What Is A Campsite Electrical Hookup?

Contents

• 1 Campsite Electrical Hookup Explained
  • 1.1 Why Do People Use Campsite Electrical Hookup?
  • 1.2 How Many Amps Does A Campervan Hookup Provide?
  • 1.3 How Do I Connect My Campervan To The Campsite Electrical Hookup Outlet?
  • 1.4 How Do I Safely Disconnect My Campervan From the Campsite Electrical Hookup System?
  • 1.5 What Is An RCD?
  • 1.6 What Is A Campervan Inverter?
  • 1.7 How Do Campervan Leisure Batteries Work?
  • 1.8 Will The Campsite Electrical Hookup Charge My Leisure Batteries?
  • 1.9 How Much Power Does My Campervan Draw?
  • 1.10 What Is Reverse Polarity and Do I Need To Worry About It?
  • 1.11 What Do I Do If I Trip The Campsite Electrical Hookup?
  • 1.12 Campsite Electrical Hookup – Summary

Campsite Electrical Hookup Explained

Most Campsites and Aires in the UK and Europe offer Campsite Electrical Hookup. If you book into pretty much any modern Campsite, your pitch will undoubtedly have a power outlet box containing circuit breakers with a Socket that has a Blue, spring loaded dust cap on it.

This box is a Campsite Electrical Hookup Outlet.

Why Do People Use Campsite Electrical Hookup?

People use Campsite Electrical Hookups for a number of reasons, such as:

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Where Is The Cheapest Place To Rent A Campervan?

Contents

• 1 How Can I Rent A Campervan On A Budget?
  • 1.1 Is It Cost Effective To Rent A Campervan From A Dealership?
  • 1.2 Is It Cost Effective To Rent A Campervan From An Online Agency?
  • 1.3 Is It Cost Effective To Rent A Campervan From A Family or an Individual?
  • 1.4 What Is The Cheapest Way To Arrange Insurance For Campervan Rental?
  • 1.5 How Much Security Deposit Should You Expect To Pay When You Rent A Campervan?
  • 1.6 Is There A Cheaper Option Than Renting A Campervan?
  • 1.7 Where Is The Cheapest Place To Rent A Campervan? – Summary

How Can I Rent A Campervan On A Budget?

The number of people wanting to rent a Campervan has increased exponentially in the last 2 years. This is mostly due to the rise of Covid 19.

Due to the pandemic, the popularity of holidaying in our own countries, rather than taking a packed aircraft for a trip abroad, has skyrocketed. However, staying on crowded Campsites or in busy Hotels have also lost their appeal, probably due to the high numbers of strangers visiting them and increasing the chances of us contracting the disease.

Holidaying in a Campervan has suddenly became a lot more appealing, but not everyone can afford the high price of buying a Campervan outright.

Renting Campervans for the short duration of our holidays has become an affordable way around the costly obstacle of Campervan ownership. But where can you rent a Campervan? Actually there are several options available to those wishing to rent a Campervan for the duration o their vacation. Let’s have a look at them?

Is It Cost Effective To Rent A Campervan From A Dealership?

No, renting a Campervan from a Main Dealership is probably going to be the most expensive option of all. Read more...

 

What Is A Class B Campervan?

A Class B Campervan is quite simply a Campervan built, either as a DIY Project, by the Manufacturer or by a registered Coachbuilder on the chassis of a small passenger carrying or work van.

Class B Campervans are only one of the 3 classifications of Campervan, there are also Class A and Class C Campervans. We’ll discuss what they are, and more importantly what licences you will need to drive them later in this post. Firstly, let’s have a look at what you can expect to find in a Class B Campervan

Contents

• 1 What Amenities Does A Class B Campervan Have?
• 2 How Many People Does A Class B Campervan Sleep?
• 3 Are Class B Campervans Fuel Efficient?
• 4 What Is A Class A Campervan?
• 5 What Is A Class C Campervan?
• 6 Why Choose A Class B Campervan over Classes A And C?
• 7 What Licences Do I Need To Drive A Campervan?
• 8 What Are The Most Common Models Of Class B Campervan?
• 9 What Is A Class B Campervan? – Summary

What Amenities Does A Class B Campervan Have?

By it’s very definition a Class B Campervan is a Van Derived Campervan, so as you can imagine, space is going to be limited.

However, by using a bit of creativity, Campervan Designers have managed to ensure that owners of smaller vehicles, such as Class B Campervans, don’t go without many of the luxuries you would expect to find in a larger RV or Motorhome.

The following is a list of things that you are probably going to find in a Class B Campervan:

• Somewhere to Sleep, most likely fold away
• A Table to eat at, again probably fold away
• A seating/living area
• Swivel front seats to make extra living space
• A Cooker
• A Sink
• A Toilet of sorts, probably a Thetford Cassette type
• A Fridge or Cooler
• Curtains and thermal window screens
• A limited amount of storage space
• Possibly a Pop Top for extra headroom and sleeping quarters
• Some form of heating
• Separate water and waste systems
• A Power System with Mains Hook Up and Leisure Batteries
• Possibly, but not always Solar Panels

This is a fairly comprehensive list, which I believe covers most set-ups, but be aware that some of the amenities will be in certain models and not in others. Read more...

System Guide – How Do Campervan Solar Panels Work?

This quick but comprehensive guide contains the answers to all the relevant questions we could find on Campervan Solar Panels.

If you are wondering what type of Campervan solar panels to fit and how much power you are going to need, you have come to the right place, so read on.

Contents

• 1 Are Campervan Solar Panels Essential?
• 2 Why Have Campervan Solar Panels Fitted At All?
• 3 Campervan Solar Panels – The Solar Charging System Explained
• 4 How Do Campervan Solar Panels Capture The Sun’s Light And Turn It Into Electricity?
• 5 Are There Different Types Of Campervan Solar Panels?
• 6 Are Campervan Solar Panels Expensive?
• 7 How Do I Work Out How Many Campervan Solar Panels I Will Need?
• 8 What Are The Parts Of A Campervan Solar System?
• 9 Why Does A Solar System Need A Charge Controller?
• 10 What Are The Best Type Of Leisure Batteries For A Campervan?
• 11 Do I Have To Maintain My Campervan Solar Panels?
• 12 How Do Campervan Solar Panels Work? – Summary

Are Campervan Solar Panels Essential?

Campervan solar panels are not essential. Before the invention of solar panels, the owners of Campervans got on just fine without them, and you could too.

However, the fact that Campervan solar panels are not a necessity shouldn’t put you off having them.

If you use a Campervan without solar panels fitted you will regularly have to ensure hat your leisure batteries are constantly topped up. The only way for you to do that, is by running the engine.

With the current cost of fuel, as well as the focus on the environment, I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s not an ideal situation. What if someone was to come up with a way to keep those batteries topped up for free, allowing you to stay off grid for longer, without having to pollute the environment? Now wouldn’t that be desirable?

Why Have Campervan Solar Panels Fitted At All?

There are numerous benefits of having a Campervan solar system on your vehicle, they include, but are not limited to:

• Campervan solar panels will keep all your batteries constantly topped up with power for free
• Campervan solar panels require very little maintenance
• Charging the batteries with Solar Energy does not pollute the air with Hydrocarbons
• Campervan solar panels will allow you to live off the grid for longer, actually much longer
• Using solar power is becoming more affordable, saving you lots of money, especially with the current ridiculous price of fuel
• Most of the solar system is outside of the vehicle, up on the roof, so it saves precious space
• Campervan solar panels are now far more rugged and durable than they used to be. They won’t crack and fail with minor bumps and scratches like they used to
• Modern solar panels work in cloudy weather too, ideal for the UK
• The price of solar components is falling, at the same time their efficiency is climbing

I’m sure there are many other advantages of having Campervan solar panels, but I’m sure the list above is already enough to pique your interest.

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Where Do You Sleep In A VW Campervan?

I always thought that where you sleep in a VW Campervan was common knowledge, but apparently it isn’t. So if you are one of the people who doesn’t know, or isn’t fully clear on it, read on, this post is for you.

Contents

• 1 How Many People Can Travel In A VW Campervan?
• 2 How Many People Can You Sleep In A VW Campervan?
• 3 When You Sleep In A VW Campervan, Where Do The Beds Come From?
• 4 What Is A Campervan Pop Top?
• 5 Do All VW Campervans Have Pop Tops?
• 6 How Does The VW Campervan Rock And Roll Bed Work?
• 7 Can You Get A Good Night’s Sleep In A VW Campervan?
• 8 Is A Mattress Topper Suitable For A VW Campervan?
• 9 Could We Sleep In The Awning And Leave The Seats Up In The Campervan?
• 10 Where Do You Sleep In A VW Campervan? – Summary

How Many People Can Travel In A VW Campervan?

I started writing this post in relation to the more modern T6 VW Campervan, but as I was doing my research, I found that very little has changed over the years from the early days of the T1 to the recent T6.

So what I am writing here applies to pretty much every model of VW Campervan.

The number of people who can travel in a VW Campervan is limited only by the number of seats with seatbelts that it has.

Almost all versions of VW Campervans have 4 seats with seatbelts as standard. 2 in the front and 2 in the back. So, 4 people can travel in a VW Campervan.

Unless of course your VW Campervan has been fitted with an extra seat, such as in the image above. If that is the case, 5 People can travel in your VW Campervan, but the standard setup is 4. Read More...

 

Are Campervans Worth The Money?

Are Campervans worth the money at a time of financial constraints like this? I think the answer is Yes, and I think you will too after reading through the rest of this post.

The worldwide financial squeeze is at full swing, money is tight, heating, fuel and food bills are through the roof, and we’re thinking about buying a Campervan.

Why would we be planning such a large financial outlay at a time like this? The answer is simple, to save money. Yes, you heard me right, we are planning to buy a Campervan to save money by handing back our rental property and living in it full time.

Our adventure is still in the planning stage right now, but watch this space for future updates.

Contents

• 1 Are New Campervans Worth The Money?
• 2 Are Second Hand Campervans Worth The Money?
• 3 What Do I Need To Know Before Buying A Campervan?
• 4 What Do I Need To Know After I Buy A Campervan?
• 5 What Positives Make Buying A Campervan Worth The Money?
• 6 What Are The Drawbacks Of Buying A Campervan?
• 7 Are Campervans Worth The Money? – Summary

Are New Campervans Worth The Money?

In my opinion, new Campervans are not worth the money. The simple reason being, that as soon as you drive them out of the showroom, they have dropped by around 20% in value. You will never get that value back. It is known as the “showroom premium” here in the UK. Read more...