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• Re: AutoZone
  Historical mailing list - Chris Mills
  Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:37:11 -0500
  ...A rebuild may cost you as little as $20 for diodes or a bearing or two. Many rebuilt alternators were dead right out of...
• Re: Battery Isolators vs. Relays
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:11:39 -0500
  ...Another advantage is the lack of voltage drop caused by the diodes in an isolator. Thirdly, a failure of the system is unlikely to...
• Re: Alternater light
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Fri, 8 Dec 2006 20:52:56 -0800
  ...The diodes that are the "on" switches for the output are sometimes a little (!) flakey, and a quick touch at the throttle will be...
• Tail light stuffing
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:35:49 -0700
  ...I also added 2 diodes (1N4005) and another resistor in series with the entire LED cluster. When I was done, I had 3 wires...
• Re: Continued Bucking - Digifant readings
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Sun, 20 Jan 2002 23:59:06 -0800
  ...Alternator going bad-not good-voltage spikes from failing diodes are a cause of ECU damage. If you are running on battery voltage only...
• Re: Aux Battery Charging Alternatives Question for the ElectricalGurus
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:27:11 -0400
  ...Otherwise you run the danger of >discharging both batteries. > I would not use steering diodes due to the loss of precious electrons. > When in...
• Re: 2nd battery relays & the Hella in particular
  Historical mailing list - Bess's Buddies
  Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:54:44 -0800
  ...The use of a >>relay for this >>> purpose, >>> as opposed to an isolator, eliminates the intrinsic >>voltage drop >>caused by >>> the diodes in an...
• Re: Man, I am backing up now...on the light install..
  Historical mailing list - mdrillock
  Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:52:48 -0700
  ...voltage as long as the other side has a lower potential. Diodes of the LED type have polarity and can't act that way...
• Re: Solar charger NOT to buy
  Historical mailing list - S.Harrison
  Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:32:08 -0800
  ...I'll get a > > refund, buy a solar panel, some diodes, fittings and make my own. > > > > I've e-mailed Projecta about it, but...
• Alternator & dual battery question
  Historical mailing list - Julian Burden
  Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:08:54 -0400
  ...from the alternator to the batteries would not be crossing multiple diodes (as is the case with a battery isolator - current goes through the...
• Re: Nice Feature With Surepower 1315 Seperator
  Historical mailing list - David Etter
  Mon, 1 Oct 2007 18:21:36 -0300
  ...in a more efficient manner than the battery isolators >that use diodes to achive the same effect. They are also much easier to >install...
• Re: High beam blue light?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:45:53 -0700
  ...a 'bulb' after all, unless we want to consider light >>>> emitting >>>> diodes as some form of bulb. >>> No. It's an incandescent bulb, with...
• Re: water cooled alternators
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:08:20 -0500
  ...hose nipples >>on the back of the alternator) to keep the diodes cool on the newer >>model 4.6L Northstar V8s. > > http://www.hap...
• Re: Run time to charge Aux battery
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:43:28 -0700
  ...I would expect severe heat induced failures to involve the diodes or windings in a distinct fashion. What kind of heat failures have you...
• Re: Real time help needed
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 29 Mar 2020 11:08:27 -0700
  ...I’m looking in my stash for diodes to make marks harness Ab > On Mar 29, 2020, at 11:05 AM, Stacy Schneider <vwcrewman...
• Need HELP in creating the schematic for the Idle Stabilisator Control Unit...
  Historical mailing list - Robert Steven Fish
  Mon, 6 Jan 2003 16:41:21 +0100
  ...you can only really read the numbers on hte transistors and diodes once they are removed). What I would like is the part 251...
• Re: Dual Battery Switch
  Historical mailing list - Bob Bolton
  Sat, 16 Oct 2004 09:03:44 +0930
  ...Apparently this could blow the diodes in your alternator in a boat, so I presume it could do something similar in a car. My...
• Re: [Syncro] Re: [vanagon] Rear Fog Light Wiring of Switch
  Historical mailing list - P&J Lander
  Wed, 4 Apr 2001 14:12:50 +1000
  ...You can have them as well as fog lights with a couple of 3A diodes.The original brake lights are really poor. I bought...
• Re: [VWVANFULLTIMERS] More charging system comments
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 9 May 2005 19:10:40 -0400
  Battery Isolators are generally known as sold state devices, (diodes), that allow current to flow from the alternator to multiple batteries, but prevent current...
• Re: Friday off-T solar questions:long
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 9 Dec 2016 08:56:26 -0800
  ...This will increase current and even if panels are not matched, the built in diodes in panels will prevent any back flow to the...
• Re: generators/inverters for camping
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:31:28 -0500
  ...However a failure of one of the diodes would be a bigger problem, as the input to the capacitor would then be two pulses...
• Re: Alternator Deal.
  Historical mailing list - Fredrich Hesterberg
  Mon, 28 Jul 2003 23:36:34 -0500
  ...bushings, diodes, brushes . The windings are inspected and tested. �Is not just cleaned and replated. Three year warrantee is good for me. A Bosch...
• LED tail lights (was Skylight Arm)
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Mon, 22 Dec 2003 07:14:28 -0800
  ...I also added 2 diodes (1N4005) >and another resistor in series with the entire LED cluster. >When I was done, I had 3 wires...
• Re: Solar Panels
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
  Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:32:56 -0700
  ...Yes, I have had to buy two deep cycle RV batteries during that period..maybe I coulda done better with a bunch of diodes...
• It's time to hit that idle Stabilizer on the head!!!
  Historical mailing list - Tinkerman007
  Mon, 3 Sep 2007 02:00:52 -0400
  ...face down, as well as many descrete parts like resistors, caps, diodes, zeners and small transistors. BTW, my ISCU part number is 251 907...
• Re: Goofy CB + Coolant LED Stuff! (sorta friday content)
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Fri, 3 Sep 2010 14:50:02 -0700
  ...eventually causing them to burn out (even with the fail-safe diodes in the radio) and of course reduce your transmit capability to nil...
• Re: Audible Idiot "Light"...EE Inventor Wanted
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:41:26 -0800
  ...I know enough about electricity to design something -- this could be done with some diodes and maybe a transistor or two. Let's see...
• Re: oil and fuel level sensors
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:10:06 EST
  ...PC board, IC, few diodes, few resistors, bit of solder, bit of wire and a light trigger. I can send pdf copies of the...
• Re: aux battery ideas
  Historical mailing list - Bob Bellanca
  Wed, 3 Sep 1997 06:39:09 -0700
  ...can't backfeed to the solar panels because they're protected by diodes. And, the alternator is also. As long as you put some...
• Re: Which Voltmeter to use?
  Historical mailing list - Coby Smolens
  Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:31:19 -0700
  ...Usually it's 1.5, which is fine for regular diodes. Not a biggie... Continuity beeper -- these vary widely as to what the consider...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list
  7/28/96 3:41 PM
  ...You could probly even stack LEDs to for a voltage regulator for low current draws in lieu of using Zener diodes with the added...
• ECU CHIP AND ROCKER UPGRADE (Dennis Haynes on...)
  Historical mailing list - Derek Drew
  Tue, 2 Jun 1998 14:23:07 -0400
  ...Another trick I've done is add some .3 volt dropping diodes in series with >the O2 sensor. This enriches the mixture slightly which...
• Old/new clusters, was: [subaruvanagon] Tach Weirdness
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:03:15 -0400
  ...Sunday, October 08, 2000 1:01 PM > > > >Subject: [subaruvanagon] Tach Weirdness > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hey Subagon Gang, > > > > > I finally got around to putting the diodes into the...
• Re: Conversion Choices
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 2 Sep 2012 07:35:37 -0700
  ...The instruments, too, can all be retained in WBX-form, without any diodes, resistors, re-programming, etc. (It is NOT written up anywhere in...
• More light on the 84 "red light" mystery
  Historical mailing list - George Averill
  Thu, 2 Jul 1998 17:42:46 -0400
  ...consisting of one eight pin integrated circuit marked SEC 2741D0, two diodes, four resistors, one red LED, one 10mf capacitor. This circuit has three...
• Re: headlights on '87
  Historical mailing list - Dan Beatty
  Sat, 18 Nov 1995 11:28:04 -0600 (CST)
  ...It would better to utilize a couple of nice heavy, say 30amp with feedback diodes, wired in with nice heavy wiring to remove the...
• Re: Help! Appeal for data
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:22:23 -0500
  ...collector I think; couple of electrolytics, two big and two signal diodes, three ceramic wafers, and eleven resistors. When hooked to power and gauge...
• Re: It's time to hit that idle Stabilizer on the head!!!
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Mon, 3 Sep 2007 06:39:34 -0700
  ...face down, as well as many > descrete parts like resistors, caps, diodes, zeners and small transistors. > > BTW, my ISCU part number is 251 907...
• Re: Cold weather
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Wed, 2 Mar 2011 18:15:02 -0800
  ...same problem in a few years...worn brushes.� The brushes, the diodes, the bearings....those are the 3 things that wear out in an...
• Re: wiring a vanagon for towing
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:26:00 -0500
  ...Without using diodes are other isolating devices, you need to be careful not to turn on the Vanagon lights, turn signals, brake lights, etc...
• Re: problems installing second battery
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:09:47 -0800
  ...an RV > shop we bought an isolator (the type with two diodes inside to direct > current) that is used by RV folks to connect...
• Battery Isolators vs. Relays
  Historical mailing list - Warner, Jeff (DSIO-MS)
  Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:17:54 -0500
  ...The use of a relay for this > purpose, > as opposed to an isolator, eliminates the intrinsic voltage drop caused by > the diodes in an...
• Re: [WetWesties] Radio Rap...friday
  Historical mailing list - Daryl Christensen
  Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:53:59 -0800
  ...I use a simple solar panel with a lighter plug...no diodes...to keep my aux battery charged. This system works just fine for...
• Re: Fw: Alternator Repairs
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:28:11 -0600
  ...They mounted the alternator on their test bench, and ran a diagnostic that basically said no output, and the diodes were dead. There was...
• Re: Which Voltmeter to use?
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Thu, 26 Aug 1999 17:17:42 -0500
  ...Usually it's 1.5, which is fine for regular > diodes. Not a biggie... > > Continuity beeper -- these vary widely as to what the consider...
• Re: Goofy CB + Coolant LED Stuff! (sorta friday content)
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:57:16 -0700
  ...eventually causing them to burn out (even with > the fail-safe diodes in the radio) and of course reduce your transmit > capability to nil...
• Re: Starter Saga was: 1982 Diesel Intermittent Start Problem
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:45:16 EDT
  ...A little solder, wire, marine relay, modest cutting, and a modified alternator (8V GTi front pulley, Porsche 944 guts and all the diodes the...
• Re: Are Today's Young People Mechanical Nitwits?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Elliott
  Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:10:17 -0700
  ...There may have been transistors in those radios that did nothing, but I distinctly remember there being several transistors being used merely as diodes...
• Re: It's time to hit that idle Stabilizer on the head!!!
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 3 Sep 2007 21:30:36 -0500
  ...face down, as well as many > descrete parts like resistors, caps, diodes, zeners and small transistors. > > BTW, my ISCU part number is 251 907...
• Re: Alarming Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Frank Terhaar-Yonkers
  Wed, 26 Aug 1998 07:24:00 -0400
  ...Isolation diodes are required for either alarms to attach to the interior light circuit. - Frank >From owner-vanagon@VANAGON.COM Wed Aug 26 01...
• Re: Help identifying part (image provided)
  Historical mailing list - Matt Roberds
  Sun, 6 May 2007 02:06:44 -0500
  ...Using two diodes would sort of work - the car lamps would operate correctly, but the trailer lamps would only flash with the car turn...
• Re: It's time to hit that idle Stabilizer on the head!!!
  Historical mailing list - T.M.
  Mon, 3 Sep 2007 10:07:02 -0400
  ...face down, as well as many >> descrete parts like resistors, caps, diodes, zeners and small transistors. >> >> BTW, my ISCU part number is 251 907...
• Re: [WetWesties] Radio Rap...friday
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:17:06 -0800
  ...I use a simple solar panel > with a lighter plug...no diodes...to keep my aux battery charged. This > system works just fine for...
• Re: Fwd: RE: "Green" solar battery charger
  Historical mailing list - Daniel L. Katz
  Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:17:10 -0500
  ...as a dodge around the failure of ohms law for DC. diodes are useful because they don't obey ohms law. many things on...
• Re: Are Today's Young People Mechanical Nitwits?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Martin
  Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:50:55 -0700
  ...There may have been transistors in those radios that did nothing, but I distinctly remember there being several transistors being used merely as diodes...
• Re: It's time to hit that idle Stabilizer on the head!!!
  Historical mailing list - T.M.
  Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:38:55 -0400
  ...I removed the 2 power transistors (without damage - old proficiency pays...), they were OK (the double diodes test, and no conduction otherwise). No luck...
• Re: Cold weather
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 3 Mar 2011 14:28:30 -0500
  ...same problem in a few years...worn brushes.� The brushes, the diodes, the bearings....those are the 3 things that wear out in an...
• Re: Newbie battery questions
  Historical mailing list - Matt Roberds
  Wed, 16 May 2007 00:01:32 -0500
  ...One way is to put a couple of big honkin' diodes (one-way valves for electricity) between the alternator and the batteries. This lets...
• alternators, voltages, rebuild, idiocracy
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:48:29 -0800
  ...Also did some internet reading and found that bad diodes can cause whining under load. That made me more convinced to just swap in...
• Now charging of house batteries Re: New fridge replacement option for the Dometic
  Historical mailing list - Kai Mei
  Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:42:00 -0500
  ...All parts that mount = to the board including all resistors and capacitors diodes, a 65 amp powe= r FET, 8 amp shottkey blocking diode...