Length of hook up cable

The times I've seen something like that on site..scary!

I mentioned what could happen to a chap pitched next to me once. He just shrugged, and walked off although he did undo a bit.

I've only seen it that once in many years.  Most people are more sensible and knowledgeable.   

Evening

LLM, with respect most people could as you say tour around for many years and never see an example shown. Living and working on site you see thousands of outfits and many many scary things. Most people are as you say sensible but knowledgeable is quite often questionable.

So, we have the photos of the melted cable coil, I've actually experienced a partial melted cable tucked under a van, it was the smell that was the alert. More importantly we have photos (just for awareness) of a caravan and a motorhome burnt down to the chassis which both happened on our sites in the last few years. Not related to the cable but shows what happens and more importantly how quick any leisure vehicle is reduced to smouldering scrap in minutes. At Exeter racecourse one year some smoke coming from the front of a caravan to nothing left in 18 minutes.

JK

Yes, I've seen a caravan burn on a campsite that I was staying on a few years ago and there wasn't much left of it even before the fire brigade arrived. All they could to was to stop the fire spreading too far, although the plastic windows of the adjacent caravans had already melted by that time.

Yes. Six meters is not enough!

Having Fire training every year that I was with Social Services with Adults with Learning Difficulties and was shown what can happen to coiled cable on a drum quite a shock to see as the trainer knew I was a caravanner  and glad that the club are using photos of what can happen to electric cables.

I was on site at Grafham a couple of years ago when a caravan started smouldering as it was leaving. No idea what caused it, but the reaction of the Wardens was exemplary. They had it isolated, unhooked and doused in foam before you could blink.

The cable reel, doesn’t actually draw a high enough current and so it doesn’t trip the circuit out, until the melted insulation has burnt away enough to allow a short circuit across to the other conductors.