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Subject Topic: Freedom Caravan assistance required
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Personrosiepuk
16/7/2013 at 12:05pm
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CALLING ALL FREEDOM CARAVAN OWNERS!

I am not sure how dense I am being but when I hook my caravan up to the mains I am unsure what I need to be able to charge the battery from this? Is there a switch I need to put on? Thanks


Personirvine45
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Yes, On the panel beside the fuses. Toggle the 3-way switch to the mid point (ie neither car nor van). Then there should be another switch to put the charger on.

Hope that helps
Alistair


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Hey thanks for your post :) !Is this likely to be under the sofa opposite the one with the battery under?!


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Mine is at my door. It is on the side of the fridge.


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Have looked and cannot find any sort of switches anywhere! There is one under the seat with ON/OFF but no idea what this is for!?


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Depends how old your Freedom is. In the older ones, the leisure battery is retro fitted and there is no charger, you may need to buy a smart charger to charge the battery.

The on off switch - is it up for on and down for off? When hooked up, do you have power to the 3 pin plugs (use a table lamp to find out. If so, its the EHU on/off switch. Try following the wires from that to the leisure battery and see if they are connected in any way.

The 12v system usually runs some of the lights and the water pump - from the leisure battery. If the L.battery is connected, you should get some if not all of the lights working on 12v, and the water pump, that's if the battery is charged or charging.

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Check none of the trip switches in the fuse box haven't tripped.


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Yes our battery and switch was under the seat. I loved our little freedom van :-)


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26/7/2013 at 7:41am
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Hi I have the 2010 Twin Sport we have never switched anything to charge the battery, we just plug the mains outside the van and it seems to do the trick we never had a flat battery



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