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Locating Zig X-7 battery charger in Symphony?

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Post by Paul-H Sat Jul 25, 2020 10:53 pm

Anyone know where the Zig X-7 battery charger can be found on a 1998 Symphony please? I've looked just about everywhere, and removed a couple of panels, but no success so far. I guess it could be under the sink, behind the MCBs etc, but can't see how to access that. I suspect I could have damaged the output that charges the vehicle battery, and I want to see how it's wired and test it. I suspect it's not wired quite as per the Zig instruction manual.
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Post by Paulmold Sat Jul 25, 2020 10:55 pm

Cupboard under cooker, under false floor.

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Post by Paul-H Sat Jul 25, 2020 10:59 pm

Thanks Paulmold - great. Is it obvious how to lift up the false floor?
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Post by Paulmold Sun Jul 26, 2020 9:09 am

Paul-H wrote:Thanks Paulmold - great. Is it obvious how to lift up the false floor?
If I remember correctly it was easy. The water pump is somewhere there as well I think (it's 7 years since I had Symphony).

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Post by brodco Sun Jul 26, 2020 9:33 am

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Paul-H wrote: I want to see how it's wired and test it. I suspect it's not wired quite as per the Zig instruction manual.

It's not quite. The Zig manual shows the wiring for a caravan. You’re better looking at an AS wiring diagram of about the same era (they tend to be generic) .
Paul-H wrote:I suspect I could have damaged the output that charges the vehicle battery, and I want to see how it's wired and test it.
The Zig only has a single output. You’ll find two positive and two negative connectors to confuse things but they go to the same output internally so if you have any 12 V output on hookup the Zig is working.

Late 90s vans didn’t (usually) have an option to charge the vehicle battery from the Zig so if you do  have that option it was probably installed by a previous owner and anything could have happened to the wiring. tap_fingers

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Post by Paul-H Sun Jul 26, 2020 11:36 pm

Paulmold wrote:If I remember correctly it was easy. The water pump is somewhere there as well I think (it's 7 years since I had Symphony).
Yes - it was easy to lift the false floor - no tools, just a finger hole to raise it. And found the water pump there too, as you recalled. 

brodco wrote:The Zig only has a single output. You’ll find two positive and two negative connectors to confuse things but they go to the same output internally so if you have any 12 V output on hookup the Zig is working.

Late 90s vans didn’t (usually) have an option to charge the vehicle battery from the Zig so if you do  have that option it was probably installed by a previous owner and anything could have happened to the wiring.
Having found the Zig X-7, I'd agree it only has a single output, exactly as you said. No damage to our charger, but I might have blown a fuse that charges the vehicle battery - doesn't seem like a good idea to charge both batteries from one charger output, as it effectively shorts the two batteries together, though I may have misunderstood the wiring diagrams! Makes sense that AS stopped wiring it like that. Not sure who wired this one, as it doesn't look like part of the original wiring, though the in-laws have owned it from new.

Thanks both of you!
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