Hot Little Black Box - Westie

Post by **Horza** » 13 Jun 2006, 13:50

Torz you have two 25 amp fuses where you should have an 8 Amp and a 16 Amp, I wouldn't be happy about that!! Unless there is other gubbins on those fuses (What doorbell Matt?!?!) you might want to see if you can put the correct sizes in.

Jake, is it just the box or is it the wires also? If it's just the box then take it out and throw it away replacing it with a new known good item, little boxes to hold blade fuses up to 30 Amp were cheap as chips when I looked the other day. If it's the wires as well then your going to have to find where it is shorted or overloaded, it also would imply that your fuses may be over rated too!!

Post by **torz** » 13 Jun 2006, 13:56

Your right Euan.........I kinda panicked when I read that forum and went outside to change them only to realise Matt took my van to work...

Egg on my face for stating they should be 25 amp eh but at least we now know WHAT they should be and WHAT they control!!!!!

Just don't get him started on the "door bell" thingy.............only thing is it really works and I prefere it to the Westy tap.........

Post by **syncroand101** » 13 Jun 2006, 14:00

Although you have added more stuff increasing the load on yours Torz... Not THAT much though.

Thanks Euan, I will check it all out thoroughly later. I do want to swap some items onto the Leisure battery as well. Seems pointless having a leisure battery if you are going to flatten your starter using the internal lights and radio

Gotta love this club - help is at hand etc

Post by **matt** » 13 Jun 2006, 14:07

pointless having a leisure battery if you are going to flatten your starter using the internal lights and radio

and i thought westy's were perfest.....ehehehehehehhehe

the doorbell is just an inline switch for the water pump......the switch within the tap was "fubared"....I prefer the british method of H2O flow control my self....the good old fashioned kick a switch till it falls off approach

Post by **Mocki** » 13 Jun 2006, 14:14

Jake, its easy to move the int lights and radio over to the leisure battery, westy or not, just remover the feed from the main loom to the int light / radio fuse and replace with feed from leisure battery on the back of the fuse box...... 10 mins and 4ft of wire, JD!

Post by **syncroand101** » 13 Jun 2006, 14:38

mocki wrote:Jake, its easy to move the int lights and radio over to the leisure battery, westy or not, just remover the feed from the main loom to the int light / radio fuse and replace with feed from leisure battery on the back of the fuse box...... 10 mins and 4ft of wire, JD!

AHhhh, that sounds an easy way to do it - still need to swap them interior Westy lights over though...unless they plumbed those on the same bit.

One day I'll write down the list of all the things I need to change on the van....although maybe I won't the list would be scaringly long.

Post by **Mocki** » 13 Jun 2006, 14:40

switch the normal int light on, switch the westy int lights on, and remove the int light fuse from fuse box, if it goes dark they tapped into the vw int light loom for the westy lights, if it only goes half dark they didnt...........hehehehe

Post by **syncroand101** » 13 Jun 2006, 14:48

I like your thinking

*adds to list*

Post by **T2Andy** » 13 Jun 2006, 15:00

dubzontorz wrote:Your right Euan.........I kinda panicked when I read that forum and went outside to change them only to realise Matt took my van to work...

Egg on my face for stating they should be 25 amp eh but at least we now know WHAT they should be and WHAT they control!!!!!

Just don't get him started on the "door bell" thingy.............only thing is it really works and I prefere it to the Westy tap.........

On mine one of the fuses definatley supplies the Eber, I know this as when I got the van the eber wouldn't work, then I found the blown fuse in that box the other seems to do the fridge and sink pump.

Post by **matt** » 13 Jun 2006, 17:02

the ebber needs atleast 25 amp surely???
they are 1800 Watt,

(nips out to westy to pull fuses while ebber runnin)

Post by **matt** » 13 Jun 2006, 17:10

Fuse to the rear of the bus is the ebber
fuse towards the front is int.lights and CD player
fridge and tap work regardless

Post by **syncroand101** » 13 Jun 2006, 17:21

matt wrote:fuse towards the front is int.lights and CD player

is that coz yours is rewired?

Post by **matt** » 13 Jun 2006, 17:28

we'll have to wait till Torz ex returns from the states, Maybe Andy t2 can do some pulling....(great double entendre thread this ) as Torz can't remember how the fuses were wired before he re-did it.........

Post by **syncroand101** » 13 Jun 2006, 17:40

Well I shall have a good fiddle with my little one, see what comes out of where.

Post by **Horza** » 13 Jun 2006, 18:38

Borrow the rest of Matt's doorbell to use as a continuity tester, no?