12Volt Devices There are so many new 12Volt appliances and devices that are regularly added to our range of choices that it’s hard to keep up sometimes. This list will therefore remain a moving feast, and I’ll update it as new 12Volt stuff becomes available. The current draw (in Amps) of 12Volt devices will typically […]

Cables and Volt-Drop A cable is such a simple thing – so what could possibly go wrong… go wrong… go wrong… After all we’re just connecting power to our 12Volt stuff – it’s two wires, one positive, one negative, pretty simple really. Well it is and it isn’t. DC Systems It’s certainly true that in […]

Electrical Basics Volts, Amps, Watts and all those other things This information is on a need-to-know basis, and if you plan on getting the best out of your 12Volt stuff – you need to know! Fortunately the 12Volt equipment that we use for camping and caravanning is DC (Direct Current) and that simplifies things a […]

Inverters Inverters are one of the most useful bits of power electronics around, but they are also one of the biggest consumers of 12Volt power, so we need to know what we’re doing when we invest in one of these beasts. In short the inverter’s job is to take the 12Volts DC we have in […]

Fridges: When we go camping or caravanning one of the first items is generally a fridge – it tends to be one of the first upgrades from an esky-and-ice, and it’s well worth the investment – and I speak from painful experience! There are a number of different choices, and in this area we will […]