my dandy will have 12volt for the water tap and mains, as i will only use mains can i get a cheap converter that will drop mains to 12volt and so work the tap without needing a battery,
mike
------------- they said it couldnt be done so i left it and went camping
a bad days camping is better than a good day at work
i have just "plumbed" in a zig so we can have 12v to some sockets in the TT for the lights and tv and a 240v outlet to the awning ,looks pretty good IMHO
in the future (and why i bothered) we will get a leisure battery to help weed us of EHU's
we plug the cable into the trailer instead of to the trips then back to the trailer from the awning ,the trips now just plug into a garage power fitting in the trailer so the cable can be shorter to the awning kitchen,if we use another tent all the connections are still as they were.
hi Gerald, The Ripmax transformer looks like the sort used to give a regulated supply to CB base stations. At 20 amps output it is ok for running waterpump, lights etc. While you can charge a battery, its not ideal in that it is advisable to ocasionally boost charge at approx 14.5 volts to desulphate the plates which is one reason for leasure batteries failing.
It is not a charger it is only a power supply, a charger has to be separate to the smps supply. they were never made as chargers and should not be used as one.
Mike I have posted the curcuit I am at present building for my Dandy, have a look it is not too tecnical. It has many advantages which I will name when I have written the instructions, basically if you are using one battery the other is charging, as long as you have 240v.
Hi art, yup there's been a few and the new seasons not underway for most people, and I have had two changes already. I have updated the Electrical dawing with some dialogue, on how it works.
Going to France again in the summer, taking our Dandy, and wondering if anyone can shed light on a problem we encountered with the continental electrics last year. We had 2 systems in place:
1.12V via the car battery, which we used for the water pump and internal light - this was really meant to be used for times when we couldn't find hook ups
2. Electric hook -up with a power - breaker.
We found that even when we used a continental adaptor the electrics would not work(they work fine in the uk)We even borrowed an adaptor on site to make sure that ours wasn't faulty. Anyhow we spent 2 weeks and seemed to manage with just the car battery!
Could it be that the continental current doesn't have enough "umph" to reset the circuit breaker???
We used our normal caravan EHU lead via an adaptor in France on 3 different sites with no problems a few years ago, maybe the EHU point you were on was faulty.
------------- Caz
If you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, just keep going till you go round the bend.
We don't even carry a water container. Just send the old man to the tap, boil the kettle and fill a flask with hot water - lasts all day for cups of tea for me!!!
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Topic: dandy 240v to 12v
