We have just returned from an extended holiday in Scotland. It rained quite a bit. Downpours some days. But what amazed me was the number of times I saw new arrivals who would plug their mains cable into the mains box and then into their caravan.
One chap at Newtonmore who was in a motorhome decided in an absolute torrent of rain to reverse his motorhome a bit (wife must have said that they werent level). This resulted in the mains cable being dragged out of the socket in his MH. He came out and picked the cable up of the soaking grass and tried to reconnect. But it was broken. The socket must have been quite hot because he bounced it from one hand to another before dropping it. He then went and got his spare cables. Each one on its own was too short to strech from the box (not forgetting that he was still plugged in to the mains). He proceeded to the mains box and unplugged the broken one; connected one of the new cables (still raining like mad); plugged the second cable to the connected cable and then into his motor home. I was quite suprised he didnt go up in a blue light.
Am I missing something, surely its dangerous to plug into the mains first and then the van. (More so in the rain). We always plug into the van first and when leaving disconnect from the mains first.
One chap at Newtonmore who was in a motorhome decided in an absolute torrent of rain to reverse his motorhome a bit (wife must have said that they werent level). This resulted in the mains cable being dragged out of the socket in his MH. He came out and picked the cable up of the soaking grass and tried to reconnect. But it was broken. The socket must have been quite hot because he bounced it from one hand to another before dropping it. He then went and got his spare cables. Each one on its own was too short to strech from the box (not forgetting that he was still plugged in to the mains). He proceeded to the mains box and unplugged the broken one; connected one of the new cables (still raining like mad); plugged the second cable to the connected cable and then into his motor home. I was quite suprised he didnt go up in a blue light.
Am I missing something, surely its dangerous to plug into the mains first and then the van. (More so in the rain). We always plug into the van first and when leaving disconnect from the mains first.
