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  • Re: Temperature gage in traffic
    Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:15:09 -0700
    ...LED when at highway speeds. > Yesterday was my first day in traffic, on an 85 degree day. > > The needle rose just above the LED...
  • Re: DIFFERENT LED TAIL LIGHT
    Historical mailing list - Todd Last
    Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:24:22 +0000
    ...DIFFERENT LED TAIL LIGHT > > > Here's another take on the LED tail light, with options for turn signals and > back-up lights. I think...
  • Re: flashing LED
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:48:44 -0700
    ok, it's sorted out now, about the coolant temp gauge and the LED. now on to the oil buzzer issue. I'm just...
  • Re: Wiring! Will I make it through it??
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:08:48 -0400
    ...The LED's are funky to me. After looking at this site: >http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/LEDpanel.htm it appears they were...
  • Re: Don't yell at me but I tried led H4
    Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
    Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:07:43 -0500
    ...On one hand it would allow a > more powerful led array, on the other hand it's one more thing to go wrong. > But...
  • Re: interior lighting - led strip
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Sun, 24 Feb 2013 08:22:21 -0800
    ...Got much better light in the van now. >> >> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/vanagon-interior-lighting-with-led/ >> >> >> alistair > > > Nice! How did...
  • Re: Useful LED snakelight for your Vanagon on sale at HomeDepot $10 today
    Historical mailing list - neil n
    Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:20:17 -0800
    ...The newer one looks like a better design, but had considered installing LED's and hardwiring mine somewhere inside my Westy as a reading...
  • Battery LEDs = Useful life?
    Historical mailing list - Rocky Squirrel
    Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:33:19 +0000
    ...To avoid needing a helping hand I will keep an eye on the battery LEDs. But three lamps are hardly a precision indicating system...
  • Re: LED solder gauge
    Historical mailing list - Michael Rule
    Sat, 11 Sep 2004 16:31:00 -0700
    ...what gauge solder do you recommend when replacing vanagon LED's? Thankyou, Mike --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo...
  • Re: suggestion needed for upper bunk light
    Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
    Sun, 22 Apr 2018 19:43:01 -0300
    ...I picked-up a 6” battery operated LED light (sold for use in closets) mounted to the top of the upper bunk. It came...
  • Re: curious behaviour of interior led lights
    Historical mailing list - Richard Jones
    Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:25:38 -0600
    ...I'd think it would take much, much longer with LEDs since they use so much less juice. Where did your delay unit come...
  • OOPS Re: Late night - blinking light
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:43:36 -0400
    ...The gauge LED still tests on start up and works. My mistake, sorry. Rob, your trouble isn't in the gauge. It's either...
  • Re: Alternator Light Just Came On
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:19:33 -0400
    ...In our case the "bulb" is an LED with a resistor in parallel to allow sufficient current to flow to tickle the alternator. Not...
  • 86 Syncro Water Temp Gauge
    Historical mailing list - Drew Jenkins
    Wed, 1 Sep 1999 09:56:22 -0400
    ...However, when the key is turned on, I get the flashing LED in the temp gauge. All other instruments, including all led's, in...
  • Re: ?Brighter Turn Signals?
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:31:58 -0500
    ...I don't think an led WILL >work for a turn signal. > >If anyone has accomplished an LED for a turn signal I'd...
  • FLAPS LED taillights
    Historical mailing list - Matthew
    Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:58:58 -0700
    I was at my FLAPS this weekend (getting Mobile 1) and saw they have LED taillights ("off road use only") that fit into normal...
  • Re: Plasma gauge set
    Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
    Wed, 15 Sep 2021 07:41:21 -0700
    OK - got 2 of the Leds working - for whatever reason I just could not get the 3rd (the bulb housed over the tach) one...
  • Re: Time Delay LED Lighting Circuit
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Wed, 2 Aug 2017 17:40:07 -0700
    ...It's this one Geekcreit® DC 12V LED Display Digital Delay Timer Control Switch Module PLC https://banggood.app.link/YobsCIrqiF I haven't...
  • Re: Fwd: Greek Single Cab + alternator help...
    Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
    Sat, 9 Jul 2011 16:30:57 -0700
    If I unplug the blue wire at the fridge relay under the seat, the LED goes out. I rarely use 12V on the fridge...
  • Re: LED lighting
    Historical mailing list - Robert Stewart
    Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:58:39 -0500
    ...I just put a pair of LED Stop/Tail/T-sig lights on mine. > For now, I Just set them on the rear camper...
  • Re: MORE 12v fridge not working info
    Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
    Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:38:57 -0700
    ...Further investigation shows that > although all the gas is off, the gas LED glows when the fridge is > switched to 12V. > > If I start...
  • Re: LED taillights WAS: Re: repost optional bulb sizes/wattages?
    Historical mailing list - Harry Rosenblum
    Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:47:10 -0500
    ...http://www.superbrightleds.com/specs/115x- > xLX3.htm ? > > These are wide angle high power LEDs, which in theory are brighter > than > incandescents Those have...
  • Re: Backup light puzzle anyone?
    Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
    Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:31:36 -0700
    ...Backup light puzzle anyone? I got a pair of LED back up "bulbs" along with the other LEDs for my '85 automatic transmission Vanagon...
  • LED bulbs
    Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
    Fri, 3 Feb 2023 12:48:17 -0500
    ...I was looking just for the correct LED light bulb for the existing marker lights. But, if these are the same as our rear...
  • Re: Diesel Instrument Cluster Blue Ribbon: Glow Plug Light Wiring Confirm Please?
    Historical mailing list - Neil N
    Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:26:06 -0700
    ...Though Bentley notes LED bulb polarity at least several times, in each of my blue ribbons, (two early '80's one 1985) the flat...
  • Re: Troubleshooting Blinking LED
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Thu, 1 May 2014 04:51:27 -0400
    ...The actual blinking is accomplished by the LED itself; but the driver circuit inside the gauge times out when that cap reaches a certain...
  • Re: interior LEDs - get rid of the morgue
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:53:42 -0800
    ...Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote: > >> The light comes out of the LED more from the tip than from the sides and >> that is not...
  • Ekta help - bulbs... 1156, 1157...
    Historical mailing list - Mark C
    Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:46:39 -0700
    ...need to know so I place an order correctly for led replacements... front blinker = 1157 rear blinker bulb = 1141 (or is it really 1157...
  • Re: Stock westy kitchen light improvement
    Historical mailing list - Pete Sicilia
    Tue, 19 Jul 2022 07:57:45 -0700
    ...Ihave led strips in extrusions there…. > > But if I had the stock unit, I’d get one of these . > > Alistair > > On Jul 18, 2022...
  • Re: Fire Systems/performance parts
    Historical mailing list - Scott Chen
    Wed, 18 Mar 1998 09:12:03 -0600
    ...For those engines with more than one O2 sensor, it can monitor both at the same time(it has two sets of LEDs). I...
  • Re: Alternative signal lights
    Historical mailing list - SStones
    Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:21:17 -0400
    At 11:23 PM 7/28/03 -0600, you wrote: >Has anyone experimented with LED turn signal bulbs, the "twist & lock" 2 >filament type...
  • Re: Instead of LED do fluorescent
    Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
    Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:23:02 -0700
    ...On 18 Sep 2007 at 14:55, Chris S. <mrpolak@YAHOO.COM> wrote: > For interior lighting instead of LED lighting buy a self-contained...
  • Re: Battery LEDs = Useful life?
    Historical mailing list - Vince S
    Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:14:03 -0700
    Mike, You are correct the three LEDs are not exactly precision indicator of the battery condition. However please bare in mind even with an...
  • Re: Westfalia Water Tank Level Indicator Issues
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Mon, 3 Sep 2018 20:44:10 -0400
    ...and losing the lowest (no LED) level indication.** **Note that the '80-81 panels with four water LEDs G Y R R and no...
  • Re: Westy Interior Lighting
    Historical mailing list - Thomas Buese
    Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:03:00 -0600
    I have a baseball hat w/ 2 led lights mounted in the brim & a small switch too boot. Simply press the switch anytime light...
  • Re: Westy Interior Lighting
    Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
    Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:21:32 -0700
    The very best interior lighting upgrade I've got in my van is a bunch of those LED headlamps. I have the normal hard...
  • Re: running a little cool?
    Historical mailing list - John P. Flaherty
    Sun, 7 Jul 2002 18:11:44 -0400
    ...About a month ago, I > notice it was running about a full needle width the the left of the LED. > I finally got around...
  • Re: Fridge burner indicator light bright, then dim?
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Mon, 6 Jan 2003 01:02:17 -0500
    At 03:00 AM 1/6/2003, Westyman wrote: >I just installed one of the new blue LEDs in my kitchen display and notice...
  • Re: Temp gauge reading to low
    Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
    Sat, 19 Oct 2019 11:04:38 -0700
    ...Normally when the > van is warmed up the needle sits at the lower edge of the LED. Everything > else seems to be normal. > > Could...
  • Re: Diesel coolin problems
    Historical mailing list - Mike Catlin
    Sat, 22 Jun 1996 06:56:35 -0700 (PDT)
    ...I'm not sure whether it's supposed to have a separate relay and LED or if it is designed to actuate the high...
  • Problem with water pump / LED lights
    Historical mailing list - peter hargreave
    Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:46:37 +0000
    ...my pump and the LED lights on the kitchen unit went dead at the same time.&nbsp; Checked the fuses and they are fine...
  • Re: Piranha LED taillights
    Historical mailing list - jimt
    Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:06:03 -0600
    On 9/21/04 1:25 AM, "Andrew Grebneff" <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> wrote: > Has anyone tried fitting Piranha LED taillights to...
  • Re: temp gauge flasing LED goes off instantly on start uip
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:21:47 -0400
    ...normal indication is after you start a water cooled vanagon .. >the LED flashes for a few seconds then goes off. Normal indication is that...
  • Re: LED to tell when fan is on.
    Historical mailing list - Keith Ovregaard
    Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:59:42 -0800
    ...41:39 -0800 > From: Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> > Subject: Re: LED to tell when fan is on. > > You are not alone Al. I...
  • Re: LED to tell when fan is on.
    Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
    Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:44:43 -0800
    ...When my F111 > simulator > fan comes on an LED is clearly superflous. It is shall we say, very > noticeable. Maybe I just have a...
  • Digitool panel meter..
    Historical mailing list - Kai Mei
    Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:11:51 -0400
    Will this work for the digitool meter? http://www.web-tronics.com/led5vcomgrou.html
  • Re: EARLY 80s FRIDGE QUESTION
    Historical mailing list - Dave Vickery
    Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:05:27 +0000
    That makes sense, it reads the voltage off the flame and was what they used before the LED. Besides it's location inside the...
  • Re: 85 Water Sensor
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Fri, 3 May 2002 20:13:00 -0400
    ...With LED panel on, ground that green wire at the connector (won't do any harm) -- the top light should light. If it does...
  • Re: holy smokes (melted the instrument circuit)
    Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
    Sat, 7 May 2005 05:59:03 EDT
    ...So for a long time now my high beam indicator LED has not been working. Ed, just one small problem that may have caused...
  • Re: LED light product
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Fri, 4 Aug 2006 20:21:26 -0700
    ...Recently purchased some small LED lights. "DOT*it" by Sylvania. They have 3 LED bulbs, take 3 AAA, (batteries INCLUDED!) and have an adhesive...
  • Re: Best way to judge life left in Waterboxer?
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Wed, 9 May 2012 01:20:37 -0400
    ...I've had an occasion recently of very >faint dull red glow from the LED at startup and idle, which >subsequently quickly faded away...
  • Re: engine L.E.D. light replacement part
    Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
    Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:04:51 -0700
    ...One lead of the LED will be slightly longer. That's the positive side. Steve '86 Westy "Escape Pod" '73 Beetle "ain't got...
  • Re: drive from Oklahoma to Spokane, WA
    Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
    Sun, 5 Oct 2014 09:44:36 -0500
    ...The temperature indicator almost always sets dead on the led after the vehicle warms up, but occasionally in traffic in town with a lot...
  • Re: overheating?
    Historical mailing list - Johnson, Darrell
    Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:07:39 -0700
    ...When I bought the van 6 months ago the needle of the temperature gauge was always just below the LED. Several weeks ago the...
  • Re: Interior lighting for the vanagon LED and CCF
    Historical mailing list - Doug in Calif
    Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:16:09 -0700
    ...Interior lighting for the vanagon LED and CCF > >I have been doing some lighting research and found out the LED > >technology only produces about...
  • MORE 12v fridge not working info
    Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
    Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:10:00 -0500
    ...Further investigation shows that although all the gas is off, the gas LED glows when the fridge is switched to 12V. If I start...
  • Re: Shore power indicator light ?
    Historical mailing list - Todd Last
    Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:17:38 +0000
    ...I found a 120V LED indicator light which should serve the purpose well. http://web4.automationdirect.com/adc/Shopping/Catalog/Pushbuttons_-z-_Switches_-z...
  • Re: LED backup lights update
    Historical mailing list - Pete Sicilia
    Mon, 30 Jan 2023 08:48:21 -0800
    ...Line the backup light window with alunim air conditioning tape. > Install big, bright LED. Put it back together. Might take you an hour > including...
  • Re: [vanagon] RoadHaus - Coolant level LED Problem
    Historical mailing list - mark drillock
    Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:32:03 -0800
    ...The job of the electronics is to flash the led a few times on startup and then go out unless an over temp or...
  • Re: Time Delay LED Lighting Circuit
    Historical mailing list - Neil N
    Wed, 2 Aug 2017 10:32:13 -0700
    ...But maybe 3 of those small LED's would be plenty? FWIW, my thought was to install the push button on the cowling above...