Best Motorhome / Campervan gadget?
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agent006 said:
Lithium leisure batteries if you're planning to be 'off grid' for any length of time. Not a lot of benefit if you just drive from your house to a full service pitch and back though.
On the cheaper end, a length of pipe to attach to the grey water tank drain. Gives you some leeway getting onto service points as the drain is inevitably in an utterly brainless place on both the motorhome and the service point.
We’ve decided to do the first season with the x2 lead acid leisure batteries + 150w solar panel to see how we get on (and spread out cost). My wife would prefer an induction hob over gas, however we need to educate ourselves before going down that path to ensure it’s practical).On the cheaper end, a length of pipe to attach to the grey water tank drain. Gives you some leeway getting onto service points as the drain is inevitably in an utterly brainless place on both the motorhome and the service point.
cptsideways said:
We have an Adria compact, with Truma combi gas heating. In properly cold weather it'll go through two 13kg propane bottles in a week. Which is expensive at nearly £50 a refill & useless for a week or more away.
I've had refillable gas bottles before but it's nigh impossible to get a refill up here in Scotland.
So have fitted a diesel heater that's plumbed into the existing brilliant heating ducting and a 22l marine fuel tank for enough heating for almost a month and a tenth of the cost to run.
Luckily for us the van comes with a truma diesel heater as standard. From the sound of your experience that’s going to save us a lot of £££. I think the van has a 90L diesel tank which should hopefully mean we don’t need to think about an auxiliary one. I've had refillable gas bottles before but it's nigh impossible to get a refill up here in Scotland.
So have fitted a diesel heater that's plumbed into the existing brilliant heating ducting and a 22l marine fuel tank for enough heating for almost a month and a tenth of the cost to run.
We very nearly ticked the box for underslung refillable gas but having searched a few forums it seems LPG availability in U.K. petrol stations is becoming increasingly scarce so we’ll just see how we get on as it should only be needed for hob/oven.
What app/website(s) are you using to find friendly stop over points? Both for U.K. and Europe…
We collect the van in 2 weeks and then our first trip will be at Easter. We’re thinking Bologna/Florence/Pisa with a drop off at Chamonix or Annecy on way down/return. We need to find places to stop off!
We collect the van in 2 weeks and then our first trip will be at Easter. We’re thinking Bologna/Florence/Pisa with a drop off at Chamonix or Annecy on way down/return. We need to find places to stop off!
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