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I've been slowly working away to try and uncover how my vans camping interior has been wired. When i bought the van none of the interior electrics such as the fridge and water tap pump worked. Nothing was connected mind you and i have been trying to find what wire goes where. However heres the problem, the sneaky wires diserpear into the body of the van never to emerge The van i have is a 1983 camper. I don't know exactly what model it is, just that the interior seems to be factory fitted or at least professionally and it used to be a pop top, but is now a tin top. The only clue is the badge on the back that says 'Camping' and not caravelle like some i have seen.

Heres what I mean
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these three wires, (Black and red) and green are connected to a relay that is in the main battery compartment. Thanks to a peoples help on here I've managed to trace the black and red wire to the fridge 12V. However it is the green which baffles me.

However on looking at the drivers door pillar near the door catch these wires appear
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Is this the green wire from the relay? The black wire i think may contain a red and black wire, but it is of a different gauge to the wire which goes from the main battery compartment. These three wires the go vertically up the pillar never to be seen again

Now i have managed to locate which wire actually goes to the tap water pump, but the 12V feed it needs to work, again like before disappears never to be seen again.
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Do any of you guys have a tap pump that is wired anywhere?!

And finally the van seems to be wired for a leisure battery and has a split charge relay wired in, and I've looked at the wiki and it looks to correspond to that, however nothing is actually wired to it, apart from this blue and red wire that again disappears down a hole and away
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Can anyone shed any light on the disappearing wires?
Thanks
Steven

just read your post . The colours depend on the conversion sounds daft but in my experience this has been the case . What you should have is a set of wires running to the fridge which will be red black and either a green or a yellow. These wires form the main power ring for the camping conversion. If you have the fridge fitted its normally (and should be ) wired via a relay the green or yellow wire is for this circuit. This loom is normally located behind the fridge in the cupboard that backs onto the drivers seat. The lighting circuit is fed from here. Normally the converters didn't place a leisure battery so this is wired in later via the relay that you found under the passenger seat.

In cases where the wiring is unknown or butchered it can be easier and safer to track the wiring from the fridge back to the power source. Once you do this you have an idea how its wired and how its protected. If nothing worked when you got it maybe the previous owner wired it to the leisure battery via an inline fuse . Check if there is a wire running from the vehicle battery under the floor above the petrol tank to the passenger side leisure battery . I have found lots of vans wired this way . I would suggest you start again from the leasure battery and wire everything via an auxillery fusebox its much safer. If you need a wiring diagrame and cable types and routes pm me and I will send them to you . If your at vanfest we can have a chat and I will help you out.

If your sorted well done hope the above is of some use

Regards

Perro