What can you plug in on 6 or 10 amps?
On a pitch with a hook-up, no single appliance trips the bollard; the sum of everything running at the same moment does. The arithmetic is short: 230 volts times the amperage, so about 1,400 W on 6 A and 2,300 W on 10 A. A kettle alone takes 2,000.
Tick below what will run together — the cool box that hums all day, then whatever you switch on over it — and the total is set against what the pitch supplies. When it will not hold, the tool names the hungriest appliance: running that one on its own is nearly always the whole fix.
The reasoning, the cable you need and the plug the bollards take are covered in campsite electricity. For the amperage to ask for when booking, see how to choose a campsite.
The usual cases
On 230 V mains, a 6 A pitch gives 1,380 W, 10 A gives 2,300 W and 16 A gives 3,680 W — for everything running at the same moment.
| Running together | Power | 6 A | 10 A | 16 A |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lighting, phones and cool box | 95 W | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Low-power kettle, cool box and lighting | 875 W | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Heater on low, cool box, lighting and phones | 1,095 W | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kettle and cool box | 2,060 W | No | Just | Yes |
| Electric griddle, cool box and lighting | 2,075 W | No | Just | Yes |
| Pod coffee and toaster | 2,300 W | No | Just | Yes |
| Heater on low and hair dryer | 2,800 W | No | No | Yes |
| Heater on high and kettle | 4,000 W | No | No | No |