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Electrics
Reverse Polarity - How to cope on tour
Posted: 19.03.2012Reversed polarity describes the situation where the live and neutral feeds in the hook-up bollard on a continental caravan site are switched. ...
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On the road
Wider caravans: Is your breakdown recovery broken?
Posted: 02.02.2012THE MAXIMUM WIDTH for trailers was raised nearly two years ago, from 2.3 to 2.55 metres, in line with a European ruling, but breakdown ...
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Water systems
How to use a Truma Ultrastore water heater
Posted: 11.08.2011DO YOU STRUGGLE to get the best performance out of your Truma Ultrastore water heater?
If you can't make head or tail ...
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Towcars
Convert your towcar to 13-pin electrics
Posted: 11.08.2011ALL CARAVANS OF 2009 model year and after have 13-pin electrical plugs that will not connect to 12N and 12S car sockets. The solution ...
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Project Vans
Elddis Project: Completing the water installation
Posted: 10.08.2011THE FINAL STEP in modernising the water system was to fit a Whale Watermaster socket in place of the old foot and electric pumps. I ...
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Project Vans
Elddis Project: Replacing a leaking rooflight
Posted: 10.08.2011WHEN REMOVING THE defunct space heater from our Elddis project caravan, I noticed that the rooflight was leaking because the mastic had ...
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Project Vans
Elddis Project: Removing the Carver/Truma space heater
Posted: 10.08.2011OUR 1983 PROJECT caravan had a Carver 1800 space heater – which had stopped working long before Practical Caravan bought it. Truma ...
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Project Vans
Elddis Project: Fitting a Carver Cascade water heater
Posted: 10.08.2011RECENTLY, I TOOK out the old Morco water heater to replace it with a Carver Cascade. Cascades fit through the wall into the caravan. ...
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Fixtures and fittings
How to use a Truma caravan heater
Posted: 09.08.2011IF YOU'VE BEEN caravanning for years, it's easy to think that everybody already knows how to get the best performance out of a Truma ...
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Project Vans
Elddis Project: Work on the 12V system and water heater
Posted: 09.08.2011IT HAS BEEN several weeks since I last had time to work on our 1982 Elddis Whirlwind. So far I’ve concentrated on the electrics. I ...
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