How to thrive on a non 240v site!

If I knew how.....

Meanwhile, to link to the new super-thread, does this help, assuming it works?

https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/club-together/discussions/welcome-hobby-talk/tips-for-making-caravanning-touring-cheaper/how-to-thrive-on-a-non-ehu-site/

That's great Hedge- well done and thank you.

That's handy as that just round the corner for me and may help sway me to Safefill.

Can I ask where you got your information?

In the Lakes and set up on a non EHU site and we are the only van. Been into Penrith after consulting mylpg.eu. Ullswater Road Garage, Penrith allows Safefill. - topped my 20lt cylinder up with 13.3lts - £7.71 - oh I do love my Safefills!! The Safefill map is not up to date. Mylpg.eu are taking over Safefills map and are keeping it up to date and putting info that particular sites are Safefill friendly sites. I would suggest that this site be visited if you are looking for refilling. 

So now I have confirmed that a local filling station will fill Safefill I will be investing in a 10ltr in the morning, plus I have just acquired a 1500/3000w inverter so that completes the kit shame I don't have the weight for another battery but the 100amp will have to do.

That's fantastic Karl. You won't regret it. I still remember the day I first bought a Safefill cylinder - I just couldn't believe the money I was saving!   If you are worried about weight, Would the towcar carry the battery? Could you not wire it in when you arrive on site? You could wire the tails in ready to accept it? Or are you sticking to one battery? Are you wiring your inverter through a 12v relay to switch so that you can switch it off and kill it completely when it's not in use? Please post your progress with your project - I would love to know how you get on (and what you think about it) and I'm sure all the others would too. Good luck.

Was thinking about how to wire it in, would like to wire it into the existing mains, but need to be able to switch it out so when the wife goes away and she wants the EHU then I would not need to do too much to stop the 240v feeding the wrong way into the inverter.

i could carry another battery but one will do for the moment, I do have another 85amp in the shed if I wanted a spare, but see how we go as we don't do more than 5 days away at a time yet.

you can make this as simple or complicated as you wish.....

my batteries are in the centre of the van, under the floor and the inverter is mounted in tne same hatch.

one socket is available at that point (this spurs off to the Sky HD box which is installed under the adjacent seat) and an extension is run rearwards to the garage to provide power for our electric bike battery chargers.

other installations do have relays which use the output of the inverter as the input to the whole 240v system, once the inverter is switched on.

i dont know exactly where this feed is made (in lieu of the one from the bollard) but received wisdom is that it should NOT be by manually feeding the external EHU socket as, amongst other things, you will be trying to charge your batteries via an inverter from the same (but depleting) batteries

So we turned up to our site last night a CL nr Crieccieth, Penralt Bach.  This is a new CL and when we enquired a couple of months ago The owners had said it wasn't open because they haven't had time to instal ehu.  Told them didn't matter and they said ok.  Anyway turn up yesterday and they have installed 2 ehu points which are occupied.   We pitch and the man from one of the vans came out and said you realise that there is no ehu that side of the field.  No problem we say and pitch up.  Later on we are talking to the owners and they said once they have advertised ehu they are getting plenty phone calls and bookings.  

Now for the sad part we are paying £7 per night if we had electric it is £14 per night.  The sad part is not that the landowner is charging that, it is the fact that there is the demand to be charged double for something you don't need this time of year. Spent last night watching TV and the battery is now fully charged and that is in dull showery conditions.  People are throwing money away through ignorance