Steering wheel cosy!

[Pausim]

Now I'm wondering whether, if I didn't have the alarm, it would be worth having a short (2ft?) extension lead between my van and the main cable. Perhaps a well-lubricated one.
I have visions of sockets being wrenched out of van panelwork and visits to bodyshops afterwards. For those who have forgotten to disconnect (and I admit to having come very close myself), was it a highly destructive process, or did something cheap give way before too much damage was done?

Some sites don’t allow connectors (C&MC). Also the connectors clip together to maintain the electrical integrity and should not pull apart.

 

[quentinsf]

Some sites don’t allow connectors (C&MC). Also the connectors clip together to maintain the electrical integrity and should not pull apart.

Well, they shouldn't, but when it's a case of potential serious damage, what's the lesser evil? Having connectors that could pull safely apart, or having the bare wires ripped out of them?

 

[Super Spark]

I have a set of these, you can buy them pre-printed from the States but I just wrote on each one what it relates to and snap them around the steering wheel when pitched up. I then remove each one as the item is unhooked, closed, locked or stowed away.

Warning buzzer built in to electrics 10yr old kon tiki 669 still think it's a good van. Another alternative would be use batteries and gas. Nothing to forget

 

[Pausim]

Well, they shouldn't, but when it's a case of potential serious damage, what's the lesser evil? Having connectors that could pull safely apart, or having the bare wires ripped out of them?

What they should and shouldn’t do is another matter but the C&MC don’t like cable joints between motorhome and post. Also any connector on the wire between the motorhome and the post is less likely to pull safely apart than the connection on the motorhome because the two wire connector parts lock together. My van connection does not lock in place and should pull out allowing the flap to spring closed over the socket on the end of the wire. Where is the lesser evil?

 

[KNWH]

Now I'm wondering whether, if I didn't have the alarm, it would be worth having a short (2ft?) extension lead between my van and the main cable. Perhaps a well-lubricated one.
I have visions of sockets being wrenched out of van panelwork and visits to bodyshops afterwards. For those who have forgotten to disconnect (and I admit to having come very close myself), was it a highly destructive process, or did something cheap give way before too much damage was done?

I’ve seen someone do it, and it didn’t look cheap.
Wrenched the socket off the side of the MH
(The cable was by this time sideways to the socket and didn’t pull out)

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[G-RMPS]

Could have been me! Outer Hebrides.

 

[KNWH]

Could have been me! Outer Hebrides.

And me, just moving to top up the water, so didn’t go through normal check list.
Fortunately realised within 2 metres of setting off.
After that I made the tag for my ignition switch ( post #11)

 

[quentinsf]

In general, the club is right: cables should try to have fewer connections, not more, because every connection, if not properly made, can become a point of resistance and hence heat.
However, my cable does lock into my van, which is why I'd be tempted to make a short lead modified so that it doesn't. (And which wouldn't be pulled at right angles as I drove away.)

 

[Brains]

I have a cable bag
like this one
It lives in the drivers footwell when it does not have a cable in it.