Caravan electrical installation regs

A Google seach would have revealed this


http://www.transport.sa.gov.au/pdfs/personal_transport/light_vehicles_pdfs/Info28.pdf

or even this

http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/roads/vehicle_regulation/bulletin/vsb1/vsb_01_b.aspx


By entering "Australian electrical regs for caravans"

Lots more as well

This may be so in the regs but in real life the wiring of most vans is ad hock as most van repairers can tell you.

Look here if you need this proof.....

Blimey.

Dodger,
thanks for that I think, I just thought the gentleman asked a question about height so I gave an answer.

At least I will know how to grow mushrooms in my van now but I don't think it will help the gentleman with his wiring enquiry. Maybe you could help him out by giving him an answer.

Wortgames,
I should have added that a low or front mounted electrical socket would hve to have a pretty good waterproof rating.

Have a good one

Rockape, Dodger's link was not to draw attention to mushrooms! If you scrolled down the link you would come to examples of extremely poor wiring in caravans.

Allen,
I saw that, the reason I replied was the answer from Dodger was a follow up to my post, if someone wishes to bring attention to shoddy van wiring, I wish they would post it to the person who asked the question.

The original post was about whether an inlet could be mounted down low or on a drawbar which I answered to the best of my ability.

Sorry mate, from your response I thought you had not seen what dodger was drawing attention to.

Allen, all is well and I didn't take offence at all.

Have a good one and hope you dry out down there soon.

Wort, No-one says your'e a "bumbling amateur" mate. Instruct the sparkie but keep your hands off the 230v ..."choose the components and do the prep myself."??...

I understand your desire to avoid "lumps of plastic sticking out of the side" and this can be achieved within the regulations by enclosing the inlet socket within an enclosure in the appropriate position. This enclosure could have a top-hinged door which is flush with the van wall and of the same material. As an alternative it is allowable to dispense with the inlet socket altogether and supply the van via a flexible cable permanently connected within a similar enclosure. This enclosure would need to be large enough to accommodate the required length of cable of course, but eliminating the inlet socket is not a bad way of doing it in my opinion.

Hope this may be of some help to you mate. Good luck with the job.