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TimR
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- T5 SE 180
I'm back from a camping trip to France. The hook ups on the site were very sparse and I had to borrow a 25m cable (from a fellow UK camper) to extend my own 25m to get the required length (approx 40m from where we parked). My cable is a standard UK hook up lead 3x2.5mm cable made by Vechline. I was told that these dont come in 50m lengths as they would lose too much voltage over the distance however 2 x 25m seemed fine. I noticed the French seemed to use much thinner regular power cable (normally on a 50m reel) with an adapter socket going into the box. Are these sufficient to plug in to a van and what are the pros and cons? Ideally i'd like to take just 1 50m cable on a reel for future visits.
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