At 02:35 PM 4/29/2005, you wrote:
>This is one very cool idea. This would bring our Vanagons out of the
>stone age. Are you going to do like Darrel Boehler and make the
>schematics and pictures available to the list, as well as make them up
>for those who can afford and want to buy them ready made??

This is mostly just  side project to play with on slow days at work, but
whatever I find, I will definitely make publicly available. I'll have to
see how complicated the system is before I know whether it'll even be
within my ability to simulate it cheaply/easily. Being that it appears to
be a pretty straightforward analog circuit, it may turn out to be easier to
simply build an identical one from scratch! If it turns out to be cheap and
easy to do (either a replica analog, or a digital work-alike), I'll
definitely make the schematics and such available. Dunno about building 'em
though. I might do a few. This is all speculation, of course, and it's all
entirely dependent on what I find when I take a broken one to pieces and
map the circuit board. I have a spare that I've opened up and "eyeball
traced", but it's built on two multi-layer boards connected by a brittle
and scarily flimsy looking ribbon connector and I can't follow a bunch of
the traces. Heck, it might even turn out to be easier still to just  fix
the old ones. I'll know as soon as I get one to prod...

John Bange
'90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"
$10895 "invested" since July '04