Inpsired by a post from Mike (2 Grand) where he referred to another member patching into the fuse board I thought I'd give it a go.
It's dead simple, I just cut half the blade off a 6.3 mm spade connector. You can get the smaller spades but I couldn't find any locally.
To connect power to the accessories you're interested in you simply remove the fuse and plug the spade into the lower connector of the two. This is true for the top row of fuses, don't assume it's true for the lower rows of fuses. I didn't check those so if you what to provide power to an accessory on one of the lower rows take the fuse panel out first and check the cabling from behind.
I made a loom of power cables that go back to a fuse box at the leisure battery end. The fuses that I removed from the original fuse box were simply replicated on the other end of the loom. There are loads of combinations you could have for running the power but that's what worked for me and the bits I had to hand.
The really nice thing about patching the fuse box instead of taking the snips to it is that if you want to reroute power back from the original battery you just pull your power cables and put the original fuses back. Sweet.
