Rewire radio to leisure

mayk19 · Post by **mayk19** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:57 pm

A day of many questions from me, had a longer list after the first hols but I can't remember all of them yet !

Is it a big job to rewire radio to leisure battery ?

TYIA.

Veg_Ian · Post by **Veg_Ian** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:00 pm

Depends on what power pickups (fuses) have been provided as part of your leisure battery setup. It's just a case of transferring the live source for the radio to the leisure battery live but it should be earthed. Why not transfer a number of functions to the leisure battery in one fell swoop by rerouting the fusebox feed? Details can be found by doing a search. May even be a factsheet.

mayk19 · Post by **mayk19** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:02 pm

thanks Ian, that sounds like a usefull little project

Veg_Ian · Post by **Veg_Ian** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:08 pm

but it should be earthed.

Doh - I meant fused not earthed!!

haydn callow · Post by **haydn callow** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:36 pm

Thats what I did.

daveblueozzie · Post by **daveblueozzie** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:25 pm

i re-routed the ciggy socket and the internal lights to leisure battery and found my radiio must have been on one of these circuits so a bonus for me.

pippin · Post by **pippin** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:03 pm

My very early post with full details on how to rewire various auxiliaries to the leisure battery is still the classic on the subject.

I will let you do the SEARCH to find it - 'cos I haven't a clue where it is after all this time!

bigdaddycain · Post by **bigdaddycain** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:46 am

I couldn't find it either pip,but i do remember it...
Speaking of radio's wired to L/B's...

My head unit is wired to the leisure battery too,i have just fitted some "7x10" speakers in the rear of my bongo,a new head unit, and a 2 channell amp powering a 12" subwoofer.

I thought i'd be clever though

The way i saw it was,the last thing that anybody wants when camping is the boom,boom of a sub

So i connected the amp to the starter battery, me thinking that the amp would power down when ignition is off,leaving the radio to happily tinkle away whilst overnighting,disturbing no-body.

To my utter suprise the amp remained on with ignition OFF!

I was stood there for over 20 minutes scratching my head before i realised that the head unit's remote cable was telling the amp that a signal was still being received,and the small fact that the amp is directly linked to the starter battery (with 3 inline fuses) and bypasses the ignition entirely!

DOH!