Battery saga:
1.Van bought with a flat car battery which left wires melted and fuse burned on first test.
2.Leisure battery purchased
Leisure battery worked for 24 hours but we drained it by not realising what plugging the fridge in would do to it!
We added a solar panel to try and get a bit more power for the rest of our weekend. This appeared to work initially but then no life at all.
3.Back home we looked at electrics. Had noticed before that the coloured wires were for some reason the wrong way round, but it came like this and we did a like for like swap.
Since the battery had had some solar charge whilst away, we assumed that it must have some charge and there was a bigger electrical issue.
4.We then put it wires back on with the colours connected correctly. Nothing!
5.A week later, we're looking again. Now rewired back the wrong way and for some reason is charging again!

All fuses are fine.
Not sure yet if this will actually power anything though.
Anybody else had similar issues?
We will very rarely use the battery but still want it to work!

Zitat

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Leisure battery worked for 24 hours but we drained it by not realising what plugging the fridge in would do to it!

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The 12 Volt setting on a caravan fridge is only for running the fridge in transit from the car alternator if you have the correct connections.
Either a 13 pin type or 2 x 7 pin types (the grey one of the 2 x 7 pin ones should work the fridge)

If the van is wired correctly you should not be able to run the fridge from the Leisure battery.

'Wires the wrong way round'

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Are you referring to the blue and brown 12v circuit wiring?

If, as above you're referring to the 12 volt blue/brown DC - as Frantone mentions - then I think you'll find that 'wrong way round' i.e. blue +ve brown -ve is actually correct for Eriba DC wiring ! (mine was supplied new like this !) Strange things these Eribas :)

As Martin points out this has always been the Hymer wiring colour coding.

Thanks for your replies. It is now all working again - although with the wires coded to match!! Will chat to husband and let him know about the Eriba quirk 😂

Interesting link about the switches - thank you.