GrannyJen
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Thanks all. Unexpected detail and passion in your postings, but all very worthwhile. I don't know my volts from my amps from my elbow but I can see that changing!
Some things are evolutionary and you just cannot predict.
When I first went off with my cali I not only needed EHU but my own mini nuclear reactor with all the high wattage electrical stuff that I carted around. Slowly my needs evolved, more and more I was wild camping, on the move every day, less needing of campsites and more needing of overnight stops, overnight stops then meant often stopping where there was a food source such as pub, chippy over the road etc... less need for wattage, more need to resolve issues of what happens when there is no possibility of EHU, finally no need for EHU 95% of the time.
Sometimes it really is worth waiting to get the van and then slowly add bits and pieces or you end up doing what I did the other week, travel to Scotland in about 15 different stages dropping off unused accessories to various forum members as I went.
I looked like an M6 bag lady at one point.