No problems at all - that is part of the rework I am doing to my '78 Westy.

However - - - fuse this new wire near the battery.

Many FLAPS offer a new fuse panel for either glass tube fuses or spade
fuses for about $9.

Then you can locate it near the battery and have the ability to add 6 new
fused circuits.

At 06:13 PM 5/5/02 -0400, you wrote:
>well, after some tinkering around, i plugged the cooler into my wifes S10
>blazer and it worked fine.  so still scrathing my head.  now i have
>isolated it to just my vehicle and not the unit itself.  i started to
>inspect the cig lighter and noticed that there is a little light connected
>to the lighter behind the dashed that i never knew was there.  obviously
>in the four years that i owned the van it never worked.  upon further
>inspection of this light there appears to be a female connection at the
>end of it and lo and behold no wire connected to it!  should ther be? is
>this a ground?  there is the main wiring harness going to the cig lighter,
>about five wires, but no wire going to this little light off the cig
>lighter.  know with the help of my litle mirror i noticed that there is
>metal going from the light to the cig lighter circuit.  but there is
>definelty a female conection inside the black plastic housing.  what a
>
>also, i thought maybe i could go to radio shack and just buy a cig lighter
>female end and just go straight to the battery completely bypasssing the
>main circuit board altogether.  any foreseen problems with this slolution?
>TIA
>jason
>90gl
>
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Chris M. <Busbodger - "TEAM SLOWPOKE">
Cookeville, Tennessee

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'78 VW Westfalia (67 HP -> that is...67 Hamster Power)
'65 Beetle - Type IV powered
'99 CR-V AWD station wagon
'81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle
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