First, how is 2nd battery connected?
Afaik all lights, radio, lighter and fridge work off main battery.
You need to actualy rewire so that lights, radio and fridge are working off 2nd battery.
Easy to do. Having Bentley helps.
Leon
85 Subwagen Cruiseship

11/26/02 7:41:08 AM, Neil Wasbrikoff <wasbrikoff@NETSCAPE.NET> wrote:

>Hello Vanagon community,
>
>I've run into a recent issue with my 1987 Westfalia camper's 2nd battery. I thought I will ask for suggestions here.
>
>On a recent road trip to California, over hundreds of miles ... my brand new second battery failed to charge. We used it till it was low,
when we were camping the day before, and thought it would charge on the 800 mile road trip we took the following day. It didn't.
>
>Any suggestions for what to check, to allow my aux battery to charge when I drive? Should the aux battery charge when being driven?
>
>I have the camper with no appliances, and am wondering also ... what all does the second battery power?
>
>I ask, because, when our second batter died, my interior fluorescent light kept shinning bright, as if it were running off my main battery
under the passengers  seat. I thought the fluorescent light in the main area was powered off the aux battery. So, I tried and experiment.
Knowing my aux was low, I disconnected my main batt. My fluorescent light went out, suggesting it was powered off the main batt.
>
>Would this occur, because my aux battery was low/dead?  I am trying to figure out, what the aux battery powers, if my fluorescent light
seems to be wired to my main battery. Can I change the wiring easily, so that my interior lights can be wired off my aux and not my
main?
>
>just trying to learn more about my van and it's wiring...
>thanks,
>Neil
>
>
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