At 16:54 5/9/2000, Andrew Marshallsay wrote: > Fire up the fridge (nervously) If you don't find it elsewhere, the taxi service in Arbroath (Scotland) can fill your LP tank <g> -- but only 2/3 because they're on a steep hill. The 110v element in the fridge is about 85 watts -- I bet a transformer will be cheaper than a replacement element. Try US military families if it's not easily available otherwise (RAF Edzell, Scotland, for example). I don't know whether an SCR-type voltage reducer will work on a load this small (but your ironmonger might). US electrical wiring colors -- Black is hot, White is neutral, Green is safety earth. If you look at a three-wire socket and imagine it as a little face, the round mouth is earth, the (smaller) left eye is hot, the (larger) right eye is neutral. I don't imagine it will make any difference to the van, but we don't use a ring-main setup -- our house wiring is a star configuration from the service entrance/breaker box with one or more loads in parallel on each arm of the star. Our ordinary service (since I've gone this far) brings three wires into the house -- a neutral which is earthed, and two 110v wires running in opposite phase. 110v loads are connected from one or the other hot wire to neutral, and 220v loads are connected across the two hot wires. We seldom use fuses anymore, but when we do they are one-time affairs, no fuse wire in the shops here. It should be fun installing a UK-type socket on the side of the van... cheers david
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