Master power budgets

For many caravanners, choosing where we stay in our van will be influenced, at least in part, by whether we will be able to hook up to mains power.

Increasingly, we’ve come to expect all of the comforts of home when we tour – a microwave, electric space heating and a fridge/freezer are just some of the things now considered pretty much essential.

But unlike home, we don’t have the same mains supply capacity, and if not heeded, this can cause problems. On two of my recent trips, campsite neighbours have approached me with the age-old question: “Has your power gone off?”

Sometimes the supply itself has gone down,