How to thrive on a non 240v site!

Same decision here. We've yet to try a long stretch, but for 5 nights with a solar panel everything worked fine and showed no signs of being unhappy.

Off-grid we are unable to use the microwave or charge the E-bike batteries so it is a bit limiting without an inverter.

we like THS sites that generally have no EHU and the ebike charging is important, too.

we've had Sky for ages and with a mains only set top box, we had the inverter for that in our fist van ten years ago, pre ebikes.

even a 500w inverter will do for the ebikes and is easy to install as ours came with nice thick cables to attach directly to the leisure batteries.

its mounted close to them, to minimise losses, and then I have an extension cable running back to the garage where the chargers live.

I'm having problems with a 2 year old 11kg Safefill cylinder valve. If disconnected (to refill) then reconnected no gas flows. The only way is to screw the regulator back on tight and then partly unscrew a turn or so then open the valve to let some gas escape. Once it does I can screw the assembly back tight and no gas escape but it flows as normal.It seems like the valve is sticking. Anybody else had this problem.

Are you sure it's not a problem with the regulator?

No other bottles work fine and once I have gone through the above procedure then the Safefill runs ok. Definitely a problem with the Safefill valve sticking

Hi Steveo,

Sorry , I’ve been away for a time. I have to say that , like BB, my batteries stay full all year and I went to the Caravan yesterday at storage and the battery was full. I have an alarm running off the system at all times and my inverter is switched off at this time of year. I can’t see that the battery monitor is taking much power- is there anything welsh on the system.?.?

A 200 SP is a nice size and should be able to do the business. Mine is 135w and as I say, provides all the power I need ( although I am looking to upgrade) Although the winter skies are nothing compared to the summer skies there should still be enough bright days to maintain the batteries. Look at your system and check that you haven’t any ‘drain’ you don’t know about.

Sorry to hear that tirril- Have you contacted SF? Nice to see you on here again! 

As regards your last point Stevo, With the new 19/20 map and book out, I have spent a productive 3 or 4 hrs highlighting all the non EHU sites both in the book and on the map. I find it really useful particularly on the map as when I open it , it is immediately apparent where the non EHU sites are- saves time looking in the book as you know the number of the site immediately. I have emailed the club to see if it’s possi to use a different colour for non EHU sites both in the book and on the map- green would be my choice, It would be an improvement and would save time both for EHU users and non EHUers alike. I’m not holding my breath!!

I think this happened to mine (7.5kg bottle) but I'm not sure because I'm new to Safefill and have a new Knaus Starclass that I'm still getting used to. It has an automatic change-over valve on the regulator and when I connected the bottle for the first time, nothing happened.  I checked the handwheel connection on the bottle to make sure it was tight - which it was - and then slackened it off.  There was a slight escape of gas and after tightening it again, the gas flowed.

My only reservation is that, according to the info at handover, the regulator has a safety feature that if there's a leak, it automatically shuts off - so it could also have been that.