electricity sockets in houx

[fatspud]

could anyone give me any idea as to what the sockets are like in houx are they just the small 2 pin euro type or the 3 pin round camping ones and what do you normaly do keeping it all safe in the event of a shower , do you need circuit breaker etc.we've always stayed in maison blanche 'houx annex so never had this luxioury before but only travelling down in tvr's so not a lot of room for a fridge freezer so was only looking at lighting really

Edited by fatspud on Thursday 5th April 10:58

[mel]

They are a huge snakes wedding of every imaginable type of electrical connection known to man kind, ranging from bare wire held on with clothes pegs to the latest pat tested RCD protected hi viz euro socket trailing lead thing. Just take what you want and bodge a connection off of something when you get there because even if you got there now some bugger would have got in there first.

[RossC]

mel said:

They are a huge snakes wedding of every imaginable type of electrical connection known to man kind, ranging from bare wire held on with clothes pegs to the latest pat tested RCD protected hi viz euro socket trailing lead thing. Just take what you want and bodge a connection off of something when you get there because even if you got there now some bugger would have got in there first.

So speaketh the voice of experience !

I think its the round 3 pin you get from a camping store. We normally wrap ours in so much gaffer tape so no other fecker disconnects it that rain showers arn't an issue. So what anyway, it would add to the entertainment....

[Piglet]

I've not been on Houx for a couple of years but my fancy camping "blue" europlug wouldn't fit in 2004. I thought they were just ordinary french 2 pin plugs?

There was a thread about this a little while ago so it's worth a search.

The tip is definately to take doubler plugs and lots of cable, there aren't enough outlets for everyone to connect direct to the stack but if you've got a doubler you can unplug someone else and slot in with them. Deff then tape it all up to stop someone unplugging you.

[RossC]

I stand corrected, 'froggy two-pin' according to our logistics man....

[fatspud]

cheers having searched previous forums which i should have done in the first place it does look like the french 2 pin job " roll on many fairy lights bud lights late nights"

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fatspud said:

could anyone give me any idea as to what the sockets are like in houx are they just the small 2 pin euro type or the 3 pin round camping ones

Standard French 2-pin, so bring an adaptor if your coming EARLY.

If your coming later in the week they will all be used (6 to a post?) and you will be tapping into someone elses multi-block.

fatspud said:

and what do you normaly do keeping it all safe in the event of a shower

Based on last year you wrap your multi-block extension lead in a bin bag, then some tt comes along to spin theirs off of yours (which I've not got a problem with) and doesn't put it back in the bag. In the morning you find the main socket on the post has burnt out and everyone shuffles on to one of the 5 remaining.

fatspud said:

do you need circuit breaker etc.

No - main electric posts have built in trip switches.

fatspud said:

travelling down in tvr's so not a lot of room for a fridge freezer so was only looking at lighting really

Fridge ~130 Euro from the electrical place in Centre Sud - just make friends with a neighbour with a bigger car, split the cost and share the fridge.

Edited by fatspud on Thursday 5th April 10:58

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