
- and then only one at a time.
... but not a lot of people seem to know that.
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