Requiring interior lights
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Requiring interior lights
Does anyone know the best way to rewire the rear interior lights to power them from the leisure battery?
Re: Requiring interior lights
If you have a Willinton split charge kit fitted they should be already on the L.B.With the kit,fuse 1(top left)in the under dash box is disconnected and replaced with one of the supplied wires from the kit.
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Re: Requiring interior lights
If you don't have a Willinton kit fitted, you could follow 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.
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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.
It's a lot easier than it looks
Look at the fuse board by the drivers right knee.
Remove the fixing screws and wiggle it forwards so that the rear is visible.
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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.
It's a lot easier than it looks
John
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Re: Requiring interior lights
This is just what I was looking for as I have the second battery, but dont know about the willton kit as the main battery goes down on the volt meter when the interior lights are on.
I will have a play with this tommorrow and get them working from the other battery, as I have all ready wired in a new fuse box in the passenger foot well area from it for the USB socktes I wired in.
Thanks folks
I will have a play with this tommorrow and get them working from the other battery, as I have all ready wired in a new fuse box in the passenger foot well area from it for the USB socktes I wired in.
Thanks folks
Re: Requiring interior lights
The wiring worked perfect now got my lights from the lesuire battery which means the kids can use them as much as they want, with out me worrying about it.
Now for the next mods that are on the way. lol
Now for the next mods that are on the way. lol