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Subject:New topic on the list
From:=?Windows-1252?Q?Jos=E9_Rafael_Moscoso?=
Date:Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:22:14 -0400

Fellows and fellaws:
I have a new question for the electrical and electronic gurus on the lists.
I have never seen this topic covered in the list ;>)...

I have been thinking about instaling a headlight relay thus avoiding the
passage thru the headlight switch.  But... alas there is always a but...
right now there are four wires on the battery postivie post: the gross cable
to the starter, two wires going to the alternator (tandem) to improve input
to the battery (there was a voltage drop to around 11.3V during charging
cicles) and another more skinny wire for accesories.
I don't know if the battery box would hold another wire in this bunch,
specially the hole is already stuffed.

Is there any other way of clipping into some of the wires already there or
taking a really big wire (2 or 0 gauge) out of the battery and using a
junction or bolt box under the van to distribute the wires. Any ideas or
collective brain storm.

Jose Rafael Moscoso, RT, BSc, MPH {jmoscoso@caribe.net}
work:  Universidad Central del Caribe {jmoscoso@uccaribe.edu}
           Call Box 60-327; Bayam�n  PR  00960-6032
           Tel: (787) 798-3006; Fax (787) 785-3425;
{http://www.uccaribe.edu}
home: HC-01 Box 29030, PMB 374
           Caguas PR 00725-8900
           Tel: (787) 731-7394
Information on Puerto Rico: http://wepa.com/index-en.html

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