Can we start a Do's and Don'ts list ?
Can we leave gas on for fridge whilst on the ferry overnight ?
Can we leave gas on for fridge whilst on the ferry overnight ?
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I mentioned switching to leccy for the crossing on post 5 but it didnt get answered. Seems like a sensible solution to me.
Surely a healthy leisure battery or two can cope with a channel crossing? Your not crossing the pacific ocean !
It shouldn't work like that, there may be a stuck relay somewhere or it has been wired incorrectly.Our Hymer uses the engine battery when driving but it does not switch off when the ignition is turned off. Our fridge has the switched off or it will flatten the batttery on the ferry.
It just isn't necessary to run it on anything on a ferry journey. Ours copes fine with the 20 hour Plymouth/Santander trip. But as above, unless something is wrong with your wiring you shouldn't be able to run it on 12 volt with the engine turned off.I mentioned switching to leccy for the crossing on post 5 but it didnt get answered. Seems like a sensible solution to me.
Surely a healthy leisure battery or two can cope with a channel crossing? Your not crossing the pacific ocean !
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It shouldn't work like that, there may be a stuck relay somewhere or it has been wired incorrectly.
We carry both Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) vehicles onboard all our vessels. The gas cylinder MUST be switched off prior to embarkation
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We don't normally have frozen food on board the motorhome, but we do fill the freezer compartment with pre-frozen bottles of water; helps with the initial cooling of the fridge and keeps it cool throughout a long ferry crossing and if we occasionally forget to switch to gas when at a supermarket.In addition to DBK's good advice about putting a frozen bottle of milk in the main compartment, it also helps if you fill the freezer compartment completely with frozen food. Do not put in the fancy packaging the stuff comes in. Take it out of that,(keep the instructions if you must) but essentially turn the freezer compartment into one solid block of iced food.
Only open decks I've seen now are the dfds boats to dunkirk. They use closed posh ones to Calais. I prefer the open deck boats.in 30 years of ferry travel I've never been on a closed deck.
As above open deck to dunkirk .I'm interested in not traveling on a 'closed deck', all cross-channel ferries are, all sea-cat style and only CalMac have open decks where I live. It's irrelevant anyway, the regulations prevent even Oxy-acetylene gases being carried in the engine-room, it is considered too dangerous.
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