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• Re: [Syncro] Headlight relay upgrade?
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:01:42 EST
  In a message dated 1/4/04 1:59:39 PM, laurasdog@WEIRDSTUFFWEMAKE.COM writes: << At 10 amps, the voltage drop is 0.1312...
• Re: Short Question
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Wed, 12 May 2010 11:52:42 -0700
  RE: Switch/Voltminder wiring Looked at your schematic. One question, where are you getting the ground for the Voltminder?
• Re: Monitoring aux battery charging?
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:10:21 -0400
  ...I want one of those in/out temp/voltmeter things too. And I was going to do the same thing with the toggle switch...
• 84 Dometic fridge
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Schiebel
  Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:19:19 EDT
  Hi, Well I just took my fridge out to check connections and the 12 volt heater. I had a problem with the Fridge running...
• Re: aux. battery wiring and ACR issues
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 7 Jan 2013 00:00:42 -0500
  ...As it gets colder voltage tends to go up. Orin reality voltage goes down as temperature increases. If using the van for long trips...
• Re: Engine Cranks but No Start
  Historical mailing list - Ed McLean
  Wed, 30 Mar 2016 20:38:07 -0400
  ...The voltage at the battery during starting was about 11 vdc. I turned off the engine and was able to restart with a voltage...
• Re: Fuel and temp gauges - wacky
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sat, 30 May 2009 23:29:26 -0400
  Alan Felder wrote: > I am suspecting my voltage stabilizer. Mine doesn't seem to match any photos in the bentley Early Voltage stabilizers (like...
• Re: O2 sensor transition time
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 6 May 2009 18:39:46 -0700
  ...a new Bosch, and using a digital volt meter...... the voltage was going from about .2 to .8 volts very, very fast. Like several...
• Re: Original Battery Wire Gauge
  Historical mailing list - M'obeechi
  Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:08:06 -0800
  Ok, plugging Copper, 2/0 with assuming foot length, and 330 amps gives a voltage drop of 3.52 percent... and 11.577 volts...
• Re: voltage reading at the gauge temp sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Dan Hall
  Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:46:26 -0500
  ...According to what I gathered from the List, this system is powered off the dash voltage regulator and is 10 volts. I was getting...
• Re: Finding and Accessing the Brake Light Switch
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 26 Dec 2005 09:43:25 -0800
  ...You should leave the bulbs IN for voltage measurements. As TJ has pointed out, you can have voltage looking good with no bulbs but...
• Re: Alternators
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 9 Apr 2020 11:00:26 -0700
  ...in winter, headlights on, heater fan on, re fogger on, wipers on, the voltage can drop ( as measured on fuse panel) to the high...
• Re: Relaying Headlights
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Tue, 26 Feb 2002 06:34:15 EST
  ...Battery is 12 volts that's it that's all. Yes, the alternator puts out 13.? volts, but it is regulated to the battery...
• Re: Which O2 sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:34:21 -0500
  It's hard to get accurate measurements with a typical meter because the voltage changes rapidly (if the sensor is working right). An old...
• adjustable volt reg update
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:06:07 -0700
  I have been using a cheap (Bosch knock-off, approx Can$30) adjustable voltage reg in my van for 5 months now. It looks...
• Re: Oxygen Sensors
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Thu, 3 Jul 1997 14:32:26 -0700 (PDT)
  ...If the system is > functioning correctly, the CO level could be checked by its corresponding > voltage at the O2 sensor and a $20 voltmeter...
• Re: charing voltage to battery - 85 vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:54:47 -0700
  ...low beams on at idle drop charging voltage from 13.4 volts to 13.2. recovered to 13.4 revved up. I'm sure...
• Re: product report
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:23:40 -0400
  ...There looks to be a very small bar graph as the volt meter, ONLY.. No actual numbers. To me this is useless. Eric Daniel...
• Re: Second battery level voltages?
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:48:49 -0500
  ...wrote: > On a 85 Westy, what the specifications are for > The Alternator max voltage? > The voltage levels for the Green, Yellow, and Red LEDs...
• Re: Wobbly Still Won't Go... Gurus pleassssse heeellllllppppp...
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:06:08 -0700
  You need to find out why the relays are not providing 12 volts to the FI and ignition system. I have seen a couple...
• Re: Vanagon Syndrome??? Curve is volts, not ohms.
  Historical mailing list - Stan Harrison
  Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:16:55 -0400
  Pat, What I found when testing mine was that the wiper track is very high resistance, with its intermediate voltages (not resistances) set by...
• Re: Dometic Improvements Adding Fans
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:06:11 -0400
  ...I'd suggest testing your fans with a varying voltage and see for yourself what voltage they need to run. If you don't...
• Re: Blowing Voltage Regulator For Guages
  Historical mailing list - Joe Romas
  Sat, 3 Nov 2001 10:45:53 -0500
  It's possible they are blowing just after starting when the altenator is charging the most and the voltage regulator is dropping the most...
• Temp gauge function
  Historical mailing list - John Patton
  Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:36:08 +0000
  ...The voltage stabilizer is suppling more regulated voltage than needed. The stabilizer regulates the gauge voltage from available voltage to ~9.5V to 10...
• Looking for vanagon owners with voltmeters...
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:16:11 -0800
  ...Could you please take a voltmeter and measure the voltage between the *engine block* and some well grounded point in the engine compartment that...
• Re: Update (not fixed...) Re: FIXED? (and, advice needed...) (was: Re: low voltage, starter running intermittently, but alternator is okay?)
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:56:51 -0500
  ...is the voltage regulator.I you are measuring at the alt, and getting only 13.5 maybe its the regulator. A new alt is...
• Re: What voltage do injectors need to fire?
  Historical mailing list - phil cain
  Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:23:16 -0700
  Don't hold me to this but I think it was less that 3 volts. I know you can harm the injectors by putting...
• Re: Intermittent charge [solved]
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:40:42 -0700
  ...Generator lamp on the dash lit, voltage on the voltmeter dropping. The symptoms were interesting. 1. The voltage didn't just drop to zero...
• Re: Batteries don't die, they get murdered
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:52:20 -0500
  The open circuit voltage of a battery goes up as temperature goes up. The required charging voltage goes down as temperature goes up. Dennis...
• Re: Aux battery tyro
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:15:11 -0800
  The voltage dropping Isolator is not a Separator. Different products entirely, though the same company makes both. The 1315 Separator connects full voltage through...
• Re: Update, My vanagon won't start
  Historical mailing list - jhlauterbach
  Mon, 9 Oct 2000 00:11:21 -0400
  ...I have taken various voltage readings > and find the voltage is less than 5 volts more like 2 volts or less. > > I was wondering...
• Re: blower fan and wipers not working after aux. battery installation
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 9 Dec 2009 17:07:14 -0500
  ...I'd hope to see less than a quarter volt across there while cranking, for example. >It's 26 degrees Fahrenheit today. The voltage...
• Re: Low-voltage alarm
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:33:32 -0700
  ...Given the inaccuracy of the voltage method, maybe 11.7 volts as a trigger point ain't bad. But one wonders how accurate that...
• Re: Alternators
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 9 Apr 2020 11:03:30 -0700
  ...Ok? Ab > On Apr 9, 2020, at 10:58 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@gmail.com> wrote: > >  > The only way to get an accurate voltage...
• Re: multimeter recommendation
  Historical mailing list - rpc
  Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:57:15 -0800
  ...Paul --------------------------- FYI If you touch the leads to 15,000 volts (primary electric voltage) the meter and leads will explode in an electric arc...
• Re: Problem with Stancor 120-901 relay??
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:06:46 -0700
  ...The voltage at the fridge relay when the > fridge is running on 12 volts can be down at the 11 volt range depending > on...
• Re: Engine Cranks but No Start
  Historical mailing list - JAIME E FORERO
  Wed, 30 Mar 2016 20:56:08 +0000
  ...Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 12:47 PM If the voltage, measured AT THE BATTERY with a digital volt meter, is less than 10.4...
• Re: LED light product
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 4 Aug 2006 19:28:43 -0500
  ...That > provides less voltage, but longer output capacity than one stack of > four 1.5 volt batteries. > > > As far as a previous posting, heck...
• Re: POST: Steering Column Volt Meter
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 1 Apr 2016 18:14:13 -0400
  ...On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Abel Longoria <houstonphotog@gmail.com> wrote: > Steering Column Volt Meter which will display levels of...
• Re: Frig on 12v
  Historical mailing list - Greg Irick
  Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:11:01 -0700
  For those of you that are having low output voltage from the voltage regulators, here is a link - http://bartonharness.com/AdjustableVoltage.html - that...
• Re: Missing a high-beam... suggestions?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 8 Oct 2006 15:09:27 -0400
  ...Use your voltmeter from one part to another and discover where the "missing" voltage is that should be appearing across the lamp filament. You...
• Re: Wiper/Defroster Relay
  Historical mailing list - Bill
  Sun, 21 Nov 1999 21:13:09 -0500
  I have some hefty 1.5 volt cells and am wondering what the max voltage a VW can handle without frying the components? The...
• Re: black tail pipe
  Historical mailing list - Remco deJong
  Sat, 11 Oct 1997 23:52:48 -0400
  ...Try putting in a good O2 sensor and monitoring operation, it should read about ~0.4 volts at stoichiometric and ~0.8 volts at...
• Re: Making an alternator a smarter charger? [LVC]
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:55:25 -0400
  ...An alternator tries to deliver a fixed voltage, not a specific amount of current. This voltage is needed to feed all the other loads...
• Re: Auxilliary batteries
  Historical mailing list - Daryl Christensen
  Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:04:00 -0700
  Just the Scan gauge voltage is what I am reading for the most part and I am guessing it is the voltage at the...
• Re: leaking valve cover gaskets
  Historical mailing list - Richard Lamoreaux
  Thu, 23 Feb 1995 12:56:51 +0000
  ...A voltmeter tells you the charging voltage, discharge voltage, and cranking voltage, all of which should indicate the state of your system. If you...
• Re: Dometic Wiring Question
  Historical mailing list - mdrillock
  Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:00:40 -0700
  ...It makes a small voltage from the heat and that voltage goes over the black wire to the LED panel where it is amplified...
• Re: temp gauge not working right...
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 12 Aug 2018 17:09:55 -0400
  ...With sender connected and everything working you'll see a > range from around two volts to maybe seven volts depending on engine > temperature. > > Yrs...
• Re: Usb outlet and voltmeter
  Historical mailing list - Abel Longoria
  Sun, 17 Apr 2016 19:20:43 -0500
  ...Abel On Apr 17, 2016 7:09 PM, "Alistair Bel" <albell@shaw.ca> wrote: > Not as nice as Abel's voltmeter install, but it...
• Re: Is there any way... Voltage Drop!!!
  Historical mailing list - John Y. Hung
  Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:26:07 -0500
  Dear Vanagon listers, If memory serves me correctly, the instrument panel on the Vanagon has a voltage regulator on the back of it. I...
• Re: Laptop Power Consumption?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:49:25 -0500
  ...the power requirment is listed as 16 > Volts / 2.6 amps > > On the bottom of the 12 Volt to 16 Volt Laptop Power Converter...
• Re: Overloading the alternator
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 27 Sep 1995 11:22:23 -0400
  ...It was from a Bosche starter manual saying that their starters were meant to operate at a low voltage--like 8 volts or something...
• Re: AFM Voltage Ratios
  Historical mailing list - Mike Bucchino
  Sat, 4 Nov 2006 14:06:00 -0500
  AFM's don't 'put out voltage'. So they don't degrade in output strength. The wiper contacts inside wear, and degrade the quality...
• Re: Gas Heater
  Historical mailing list - David Schwarze
  Wed, 8 Feb 1995 10:03:04 -0800 (PST)
  ...well, how difficult would it be to change > them from 110 volts to 12 volts so they could be used in a car. I...
• Re: Mystery part - what is this thing?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 23 Sep 2003 03:56:08 -0400
  ...This eliminates the problem of a voltage drop >and consequent low charging voltage on the aux battery. see the following: > http://www.geocities.com...
• Re: temp gauge not working right...
  Historical mailing list - levi hawkins
  Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:15:45 +0000
  ...what voltage should I expect to have? - 12V? or > 10+ V > With the sender disconnected you should see 9.5-10.5V all the...
• Re: HELP ;)
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:33:50 -0400
  At 09:21 PM 6/14/2010, pickle vanagon wrote: >Another trouble part is the little voltage stabilizer on the circuit board >on the...
• Re: DC party lights
  Historical mailing list - No Name Available
  Mon, 4 Apr 2005 19:33:22 EDT
  >Watts is Volts x Amps.< I'm a bit confused here, I thought that Watts divided by Volts equaled Amps? thanks, JC....
• Re: Battery isolator vs combiner??
  Historical mailing list - Brian Sassone
  Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:00:16 -0700
  ...14.84 > voltage at battery 1 terminal: 14.14 > voltage at battery 2 terminal: 14.14 > > Front of the vanagon: > voltage at aux. battery...
• Fridge wiring
  Historical mailing list - Troy
  Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:12:37 -0800
  You are right, no thermostatic control on 12 volts. The wiring of that internal fridge switch is not really covered in any detail in...