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I want to use the leisure battery in my camper to power interior lights (inc. door lights), Stereo & Cig lighter. As all these item are connected via fuse #3 I was going to remove the fuse & plug in the leisure battery here. It would be fuse.

Is there any downside in doing this?

You can get 6-way fuseboxes in places like Halfords. Best bet is to fix one close to existing fusebox, powered from leisure and simply unplug these circuits, putting them in the leisure fusebox. They both use same earth ofcourse.

I did the same, moving the stereo and other odds and ends to this box. I have an additional leisure fusebox in the back.

be aware you also "move" your brake lights over to the leisure battery ( they use the same fuse)by just moving the connection over.
which is no problem as long as you know, and have a proper split charge system.
splitting the brake lights off and keeping them on the main fuse is preferable

Mocki wrote:be aware you also "move" your brake lights over to the leisure battery ( they use the same fuse)by just moving the connection over.

Only on early van's fuseboxes (fuse number 8 ). Later van's brake lights are on fuse number 2 on their own.

Mine is a E reg and fuse 3 is for auxillary only. Seperate fuse for brakes. Thanks for pointing this out as I have my mates to do and that has an after market fuse box.

I thought that by using this engineered solution (bodge) I could easily return the wiring to normal if the leisure battery was taken out.

Also the earlier one has wipers and blower on same fuse. If by moving some items to leisure fusebox it frees up a fuse in the main one, consider moving the blower to its own one.