Caravanning Off Grid
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
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We dont always like using serviced pitches and hardstanding! In this video we try a very basic local #CAMC CL site #offgrid for the weekend, if this is something you’ve considered take a look and see how we get on!
We were there with our good friends Trev & Sue from @PoshcatsCamping, take a look at their great channel here: / poshcatscamping
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If you get a good power bank you can hook it up to your van and be able to use the microwave and or recharge your leisure battery also fridge you can get solar panel to them so they constantly charge the bank up ATB! happy travels
I took the TV out of my van and as long as we can get a Wi-Fi signal we both watch our iPads for tv. We also have a 30000ma charging block which we charge off the car as we are driving to the site and if we drive out on any visits in the car. The BIG advantage is that my wife can watch her Emernation Enders street an I can watch something interesting at the same time
We use this even when we are on fully provisioned sites as we don’t watch a huge amount of tv anyway but by removing the small tv and the brackets also frees up 8kg of load from the van
That was one lovely off grid weekend and who needs a telly when you have got Mr & Mrs Chitchat as neighbours 🤣🤣 Trev n Sue
It really was a great weekend, we had a great time with you 👍
very fun weekend video, very enjoyable to watch
Ahh thank you 😊
We only ever use CLs. We do 100 nights a year - 75% off grid.
Always carry 2 x 6kg propane bottles and we use a 100 watt solar panel.
Never had a problem, even when going off grid for 3 - 4 weeks at a time.
We stayed on a main club site once, 6 years ago. Never again, far too busy for us!
Yes we should do it much more. Opens up to so many nice little CL’s. It’s fab you spending so much time off grid! 3-4 weeks away off grid sounds fab. It’s the cost as well, the club sites are getting so expensive!
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Just had 3 weeks around Devon and Cornwall. Last 2 weeks off grid - Atlantic View Farm and Leddon Farm. Back home tomorrow. 😥
Off grid is great! Tend to find them to be much quieter. Surprising how little gas you use in the summer too… couple of pounds for heating shower and kitchen tap, cooking on the hob… love it 😊 Both looking well and lovely to see Trev and sue with you too 🙌🏼 Cheers! Michelle and Andy x 🚐😁
Thanks guys ❤️ yes I need to try and work out how much gas we use, just for that peace of mind. We need to go off grid more 👍
Good news i have made a mobile trailer power 🔋 station. Perfect for off grid sites it comes with fridge barbecue kettle toaster and aluminium table ho and microwave to solar panels one attached to top of trailer. It's a one of trailer fiberglass with aluminium car wheels.must be seen.its the bees knees 😅
Our next van will have Solar I think and then we will off grid. We use too much electrical items 😀😀😀
We have our first 3 night stay booked "off-grid"... we have a 12v TV and also a laptop charger so I can do some work during the week! really looking forward to it!!! We have the same Truma 100w solar panel so hoping this will keep us going :-)
Fab! Let us know how you got on!
As per usual, you two make me happy! Looks idyllic with just you and friends lovely and peaceful! Was hoping to see you both at the Nec! Never mind perhaps in February?! xx
Hey Anne, aww thank you! We do try and keep happy 😃 we might go to the show in feb, will have to see! Take care lovely xx
Nice to try off grid. What a great price as well. 👍 Graeme
Cheers Graeme, yes can’t beat that for value can you!
Shake n' Gas! 😉 Good video guys. 👍
Cheers mate 😀
Great vlog!!!!
Thanks Stuart!
I'd love to do it,been looking at portable solar panel. Thanks for sharing 👍
Definitely worth looking into mate, opens up so many more little CL sites and rallies 👍
Just subscribed to your channel what a lovely fun couple - we have just bought our first ever caravan but not ready until Feb 23 - picking up some great tips and advice from you tube vloggers such as yourself- many thanks 👍
Hey Steve, aww thank you so much! We try and not take things too seriously to be honest, hence the rather unprofessional approach 🤣 I bet you can’t wait to get your van, even if you do have to wait. If there is anything we can help with, feel free to send us a message on Facebook or Instagram 👍
That looked like fun! I only go off grid when the wife puts the hairdryer on and trips the EHU. I need to grow a pair and give off grid a try. 👍 Cheers Dave & Helen
🤣🤣🤣🤣! Yes you need to give it a try, it’s kind of liberating in a strange way 😂
Nice one Aaron (& Vicky) seems to be an in vogue topic right now and something, before all the sizzle kicked off, we had been building into a Coachman in order to be self sufficient to any extent we required… 👍🏻
I solved the laptop charging with a nifty little 12v socket plug in, which does an adequate job, although I would recommend charging any devices (including power packs as night time back ups) during the day when possible as it helps conserve your leisure battery/ies even better… 😉
Hey Rog. Sorry about the delay in replying! We really should go off grid more to be honest but always get comfortable on the club sites with facilities! Yes Vicky got a 12v plug for the laptop and we used it on our recent rally, worked a treat! Hope you’re keeping well mate 👍
Hahahahahaha brilliant "off gridding" uber cool now ;-) what's next "#vanlife insta!" brilliant, love you two - looked lovely, very relaxing :)
Haha yep, we will try them perfect pictures looking straight out onto a perfect beach with all the vanlife tags 🤣 maybe I’ll miss out the mankini shots though 🤣
We have been doing off grid for 25 years even new year rallies found it no problem 😊
We really must start doing it more often!
Just like it was years ago, I’m now 69 and we used to go caravan rallying, far back as 1960, a rally consisted of approx about 8 - 20 units in them days.
My Sister and I had a great time away with our parents in them days, my parents were on Caravan Club Committees, they ran rally’s, even Christmas rally’s at Whitby & Scarborough, they organised for restaurants to do the Christmas Day & Boxing Day Parties.
Caravans then we’re very basic, if you had a oven you were posh, most vans only only had two burners & a grill, then fridges eventually appeared.
My Parents did the lot, local rally’s, National Rally’s and then they did international Rally’s. And now to think I’m awaiting a for a New Caravan now, arriving in July, we did have a caravan when our children were young, but do working in the retail industry and working Saturday’s we have to give it up.
The new Caravans today are pure luxury with showers and fixed beds, we can’t wait to do a bit of both, off grid on quiet sites and some of the camping & caravan sites, might do a rally or two.
Thank you so much for your comment, very interesting! Sounds like you had a great upbringing out caravanning which is exactly how both Vicky and I did too. We love to throw in a couple of rally’s a year too for variety! Thanks for watching ☺️
Hi Folks love the idea however it would need a loo other than that fine. Thanks Phil👍🙂
Hey mate. Yes that’s probably the thing I miss the most. Not really a fan of number 2’s in the caravan!
Hi, we spend 3-4 weeks in the New Forest ‘off griffin’ every year. Lot easier now but it’s something we’ve always done. Without solar, back in the day, we could be careful and get 2 weeks out of the battery but now don’t even really worry about battery charge. Fully LED lighting, 12v tv but as you say tend not to watch it and much prefer just rocking-up, parking anywhere and Bish bosh. We have a small 500w inverter that charges all our 240v chargers even our electric bikes. Gas is important along with good fully working systems, heating, pumps etc. But your right, give it a go.
Hey Kevin. Wow 2 weeks our the battery? We’re you constantly watching it? I remember when I was a kid and we had family friends who would go on rallies etc, no solar panels then! We should definitely do it more, we’ve become too used to the comforts of a club site!
We love some of the off grid sites and plan to add more into the mix going forwards 👍
Definitely worth doing mate, for cost reasons if nothing else!
Did you mention the vlog was about ‘Off grid’ 🤣 Had me in stitches mate. Something we have never tried due to not having a solar panel on the roof, maybe one day. Don’t think Vicky wanted to move at the end, looked very relaxing. Great vlog, cheers
Sorry for the delay in responding mate, we are hopeless at this 🤣 maybe look into a portable solar panel? We would like to do it more really, don’t know why but it’s a nice feeling being off grid!
We have spent several long weekends off grid in summer at festivals and weddings, not so sure I would be so keen in winter when gas would be used much quicker and the nights are darker for longer. Agree it gives you chance to get back to nature and enjoy your surroundings
Definitely Ann, watching the gas is the only thing that bothers me really so I can imagine during winter you’d go through it rather quickly. Great to have a few weekends off grid thrown in to the year x
Was that Trev cooking, blow me over with a feather LOL
Oyee… I heard that…. Pardon ? 🤣🤣
@@PoshcatsCamping 🤣🤣🤣
great review the "boss" and I are thinking about going off grid - our van is only 3 years old so everything works unlike out last one - we purchased a jackery power pack absolutely brilliant - 240 volt,12 volt and usb all-in one, dan trugan previewed it
Hey Ian! Thanks mate. I’d definitely recommend going off grid! Just need to make sure you’ve got plenty of gas 👍
Thank you for that. Ive often wondered how long the battery would last especially as the sites are becoming very hard to book and getting so expensive. I usually do long weekends and dont really use much electricity and have often wondered whether its worth having EHU
I might give it a go now. Thanks.
Hey Lesley, yes you should definitely give it a try. The sites are getting so expensive now so it’s great to have all the CL’s with no hookup open to you to use!
hahaha "Im not in to sleeping in a ditch" :-) But I bet you've done it! I'm not sure about this hobo existence all seems a bit millennial. :-) I'm joking of course. I dod like the idea of a peaceful, quiet site though
Thanks for sharing your expert opinion on off gridding. I'd rather listen to your real opinion mate than someone else trying to sell me the "off grid experience" 👌
Ahh thanks mate, yes I’m sure I’ve slept in a ditch on a drunken night out before 🙄🤣🤣 it’s great to mix things up sometimes and as much as we love a club site, we love a rough hobo off grid CL site too 🤣 you’ll have to try one. Actually it’s about time you made your way over to deepest darkest Suffolk for a weekend 👍 (you might not make it out again though 🤣)
If you want a chilled weekend to get away from it all, CLs like that are the way to go…..or where to go ….
Definitely! It was so lovely and peaceful
Can I ask about grey water /toilet waste disposal when off grid? How do you dispose into the hedge? Do you still use chemicals? Thanks for any info
Hi. For the toilet waste there is a chemical toilet disposal point as in normal sites. The grey water just gets emptied into the hedges
What no EHU...you never mentioned that.!!!🤔🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦♂️
When's the pickup review coming 😉
Sorry about the delay In replying, it’s out now 😉👍
@@CaravanChitChat Thanks, looking forward to sitting down to watch it soon. Love the vids 👍
Hi does your water pump work on 12 v ???? Mike
Hi Mike, yes it does 👍
You ain't proper used that caravan if you ain't off grid...you don't no what your missing.😜
You’re right there Mike! We need to do it more
What’s a CL site x
It is a certificated location. A landowner can use some of their land to open a small site up to 5 pitches under certain rules set by the club
It's not REALLY off grid camping though. It's still a camping site with easily accessible fresh and waste water facilitates. When I go off grid there is nothing of the sort. I have 60l of fresh water onboard the caravan with another 60l in the back of the car. Grey water is stored in a 70l onboard tank mounted underneath with a standard external rollaway tank for extra capacity. Power is provided by 600w roof mounted solar array going into a 400ah lifepo4 battery bank which runs the caravan electrics, the 12v fridge, and a 1000w PSW inverter for my TV, computer, stereo etc. Gas is overkill with 2x 9kg bottles. I spent 11 days lakeside in the bush where civilisation was a solid hour+ drive away.
I'm not done yet. I've only recently removed the EHU connection and working my way through stripping out all of the built in 240v stuff because it's completely redundant. The battery bank will be upgraded to 24v with a 24-12v converter for the caravan 12v. The fridge and water pump can operate at 24v. I'm adding another 300w panel to the array so I'll have 900w solar, and wind power is on the cards. I'm considering trialing a diesel heater.
Obviously I take it to the extreme. A lot of modifications has been made to my shitty 17' 2003 Swift 4 berth, it's totally running close to the 1450kg max axle rating.
It is absolutely doable, but don't half arse it. The way I see it, if your camping trip involves having your caravan plugged into a power socket for the duration then you're not camping.
I’m assuming you’re not in the UK? This is about as “off grid” as we get here, without sleeping in my pants out in the open and hunting down my own dinner. Just to clarify as well, we wasn’t plugged in, we ran off gas and solar……are you sure you watched this video? 🤣
Very well said,i use CLs and CSs a lot. Not only are they cheaper but more enjoyable. I would also recommend Rallies and Temporary Holiday Sites with either of the clubs . Nice video,thank you 🚐👍
Thanks Eric. Yes we really should go off grid way more. It opens up so many nice little CL’s to use. Same with rallies, we go to a couple of local ones but we should also look at other centres around the country 👍