One of our members is in Spain at the moment and is unable to log onto the forum for some reason. Here's her problem:-


Angela Gardiner
2 hrs · Navarrete, Spain
Sorry, tried to log into Eriba folk forum for advice but it's not letting me for some reason!The lights have stopped working. Plugged into the electric in Spain and all was fine until yesterday. Sockets and fridge okay. Fuse appears okay. Anything else we should check? We did have a flashing 'on its way out' bulb for a bit. Thank you

Can anyone help?

Randa

Depends on the age of the van as the same thing happened to us in 2011 when we discovered while on holiday that the BIP had packed in and wasn't charging the battery (which runs the internal lights).

Can you check the battery voltage? If the battery charger is working, it should read 13.7 +/-0.1 volts. If below that, it definitely isn't.

The answer in our case was to buy a car battery charger which we plugged into the 240V socket to charge the battery while away from home. Once recharged, the lights worked fine.

The first sign that anything was amiss was when the lights started flickering.

That's good info mate. Thanks for that. I'll pass it on.

Randa

This link explains it all, Roger. BIP problem