Its my understanding the 91 vanagon wiper relay is adjustable stock, you can
set it for a given duration by using the intermitent switch a certain way.

Anybody out there have the read from the owners manual about it?

I believe you can simply upgrade to the late model relay in older vanagons
to get the feature.

Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Grebneff" <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: adjustable intermittent relay

> >That is a good cheap, do it yourself modification.  I have an infinitely
> >adjustable programmable intermittent relay on my van that is an off the
> >shelf item.  I bought it years ago, I think to put it on my '79
> >Scirocco.  Plugs right into the stock relay location and requires no
> >additional controls.  It is adjustable from about 1 second to about 40
> >seconds.  To set the time you take the wiper stalk from off to int, then
> >back to off.  wait for the delay you want, then back to int, and it
repeats
> >that interval.  I assume these are still available?  It was about $30 US
> >back then...
>
> Sounds dangerous to me... if you're concentrating on setting the
> interval, you're not concentrating on where you're going.
>
> If you want a programmable wipe system, look at the Hella Raintronic.
> It is also fully-automatic; switches itself on/off and selfadjusts
> the interval. It's not cheap, but like choice of tires... cheap can
> kill.
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> Dunedin
> New Zealand
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> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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