Well all my handy work rewiring the battery soon went wrong lol. Having set-off to Clapham and stopping off to get some food and beer on the way, we arrived back at Bertha to find out no stereo, internal lights, or water pump!!! WTF…
Discovered in my ignorance that the fridge shouldn’t be powered of the leisure battery and had drained the living daylights out of it. Nor did the leisure battery seem to recharge from the alternator – found out later that this the fuses blowing with the large current drawn when turning the engine over with the starter motor.
I was almost correct in my wiring but I needed to use one of these Split Charge Relay instead of the relay already installed. Some changes to the rewiring, seperate circuit for the fridge, added a multiple fuse holder (instead of the individual inlines), power splitters, some spades etc. and now everything is tickerty boo.
Been away on several trips with no problems, fridge runs on 12v from the alternator, leisure battery is recharged from the alternator and provides power to stereo, internal lights, pump etc. Also have a mains charger recharging the leisure battery when on hookup. Happy days 
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Tags: Electrics
June 18th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
That is something that we would have done!! We have just bought a camper van – you are following me on Twitter too – and we are complete newbies to it. Going for our first trip away this weekend – it’s very exciting!!
July 1st, 2009 at 3:25 pm
hope you and your occupants have a lovely sunny birthday weekend