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  • Re: the mysterious flash of the coolant light
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Tue, 29 May 2012 12:39:30 -0400
    ...that point, would this affect >the controller thus behaviour of the LED? Seems to me a redundant thing Any form of short, either between...
  • Re: 80c or 87c thermostat?
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:04:01 -0400
    ...Made the engine run noticeably cool, needle well below the LED. Yrs, d
  • How to make an A/C compressor on indicator light
    Historical mailing list - Todd P Last
    Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:37:50 -0700
    I want to add an LED indicator on my Vanagon that will show when the A/C compressor is engaged. Has anyone done this...
  • 'fridge fans some more!
    Historical mailing list - Dan Houg
    Tue, 16 May 1995 14:51:49 CST6CDT
    ...Wired it to a separate tiny switch next to the LED panel. The fan draws only .06 amps but moves a fair amount of...
  • bleeding and draining system revisited
    Historical mailing list - Jonc
    Tue, 15 Aug 2000 23:43:22 -0400
    ...the temp gauge sets rock steady on the LED... so I am off to Florida to see if the system can take the heat...
  • Re: Interior light/work light
    Historical mailing list - Tim
    Wed, 7 Nov 2001 21:47:35 -0800
    ...Interior light/work light > I bought from Planet Bike LED head lights very bright, portable, 100 hours on > self contained batteries, no wiring needed...
  • Re: Mandatory VW Reading / A Fairy Tale?
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Sat, 3 May 2003 13:35:36 -0500
    Porsche's only dirty little idea was to steal from the genius Hans Ledwinka especially in the form of the Tatra T97. ----------------------- Clip ----------------------------- Where...
  • O2 light glowing...
    Historical mailing list - Art McGinn
    Fri, 27 May 2005 10:59:03 -0700
    ...i have been led to believe that the oxygen-sensor idiot light is somehow programmed to glow after a given number of miles as...
  • Re: parts source?
    Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
    Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:32:39 -0400
    Matthew Snook wrote: > use of the signal lever just gives a continuous light both outside and on the LED on the dash. > No blinking...
  • Re: GW LED Kit, Exterior
    Historical mailing list - Dug Smith
    Sat, 12 Mar 2016 13:27:42 -0800
    ...If you use LEDs with the Audiovox, the cruise control won't come on, as it can't see when to turn off. If...
  • Re: Operating temperature? (temp gauge needle, etc)
    Historical mailing list - craig cowan
    Sun, 4 May 2008 17:36:59 -0400
    ...Before it sat just on the right edge of > > the > > LED. Now it sits 3/4 of the way up the gauge, a full...
  • Re: Reduced Mileage
    Historical mailing list - pdooley
    Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:47:45 -0500
    ...The temp gauge reads just above the LED with the new thermo (the old 80 degree thermo (lower than stock, but seems to be...
  • Re: Richards fog light query, inside look
    Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
    Sun, 5 Apr 2020 18:10:51 +0000
    Yes, great tip David on dialing in the proper resistance for the LED.  But I have changed my thoughts a little on my project...
  • Re: charging light flickers
    Historical mailing list - Jack Botts
    Mon, 1 Apr 2013 16:47:44 -0500
    ...Lately, the charging LED on the dash flickers. At > 40 mph it will go out, but comes back on. Last night near the end...
  • Re: temperature issues
    Historical mailing list - John Pronk
    Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:43:00 -0000
    ...what i mean by > higher is, the needle on led lays about one needle width above the light. on > my old thermostat, before it...
  • Re: LED bulbswas: Trip report Busses By the Bridge
    Historical mailing list - Raimund Feussner
    Sat, 21 Jan 2023 21:33:25 +0100
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  • Re: High beam dash bulb
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Wed, 29 Apr 2015 01:13:30 -0400
    At 12:16 AM 4/29/2015, Alistair Bell wrote: >The funny thing is that my 82 diesel westy had a green led for...
  • Re: Tachometer Needle-How To Remove
    Historical mailing list - J Stewart
    Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:27:54 +0000
    ...Got my tach cluster out to replace a defective temp gauge (LED blinks > constantly) and it *looks* like the tach needle would just pry...
  • Re: Carrying a Scooter
    Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
    Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:32:24 -0400
    ...Do you think the cops would ever give you a ticket for blocking tail lights / license plate? I guess you could mount LED style...
  • Re: Interior lighting for the vanagon LED and CCF link to the new fridges
    Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
    Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:05:53 -0700
    I'd be more interested in the top load http://www.indelmarineusa.com/toploaded.htm and put it where the water tank & elect storage...
  • Re: Head light swap to LED, Early Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
    Tue, 28 May 2024 07:59:09 -0400
    ...But then I was given some truck light, made in USA , led lamps that are completely different design. Been using them for a couple...
  • Re: Electrical trivia number 3
    Historical mailing list - FRANK CONDELLI
    Sat, 31 May 2025 05:57:51 -0400
    Eric, there are and never were any switches of any kind on that panel except for what’s on the LED panel. Someone added...
  • Talking About Thermostats...
    Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
    Mon, 11 May 2009 18:38:10 -0700
    ...past a certain point, actually just above the center of the LED. As the systems heats up the needle gets to that point, fan...
  • cool running = poor mpg
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 29 Apr 1997 11:10:18 -0500
    ...During this time, the temp guage never deviated more than a needles width or two from the led in the middle. About three months...
  • Re: Low Coolant Warning LED
    Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
    Fri, 6 Aug 2021 09:13:33 -0600
    ...Low Coolant Warning LED > > Could someone please explain what controls the initial Igni’ On Low Coolant Warning LED > > Flash Duration ~ Have 1 that won...
  • Re: About coolant
    Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
    Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:22:09 -0800
    ...At highway speeds it generally sits right on the LED, even when it's that hot out. During this cool weather it's been...
  • Re: digijet tool testing
    Historical mailing list - Scarlett Semko
    Sun, 2 Aug 1998 21:58:30 -0400
    ...I had wired the digijet tool coil LED the same as the > digifant tool coil LED. It turns out the transistorized ignition control > unit...
  • Re: LED light product
    Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
    Fri, 4 Aug 2006 17:46:10 -0500
    ...They have 3 LED bulbs, take 3 AAA, > (batteries INCLUDED!) and have an adhesive surface on > the back. You can remove and re-position...
  • no power: running lean (i think)
    Historical mailing list - Fred Porter
    Mon, 6 Jul 1998 15:47:24 -0600
    ...BTW, the blinking LED has NOT come on. if it is running lean, my first suspect is the AFM--slow response or limited travel...
  • 86 Overheat & Emissions
    Historical mailing list - tomas fredricks
    Sat, 19 Feb 2005 10:42:13 -0800
    ...It didn't max out the temp guage, nor did the LED start to flash. Once I turned it off in the driveway I...
  • 89 Westy with crazy German Blaupunkt radio.
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 25 Feb 1997 00:10:20 -0500 (EST)
    ...that randomly interrupts the radio and displays "PCI" on the digital LED. Also an ARI button? .... Also cannot change or regulate sound from front...
  • Re: oxygen sensor and alternator lights
    Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
    Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:12:54 -0700
    ...oxygen sensor and alternator lights > When I start my van both the oxygen and the alternator LEDs stay on until I > step on the...
  • Re: OXS and battery LEDs
    Historical mailing list - Doktor Tim
    Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:38:31 -0700
    At 05:06 PM 10/21/2003, you wrote: >On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Bill Marshall wrote: > > > Baloney. My ancient '85 alternator began charging...
  • thanks on blinking water temp light and groups in Europe
    Historical mailing list - Edward V Barger
    Sat, 13 May 2017 15:27:35 +0200
    ...The coolant temperature gauge and LED on all 1983-1991 Vanagons are comprised of four main components: 1) The gauge and LED itself in...
  • 87 Westy Engine Running Warm---At Wits End
    Historical mailing list - John W. Parkins
    Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:13:55 -0400
    ...Temp needle halfway between LED and max temp 2. ECU temp sensor voltage (ECU pin 10) reads .3 vdc after full warm-up time...
  • Re: subject Re: LED Refit
    Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
    Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:43:35 -0700
    ...Stevens" <mtbiker62@GMAIL.COM> wrote: >> >> > This is the particular "model" of LED I'm interested in installing just >> > behind the passenger head >> > on the...
  • FW: Battery Switch
    Historical mailing list - Rodney Woten
    Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:10:22 -0500
    ...is at full charge (green LED) and the primary is at half charge (yellow LED). This leads me to believe that the alternator is...
  • Re: How to - or not - bleed the cooling system
    Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
    Wed, 8 Feb 2006 19:05:07 -0500
    ...After I did > this the temp gauge is always below the led when I'm driving and when it > idles it only goes a...
  • Re: Internal 115V power
    Historical mailing list - Dave Brune
    Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:44:07 -0800
    Try JC Whitney, they have lots of 12v led lights in many colors. Strips, tubes, ect. Courtney Hook <courtneyhook@SHAW.CA> wrote: Loren, are...
  • Re: What about us?: H2O tank senders solved!
    Historical mailing list - Bulley
    Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:44:53 -0500
    ...It is set up to light the green LED from 0-3 volts (full), yellow from 3-5 (almost full to getting low), red...
  • Re: RE : sink pump mystery - 1981 westy
    Historical mailing list - mark drillock
    Mon, 17 Jun 2002 08:34:04 -0700
    ...Theses LED panels have a red LED in the very bottom of the left row of four. Mark Jay L Snyder wrote: > > Read somewhere...
  • Re: New thermostat funky?
    Historical mailing list - syncro.carboncow
    Sun, 2 Dec 2007 21:46:39 -0500
    ...I don't recall anything about head temps, I figured the LED was just to catch your eye to get you to look at...
  • Re: Blue High Beam light replacement
    Historical mailing list - Tony Polson
    Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:12:01 +0000
    ...It's tempting to consider replacing the bulb with a blue LED. However you would need to break the relevant wire in the delicate...
  • Re: What the heck?
    Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
    Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:26:12 -0400
    ...They are the original incandescent > one's(all around the vehicle a 1985 Westy), no LEDS. Now I lost my turn > signals when the...
  • Re: Whoops Re; Electrical Device
    Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
    Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:54:46 -0800
    ...one for the 12 V operation of fridge, the other for water pump, led panel etc. One (12 v operation of fridge) should go...
  • Re: Engine running COLD
    Historical mailing list - Kenneth Lewis
    Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:32:00 -0500
    ...The temp gauge needle should ride over the LED after five minutes. An infrared thermometer is a handy tool here, especially with Vanagons. ;-) I...
  • adding resister to center 1.9 coolant temp gauge?
    Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
    Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:57:23 -0400
    ...Now the gauge reads high, about 65%-70% when normal operating temperature instead of 50% (LED dead center) like the old one. I'm...
  • '86 Syncro for Sale
    Historical mailing list - KENYON FAIREY
    Sun, 12 Jan 1997 15:17:56 -0500 (EST)
    ...Department of Forestry & Office of Information Technologies Wildlife Management - - - - - - - - - - - - - A 117, Lederle Graduate Research Center Internet -- KFairey@OIT.UMass.EDU University of Massachusetts Phone...
  • Re: Blue LEDs. Buy in quantity and save. /F
    Historical mailing list - Z
    Wed, 7 Aug 1996 14:59:21 -0400 (EDT)
    > > >$7.31 for one or $5,417.75 for 1000. > > > > we better think of _a_lot_ of places to use them :-) > > aye. that's...
  • Re: How many bulbs in a tail light assembly??
    Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
    Sat, 1 Jul 2023 21:50:35 -0500
    If all it requires is a switch, how hard would it be to put in a white LED with constant power and have a...
  • Re: charging light flickers
    Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
    Mon, 1 Apr 2013 14:56:29 -0700
    ...Lately, the charging LED on the dash flickers. At > 40 mph it will go out, but comes back on. Last night near the end...
  • Re: Diesel and WBX Coolant Temp gauges same?
    Historical mailing list - Chris S
    Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:29:25 -0400
    The only help I can offer is telling you that the LED blinks and gauge goes to hot if the coolant level is low...
  • Re: Higher temp reading after thermostat change
    Historical mailing list - John Scheckel
    Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:43:28 -0700
    ...Now the gauge > consistently reads above the LED ( just above it ). The cooling fan is not > coming on, but the radiator does not seem...
  • Help--Non-vanagon charging question
    Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
    Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:41:38 -0500
    ...The LED is just barely glowing� not enough to be visible in the day. My first thought was brushes on the alternator. I pulled...
  • Re: Battery LEDs = Useful life Drivers seat swivel / table
    Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
    Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:35:06 +0000
    ...Battery LEDs = Useful life Drivers seat swivel / table >Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:10:31 -0700 > >Thanks, Chris -- the nice man at the...
  • Re: LED backup lights update
    Historical mailing list - Dan N
    Sat, 18 Feb 2023 16:43:48 -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: Old fuel rails Ok or Disaster waiting to happen?
    Historical mailing list - Stephen Engel
    Thu, 7 Jan 2016 05:37:21 +0000
    ...I had to get the interior LED set from Van-Cafe since GW hasn't been  offering that set for tin tops. How about...
  • Re: removing Westy stove face plate
    Historical mailing list - Stacy Schneider
    Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:04:11 -0700
    ...face plate of the Westy stove-- >>> >>> the front part with the LED panel and the gas knobs? >>> >>> I had it off, or saw how...
  • Surepower 1315 Wiring
    Historical mailing list - Keith Ovregaard
    Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:56:21 -0800
    ...The momentary push-button type switch and indicator LED are mounted next to a battery meter which shows whether the alternator has correct output...
  • Friday: One Bolt Led To Another.....
    Historical mailing list - Neil N
    Fri, 7 Oct 2016 10:34:29 -0700
    ... then another. A free to me 2.0 gas VW engine, in pieces. Images https://goo.gl/photos/FsXNbnWMdn2vysqRA https://goo.gl/photos/WeprHMYy2Dweqx2fA...