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• Re: 2nd battery
  Historical mailing list - Ron Lussier
  Thu, 21 Nov 1996 09:21:54 -0800
  ...The problem with "real" batteries is that they're not deep cycle. They'll quickly die if you use them to power the van...
• Re: Ghost in the power locks, SOLVED!
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Wed, 9 Jun 1999 13:59:00 -0400
  ...lock, when actuated, would continue to cycle all the locks until the red wire was disconnected. With it disconnected all locks worked fine from...
• Re: Cooling System: Strange Phenomenon
  Historical mailing list - Mark Upton
  Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:47:35 -0400
  ...Once in the expansion bottle it does not get > pulled back in as would be normally expected with the expansion cycle. If I go...
• Re: ATF changing fluid
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Fri, 7 Feb 2003 12:22:08 -0800
  ...you just want to get the junk out of your system... cycle it out so the fluid is all new... ) does anyone just&nbsp...
• Re: New 12 cyl. diesel transplant option
  Historical mailing list - Chris Geiser
  Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:16:28 -0600
  ...is a blower on this as big as most houses! The description says it is a two-cycle, so the injection should be right...
• Re: do are vanagons even charge our batteries?
  Historical mailing list - John Meeks
  Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:13:35 -0500
  ...100% like this? Let alone 2 > batteries, of mixed use (deep cycle, starting) > > Somewhat rhetorical, I know my batteries get some charge, but still...
• Re: Multi-use Vanagon - GL to Camper and back to GL
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:25:34 -0500
  ...JPG > >> I'm going to need a couple of good deep cycle batteries. So my >> question >> is - what batteries would be good for this...
• Re: Propane and refrigerator success
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sun, 28 Jun 2015 13:37:09 +0000
  ...Propane and refrigerator success > > > The ammonia cycle is capable of pulling something around a 40 degree > > (F) differential between ambient temperature and internal temperature...
• Re: 2d Batteries
  Historical mailing list - Steve Schwenk
  Sat, 21 Oct 2000 22:39:31 -0700
  ...From what I hear, a true deep cell battery must have flat plates due to how brittle the best lead for deep cycle is...
• RE;starter/aux battery choices
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:51:42 -0700
  ...After looking at the whole optima/deep cycle battery situation, I'm tempted to just get two of the walmart everstart plus group 41...
• Thanks!
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:51:41 -0500
  ...Very frustrating! I did find a great source for deep-cycle batteries to fit Vanagons: ARC Battery Co. Inc. in Sausalito (Al Fredrich 415...
• Re: D'OH (metic) fridge
  Historical mailing list - Wes Neuenschwander
  Thu, 25 Sep 1997 07:49:44 8
  ...The downside is that the "absorption cycle" has a relatively slow response time. In the Dometic units it may take an hour to reach...
• Re: [VWVANFULLTIMERS] Propex heaters : group purchase offer
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:16:57 -0500
  ...The heat exchangers life is >determined by duty cycle and the failure is usually burn through. This is >why these installations should always be...
• Re: '87 Westy, electrical stuff, hazard lights
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:24:45 -0400
  ...section or no contact at the switch L terminal, track 118. Cycle the connnector and inspect the terminals, but odds are high it's...
• Starter issues
  Historical mailing list - Finn Runyon
  Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:56:15 -0600
  ...I cycle the key sometimes 2-3, but often much more before the starter kicks in. I am unsure if the issue is with...
• Apology
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Thu, 14 Apr 1994 13:36:13 -0500 (CDT)
  ...The bigger alt is installed (whew) and I have a deep cycle battery but have not hooked it up. I would appreciate any knowledge...
• Apology
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Thu, 14 Apr 1994 13:36:13 -0500 (CDT)
  ...The bigger alt is installed (whew) and I have a deep cycle battery but have not hooked it up. I would appreciate any knowledge...
• Re: Can Westi Curtains be laundered
  Historical mailing list - Oxroad
  Sat, 7 Mar 1998 02:01:04 EST
  ...Woolite in cold water on the delicate cycle. Then I hung them dry. The results were great. The curtains were pretty grungy, and even...
• aux. battery ventiliation
  Historical mailing list - John Rossi
  Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:43:00 -0800
  ...So, here are my q's: (a) do all lead-acid batteries (i.e., sealed, deep cycle, etc.) require ventilation? The '81 (and others...
• Anyone use Power-Sonic Aux Battery?
  Historical mailing list - Alan J. Flint
  Wed, 16 Aug 2000 11:48:43 -0700
  ...in under my seat, but I do want a sealed, deep cycle battery. So I started looking for alternatives. Has anyone tried the Power...
• AC conversion quirks
  Historical mailing list - Roger Van Till
  Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:42:03 -0400
  ...two seconds later whips up to high speed, then continues to cycle the high speed fan on and off several times a minute. It...
• Re: cleaning westy matress covers
  Historical mailing list - MacLachlan, Bill
  Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:11:55 -0700
  ...Hot water, tide and oxy clean added, with the long washing cycle. Carpet was air dryed, but the rest was low heat with Bounce...
• Re: Auxiliary battery for 89 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Dennis
  Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:14:28 -0400
  ...Auxiliary battery for 89 Westy What size deep cycle battery do you recommend for the Auxiliary Battery? Does anyone have have a "how to...
• Re: How long to reach full operating temp?
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:07:36 -0800
  ...settle in at operating temperature, a little longer (6 minutes?) to cycle once with the radiator fan. Driving down the highway at 65mph with...
• Re: Odyssey batteries
  Historical mailing list - Stacie Wunsch
  Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:42:18 -0600
  ...Instead of the Odyssey, I went with a 12V WERKER Deep Cycle battery with 30AH ($70-ish). Granted, I am not planing on running...
• Re: Poor man battery testing
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:18:16 -0600
  ...Poor man battery testing Deep Cycle battery capacity load testing. Theory: Deep cycle batteries need to be tested differently than the normal tests used...
• Re: Temperature guage
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Mon, 9 Apr 2001 07:28:57 -0700
  ...The fan would > cycle on low speed when I was at a stop light or in traffic, but the gauge > would still not go...
• Re: Power Door Locks: Key Won't Turn Pass. Side Door Lock.
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Wed, 23 Sep 2015 20:02:20 -0700
  ...you are opening the lock > and will continue to try to cycle the lock when you try to open the lock > -- Neil n Blog...
• Re: BATTERY INFO NEEDED PLEASE
  Historical mailing list - Karl
  Fri, 12 Dec 2014 02:32:30 -0500
  ...The Delco battery doesn't say anything about being a deep cycle that I could see. On 12/12/2014 12:33 AM, Neil...
• Idle control valve and very cold weather?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 8 Dec 2009 19:32:27 -0800
  ...1500 rpm.....down to normal idle....1500rpm.....down to normal idle... cycle. Zero degree weather overnight and not going above about 10f all day...
• Vanagon ala Coca Cola
  Historical mailing list - Jason Yasment
  Sun, 4 Feb 2001 10:25:30 -0500
  ...Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, And run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help...
• Re: Improving On Engine Lubrication
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:45:24 -0600
  ...the other day if I had ever heard of adding 2 cycle > engine oil into every engine oil change. He claims it adds power...
• Re: New 12 cyl. diesel transplant option
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:56:22 -0800
  ...big as most houses! The description says it is a two-cycle, so the injection should be right... Antaki <wrack@COMCAST.NET> wrote: Personally...
• Re: An idea deserving a Friday post -- waterboxing the Dometic
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:39:54 -0400
  Or, what if you put a refrigerator unit around the dometic cooling fins and purchase a few lab-rats to compress/cycle the refrigerant...
• Re: New fridge replacement option for the Dometic
  Historical mailing list - Warren Chapman
  Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:51:48 -0400
  ...battery...of course that depends on the size of the deep cycle battery....and for me that means a battery that I can put...
• Re: How to: Clean my bra
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:10:06 +0000
  I've tossed my Vanagon's bra into the washing machine, delicate cycle, cold water to wash the "smooth" side for a number of...
• Re: Ongoing saga: Dometic and Multimeter . . .
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:46:19 -0400
  As soon as you consider a "propane" refrigerator, you are dealing with almost certainly dealing with an ammonia cycle fridge (which is what the...
• Re: Need Someone to test a Battery Saver
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:33:09 -0500
  ...At best most will last 300-500 cycles. A cycle is anytime the SOC falls below 50% or it is charged above 80% to...
• Re: No Coolant in Small Tank Behind License Plate-why it goes down after filling the system.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:16:03 -0700
  ...it takes up to 6 warm-up cool-down cycles for things to stabilize. and .. if one just tops up the pressure bottle at...
• Re: Poor man battery testing
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:24:38 -0800
  ...On 01/27/2012 06:42 AM, Dennis Haynes wrote: > Deep Cycle battery capacity load testing. Theory: Deep cycle > batteries need to be tested...
• Re: Arduino and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sat, 16 Nov 2013 14:25:57 -0600
  ...So, > for example, suppose one on-off cycle is 10 milliseconds. If we want to > limit our output to 50%, the voltage is switched...
• Re: engine noise.......piston slap?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 6 Dec 2004 21:14:32 -0500
  ...Since the engine was "short cycled", (run a few times without fully warming up), my bet is that you have an air bound lifter...
• Re: Lithium aux. Batt?
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth O'Connor
  Fri, 14 Jul 2017 10:18:18 -0700
  ...superior to the older generation batteries...Do they > even make deep cycle lithium battery s? > I swapped in a lithium battery to save weight...
• Alliance Deep Cycle? (Grp. 27) Wire To Alternator?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:16:03 -0700
  Hi all. Battery sales person said they're made by Johnston Controls. Anyone used these? I realize that a lot of battery longevity comes...
• Re: aux battery and fridge
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:14:28 -0400
  ...get a norcold dc 0400 installed with a 100 AH deep cycle battery. does anyone have an electrician that does good work for a...
• Re: Heater
  Historical mailing list - David Garth
  Sat, 26 Nov 1994 18:21:31 -0800 (PST)
  ...With a 100 amp hour deep-cycle auxillary battery, you would have less than 4 hours of heat. And that's four hours of...
• Re: a/c cutting out after about 20 min.
  Historical mailing list - jhlauterbach
  Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:12:54 -0400
  ...it will work again, and cycle like this the hole way home. > Any ideas? > thanks Bill
• Re: Starting problem?
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Thu, 24 Oct 2002 06:15:05 -0400
  Larry; Sounds like the Hall effect sensor in the distributor is reaching the end of it's life cycle. If you have a clamp...
• Re: westy: where does the light over the cabinets terminate?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:38:05 -0700
  ...Mark feller wrote: >I want to take this light off the starter battery circuit and move it over >to my new deep cycle setup...
• Re: Silver socket plug
  Historical mailing list - Rob Rubin
  Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:08:52 -0800
  You can also go to a BMW motor cycle shop for the male end. -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon...
• White powder in battery box bottom
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Sun, 22 Jan 2006 09:31:00 -0800
  ...This is a normal 'starter' battery, not a deep-cycle battery, but used for camping). There is a measurable layer of white powder on...
• Dynamic Solar Panel
  Historical mailing list - Mark C
  Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:24:20 -0700
  So, with all the input on printing a little laser off deep cycle... 3000 watt Wagan inverter... under the rear seat, passenger side two...
• Re: Alliance Deep Cycle? (Grp. 27) Wire To Alternator?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:56:50 -0400
  ...Alliance Deep Cycle? (Grp. 27) Wire To Alternator? "[...] you may need to rev the engine a bit higher than normal to get the alternator...
• Re: Random Instant Shutdown
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:11:40 -0600
  ...My guess is that I could unplug > every sensor in the FI system and the pump would still cycle at power > on. I am...
• Solid State A/C
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 11 Aug 94 17:08:18 EDT
  ...It seems that the Rovox technology is still based on the Carnot cycle, and, if my memory of those horrendous thermodynamics courses is accurate...
• Battery Thread (Another Option)
  Historical mailing list - Steven Shane
  Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:03:39 -0400
  Secondary Battery Options... ------ The Optima D900 M deep cycle battery is about $160 - $180 and puts out 65 Amp Hours see http://www.dcbattery...
• Re: Cabin Air Flow
  Historical mailing list - ed donnen
  Thu, 3 May 2012 07:01:16 -0400
  ...The exhaust cycle in the cylinder creates positive and negative waves that when timed properly with the length of pipe will actually draw out...
• Vanonomics
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:11:40 -0500
  ...So I wonder, where is that Econoline now (you know the answer)? Which was the better deal, just on resale and duty cycle? (I...
• FS: 86 syncro GL Weekender aft-market pop top
  Historical mailing list - Derrek Wittmann
  Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:01:23 -0700
  ...coolant, oil, power steering . $6000 part trades considered (cool stereo components, vanagons with broken engines, motor cycles ,computer stuff ,tanks for OXY ACET welding...
• Parallel Batteries
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 27 May 1999 12:54:11 -0400
  ...Same size, same type, same capacity, *same age* and number of charge-discharge cycles; and 2) the batteries are then treated identically, i.e...