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Caravan hook up
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Hi I am fitting a caravan hook up on the wall next to the dno incomer box. No wires exposed. Do I still require an earth rod. The earth bond will be prob 1 ft long inside so not exposed. I know if I fit the box away using swa then yes earth rod would be used.
The reality is in all fairness people do not know that connecting there caravan this way is breaking regulation. A static with an earth rod I can understand as its connected within the unit. Its odd that a caravan hook up in a field with a rod yet the caravan will have a flex wire I think from. Memory is 25m allowable away from the hook up. But going back I have friends that have motor homes caravans all plugged in at home. Some people will say they should know its there responsibility to know, well if it was that bad leads should not be sold openly on the market. From all my posts about this I see that it is a hot potato with many differant takes. I want to get mine up and running at home but putting an rod in is not practical at my property so I have to find another solution. For me it's very odd that the regs can rush through an amendment for ev chargers but the mobile motor homes and caravans very simular set ups have no changes to regs. As I am sure that an ev pen fault technology out now to use with ev chargers is the same solution needed to resolve this issue with home installs for the leasure industry but as pointed out previously to me unless it has been granted by the powers above its stuck with the regs we have now.
The reality is in all fairness people do not know that connecting there caravan this way is breaking regulation. A static with an earth rod I can understand as its connected within the unit. Its odd that a caravan hook up in a field with a rod yet the caravan will have a flex wire I think from. Memory is 25m allowable away from the hook up. But going back I have friends that have motor homes caravans all plugged in at home. Some people will say they should know its there responsibility to know, well if it was that bad leads should not be sold openly on the market. From all my posts about this I see that it is a hot potato with many differant takes. I want to get mine up and running at home but putting an rod in is not practical at my property so I have to find another solution. For me it's very odd that the regs can rush through an amendment for ev chargers but the mobile motor homes and caravans very simular set ups have no changes to regs. As I am sure that an ev pen fault technology out now to use with ev chargers is the same solution needed to resolve this issue with home installs for the leasure industry but as pointed out previously to me unless it has been granted by the powers above its stuck with the regs we have now.
