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Quote: Originally posted by Jack+Jon on 12/10/2013

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The fridge cannot be run on the caravan battery, only 12v running of fridge is from car with engine running although obviously you need twin electrics on car. Everything else is correct assuming modern electrics but a caravan of that age may not have a charger & fridge 240v element might have failed which might account for mcb tripping, if you disconnect fridge 240v input & then try mains & its ok then you have found your problem.

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Quote: Originally posted by janus on 12/10/2013

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I very nearly bought a slightly later model than yours from new, but in the end bought a Sprite Europa. If I remember rightly ( it was a long time ago ) the fridge was fitted with a plug and a socket was fitted in the bed box next to the fridge for you to plug the fridge into. It might be that the fridge is simply not plugged in.

Again from memory the charger was a plug in systems unit and on one end there was a rocker switch, you need to close this switch in order to get the battery charging, if the MCB trips when you plug the electric in then this indicates that one device at least is going open circuit and it would be better for you to get professional help with this, otherwise the only way to check it is to isolate every electrical device from the mains and then reconnect them one by one to see which one is tripping the system.

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