EHU To Household 3 Pin 13amp Socket

We use at home from time to time and will use a heater now and again from Garage. The only extra I use is a Circuit breaker on the 13am plug. May be just as well to use circuit breaker if using Farm electrics from outbuildings - Farmers not the best maintenance people. Best known for their use of Binder twine!!

So I guess the answer is set the van slightly below, if possible, the rating of that domestic socket it is plugged into. That way you will hopefully not trip the house socket or circuit. Wouldn't be too good in the middle of the night to go knocking apologising for their loss of lecky too ! You really shouldn't have a problem mind on a domestic circuit.

On site, if you set it to trip in the van first you will not inconvenience your neighbors using the same bollard if all the sockets in this are on the same trip switch.

Slightly off topic but I have found it very handy to have the reverse of the plug under discussion - i.e blue plug with a 13amp trailing adaptor.

If you appear to have no electric in your van after coupling, you can start at the bollard with this adaptor and (say) a hairdryer and work your way towards the van checking all connections and establishing where the fault lies.

 With regard to the trailing adapter (extension lead) ,,there has just been a serious warning put out by fire brigades ,with concerns about the wattage capacity of heaters/fires etc which have overloaded the leads causing them to melt and catch fire.Much like the EHU on a reel if not unwound !!.

No doubt a good solution for checking out a circuit,,,but not to use for powering up such equipment !!

The control panel on my 2016 Swift Bolero has the AC limit function. The incoming AC current is monitored and if the set limit is reached then the heating element is temporarily turned off until the current falls below the set level.

Its an option on Alde systems.

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So if the limit is reached without the heating using the power, what happens?

The whole thing is less than a foot long!

Mine is bigger than yours! 

Probably 2 feet but the cable is of adequate capacity as no doubt yours is. Size is not everything. 

Sorry chaps - mine is 60 feet long and with a MCB and four sockets on the far end.