Blinds on LB

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Blinds on LB

Post by Alan2016 » Mon Jul 11, 2016 3:39 pm

Has anyone ever had any issues with moving the blinds over to the leisure battery? I'm being advised that it isn't a good idea and can cause issues but an unsure what/why this would be? I know the 3rd party loom people often refer to on here seems to has that as one as one of the things you can use it for.

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Re: Blinds on LB

Post by mikeonb4c » Mon Jul 11, 2016 4:03 pm

Alan2016 wrote:Has anyone ever had any issues with moving the blinds over to the leisure battery? I'm being advised that it isn't a good idea and can cause issues but an unsure what/why this would be? I know the 3rd party loom people often refer to on here seems to has that as one as one of the things you can use it for.

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Mine have run happily off the LB for many years, since i fitted the Willinton kit that included fuse jumpers for reassigning several feature to the LB. Wouldn't want the blinds any other way :-)
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Re: Blinds on LB

Post by Alan2016 » Mon Jul 11, 2016 4:56 pm

Thanks for that, that is pretty much my thoughts :)
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Re: Blinds on LB

Post by g8dhe » Mon Jul 11, 2016 9:27 pm

No problem at all, every LB wiring loom kit you buy has the facility to swap those circuits over!
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Re: Blinds on LB

Post by Alan2016 » Mon Jul 11, 2016 9:36 pm

Thanks Geoff. I'll try and work out what has already been swapped over. I am hoping that it is the radio, lights and cig lighters. I assume I should be able to see some evidence by examining the fuse box and tracing wires from there. Depending on what I find I might buy one of Rooster's looms and have a go at putting that in. The blinds seemed to be one of the obvious things to swap over so I was a bit perturbed to be told that wasn't a good idea and caused problems.
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Re: Blinds on LB

Post by g8dhe » Mon Jul 11, 2016 9:46 pm

Yes the idea was first used by the Willinton kits and looks like this;
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Re: Blinds on LB

Post by Alan2016 » Mon Jul 11, 2016 10:12 pm

Thanks Geoff, you must get sick of having to post that picture :) I found another good discussion by you at http://igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/view ... =3&t=69974 so should be able to manage from the description there.

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