Whats it cost to get EHU free?

On the CL owners group web page on their facts and figures page, average consumption on a CL pitch has been 12Kwh per pitch per night.. On a forum I have seen a CL owner quote an average of £4.30 per day. Looks to be a wide variance of experience possibly explained as to whether a CL was open all year or not.

peedee

Just coming late to this one - I know the battery discussion went into new directions but it's still relevant to the long term cost. I'm no scientist, but thinking back to the room-sized computers of the late 20th C which do less than your phone does now, I'm confident demand will mean cheaper reliable new tech batteries will be here before long.

The problem will arise when electricity cost will vary a lot by the hour. Smart meters will charge the site operator a variety of different rates according to the time of day. Site costs and therefore charges will go through the roof if we all carry on the same as now.

Looking at past correspondence on this subject, in a post above in response to Boff, I got my figures wrong. The figure of £1000 was for 5 pitches  not one. I also note the Club responded to early threads on fitting metering. While they acknowledged a SMART metering system would be the fairest and would undoubtedly reduce their site wide electrical usage and cost to members, Fitting such a system would be prohibitively expense.

What they did not reveal was what system they had costed and how "smart" a system it was. I suspect it to have been at the top end of systems if not at the very top.

peedee

Going by the IT systems it would be a totally bespoke system that in 12 months' time few could understand and none repair.

The Club has a partnership with CPES so I expect they got a quote for their all swinging and dancing Smart system? A cheaper system might have been meters  that  use  "smart" cards rather than remote reading of them.

peedee

The problem being of course that while members go to club sites in their thousands without even thinking of what they are being charged and what percentage of that is power, do the club really have an incentive to change to smart metering. When the letters and emails start to pile up on Nicks desk regarding charges for power, maybe they will move then- who knows? 

Haven't had a chance to check 12v socket on the motorhome, well i when I went I kept forgetting 😲.

This is our socket, photo below. If I were to get one of these and wire it to a 3 pin socket, to make a sort of extension lead

https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/Caravan-Camper-12v-10a-Two-Parallel-Pin-Plug-Black/1808754088?iid=171407185558

Can I just plug in the TV, small domestic one and phone charger?

Sorry for the dumbness of the question but I really just don't understand 😀. At present we use an invertor which is clipped to the habitation battery when needed. 

My proposed solution would do away with a real extension lead and the need to clip invertor to the battery. 

Wouldn't want to change the plug permanently on TV as we do use ehu.

Sooner or later they are going to have to bite the bullet.

peedee

Bakers, you need something like this adaptor to allow you to plug in your 12v TV, or even other 12v appliances....it just converts ypur old two pin socket into a more modern cigar/type socket.

AH, just saw tour last sentence about 'changing plug on TV.....which must be a 13A plug.

do you know if the TV is mains-only?

if it is, you will need to continue with the inverter.

if its 12v also (dual voltage unit) there should be a seperate lead with a cigar type end on it.

if you have one of these, this is the lead ypu need for plugging intomthe adaptor i listed.