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Topic: Caravan site electric

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chindley

26/5/2018 at 10:38am
Location: Lowton Warrington
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Hi all.
I’m after some info on electrics.
I have my tourer permanently sited.
The site electrics are only 6amp and continuously trip.
Where the van is I have access to 4 x 6amp outlets which are never used as you cannot get another van there.
So the question is could I have 2 plugs from the site electric box going into one so it will double the ampage to 12 bit still be 240v. 🤔
Thanks in advance.

jeff juke

26/5/2018 at 11:10am
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If the box is tripping all the time could be for a number of reasons eg,

Fault in mains cable

Running too many things like telly and kettle at the one tine.

You have to know how many amps a kettle for instance is drawing or if you have one a micro wave and think what things you can put on before the box trips.

Im not a spark but,i would not advise what your suggesting till i asked one

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Sevenexile

26/5/2018 at 11:53am
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It won’t work. You firstly won’t be able to fit two cables in to one socket safely. It also won’t actually give you a 12 amp supply it will just be two separate 6 amp supply’s so it will still trip when overloaded:

Pickled Onion

26/5/2018 at 1:08pm
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You don't say whether its an over-current trip or an earth leakage trip, is it in your van or the one on the supply post?

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Grampian91

26/5/2018 at 1:52pm
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If its only a 6amp supply then you need to stay under a max combined power draw of 1500 watts.

Guessing the fridge is on 24/7, that wont take a huge amount, but add a 99w water heater and you wont have much left for other devices.

If you use a kettle you want a 1200W one or less and ensure the the water heater is off when you use the kettle.

Do you have a battery fitted? That will help spread the load for the lighting and waterpump.

Ray Clayton

26/5/2018 at 2:58pm
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Hi

If the site does not use, or need all those hook ups, ask them to upgrade your breaker supply.
if they have 4 x 6 breakers = 24amps.
So the incoming should cope with at least 24 amp.
Prob on 32 amp anyway.

So 1 x 16 amp breaker instaed should do the job, and not overload the supply.

But not seeing the box i can only guess. As there may be other things to take into account.

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navver

26/5/2018 at 7:56pm
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I like Ray's suggestion but would recommend an electrician make the change to make sure everything is in order.

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