Crumplehorn
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Hi pals!
I bought a wonderful Mercedes 210 Traveliner 6 weeks ago. Unfortunately I never got a proper handover done with it as it was sold by a friend of the owner. I've had a couple of overnight stays and figured out the cooker and loo easily enough - but I'm a bit clueless on electrics.
The thing is, it doesn't have a control panel like you see in many motorhomes/campers - so I have no idea what's running off what and when! I've got an electricity hookup for when I go to campsites but haven't had a chance to use that yet.
I've attached a few pics of some things connected to the battery - the older looking, brown thing, and a splitter-type thing (called a 'powering') that changes the current - I think? I'm guessing they might be in place of a standard leisure battery? The latter of the two emits a hi pitched alarm whe I trun it on (guessing due to lack of charge?)
Any advice is much appreciated. I guess my main concern is not wanting to accidentally drain the main battery by running a few things of the plug sockets in there. It would never be anything major - the odd phone charge, a lamp, maybe charge blue tooth speaker - that kind of thing. The fridge has a hook up option, so I'd probably only utilise the fridge on campsites/charge it from the main battery when driving anyway.
Thanks in advance for any pointers!
I bought a wonderful Mercedes 210 Traveliner 6 weeks ago. Unfortunately I never got a proper handover done with it as it was sold by a friend of the owner. I've had a couple of overnight stays and figured out the cooker and loo easily enough - but I'm a bit clueless on electrics.
The thing is, it doesn't have a control panel like you see in many motorhomes/campers - so I have no idea what's running off what and when! I've got an electricity hookup for when I go to campsites but haven't had a chance to use that yet.
I've attached a few pics of some things connected to the battery - the older looking, brown thing, and a splitter-type thing (called a 'powering') that changes the current - I think? I'm guessing they might be in place of a standard leisure battery? The latter of the two emits a hi pitched alarm whe I trun it on (guessing due to lack of charge?)
Any advice is much appreciated. I guess my main concern is not wanting to accidentally drain the main battery by running a few things of the plug sockets in there. It would never be anything major - the odd phone charge, a lamp, maybe charge blue tooth speaker - that kind of thing. The fridge has a hook up option, so I'd probably only utilise the fridge on campsites/charge it from the main battery when driving anyway.
Thanks in advance for any pointers!
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