I know it presents little real danger, but...... (1 Viewer)

[DuxDeluxe]

........would you go on hook up, get the chairs out, take tea, go for a walk, put awning out and leave the hook up cable like this?

Apart from eddy currents (small risk) is it just me being OCD, or is that a little unpleasing to the eye? It will be a right sod to coil back up, if nothing else

 

[Clarky]

You being OCD I think.

Mind you it would annoy me too. I am definitely beginning to think that I'm OCD.

Richard.

 

[The Old Man]

........would you go on hook up, get the chairs out, take tea, go for a walk, put awning out and leave the hook up cable like this?

Apart from eddy currents (small risk) is it just me being OCD, or is that a little unpleasing to the eye? It will be a right sod to coil back up, if nothing else

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Cats will love it!

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[Cliffdale]

Don't like the coil but like the background! Where is it? I love waterside pitches.

 

[Northernraider]

That's the lead of a lazy bugger

 

[Richard n Ann]

Leave him/her alone you 'bullies' there will be an orange line to run your cable down at club sites next

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[DuxDeluxe]

Don't like the coil but like the background! Where is it? I love waterside pitches.

This morning.....

 

[Northernraider]

This morning.....

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All those trailer trash are ruining the view

 

[DuxDeluxe]

All those trailer trash are ruining the view

Could have got a half decent picture by standing on the roof...... that cloud was gone within 5 minutes

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[sonny]

Don't look like it's coiled tight should be alright

 

[davejen]

I thought the wire had set alight!!!!
Silly me...
Cheers, Dave

 

[icantremember]

I find that's the best way to have the cable but tuck it under the moho .... It hides my grey waste dribbling out and filters it at the same time.

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[GWAYGWAY]

If you WERE OCD then you would get the awning pegs laid out in two equal rows with the cable running up and down until the spare cable was accounted for, then a short length to the socket in a straight line.

 

[daveandsan]

I would have to go and straighten that out.

 

[PeteH]

It looks decidedly untidy, and would "p**s" me off. However because it is hap-hazard it is unlikely to act as a tight coil and overheat. And just think of the fun it will give untangling it!.

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[pappajohn]

And just think of the fun it will give untangling it!.

They obviously don't.
Pick it up, sling it in a locker.

 

[Minxy]

I bet it's not connected ... the real cable runs underneath it and the 'tangled' bit is just placed on top to upset the nosy neighbours!

 

[DuxDeluxe]

I would have to go and straighten that out.

I nearly did, as they have gone out, leaving it like that. It is actually totally tangled

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[GWAYGWAY]

This morning.....

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Thats the fire from the tangled and overheated EHU cable, not the sunrise, nobody is up at that time in the morning.

 

[The general]

This morning.....

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Good pic but so so many mh and caravans

 

[Just smiffy]

I'd go and really tangle it some more......

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[adt]

I wondered where Don, Leslie, Cleo, Nick and Melvyn were off to next on celebrity 5 go motorhoming !

 

[Mr Chrysalis]

I don't think that actually presents a fire hazard as it is not a coil. It is the coiling of the cable that makes it an inductor, which has resistive qualities, and it is the resistance that generates the heat in a coiled cable. However, if the tangled cable is kinked, the kink itself will cause local heating and that could be a hazard in itself. Kinking may also damage the cable insulation and present a potential short circuit between the wires inside. Tightly Looping the cable around tentpegs to keep it tidy can also cause kinks. The best way to keep a cable when not in use is definitely coiled. When it is in use it should be fully uncoiled and laid freely, back and forth with gentle loops. Under the van is ok, but it could result in the cable being run over and damaged. I generally loop it along a hedge or other natural boundary.

 

[icantremember]

I find that's the best way to have the cable but tuck it under the moho .... It hides my grey waste dribbling out and filters it at the same time.

Of course it also has the benefit of extinguishing the cable when it overheats and bursts into flames!

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[42208]

I like to route mine via the bike rack so I can use it as a washing line

 

[MR. FUSION]

A lot safer than some of the continental EHU lash ups I have seen!

 

[PeteH]

A lot safer than some of the continental EHU lash ups I have seen!

That sounds like a good thread? "What is the worst EHU lashup seen".

If I get a few minutes I may even start it!.

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[RogerThat]

there will be an orange line to run your cable down at club sites next

SSSHH!!!!!!!

DON'T GO GIVING THEM IDEAS!!!!!

 

[MR. FUSION]

That sounds like a good thread? "What is the worst EHU lashup seen".

If I get a few minutes I may even start it!.

I will have a think, but last weekend at Stranraer saw a German one with several adaptors housed in a plastic bag ! Most common one is a low amp indoor wiring spool also housed in a plastic bag.

 

[PeteH]

I will have a think, but last weekend at Stranraer saw a German one with several adaptors housed in a plastic bag ! Most common one is a low amp wiring spool also housed in a plastic bag.

I have a true story about "adapters". and Frozen Chickens!.

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