Rear interior light running off starter battery?!

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Rear interior light running off starter battery?!

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My rear interior light usually runs off my leisure battery, now I noticed it turns on when my leisure battery is disconnected, I had it in for a service the other day they checked the whole van out but were waay to expensive so I went with someone else I just rang them to see if they touched anything but they said they didn't :evil:...
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Is it fairly straight forward to get it to run off my leisure battery again??... .
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Have you got a Zigg if so what is the supply switch set to. Van or aux bat.
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My interior lights run off both the leisure and starter depending on which setting I have the zig unit.
do you have a zig unit?
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No I don't have a zig unit.
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Then you must have a switch somewhere that changes the camper electrics from leisure to van battery
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Or your split charge relay is damaged
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Or the van was running when you tried it.
Or, possibly, the relay is wired to ignition so it activates when in `on` position, and not to altenator wire to activate the relay when van is running?

Try it with the keys out - or clarify if possible.

Also, how do you know definitively that it `was` wired to leisure battery?
( Did the last owner tell you that, or did you do it yourself etc etc. )
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