If you open the door of your fridge and see a small panel meter with a
white and a green zone you have an early fridge and it came with a relay
screwed onto the top where the controls are.

The Westy house light is not connected to the Westy kitchen wiring. It
splices into the ceiling wiring used by the other inside lights. You
should move all of them to the aux battery if available.

If you try to run the charging current wire for the aux battery from the
main fuse/relay panel like the PO did you can expect to get slow
charging and sometimes no charging.

Mark

neil wrote:
> Ah, ok. Thanks.
>
> Maybe there's a relay on my refer.
>
> I assumed it was just removed by PO.
>
> On P 97.32b of my July 15 1991 Bentley, smaller blue wire supplys
> engine running 12V to "htr. res. relay" which has 30, 87. 86, 85 pins.
> I figure that's the refer relay.
>
> Larger red from 30 of "fuse/relay panel" sends constant 12V via S4-16
> amp fuse to water pump, sensors etc. and I assume the house light
> though I can't see it in diagram.
>
> The big question for me is do I have to run a 10 gauge from starter
> batt. under and over to the new can?
>
> If I don't, I can get the van off the jack stands and move on.
>
>
> On 4/11/07, Mark Drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Camper setups 80-81 are wired differently from 82-85 though the exact
>> cutoff is somewhere in between years. Most Bentley versions show one
>> wrongly labeled 80-85. The early diagram is not exactly correct but
>> close.
>>
>> The can is a heavy duty relay, just of an aftermarket type often sold
>> for aux batteries. They will work fine but I don't care for them because
>> of how exposed the wiring is with them. I have never seen an official
>> camper diagram for those years that included an aux battery.
>>
>>
>> IIRC, the white wire is for the fridge 12 volt relay, which on early
>> models is actually on the top of the fridge. ~82 on have the fridge
>> relay under the driver's seat and a 2 fuse panel behind the driver's
>> seat.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>