And bear in mind those LED's may not be accurate.
My '90 Westy never moved off of the green LED in 14 years :)!
With info from this list (provided by list electron-miester David Beierl) and a VOM, I
finally made the adjustment on the back of the panel, and now it is reasonably
accurate.
Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Loren Busch" <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Westy battery indicator light below sink

> The Westfalia manual says that green is greater than 12.5v, yellow is less
> than 12.5 v, and red is for less than 12 v.  This means that it takes very
> little draw down to go to yellow, just disipation of the surface charge in a
> short time after the engine is turned off may pull it down to yellow.  Based
> on my experience with two Westfalias, '85 and '90, it's normal to see the
> battery indicator drop to the yellow area and still have a lot of power
> left.  When you get into the red and it stays there you may have marginal
> starting juice left.  I've left those lights tied to the starter battery and
> use a second added on voltmeter for the aux battery.
>