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Is there any one out there who can help.

Model FD121202A

I have misslaid the fitting instructions for my Furnvo Unicharger and having used it for the last 10 years plus would like to fit it to my latest caravan. I have found one on a google search but on printing it out I can't read it. 

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Yes you are correct Gary the company which marketed the “UniCharger” is still in ... The address is Furnvo Design Unit 11 Oldbury Business Centre, Oldbury. ...

I have one of these awaiting fitting to my own van. When I removed it from my last van, I left enough of the colour coded wiring still attached so thaty I could rewire it easily.

I also have the instructions "somewhere" and will try to look them out tomorrow.

Please email me (see below) and I will either send you a copy of the instructions or a breakdown of the wiring on the present one.

I have now found and scanned these instructions.

Email me and I will email them back as a Microsoft Word Attachment.

Or use this if it is readable.

For those who want to set up camp in one place and tour from there, using the site as a fixed base, this unit makes it a piece of cake to do so without having to pay for a EHU.
Also a must for the wildcamper.

You use the car battery to top up anything you use from the caravan battery.

However, unless folks start to buy these things once again, they will go completely off the market and we will lose a terrific bit of kit forever.

Some folks are looking towards Fuel Cells at £1,000+ and yet here is an affordable alternative at less than £100.

This is the safe way to use a car battery as a back up and still have more than enough power in the car battery to start it the following morning.

I have topped up a completely flat 85Ah caravan battery over 2 nights with the Uni-Charger.

I originally used this unit with a TT and so yes, I did not use it through the 12S plug.

Indeed I will be wiring it between two dedicated caravan batteries, one in the van and the other in the car, but the one in the car will only be charged up when we are touring from a van that is stationary on a non EHU on a caravan site.

When using this unit to top up your caravan battery, I imagine that your car would be parked alongside the caravan and not hooked up to it the way that is suggested in these instructions.
When I fitted it up to the TT, the TT did not have a 12S socket and so it was a case of fitting one specifically to connect to the Uni-Charger to charge it and then run all my 12v power from the caravan battery.
The cable between the car and the TT was a 15 foot length of loose cable with one end attached to the Uni-charger and the other end made up in a 12S plug.
When used this way, the Blue was not used and the only power that was transferred was during the night through the white and green.

For today's set up I intend to make up a length of spiral 7 core cable with a 12S plug at one end and a 12S trailing socket at the other so that I can use the dedicated wiring as is but still have me car parked alongside the van instead of on the A frame.

I will let you know how it all pans out.