Any ideas anyone? We plan on taking our day tent on our main two week holiday this year and intend using it for all our cooking and eating so the EHU will go straight into there for the coolbox and George, and occasional use of toaster, BUT we will also need power in the main tent, mainly at night for lights, heater and TV. So was just wondering if there's any way of splitting the power supply, obviously running an extension outside wouldn't be a good idea, but what if we put it through some conduit or piping or something, would it be safe? Not done anything like this before as done everything in the main tent.
Any advice gratefully received, thanks.
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An extension will be fine, as long as you keep both ends off the floor. The coating on wire is waterproof (for short periods - weeks/months) but just make sure that there is no way that the ends can get wet. You'll be fine!
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no.no.no. stop. do not use one of thse ,it is lethal, and should not be for sale at all.
for a start,, if you do as the description says , and plug your splitter into the site outlet, and plug an extention cable into it to run into the tent or day tent , then you would have no electrical protection on the extention, i.e. no overcurret protection (10amp) and no rcd protection.
the only way one of these could maybe be used is to use the splitter in the tent and then have two camping hook up devices , but then the splitter would have the male plug on , rather than the female plug,
in other words forget it. just use an extention cable from your protected hookup outlet from one tent to the other, using a water proof socket on the end, this should be fine and all your apliances would be protected
Homebase sell an extension cable with a four way plug built in that you can wind the cable round and it's arctic grade cable so the same as your main EHU.
We have a two way, (rather than three way) one of these that we used to share a hookup one busy bank holiday.
This one's from the Towsure web-site. You plug it into the ehu bollard, but to be safe you would need two elcb protected tent hookup leads like these - one for the day tent, and one for the main tent.
I think reading what everyone has said - thanks very much everyone - we will go with an extension from the tent to the day tent, we will only need to have coolbox on all the time, which we may keep in main tent, then just use extension for toaster and 'George'
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Topic: Splitting the power
