Bongo Fury

Now, I know there has been umpteen postings on this topic so don't shoot me just yet - I would just like somebody to confirm that what I'm going to buy and do is right.

I had originally planned to get a Willinton kit for ease, but since I already have a split charging system all wired up to the starter and leisure battery, PMS and fridge it seems a bit of a waste replacing it all. So I have looked up corblimeys posts hooking up blinds etc direct to the leisure battery which will come to about a third of the cost of the Willinton (not knocking it's cost, it's great value if starting from scratch).

This is what I'm looking at...

This component hooked up directly to the +ve terminal of the leisure battery.
http://www.rawcomponents.co.uk/fuse-box ... r-kit.html
(Ignore the fuses - I'll get others rated to match the ones removed from the bongo fusebox)

These wires to run from the above fuse box to the bongo fuse box
http://www.rawcomponents.co.uk/cable-wi ... cable.html

And maybe this box of tricks for the terminals to hook the wires up to each fuse box, tho I think if I hunted in my garage and OHs work garage I could come up with some.
http://www.rawcomponents.co.uk/terminal ... inals.html

We've got a crimper and solder stuff so that's taken care of.

Does all of the above sound about right or have I missed something blindingly obvious? I don't need to put an extra earth in anywhere do I?

I know it's been pretty much covered before but just need someone to confirm what I'm going to do sounds about right. And I think from corblimeys posts I need to cut the male spade terminal in half to fit in the front of the bongo fuse box.

Many thanks

I just followed Pippin's instructions below

Look at the fuse board by the drivers right knee.
Remove the fixing screws and wiggle it forwards so that the rear is visible.

Counting from top left to right the numbering goes 1 to 8.

Fuses 1 to 5 are fed by a thick white/red from fuse BTN under the bonnet, which is always live.
(the fuse, silly, not the bonnet!)

Fuses 6,7,8 are fed only when the ignition is on via the thick red/black wire.
6&7 are curtains L&R, 8 is cigarlighter & mirrors.

1] If you do not have a secondary battery:

You can either select just the cigarlighter/mirrors or probably easier and handier select those and the curtains so that you can operate them without the ignition on.

Cut the thick red/black wire going in a couple of inches from the rear of the fuseholder for 6,7,8. Insulate the end that comes out of the loom.
Use a short length of similarly sized wire to extend the end going into 6,7,8 and tap it into the thick white/red that feeds fuses 1-5.

If you want to select just fuse 8 for the cigarlighter/mirrors then you would have to identify the blue wire coming out of fuse 8, cut that and insulate the end coming out of the fuse 8. The blue wire going into the loom would then need an in-line 15A fuse fitting and then tapping onto the aforementioned thick white/red that feeds fuses 1-5.

2] If you have a secondary battery you may wish to feed things from that rather than from the engine battery.

The instructions above are modified only by disregarding tapping anything into the aforementioned thick white/red that feeds fuses 1-5.
Instead you would need to connect it/them into an appropriately fused wire connected to the secondary battery.

While you are at it you could also feed all the internal vehicle lighting from that source as well.
To do so, cut the blue/red wire coming out of fuse 1 and insulate the end coming out of the fuse. Fit an appropriate 10A inline fuseholder to the end disappearing into the loom and connect it to the secondary battery.

Thanks John.
I think I had come across that method in my trawls through previous posts too.

I've decided to try corblimeys instead as it doesn't involve cutting the wires to the fuse box which in all honesty I would be nervous about even with pippins instructions.

As been said by franco, follow pippins instructions, thats what i did five years ago and it still all working, except ive changed to a bigger clever relay.
You only need one wire from the positive side of the battery to the fuse holder to make them all live on one side of the fuse holder, then take the wires from the other side of the fuse holder to your fuse-box for blinds, radio, ciggy socket.