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Subject:Re: Getting to the interior light wiring
From:Mike Collum
Date:Tue, 17 May 2005 12:22:19 -0400

Loren Busch wrote:
<snip>
> RE: Interior Lighting
> Although I haven't moved all my interior lights to the aux battery,
> the best solution I have seen is to make the change at the fuse block
> under the dash.  All the interior lights and radio run off fuse 3.
> Remove the fuse an run a fused line from the aux battery to the load
> side of the fuse bracket, this will move the interior accessories off
> the starter battery.
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On the earlier vanagons the fuse blocks are different.  On my '85 I did
essentially what Loren describes except the fuses where I ran wires from
the aux battery to the load side were #s 8 and 9.

Mike C.
Houlton, Maine