Electric Hook Up Issue

As inquisitive children could an some would do

The latest ones do precisely that so newcomer has to energise the switch after inserting plug just as we are advised to do at home. A safety feature I’m told, also worth mentioning the convention that red on the breaker means danger-live, green means dead, safe to go plug in.

Just like a child possibly could?

One of my pet hates, live leads left lying around. I disconnect quite a few over the course of a week.

JK

Not something I do or would do but has anyone ever been electrocuted as a result? In over 40 years of camping  I  have not seen or heard of such incidents.

peedee

All about being responsible and taking away a risk peedee. No need for statistics, one incident would be too many. It takes a few seconds to disconnect that live lead.

I have in fact one instance of some youths playing with a connected lead to trip their friends up. Harmless fun with a 240 pulse!

JK

Funny you should say that after our annual caravan service in March this year , I've had nothing but trouble with our EHU connection on a number of Cl sites.

It's been sorted eventually when I was advised by another member on one of the Cl sites to do a reset , in other words just disconnect & reconnect again.....and yes it worked.

At one point the reverse polarity light was illuminated on the electricity control box.

All 240v sockets have been confirmed working OK with a reliable socket check plug that would indicate any issues regard supply.

After never ever having any issue certainly with this caravan ,that we've had a decade now .

Yes, it’s a bit naughty and not good practice, but you’d have to lift the flap up and stick two wet fingers into the narrow pin sockets for there to be much danger

Which reminds me we use have a British standard articulated finger at the place I worked for many years to check that such deeds could not be carried out  

The odd thing is the lights & pump worked and in two sites the fridge worked but the sockets didn't. In the last site the fridge didn't work either so I thought it was us with the problem. All works fine when plugged in at home.

Just seemed odd.

Lights and pump would have worked off 12v so you may have thought they were running from the EHU. The fridge would also have worked off 12v but only if it is a compressor fridge which might well be the case in a campervan.

In short, I suspect you were using your leisure battery to run those items rather than the mains hook up.