T6.1 What’s this live feed under my passenger seat? [Merge]

[Dellmassive]

From the link above.

 

[Paul7807]

I am looking at installing a lesuure battery under the passenger bench seat
I have taken photos of some wires under there's but looking at dell massive post installing dc-dc charger the wires are different. In his it shows a 80 amp fuse and I think a 100amp relay as shown in photo. And in mine I have just a 20amp fuse. As shown in the photos
Could any1 tell me what these wires are for. And is there any way of coming off the terminal block for a lesiure battery.
Or am I going to have to run new cables.
Thanks in advance

 

[Ads_Essex]

You have, in your hand, the factory-fit feed for an aux battery. It’s got a 20a fuse for something that hasn’t been fitted/isn’t photographed - it’s own fuse is in the e-box within the engine compartment. I’m not sure what the blue cable feeds. The smaller red cables, if they don’t terminate under your seat, likely feed your cigarette lighter.

I’ve moved your post here for relevance and so you can see other posts regarding info on your wiring

 

[Paul7807]

Thats great thanks for that..

 

[gedhyland]

If you're using a DC-DC charger you can use those existing cables.

Hi
I’ve got the same question - can I use these existing cables under the double passenger seat on a new T6.1 panel van to charge a leisure battery through a DC DC converter?
Are they a standard fit to provide a feed to an OEM leisure battery?

 

[Ads_Essex]

Hi
I’ve got the same question - can I use these existing cables under the double passenger seat on a new T6.1 panel van to charge a leisure battery through a DC DC converter?

Are they a standard fit to provide a feed to an OEM leisure battery?

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AFAIK yes and yes. The cable, which usually splits there and runs back to feed a cigarette socket, should be fused via the E-box in the engine bay.

 

[Jimmecee]

Hi All. Sorry to resurrect this old thread. I'm helping a friend fit a few accessories to his new T6.1 Kombi. He has the factory fit second battery under the passenger bench. It has as dedicated fuse box that is fed from a 60A mega fuse on the battery's terminal connection block, but at the moment it only has a single 20A blade fuse in it which feeds the cigarette lighter on the dash.

I've nicked this photo from earlier in the thread as I don't have a picture, but it basically looks like this.



I'm assuming you need a female blade fuse connector you can crimp onto a wire and push fit into this fuse box. But there are so many options out there for this, I was wondering if someone can confirm a working part for this? Would this do it?

Also any recommendations on cable size to feed a combined USB/Cigarette socket in the rear of the van, so approx 1m in length. I was thinking 2.5mm2 would be plenty?

Many thanks.

 

[Deaky]

The terminals you need are these 10x For Audi VW Skoda Seat Porsche Wiring Crimp Repair Terminals Pins

2.5mm cable will be perfect.

 

[Joey7415963]

Ok so first of all apologies for ressurecting an old post but I have the same mysterious wires under my passenger seat. I've checked with a multimeter and it's a 12v live.

Has anyone used this wire? It appears, as in other images, there are 2 other wires coming off it and 1 X 20a fuse under the seat.

I have a renology 60a dcdc charger, can I use this cable? Or am I pushing my luck?

Thanks for any info

 

[Joey7415963]

Update for anyone else who finds this thread. Whilst I think it certainly was a wire I could have used, I decided to run another, wider cable.

The reason being that this wire when measured was a little less than recommended for my charger. It also wasn't too much of a faff getting the cable through.