On 6/17/2006 1:35 PM Edward Maglott wrote:
> Just got one of these today at my FLAPS for $12.49.  Alternately, you
> could
> make your own wiring set up and add some extra lights for the
> trailer.  Then your hookup on the van would only work with your trailer
> though.  I have opted fro the $12.49 solution...

Wise idea. I am mindful of the time when I came to work one Monday
morning and found the charred remains of an automobile hitched to my
tent camper. In those days I had a Coleman popup camper and kept it in
the company parking lot behind the building when I wasn't using it.
Anyway, a little investigation showed that when the fellow starting
hooking up the camper's tail lights before stealing it -- which was what
he was obviously in the process of doing -- he made a wiring error and
set his own darn car on fire.

Heh.

Heh.

Heh heh heh heh heh   heh    heh   . . .   heh . . . .

<sighs contentedly>

Yeah, it still makes me laugh.

Vanagon content: be real careful how you wire things up. Stick with
conventional wiring when you bring your Vanagon's wires out into the
world. You never know what might get attached to them, and the battery
in the vehicle has more than enough current available to turn the wires
red-hot and ignite the insulation and everything nearby, so fuse, and
fuse often.
--

Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
KG6RCR