Swapping some things over to leisure battery

[cushers]

Now I'm no electrician so is it a possible diy job to swap the radio, cigarette lighter and all internal lights to the leisure battery. Currently I have a split volt relay and only the fridge running of the leisure battery.

TIA
Graeme

[mikeWalsall]

Yes .. a very simple half hour job if you have the easily obtainable custom made conversion harness similar to this one (which is no longer available) ...



Fuse box layout ..



Simply / neatly thread the new harness from the leisure battery to the fuse box located the right of the steering wheel .. leaving the fused end un connected ..

Remove the fuse from the fuse box that you want to feed from the leisure battery and ‘plug in’ one of the ends of the new coloured wires ..

Repeat with the other wires .. note that one fuse is of an higher amperage .. so maybe utalise that one for the ciggy lighter ..

NOTE than none of the wires are suitable for things like cool boxes ..

When all are plugged into your required feeds .. connect the thick fuse box end wire to the leisure battery .. all the old circuits are now fused via the new under bonnet fuse box ..

[cushers]

Thank you. I have something that looks like that harness with a bank of 4 fuses already on the van. I wonder if the previous just didn't attach them? Or maybe it's for something else. Sorry for being so vague. I will try and upload a picture but don't have a photo bucket or similar account.

Thanks again.
Graeme

[cushers]

Ok
So I did say that I was no electrician.
What I see under my bonnet must be purely for the LB charging system.

Any recommendations where I could get a harness like the one above? (Can I trust ebay for this?)

Graeme

[mikeWalsall]

PM sent ..

[teenmal]

You could contact Rooster on the Bongo Forum or his Ebay site, the guy is an auto electrician and gets a good name for his "work".

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mazda-Bongo-F ... Sw~bFWLUfS

[cushers]

Thank you.
All roads seem to point same way

I'm very grateful

Graeme

[cushers]

So. Have now sourced a quality loom / harness to run from the fuse box to LB.

I have four feeds but don't have blinds so just wondering what else people run off the lb? planning on swapping over 12 v sockets, radio, internal lights and associated items (mirrors).

Interestingly there are fuses in my fuse box where the fuses for the blinds would normally be. Any suggestions?

Graeme
(95 2.5 tad with side conv)

[g8dhe]

No need to connect them at all in that case, nothing else is powered from those two fuses 15 Amp (Blue) fuses. You just need the top left 10Amp (red) nd top right 15Amp (blue) positions.

[cushers]

Cheers Geoff

Am I correct in thinking that ALL cabin lights run via same fuse or just pull the fuse and find out

Graeme

[cmm303]

Cheers Geoff

Am I correct in thinking that ALL cabin lights run via same fuse or just pull the fuse and find out

Graeme

Yes. Doing the two fuses g8dhe suggests will swap lights, mirrors, ciggy lighter sockets and radio (if currently connected as standard) over to the LB.