Electrics

Fitted an alarm this week. Thought it would be useful due to me leaving tools and stuff in the van whilst mid-jobs.

Run it for a few days loose-fitted to the auxilary battery, seemed to work ok so hard-wired it all to the Sprinter main battery under the bonnet. Whilst fitting the flashing LED to the dashboard centre console I decided to rip out all the now obsolete ambulance-related switch gear that was cluttering up the purpose-made switch panel. (I have a plan to put either a sat nav or reverse cam screen in its place)

All went well until I decided to fire up the van to boost the battery..... No power at all to the dash display. (no speedo, rev counter, fuel/temp gauges, the full works). Van was running fine though, so shouldn't be anything too major. Can't understand why feeds to Blue Lights, Siren, crew-lights etc would affect the dash clocks though. Too wet to investigate today, will hopefully bottom it tomorrow....

On the plus side, all this wet weather has identified a leak in the roof thro a corroded fresh air vent, which I have now fixed. Luckily it was discovered before the main interior fit-out has commenced, otherwise there would have been a fair bit of water/flood damage. This was done last weekend, and a quick check this afternoon (between showers) showed the insides to be dry.