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Subject:Re: RE : sink pump mystery - 1981 westy
From:Steve Selin
Date:Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:35:56 -0400

Thanks.  Worked!  Then I discovered the pump was cracked.  Called Delta Six
people (OEM) and they verified exactly what you said to do.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of mark drillock
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 1:01 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: RE : sink pump mystery - 1981 westy

There is no relay for this. The black box just has a few resistors in it
AFAIK.

The way I have bypassed the empty tank pump shutoff feature is at the
LED panel. Remove the kitchen drawer to get to the connector and then
remove the led panel.

There are 5 wires to the panel.
+12 volts  comes in on the Orange wire
+12 goes back out to the Pump on the Yellow wire.

Disconnect the Yellow wire from the LED panel and connect it to the
Orange wire. Then the pump will have 12 volts available whenever the
panel does.

I just unsoldered the Yellow wire from the panel and resoldered it to
the same place as the Orange one.

With the newer panels the factory does it at the connector and connects
a shortened yellow wire to the orange wire right there. In either case
be sure that no exposed bare wire can short to any metal parts.

Mark

Steve Selin wrote:
>
> Exactly the problem.  The LED panel does not even read the correct water
> level.  All of the wiring is intact going to the water tank.  But the LED
> relay on the tank must be sending the wrong info to the LED.   I guess I
> could override the safety.  Is this done at the LED panel?  If you've got
> instructions I'm very interested.  Could I also fix this by replacing the
> relay that is sending to the LEDs?
>
> Is the black relay box near the water tank the part that disables the
water
> pump when the water is low?
>
> Thanks a ton,
> Steve
>