The site we were on last week only had 6amps for tents. Shame one of them had a 3k 'quick boil' kettle! Threw the whole site about ten times trying to make a brew, till the owners figured out which unit was doing it.
Another tent had a 2k convector heater on a thermostat - then went out for the night. Again, the whole site was tripping every time it kicked in, till they traced the unit and pulled the plug.
How can a 3KW kettle trip a whole site?
That would mean that the whole site was running on one circuit breaker (regs don't allow it).
The only way a whole site can trip is if everybody on the site is using electricity at the same time which overloads the sites circuit breaker and the 3Kw kettle was just the straw that broke the camel's back.
It seems like the site owner was the one who didn't have a clue!
A site like that can't comply with the regs and it makes you wonder what else is wrong and how it passed an annual inspection and test.
Saxo1
Quote: Originally posted by Mick S. on 26/4/2014
The site we were on last week only had 6amps for tents. Shame one of them had a 3k 'quick boil' kettle! Threw the whole site about ten times trying to make a brew, till the owners figured out which unit was doing it.
Another tent had a 2k convector heater on a thermostat - then went out for the night. Again, the whole site was tripping every time it kicked in, till they traced the unit and pulled the plug.
Some folk havent a bloody clue with electric.
was at seadown at charmouth few years back 4 on I post and guy with the motorhome behind us kept knocking us all out with a household microwave.................
All pitches on campsites since 1993 must have individual MCB or Fuse overload protection to avoid inconveniencing other users by overloading the post.
If an appliance had an earth fault then that could trip the RCD at the post and could affect a max of 3 others.
A domestic m/wave on average draws app 7Amps so just about enough to trip a 6A MCB and even then not instantaneously.
Campsites have to have an annual inspection and test and, unless it was installed before 1993, what posters are reporting should not be possible.
saxo1
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Topic: Kettle/ toaster
