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Subject:Re: Battery Light
From:Christopher Gronski
Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:43:31 -0500

You win Mark, thanks for your advice. Sorry if I frustrated you/

On 12/18/05, mark drillock <drillock@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Anyone who tells you to use the B+ for the blue wire should be crossed
> off your list of reliable sources. Just look at the Bentley wiring
> diagrams, any year, almost any model of VW, alternator section, and see
> that the thin blue wire used on virtually every VW since the mid 70s
> connects to the D+ of the alternator.
>
> Here is a list of 16 different pages in the Vanagon Bentley where it
> shows a blue wire going to alternator terminal D+ !!! Every year and
> model and then some.
> 97.13,  97.20,  97.38,  97.43,  97.56,  97.62,  97.70,  97.87,  97.104,
> 97.122,  97.204, 97.222,  97.225,  97.32b,  97.33b,  97.34a,
>
> Earlier today I sent you a detailed photo of both versions of Vanagon
> waterboxer alternator with a blue wire correctly attached to each. What
> on earth more can you need?
>
> Mark
>
> >>Christopher Gronski wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi All,
> >>>
> >>>I have run into a difference of opinion. I have it on good authority
> >>>from several reliable sources that the blue wire I have been having
> >>>such difficulty with goes on the B+ spade connector, I also have
> >>>strong evidence to say that it goes on the D+ connector.
> >>>..................
> >>>
> >>>
>
>
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