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Subject:Re: lights dim since 6 volt conversion
From:Mike Miller
Date:Sat, 1 Apr 2000 19:19:06 -0800

We've told you and told you "Stay off the darned drugs, they don't really
make your van go faster, no matter how it seems to you.'

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Wolz" <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: lights dim since 6 volt conversion

> My transmission went cross country and the only thing wired was ME!
>
> Karl Wolz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 1:37 PM
> Subject: Re: lights dim since 6 volt conversion
>
>
> > At 13:48 4/1/2000, Jeffrey R wrote:
> > >After completing most of the conversion to change my 83.5 Westfalia
from
> 12
> > >volt to 6 volt I have run into several problems.
> >
> > The lights are probably dim because you forgot to double up every wire
in
> > the vehicle.  Ya wanna run half the voltage, you're gonna need twice the
> > copper (which is why the cross-country transmission lines run at ?not
sure
> > -- think they may be up close to a megavolt by now).
> >
> > :)
> > d
> >
> > David Beierl - Providence, RI
> >   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> > '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> > '85 GL "Poor Relation"