Spend a Penny

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On March 13th 2018 Philip Hammond made possibly the only sensible suggestion he has ever made while in government – to scrap the 1p and 2p coins. One day later Theresa May overruled him following hysteria in the tabloid press.   When I was around 8 or so I used to be sent to the … Read more

Our Crazy Currency

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On March 13th 2018 Philip Hammond made possibly the only sensible suggestion he has ever made while in government – to scrap the 1p and 2p coins. One day later Theresa May overruled him following hysteria in the tabloid press. When I was around 8 or so I used to be sent to the chippy … Read more

Gas

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We use the gas for heating,  the fridge,  and water heating (for showers). We have two Calor gas bottles. Only one came with the van, a 6kg one. We found that we could just fit 13kg bottles into the van so we bought one. For some silly reason Calor will not allow you to swap … Read more

Water

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Our van’s water tank holds 70** litres. There is also a separate “cistern” tank for the loo. Some folk don’t like drinking water from the tank so they carry bottled water with them. We carry a few bottles of tap water in the fridge for use in an emergency (like an empty tank!) or when … Read more

Heating

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I think we have been very lucky with our heating. We have a Truma Ultraheat which can work of gas or mains electric. We almost always use it on gas. There is a fan fitted to duct air into the cab or into the loo/shower but we find the convected air which comes out of … Read more

And another leisure battery

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From Part 6 This is an experiment – I’ve tried a brand new highly esteemed 110AH battery from Banner. Now I’m running with a five year old 44AH starter battery from Alphaline! We shall see what we shall see. Well we saw! The wee 44AH battery may have been OK, but it was a worry. … Read more

Making a professional job

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I had established that the original system using relays to switch everything was inefficient and my original lashed up modification drastically reduced the load on the battery. The mod was implemented using terminal strip fixed to the struts under the seat (where the leisure battery and PDU are located) and scotchlok connectors to tap into … Read more

Four years later

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It’s around four years since I wrote the last article on the electrics. The mods have worked very well, we have used the van two or three times a month without any problems. But the Banner Leisure battery was starting to struggle. Sometimes we would see the lights flicker as the water pump or the … Read more

Murphies Law Rules

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This article was published on 8/4/2014. The fourth in a series of articles about my experiences with the electrical system and the leisure battery in my Motorhome. The saga continues SO after all of the calculations and planning, there we were ready to set of for our first festival at Moffat. We had been been … Read more

More power technicalities

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This article was first published on 11/02/2014. It was the third of a series of articles about my experiences with the electrical system and the leisure battery in my Motorhome. This is hopefully the final part of the saga. ( Update – it wasn’t) I now have the Banner battery installed and I hope to … Read more