I might suggest a new 12v receptacle wired straight to the battery with
heavier wire.  There are some very nice flush (panel) mount 12v receptacles
available at West Marine.  Just make sure you fuse the receptacle with an
appropriate fuse.

Brent Christensen
'89 GL Syncro Westy
Santa Barbara, CA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of Davidson
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 8:15 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Will my alternator survive a TV VCR combo?
>
>
> Keith,
> Well, it is a good sign that the TV set comes with a cigarette lighter
> plug...
> Can you tell us how many amps it draws?
> My guess would be that it will be okay on the alternator, but
> I might have
> some concern for how many amps they are putting through the cigarette
> lighter socket.... the wires that supply it are pretty
> small... I forget the
> gauge.
>
> Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Olsen <VintagePkr@AOL.COM>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Date: Sunday, April 09, 2000 7:36 PM
> Subject: Will my alternator survive a TV VCR combo?
>
>
> Hi all,
> We are prepping our 87 Wolfsburg automatic for a trip from NY
> to Orlando for
> the kids first Disney trip.  Now today, while hoofing it
> through our local
> wherehouse type store we happened upon a small AC/DC color
> TV/VCR combo with
> cigarette lighter power plug (now we're not real TV addicts
> but the thought
> of making a trip of that distance with a 10 & 2yr old in the back is a
> challenge that a few well placed feature flix could help us
> conquer)  Is
> there any threshold of power draw that I should look for in
> such a plug in
> unit running a stock alternator?  Could such a unit hasten
> the demise of an
> otherwise healthy charging system?  Would it help that it is
> an automatic
> and
> that in order to keep up with highway speed, revs of steady
> 3800ish is not
> uncommon?
> TIA
> Keith Olsen
> 87 Wolfsburg GL
> 82 Diesel L
> 79 Loaf
> 85 Golf diesel
>

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