HDIUK HDIUK-Fly13 1 Meter 13 Amp Fly Lead Converter - UK 240 Volt Mains Plug to 16A Industrial/Marine/Camping Electricity Coupler - Made in the UK

Arrived on time. A sturdy well made cable which will come in very handy abroad.

A very practical lead which allows me to use my camping 'hook-up' lead from any standard plug socket at home. This has been especially useful over the winter in enabling me to use a small radiator in my campervan during the icy weather to keep the van aired and prevent freezing.Well made, sturdy and functional with a waterpoof socket. Excellent value for money.

Good Lead for the price

I use this to charge the leisure battery on my camper van. It has been in use for a while now and fits well and is proving to be sturdy.

Exactly as detailed in advert, arrived promptly, seems robust and well put together, exactly what we wanted for powering our caravan at home on the drive.

Having read various reviews on other similar items saying that they were wired up in reverse, the first thing I did with this is take both ends apart to check. The wiring was indeed correct (it says they are tested, so I assume that is true), but the plugs on both ends are very cheap and flimsy in construction, and the cable grip on the larger 16amp plug had been ham-fistedly over tightened so that the threads on the very soft plastic that the cable grip is made from had completely stripped - so it wasn't actually gripping the cable at all. I had to improvise and used some small plastic cable clips (the kind you nail in) as a kind of nut on the end of the screws in order to effect a kind of nut and bolt, which now holds the cable grip closed. Without this, all the strain would have been on the wire terminals.On mine, the UK plug is not a moulded plug as shown in the picture, it is a manually fitted normal (and very cheap) plug.On top of all this, the ends of the wires at both ends had not been neatly stripped back, they were just shoved in to the terminals and the screws then tightened with enormous force to break through the insulation. This is not my idea of safely wiring a plug. It may well give a connection that passes a simple test, but it may well not be a sufficiently large connection to prevent heat being generated when a large current is drawn. In fact, having just closely examined the ends that I cut off, the screws had not actually broken through the insulation on some wires at all, so had I tried to use this as delivered, it simply would not have worked. So I don't see how it can possibly have passed a test - unless the test was to see if there was an earth leakage, which of course there wouldn't have been as the thing would not have been passing any current whatsoever. Two minutes simple work resolved this too. If this is what "assembled in the UK" means, then give me "Made in China" any day.So, as this is probably going to be used only very occasionally, and I now know it is relatively safe, it will do, but in frequent use I doubt it would last very long.

Swift delivery, great service, good plug, thanks

This cable is a good price and I find that it comes in very handy if you want to do any electrical work or checks whilst your van is in storage.