Bambi electric troubles

[slowcoach]

Hi all and Merry christmas.

I'm very stuck in a pickle with the camper electrics.

Recently I went to fire it up and I had a flat battery. Battery came out for a charge. Came back shortly after and found battery acid everywhere. Also a corroded outline of a battery is in the battery bay inside the vehicle!

Battery was defective I think anyway. So while waiting for the new one, I tried running the camper side electrics off the leisure battery. No joy, so I put the car battery terminals on the leisure and everything worked. I could even run the engine. So everything is still drawing from the car battery, the leisure battery terminals don't appear to do much.

So, I had some mechanics come around and take a look at it and after some investigating they found the electrics are nothing like the original diagram (bambi + 2nd battery + optional battery charger one) which is correct for the vehicle. Billy Bodge strikes again.

So at the moment I've got a non-electric Bambi, and I'm really not sure where to look to get this sorted. I don't think many auto electricians would touch leisure vehicles with a barge pole, and I don't know any good local garages that I've got confidence in for this sort of issue.

So, if anyone can recommend someone or some place that could look after this and check the below I would be grateful.

1 ) Bambi side of things should draw from the leisure battery (currently draws from car battery only)

2 ) Leisure battery should be topped up by the car battery when driving, and isolate batterys when engine off (bought split charge relay for this)

3 ) When on EHU zig 'on site rocker' should be able to top up the leisure battery (untested)

I've tried to have a go and it's just something I'd rather have it done by someone who's worked on leisure vehicles before, especially Bambi's!

Any help or suggestions would be very kindly appreciated.
Thanks!

[TITCH]

Daft as it sounds,..'Google It', you'll be suprised at some of the wiring diagrams posted!!

Titch

[Dell Boy]

We can sort it I should think if you can get it to Dartford.

Derek.

[Rascalvan10]

Very Straight forward to sort out, although I have seen a few re-wired by so called "auto electricians" that have been a right mess.
We can do this if required, or take Dell up on his offer.
Regards Tim

[old hippy]

car bat should have set amount of connections  ie earth strap live feed out to starter and live feed from alternator  to battery  think that is correct ammount

les bat should have incoming connections  well mine has switch relay fed from alternator and feed from battery to one side of switch relay then from other side of switch to battery plus earth straps {so it will charge from alt feed to main bat only when engine running}

what is the  zig unit and do you have battery charger attached to zig unit