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Re: Caravan faults - eye opener
« Reply #25 on: December 27, 2010, 09:13:30 AM »
Geeze, I'd definitely be doing inspections mid-build on any van I was considering now! Those photos make me want to go out to the garage and give my beautifully-built camper a big hug. In fact, excuse me........ 8)
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Re: Caravan faults - eye opener
« Reply #26 on: December 27, 2010, 09:19:33 AM »
The gentleman speaks of "Magnetic flux in this van almost totally destroyed any decent TV signal" when the coax was near the other wiring.

Can someone explain this to me? Is he just referring to the electrical interference from the 12 or 240v wires? If so how far away from 12/240v wiring should a coax cable be? Id imagine in a house it would be common to have tv antenna coax near 240v wires.
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Re: Caravan faults - eye opener
« Reply #27 on: December 27, 2010, 10:31:10 AM »
Quote from: DannyG on December 27, 2010, 09:19:33 AM
The gentleman speaks of "Magnetic flux in this van almost totally destroyed any decent TV signal" when the coax was near the other wiring.

Can someone explain this to me? Is he just referring to the electrical interference from the 12 or 240v wires? If so how far away from 12/240v wiring should a coax cable be? Id imagine in a house it would be common to have tv antenna coax near 240v wires.

He doesn't know what he is talking about to be quite frank.

You do need to segregate the coax from 240V cables, but it is more for safety than interference reasons.  What would be causing RFI is anything with a switchmode power supply in it - so it could have been a computer, battery charger, etc.

They also said the damage was done from a surge or lightning strike... I mean come on...
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Re: Caravan faults - eye opener
« Reply #28 on: December 27, 2010, 10:37:58 AM »
Quote from: DannyG on December 27, 2010, 09:19:33 AM
The gentleman speaks of "Magnetic flux in this van almost totally destroyed any decent TV signal" when the coax was near the other wiring.

Can someone explain this to me? Is he just referring to the electrical interference from the 12 or 240v wires? If so how far away from 12/240v wiring should a coax cable be? Id imagine in a house it would be common to have tv antenna coax near 240v wires.

This is quite common if anyone is using a flux capacitor nearby... Keep an eye out for delorians..
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Re: Caravan faults - eye opener
« Reply #29 on: December 27, 2010, 10:53:19 AM »
Quote from: darren on December 27, 2010, 10:37:58 AM
This is quite common if anyone is using a flux capacitor nearby... Keep an eye out for delorians..

Bugger, I have flux capacitors everywhere near my coax cable........:)
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Re: Caravan faults - eye opener
« Reply #30 on: December 27, 2010, 11:02:37 AM »
I would try/avoid running any cables (240v) near a coax cable. Whilst, coax is shielded with the shield to earth to stop/minimise noise generated by the electromagnetic field created by electricity running through the cable it is still possible to get noise/interference. If you can avoid running coax near power cables the better to stop this generated noise appearing completely....
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Re: Caravan faults - eye opener
« Reply #31 on: December 28, 2010, 12:22:14 PM »
Great link this one.

I had no idea these problems were common in the caravan world.

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Re: Caravan faults - eye opener
« Reply #32 on: December 28, 2010, 06:10:20 PM »
Im glad we got to see our new van in a few differnt stages. And glad we have an alloy frame .
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Re: Caravan faults - eye opener
« Reply #33 on: December 28, 2010, 06:21:24 PM »
Ally frames don't rot but they do crack
http://caravanersforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12286&start=20#p177242



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Re: Caravan faults - eye opener
« Reply #34 on: December 28, 2010, 09:58:25 PM »
Every time I look on that page I wonder how the people that paid good money for a van, feel about getting those repairs done.

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Re: Caravan faults - eye opener
« Reply #35 on: December 29, 2010, 08:31:23 PM »
There are alot off cheap vans out there and very poorly made. Im not saying ours won't crack. But There is alot more ally in ours compared to the Kedron vans. There are alot of vans out there that call them off road untell u read the fine print. It just pays to do your reasearch before putting the money on the table.
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