Hi,
I used my campervan for the first time over the Easter break and experienced a couple of problems. I made a couple of errors!! I think I know what I did wrong, but don't know how to fix the problems!!
Firstly instead of emptying the water tank from underneath the van (by means of un-doing the jubilee clip etc) I ran the sytem dry by taking the bung out of the waste tank and running the tap in the kitchen. After I re-filled the tank I could no longer get water from any of the taps. The pump stills appears to be working by the fact I can hear it running when I switch it on.
Secondly I foolishly left the fridge on 12V supply whilst I went out to get gas. I was gone for longer than expected and when I returned to my van I found that the fridge had drained the battery. I put the fridge back onto gas supply and initially the Zig charger unit (which was hooked up to the mains) started to re-charge the battery. However as soon as I used the lights, which are 12V supply the battery charge indicater went down dramatically. The lights worked but were very dim until finally after a few hours they gave up and went out. Even on mains electric the Zig unit would only re-charge the batteries up to about 10-11 volt with the 12V supply turned off.
I switched off the mains and ran the engine to re-charge the batteries, which worked fine, but again as soon as I used 12V supply the battery starting dying.
Any help/suggestions much appreciated.
Thanks
Daniel
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Topic: Campervan troubles
