We have just purchased our first every caravan and are very much looking forward to picking it up in March. Lots of trips already booked. We are however after some advice being complete caravan novices. We will be storing the caravan at home under a car port - open at the sides. We have electricity down at the end of the garden and wanted to know if it was safe to leave the caravan connected up when we weren't using it? Really have no idea if this is a good idea or not - we would plan to connect it up regularly to recharge the battery even if we weren't able to keep it connected all of the time.
Any advice more than welcome.
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March - Woodovis, Devon
April - Trewethett, Tintagel
April - Santander - no caravan
May - The Willows, Abersoch
June - Killegruer, Mull of Kintyre
August - Gwithian Farm, Cornwall
September - TBC
October - TBC
It depends why you want to have it connected, at the moment ours is and a small oil filled radiator is on. We are packing it up ready to go to Spain on the 22 Jan so it has clothes and things in.
There is no reason not to have it plugged in but unless you are using it then there is no need to.
If mine was by the house I would leave it connected, and have the heating on low. I don't think it is neccesary to leave it connected during decent weather.
Ditto to the above, however I do leave mine connected but use a time switch to run the mains for 12 hours once a week; always done this and it works for me in keeping the battery healthy between use.
Ours is on the drive with a small convector heater running 24/7 this weather (well it has a built in thermostat so not really running all the time). The insulation must be pretty good for an 18 year old van as there is still a thick layer of snow over it after a week with no further snow fall.
ours is connected 24/7 only interrupted by a timer,this comes on for 4 hours a day to run the battery charger and a dehumidifier if required.as heat can cause condensation i do not have any heating inside the van until we use it.
congratulations on your new van.
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Hi Mine is same as michael above,being attatched via a earth leakage circuit breaker in house protecting it and garage,then via the socket and timer 13amp household plug to the boxed male caravan plug on garage wall, which is then connected to a designated cable that runs in trunking along the wall to a waterproof AC socket,then have 13amp socket and short lenth of cable with caravan socket that plugs into van, may seem a bit over the top,but do not have to keep connecting the vans 25meter EHU cable,as it can be left all coiled up in locker,saves a lot of time when preparing the van.
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