mikethebike147
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We have fairly recently bought our first motorhome, A Hymer B778 which we are very happy with. It's a LHD as we are planning to take it over to France and leave it at our place there as we will get much more use out of it. We have had a few trips away to test it out etc but are not mad about driving something so wide around the UK's busy roads! We have been staying at sites where we could hook up, but last weekend tried a site with no electric to see how we went on. We have 2 leisure batteries and so thought we would be ok for a couple of nights. But on 2nd day we got warning messages of low battery. I'm still learning the ropes and I THINK it was because on the Alde heating panel I selected 'gas' but I didn't change the priority over from elec to gas and so as it was absolutely freezing we had the heating on a lot. We have LPG in two bottles and so the heating should have been running off that but like I say maybe I cocked up and it was running off the batteries? We were not using much else, some lights naturally though they are all LED's and we had the telly on. Anyway the heating went off, much to my wife's distress lol cos it said that the fan had failed! It was a temporary issue clearly as it was ok after we drove for a while, but it made me realise that you can't just rely on gas as if the battery is goosed the heating still won't work!
Anyway all this has made me think about solar. As we are likely to be having a few nights without a hook up as we tour around France, would it be a wise investment? If so, any advice about the size/output etc would be appreciated. And finally if anyone knows of a good installer of such systems in the North of England that would be great!
Anyway all this has made me think about solar. As we are likely to be having a few nights without a hook up as we tour around France, would it be a wise investment? If so, any advice about the size/output etc would be appreciated. And finally if anyone knows of a good installer of such systems in the North of England that would be great!