Motorhome Charging Point At Home

[busby]

I just put my cable through small top opening window and plug in..BUSBY.

 

[Keep Right On]

Thinking of fitting a more permanent exterior power supply to have the motorhome connected to when at home - have found this option https://www.toolstation.com/industrial-socket-ip44/p85589 - what other options like this does anyone have?

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I just have standard EHU and an adapter with about a foot of cable to a normal 3 pin plug - use that at home and unplug adapter if EHU point. Cost me about a tenner -amazon

 

[Brains]

Keep in mind your next car will be electric.

Therefore don't waste money installing something that will be useless in a few years.
Get proper cooker cable installed direct from your consumer unit with a proper car charging socket as well as a standard EHU socket
Make sure it's all more than shower proof.

Also make sure it has a cooker/immersion type switch with a red LED inside the house to isolate the sockets.
You don't want some scrote charging up their car using your power every time you go off to work.
(Theft of electricity is a virtually unheard of crime today. A decade from now however it will be one of the regular offences coming up in the local courts.)

 

[L' Hobo]

Keep in mind your next car will be electric.

Therefore don't waste money installing something that will be useless in a few years.
Get proper cooker cable installed direct from your consumer unit with a proper car charging socket as well as a standard EHU socket
Make sure it's all more than shower proof.

Also make sure it has a cooker/immersion type switch with a red LED inside the house to isolate the sockets.
You don't want some scrote charging up their car using your power every time you go off to work.
(Theft of electricity is a virtually unheard of crime today. A decade from now however it will be one of the regular offences coming up in the local courts.)

Who are you calling a 'scote', I'm a fine upstanding Hobo and the plug-ins for my electric blanket while I hunch down behind their shed.

I'll look for an electric kettle and frying pan later!

 

[mofurt]

I have a blue 16A socket in the garage next to the door - which has a gap at the bottom sufficient for the cable to run without rubbing. Originally it was installed to allow me to run a welder that is just too powerful for a 13A plug. It is very useful for the camper, as whilst it only gets plugged in occasionally it gets parked right by the garage door.
I then have a 10m or so 16A plug to 4x13A socket distribution board lead, which is perfect for getting power either to hand tools and work light on whatever I'm working on in the garage or to garden tools - they'd need an extension anyway. And if I'm at the far end of the garden I can use the EHU 16A cables to extend that lead. Works well for me.
I do have both ways of single adaptors (16A to 13A) so can plug the camper in in random places, or get a 13A socket where I need one.

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[DuxDeluxe]

The one in your photo is IP44 rated the same as your Motorhome connectors, the one in your link is IP67 rated but will only retain its IP67 rating in use if you connect to it with an IP67 rated plug - I bet you don't.

…and your point is?

Nothing different to when I plug in on a campsite using my supplied EHU lead. I wanted an properly installed IP rated external connector with installation certificate (both for that and for the garage wiring) that would pass an electrical survey and that is what I got.

Please can you enlighten me on the consequences apparently dangerous practice of connecting a normal IP44 rated plug into the IP67 rated socket, which it seems that everybody else does?

Unless you are simply trying to score points……….

 

[DuxDeluxe]

Yes

Yes I agree, but you are highlighting my point. In many cases they are not correctly wired. Mine isn't. It was already done when we bought the house. Its a spur off the last socket (furthest away) in the Kitchen. The MCB will offer little protection as it is rated for the whole circuit. This spur is not suitable for anything like 7kw. The only answer for me would be to install a proper DB (like at a campsite) for my plug in.

Yes, one house we looked at had, what was even to me, squirrelly wiring. I got an electrical survey done which told me the worst. Along with the other issues surveyed, I pulled out of the sale and gave the reasons why - as the electrics had been condemned, I sent them a copy of the report. The subsequent purchasers of the house never knew about it……..

 

[Lenny HB]

…and your point is?

Nothing different to when I plug in on a campsite using my supplied EHU lead. I wanted an properly installed IP rated external connector with installation certificate (both for that and for the garage wiring) that would pass an electrical survey and that is what I got.

Please can you enlighten me on the consequences apparently dangerous practice of connecting a normal IP44 rated plug into the IP67 rated socket, which it seems that everybody else does?

Unless you are simply trying to score points……….

No danger as such just that you can't make use of the IP67 rating without the correct plug so might as well fit an IP44 socket.

 

[DuxDeluxe]

No danger as such just that you can't make use of the IP67 rating without the correct plug so might as well fit an IP44 socket.

I still do not see the point of you raising this as an issue. I needed a socket that was approved and would stand up to things like jet washing the driveway, heavy rain etc...... which is what I got.

Whatever is plugged into it not meeting IP67 rating is totally irrelevant as there is no intention of doing any jetwashing, flooding and immersion in water or anything else. IP44 resists against splashing which is totally adequate for the hook up.

Thank you for pointing this out. I phoned the installing electrician about it and he laughed at me...... OK he is someone I know