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Lighting issues
Firstly hello everyone.
I recently purchased a b reg Renault trafik t1000. I've presently been doing up the interior.
I have two interior strip lights which run off both a 12v leisure battery and the mains. I recharged the battery at the weekend, popped back on the caps, checked that the lights worked which they did and all of a sudden both went off. I have a box which is situated near my leisure battery which has various buttons such as charge from mains, car battery etc and when I turned it on to camper it lit up green, as it still does.
I have noticed that the wiring for one of the lights looks a bit mishmash and falls out when I replace the tube. If something was amiss in relation to that light would it inturn cause the other to stop functioning?
Although you have to switch them on individually I assume they are connected in some way?
I have no means of testing the lights out via the mains other than via a campsite and of course I'd rather know they worked before setting off.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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The lights are likely on the same power feed, and probably the same fuse. If the wiring is bad in one light it has probably blown the fuse, and you'll need to replace the fuse.
I would check all of the wiring to the lights, and fix the shaky wiring at the light.
If you cannot find a fuse, perhaps there isn't one and you need to install one.
If you can't get anything working I would replace the wiring to the light, and then just connect one light to check each one works.
You can get a lead that plugs into the house mains and then connects to your campers campsite hookup, so that your camper is mains powered at home.
http://www.towsure.com/product/538-Mains_Converter_Lead_-_UK_Household