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Have just checked your tv it is a 12v and a 240v one which comes with a 12v regulated power supply that plugs into a cigarette lighter socket, there are many led TV's that have an external transformer - regulator that plug into a 240v socket and people often make the mistake that if they...

First of all I calculated that a caravan on average uses aprox 1amp/hour over 24hours ( but can be higher depends on what you switch on) it even eats power when you think everything is off, I checked mine and it consumes about 0.3amps (probably the alarm)per hour with everything switched off...

The MIRO is the weight of the caravan as it leaves the factory and does include the noseweight because I have one of those CWC units and it does add up the noseweight and the individual weight on each wheel to give the total weight of the caravan, the MTPLM is the MIRO plus the payload which in...

You must inform your insurance that you do tow a caravan, otherwise they can and at their discretion refuse to pay out any arising claims. Lets say you driving along in your little car towing your little caravan with everything above board and say your caravan hits an oil patch swerves...

I do believe it was one of the caravan clubs that brought to light about starter batteries being marked up as leisure batteries, greedy manufacturers, also 230v -240v is here nor there in fact a 230v appliance pulls more power than a 240v one unless it is one of these all singing all dancing...

We tend to use CL sites or similar where EHU's are at the discretion of the farmer, and we also tend to stay for a min of a week, also by my way of thinking a good cup of coffee made from beans is far better than most of the freeze dried muck you get these days. To be honest you can...

I was ignoring internal requirements for simplicity, I have just looked at the power requirements for my fridge and running it from an inverter would use up aprox 10amps/hour (0.5amps on hookup) running a leisure battery down repeatedly to less than 50% of its capacity damages the battery(that's...

My meaning was( I missed out 2 words) the MTPLM is the weight the caravan can be by law but can be altered. Also the weight of your caravan is law, breaking it whilst towing is nullifying your cars insurance no insurance is a criminal offence punishable by the police as they see fit...

Normally caravans ,if that is what you are talking about, do not have traps in the pipeline but you can buy the ones that are fitted to motorhomes and introduce them into the pipes of your caravan only problem is they tend to slow the flow a little bit . If on a windy day that is what can happen...

A simple way to look at is, there are 3 weights involved with caravans 1:- MIRO this is the weight of the caravan as it leaves the factory. 2:- MTPLM this is the total weight that the caravan can be and includes the MIRO, the payload(what you put in the caravan) and the...

I agree with the choice of panels (Chinese ones) ebay does sell cheap panels with no brand names on them making them far cheaper than the caravan shops sell them for. I go what they call dry camping if the sites allow me to not pay for a EHU, however what you can power with solar panels depends...

What do you mean "wild camping" is this power wise or something else, if power wise forget it unless you have bottomless pockets but if that is the way you want to go reply and I will put you in the picture

Normally caravan windows are made of acrylic plastic so a good acrylic adhesive is what you require

Look up the wattage of your fridge on 240v then if you run it from an inverter it will pull 20 times more amps out of your batteries (20 x 12v = 240v), traction batteries are the way to go I have 2 - 6volt Trojans coupled in series to give 12v they each have a capacity of 240A/H but the capacity...

Actually it will last quite a long time, as I go what they call dry camping , I run my fridge on gas, cook with gas, heat water with gas and occasionally run the heating (if it is cold) and a full bottle will last about a week, but , and hear comes the crunch I have a refillable gas system so a...