I am not doing well with my camping kit so far this year and am still to make my first trip away!!
Just dug out my little old travel kettle for our trip away and thought I would give it a clean etc.only to discover it no longer works. Hubby checked fuse etc but says its a dead one. So the kettle has found iself in the dustbin!!
I have no idea what the wattage on my travel kettle was (it was so ancient) but what sort of wattage should I be looking for in its replacement - I will only use it for camping.
Hubby suggested we take our home kettle but I am worried about that not being suitable. What kettle do you take and what should I be looking for with regards to watts or amps so I dont blow the electrics on site?
Depends on the site - if it is 16 amps your home kettle <should> be OK provided you aren't using anything else at the same time. I say should, because on some sites, although the individual hookups are rated at 10 amps or 16 amps, if too many people use them at the same time, the main site fuse will blow!
Our camping kettle is 750watt - we can use that on pretty well any hook up, so if you are buying new I would suggest a low wattage one.
We just use a regular kettle on site, emvid, and it is fine so long as we don't have another high wattage appliance on at the same time (such as a fan heater, say).
Boils much faster than the old camping kettle, too!
would definately use a low voltage one. only we brought one of those cheap tesco home kettles and everytime we plug it in the trip switch trips in our van.
were on the look out for a low voltage one ourselves . think we will try argos
Ours is a budget normal domestic kettle, but we did check that it was just 2kW and not the 3KW high speed as that would probably blow the electrics. Think I paid £5.99 for ours from Poundstretcher a couple of years ago.
We tried the travel kettles, but they are so small that we couldn't even get a couple of decent sized mugs of tea of them ... and we are a family of 6!
I use a just under 2000 watt normal kettle and provided nowt else is on ,exept 60 watt lightbulb its fine .
some home kettles are rapid boil ones though so wattage will be much higher and best avoided ,, just buy a cheep as chips lowest wattage one you can find .
we tried electric kettles for a couple of years, started with the 2000 wt one from home, found it tripped out a few sites we used so bought a low wattage one, it took such a long time to boil we went back to using the old whistler on the gas....
On a 13A supply I can run a 2.2kw kettle, the fridge, tv, dvd, sky, laptop, a second battery charger + an assortment of phone & radio chargers. given the choice of unplugging the heater for a couple of mins to brew up, or waiting an eternity for a little travel kettle, Ill unplug the heater thanks :)
In theory a 2200 watt kettle will pretty much max out a 10A supply
I have decided to leave the new home kettle at home but take our old one. No idea of wattage - should have looked at the bottom of it before I packed it. We saw someone using the same on last summer in Cornwall, so fingers crossed we will be OK as long as we switch everything else off first.
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Topic: Electric kettles
