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Supply for a camper van.

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A neighbour has just bought a camper van and I noticed that it is plugged into a garage socket whilst it is on the drive. I guess this so that they can do any fitting out it needs and keeping it's battery charged.


Having been reading the posts on EV charging, I am wondering whether similar requirements would apply to a regular 13A socket whether inside the garage, or outside the garage?  The supply is 1-phase TN-S 

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    I think a motor home is legally regarded as a "caravan" - so it's simpler in a way as then the ESQCR prohibits the use of PME Earth (which for ordinary domestic customers practically means not using an DNO supplied earth as we can't trust them not to convert to PME unbeknown to anyone else).


    Section 708 may or may not apply, depending on whether you consider the setup sufficiently similar to that of a caravan park...


    It does beg the interesting question for section 722 when we get to having electrically propelled motor homes (i.e. it'sboth an EV and caravan at the same time) - all the worries about proximity of PME metalwork and using charge points that attempt to detect broken CNE conductors switch the c.p.c. are going to clash head-on with the ESQCR.


      - Andy.
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    I think a motor home is legally regarded as a "caravan" - so it's simpler in a way as then the ESQCR prohibits the use of PME Earth (which for ordinary domestic customers practically means not using an DNO supplied earth as we can't trust them not to convert to PME unbeknown to anyone else).


    Section 708 may or may not apply, depending on whether you consider the setup sufficiently similar to that of a caravan park...


    It does beg the interesting question for section 722 when we get to having electrically propelled motor homes (i.e. it'sboth an EV and caravan at the same time) - all the worries about proximity of PME metalwork and using charge points that attempt to detect broken CNE conductors switch the c.p.c. are going to clash head-on with the ESQCR.


      - Andy.
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