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20/11/2007 at 2:44pm
Location: Lancashire
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may help
http://www.ccis.com/home/mnemeth/12volt/12volta.htm
http://www.electronichealing.co.uk/articles/solar_faq.htm
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Acknowledging the data is gleaned from the Caravan Clubs Technical info for members web pages: That might be your best starting point if you are a member, if not I will explain.
If your competent to check for 12 volts using a meter or a bulb on wires here is where to look. If your not competent get somebody who is to check, please!
The date of manufacture when things changed was 31st August 1998.
Now looking into the end of the white or grey 12S plug attached to your caravan, with the little phasing slot at the bottom, i.e. 6 o-clock. You will notice you see 5 pins and 2 tubes.
I will use the term “socket” here for the hollow tubes and “Pin” for the pins with a cross slots in them.
Pre 31st August 1998:
12v+ positive of the battery is on “socket” 2, which is at the 10 o-clock position.
12v – negative of the battery is on “pin” 3, which is at the 8 o-clock position.
Post 31st August 1998:
12v+ positive of the battery is on “pin” 4, which is at the bottom, 6 o-clock position.
12v – negative of the battery is on “pin” 7, which is the very centre of the plug.
As said earlier, with post 1998 vans you could well find some have an isolating relay or diode within the caravans controller will stop you finding 12 volts fed back onto the plug.
That is the case with my van.
Post last edited on 20/11/2007 15:42:12
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