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Hi

Firstly, forgive my very basic description of this problem, I'm not a techie by any means.

Anyway went away over the Easter break, and for the first time had loads (well 3) of things go wrong - water pump failed, door lock jammed and had to be jemmied open, then the right hand side internal lights failed.

So, £40 for a new pump later..... whilst OH was trying to find out if the failed water pump was due to a blown fuse, he firstly checked the fuse box on the wall (again please excuse lack of technical description - perhaps another experienced caravanner could correct me) - it's got a cover which you remove then all the fuses are lined up 2 at a time.

At some point over the winter (assume this as van was serviced in October and all working fine then) one of the fuses seemed to have 'melted' and welded itself to the board all the fuses are connected to - OH thinks there was a mini fire in there but I can't quite imagine that putting itself out .

He pulled the fuse out - which doesn't seem to have blown - and put a new one in, but then all the internal and external lights on the RHS of the van wouldn't work. So we spend the rest of the holiday in partial darkness !

So I suppose my question is, how do we fix this? Do we need a new 'board' and what is it called? Or is this a more major job for a garage (please no!).  We are due to go away at the end of May so need to get sorted asap.

Thanks in advance, if you aren't all totally confused by now

Ahh so it's called a Zig board? Thanks....

Mudlark thanks so much - ours is actually a zig sp-9v so I'll have a look for one of those.

Ramius - great, thanks.  I think that is what has happened - no silver paper in sight tho', fuse was correct one.  Will try what you suggest before getting a replacement.