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Hi everyone. A workmate of mine mentioned he was going away in his caravan for new year and now that my friend has cancelled his Hogmanay party we are hoping to get away as well. Can anyone recommend a touring site which has entertainment or a Hogmanay party within a couple of hours of...

I should add my vans an Elddis Tornado at only 1000KG all in and i only do about 8000 miles a year as my work is only a seven minute drive away with only one set of traffic lights so no stop start on a cold engine. Cheers

Hi everyone, Well the time has come to compost my old Land Rover Discovery as its needing too much welding to be worth my time and effort to fix. so i now have to find a new tow car fairly quickly as we are booked up to go to Haggerston Castle in a couple of weeks. I've only got about £3000 to...

Hi, just wondering if anyone can recommend a site not too far from Lego land Windsor. We have three nights at the blue dolphin Yorkshire booked in July and thinking of heading down to take my son to Lego land and maybe to Thorpe park. Something like the haven sites with good facilities would be...

If I remember rightly the wiring regs state that caravan EHU cables must be 25m. I think this is to reduce the chances of anyone unplugging the wrong cable and working on something they think is isolated when its actually plugged into the next point down and still live.

I don't have a copy of the regs at hand but being that I am a qualified electrician with 17th edition wiring regs, a former AP electrical and formar process engineer within explosive environments for the MOD, I am not aware of anything in the regulations which prevents a fuse being installed in...

I see your point but to place the fuses outside of the battery boxes would have placed them so close to the other end of the cables to render them practically useless. I did consider not having fuses at all between the two batteries but as the battery vents are piped outside, the batteries are...

What problem do you see with the fuses being inside the battery boxes?

Just thought I’d post some pictures of the mods I’ve done to my van I bought a battery box and 125ah leisure battery from eBay to install in my van, then discovered the battery I already had was a standard car battery not a leisure battery, so I bought another identical 125ah battery so I now...

This site is the best I have seen for wild and remote camping.

From what I know about batteries, fitting more batteries in parralel will always increase the life of all batteries involved regardless of how they as connected or if they are matched or not. Gell and most agm batteries can be installed inside the living area of the van as they do not gas in...

Hi Albatross, we bought our wee van (a 1993 eldis Tornado XL) with the intention of doing some wild camping. Its early days and we have only had a couple of nights away wild stile. We spent one night in glen coe and the next night at loch earn without any trouble. from our first three days...

The switch is soldered into the pcb and the switch and pcb hold eachother in place. There is also no need to remove the pcb as there is no connection to the negative side. Light quality is a massive topic which we could go on about for days but the led's I have used here are much closer to...

I forgot to say I measured the currant, calculated the wattage and it came out at 5.5W, if you compare this to the two 8W tubes in the original fitting plus the losses in the fitting itself which probably brings it to around 18 to 20W total it’s a very good reduction in battery load. There is...

Hi guys, im not sure if this has been written up before but I’m sure it’s been done a few times as it’s such a good upgrade. So I wanted to change my caravan lights to LED mainly to extend my battery life as much as possible but the better light quality and reliability are a bonus. So for the...