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Subject:Westy water level indicator fixed, interesting fridge fringe benefit?
From:Felder
Date:Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:30:21 -0800

Hello, all;

When I haven't been replacing seals or injector pumps on my diesel
Westy, I've been nibbling at a nagging problem concerning my water
level indicator LEDs, which weren't working.

Listmember David Beierl has been helping me track down this and that
over the last week or so, and yesterday a test procedure he suggested
helped locate the problem... a weak/open ground between the bottom
(black) terminal on the water tank and ground. I ran a new ground from
that terminal back to the 110v green ground wire where it contacts the
body, and everything immediately started working.

But there's more... anecdotal evidence shows that the battery indicator
LED, which always worked, glows brighter, and the fridge lights first
time and stays lit with minimum pumping, etc. Less than a 10 second job
now, whereas the fridge would light and then die out two or three times
before it would stay lit, say over an hour period. Plausible,
coincidental? Don't really know. I just know that I've checked it out
and it works differently now.

If you're having fridge or water level problems, take a multimeter and
check out that ground.

Jim

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