just bought delongie convector heater 2.3kw for caravan awning but everytime we plug into caravan mains on electric hookup, if we switch on something else, it trips out electrics, what can we do to stop this, is there any equipment to prevent this happening.
The heater + anything else, is drawing to much power, for your system.
Your heater at 2.3 kw is already using 10.87 amps. With the usual fridge, lights, pumps and caravan heater, water heater, television etc.you are probably over your maximum. Our caravan is about 16 amps ( I think )
Here is a previous post from Bob61 that you may find useful although it actually is about tripping the site electrics
Quote: At 230v which the following conversion table seems to use, a 2000w (2kw) heater draws 8.70 amps. You may just about get by adding very low power things like a light, laptop, phone charger etc; as I believe there may be some tolerance as to if and when the fuses trip.
I, like others, have heard stories of campsites being blacked out by someone misusing or overloading the electrical supply but as the OP suggests we very rarely hear from anyone who has actually done it.
The figures I always follow though are the ones in the below table based on a 230 volt supply.
WATTS TO AMPS CONVERSION
60 Watts=0.26 Amp
100 Watts=0.43 Amp
200 Watts=0.87 Amp
300 Watts=1.30 Amp
400 Watts=1.74 Amp
500 Watts=2.17 Amp
600 Watts=2.61 Amp
700 Watts=3.04 Amp
800 Watts=3.48 Amp
900 Watts=3.91 Amp
1000 Watts=4.35 Amp
1100 Watts=4.78 Amp
1200 Watts=5.22 Amp
1300 Watts=5.65 Amp
1400 Watts=6.09 Amp
1500 Watts=6.52 Amp
1600 Watts=6.96 Amp
1700 Watts=7.39 Amp
1800 Watts=7.83 Amp
1900 Watts=8.26 Amp
2000 Watts=8.70 Amp
2100 Watts=9.13 Amp
2200 Watts=9.57 Amp
2300 Watts=10.00 Amp
2400 Watts=10.43 Amp
2500 Watts=10.87 Amp
2600 Watts=11.30 Amp
2700 Watts=11.74 Amp
2800 Watts=12.17Amp
2900 Watts=12.61 Amp
3000 Watts=13.04 Amp
3100 Watts=13.48 Amp
3200 Watts=13.91 Amp
3300 Watts=14.35 Amp
3400 Watts=14.78 Amp
3500 Watts=15.22Amp
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If you mean it does this on a campsite ehu it will be because the campsite is only supplying you with 10amps. This is enough, just, to run your heater but if you switch on anything else, you are trying to pull out more than 10amps so the ehu trips.
If you stop on a campsite that supplies 16amps you can run your heater plus things like telly & fridge & possibly a kettle. Appliances that draw a high current are ones that get hot, like heaters & kettles. stuff like telly & laptop only draw a small current.
Normal practice is to run only one appliance with high current draw at a time. If you run your heater at half power you may then be able to use other things at same time.
It is quite common for the fusebox in the caravan to have 10A fuse for the sockets and therefore you will trip it out with anything else on other than the heater.
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Im not too up on the electric wattage thingy but can see why its happening from your list, c.heers for that, look like we will have to buy a lower wattage one. thanks
If you are using a 2300w heater then you will just about manage to keep it going on a 10amp supply but it is always better to leave a little spare. I would suggest therefore that a 2000w heater would be more suitable.
I originally had a convector heater and found it really struggled to heat the mass of cold air in my tent. I suspect this is because it doesn't draw cold air through, heat it, and 'convect' it fast enough. A fan heater is much better because it sucks the air in and blows it out so is that much more proficient in circulating the warm air.
My fan heater is 2000w and I have had no trouble with it, however, if I switch the electric kettle on I switch the heater off for the time it takes to boil the kettle (about 4 minutes). Likewise with any other high wattage items.
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