Mystery button

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andymb
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Mystery button

Post by andymb » Sat May 31, 2014 9:28 pm

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Re: Mystery button

Post by westonwarrior » Sat May 31, 2014 10:05 pm

Fog Light switch?
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Re: Mystery button

Post by Simon Jones » Sat May 31, 2014 10:20 pm

Very easy way to find out what it does.... :)
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Re: Mystery button

Post by andymb » Sat May 31, 2014 10:25 pm

Nope not the fog light.
I've tried the obvious way to find out what it does and it doesn't do anything!
BUT my leisure battery doesn't want to do anything either SO I wondered if the 2 are connected? Do you need to press a button to engage the battery?

My first bongo......
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Re: Mystery button

Post by Simon Jones » Sat May 31, 2014 10:27 pm

Not normally, but its not an original switch so it could be anything. Could you ask the previous owner what it is for?
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Re: Mystery button

Post by andymb » Sat May 31, 2014 10:36 pm

Brought it from a dealer.
Previous owner is a fury member (found her membership card in the van) but as yet not been able to contact her.
Hopefully she will see this post:-/.
Excuse my ignorance but with the leisure battery should it automatically engage when the vans not running?
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Re: Mystery button

Post by wonkanoby » Sun Jun 01, 2014 6:25 am

they are not a standard fitment so it could be unusual but normally

they run the circuits people move over to them

like radio and blinds and have no switch as such
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Re: Mystery button

Post by g8dhe » Sun Jun 01, 2014 11:31 am

Regrading the L/B it normally charges automatically when your driving, but the loads are permanently connected so when your NOT driving they only draw current from the L/B.
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Re: Mystery button

Post by Northern Bongolow » Sun Jun 01, 2014 3:02 pm

looks like a push to engage/activate button, and off when released, is it the horn button. some fit a non standard horn button if they swap the steering wheel or the standard horn push on the wheel fails.
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