ChemicalJasper replied on 27/07/2023 10:34
Posted on 27/07/2023 10:34
So we got set up Sunday day and around dusk, we just started watching a film and the lights went out and then came back on a few seconds later.
I looked out of the window towards the bollard and saw the guy from the adjacent pitch scurrying back to his van, looking sheepishly over towards our van (the 2 pitches being separated by a change in elevation and rocks/greenary).
30 mins later the lights went out and stayed out, I went to the bollard and found a breaker down. I reset it, but it tripped again.
I check the spare socket (3 socket bollard serving 2 pitches) but it was burnt out.
I spent all night 1am, 3am, 5am when I woke, nipping out and reseting the breaker, so our food did not spoil.
I went to reception for opening the following morning to ask for assistance, the wardens were great and we established that there was no issue with my van or cable and it was the breaker/bollard at fault.
..... We also found out the spare socket had been burnt out by the guy on the adjacent pitch the day before and that despite me laying my cable round and over his cable into socket 1, in the morning, my cable was twisted round his and mysteriously now plugged into socket 2! He was having trips before our lights went out and has had no electrical issues since and ours was tripping until the warden's kindly assisted us onto a different bollard.
The only conclusion I can reach is that having burnt out the socket, there has been some additional damage to the other socket and our 'neighbour' decided that the easiest solution for him would be to 'gift' us the tripping socket at dusk.
I wish I had spotted the switch over when checking the breakers, it just did not even occur to me someone would do something like that!
What sort of members are the club now attracting?
(... not mentioning that there is a group of 3 or 4 of them around us and we have endured a couple of gone midnight noisy gatherings, but like many I suspect, dare not say anything to them or the wardens for fear or reprisals)
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