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06/9/2023 at 12:20pm
Location: London
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Welcome.
Can't help directly as no access to your needed manual, but a few tips. Requests for long out of production caravan manuals is common, often solutions can be found in roundabout ways.
Firstly, the van user manuals are mostly made up of 'cut and paste' extracts from the individual appliance manuals, so if you can identify your appliances from their labelling, model designation or appearance, then internet search for the actual appliance user manual, these are usually relatively easy to find as common to lots of van models and brands, compared to specific van manuals.
Secondly, van user manuals don't vary much from year to year if at all, so a manual from a nearby year rather than specific year will often yield all the info you need.
With 1999 you're going back to an era of pretty basic internet and slow connections (dial up modems!), as well as limited storage capacity, things like manuals did not get circulated quite as freely then as these days, so you are likely to be searching for documents retrospectively uploaded, which inevitably will make them harder come by.
When you say you can't run it on 12v or Gas, it depends on your expectations. The fridge will NOT run off the internal 12v leisure battery, only the 12v supplied from the tow vehicle and then only with the engine running if correctly wired, AND with the auxiliary 12S 7 pin plug/socket, or modern 13 pin plug/socket and/or adaptors. Not all cars, even new ones have the tow bar socket(s) fully wired to provide all functions! Often only road running lights are wired!
With the gas supply, there are usually a number of isolation valves in the system, often a 'master' one in the gas locker, and individual ones to each appliance, typically the actuating lever/knob needs to be 'inline' with the pipe to be 'on'. Not sure about on your age of van, most appliances on more modern vans also NEED a 12v supply (from leisure battery/mains charger) to feed their control systems and safety cut outs as well as ignition spark, otherwise they will not work! Perhaps obvious, but often overlooked by the inexperienced, ensure you actually have gas in your cylinder, AND the cylinder valve is turned on (good practice to turn OFF when gas not required). If a reasonable amount of gas in cylinder you can hear it 'slop about' when you shake it, but most accurate way is to weigh it with luggage scales, any measurement above the marked Tare weight of cylinder means you have gas.
Internal lights are likely to be mostly mains powered (from EHU), with maybe only one or two 12v lamps. Any 13A power sockets are only powered from the mains EHU.
Your electrical control box/panel will likely have some switches that activate various functions, and of course the breaker switches need to be 'on' for EHU to function. There is often a master 12v switch that isolates all 12v systems.
Hope that's a start. Good luck.
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07/9/2023 at 9:26am
Location: Yorkshire
Outfit: Car & Caravan
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I've just googled your question and come up with this, it may be helpful
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1211240/Compass-Rallye.html?page=2#manual
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07/9/2023 at 11:46am
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Quote: Originally posted by Paul_B on 07/9/2023
I've just googled your question and come up with this, it may be helpful
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1211240/Compass-Rallye.html?page=2#manual
I found that too, but it's for a 'COMPASS RALLYE - MODEL YEAR 2016'. Figured 17 years was too big an age difference for it to be of great value, but you never know, some of the basics will remain valid, even if appliances and control panels likely very different.
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