

| Subject: | Re: 91 Westfalia 4 switches, only one dome lite |
| From: | Ben McCafferty |
| Date: | Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:35:46 -0800 |
Below. bmc :) "Faith will move mountains, but you'd better bring a shovel...." 1. > driver side, 2. passenger side, 3. sliding door, 4. the rear hatch. Only the > first two activate the drivers side dome light. I believe the dome light should come on when any of the 4 doors is opened. The pantry light does not seem > wired into the switches either and has no three way setting. What is the idea > here? The pantry light is not intended to have a 3-way setting. You just turn it on when you want it on. Do I have a wiring problem, fuse problem or are the switches wired to > something else (alarm system?) or nothing? Someone could have wired them to an alarm system, but it wasn't that way from the factory. I would start by checking the switches to ensure they're getting voltage, then work backwards from there. Secondly has anyone with a > Westfalia ever installed a dome light into the ventilation air channel above > the sliding door. Check the archives, this was discussed about 2 months ago. Also, the PO of my westy installed a cool light next to the pantry light--it has a dimmer-type switch, and is a "snake light" about 12" long. At max brightness, it only draws 5W, but is amazingly bright. I almost never use the pantry light--I can have the 5W on for several hours, and never go into the yellow zone on my main battery, whereas the pantry light will make me go yellow in about 1 hour or so. HTH.
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