EVERY TRIP WE'VE taken in our 1998 Bailey so far has highlighted issues concerning charging our devices on tour.
Our first trip away was to a music festival, where we realised that, despite having a fully charged leisure battery, we had no way to charge our phones from it.
Subsequent journeys have been to campsites with mains hook-ups, but then it becomes a fight over mains sockets that are never in a convenient place for charging a phone.
We definitely needed some 12V charging options!
The standard choice would seem to be USB sockets. These are commonplace in modern tourers. When we started thinking about this project, we imagined we'd fit USB port sockets, rather than the cigar-lighter style auxiliary power outlet used in cars. However, after going down a lot of internet rabbit holes, we decided to think again.
Why not USBs?
There are a few reasons not to go for USBs. First, there is more than one USB standard, and the USB sockets widely in use in caravans, cars and elsewhere are USB-A.
Increasingly, these are being replaced by USB-C,
