Electrical Problem

[mudflaps]

Hi. I have Hobby 600. When on hook up, the cab battery does not charge. When engine running the alternator is charging both ok. Can't find any broken fuses in main fuse box and tried swapping relays around. Appreciate any ideas

[lennyhb]

Firstly has it done in the past? Secondly is it meant to, not all vans charge the engine battery when on EHU.

It would help if you told us the make and model of the charger.

[Derek Uzzell]

It might help to know the motorhome's year of manufacture as Hobby has used the "600" model-designator repeatedly since the 1980s.

 

I happen to have a 2004 Hobby User Manual and the photos of the control-panels indicate that two different electrical systems were then being installed. One (as fitted to my Transit-based T-600 model) is plainly a CBE-made system, but the other (with a much more complex panel) is clearly not. Photo 6 on this webpage shows that control-panel.

 

http://scroby1000.weebly.com/living-area.html

 

On-line comments suggest that the latter system involves a Schaudt "Electroblock", but I don't know if that's correct. (It also needs saying that earlier Hobby 600s have a quite different control-panel.)

 

The 2004 Hobby User Manual indicates that, (for both types of electrical system) when the battery-charger is operating, the leisure-battery and engine-battery should both receive charge, with priority being given to the leisure-battery.

 

Confirmation is needed (as lennyhb says) that, whilst on hook-up, the battery-charger successfully charged the engine-battery in the past, and whether or not the battery-charger charges the leisure-battery now.

 

It will also be necessary to provide as much detail as possible about the electrical system fitted to the motorhome.