Yeah, Ellen - better technical documentation, and LOTS fewer variations from the technical bible!

  (As a former B-52 crewchief, it means something to me, too!)

  Oh, and John? You had better keep a good, updated wiring diagram handy for any thing you would ever want to do to that rat's nest of wires you would end up with for that....

Ellen in Oregon <elleninoregon@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
  That's a mighty old picture of a C-141 cockpit, John; when I retired as a
C-141 crewchief 12 years ago, there were lots more goodies, also on top of
the glareshield : )

I will say this (for my vanagon content) they sure were easier to work on
than vanagons!

Ellen
Lola, '85 Vanagon ASI

----Original Message Follows----
From: John Bange
Reply-To: John Bange
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Cockpit of a C-141, was: Fabricating a radiator fan on
indicator light, with surprise ending!
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 12:58:37 -0700

> As expected, the LED lit brightly when the fan was energized
>and mashing
>the button forced the fan on. The unexpected result was; as you started to
>drive, air flowing through the radiator made the fan's propeller rotate.
>This caused the motor to act as a generator and produce voltage, in turn
>illuminating the LED to about half brightness.
> Benefit? As long as the LED glows at any speed above 15mph you know the
>fan's bearings have not bound up! QED.

You know, I bet if someone took all the various indicators, switches,
gauges, and buttons we've all collectively added to our vans and equipped
one van with all of them, they'd end up with a really cool control panel ,
like the nav/engineer panel on the right side of this photo of the cockpit
of a C-141:

Personally, that is my goal...

--
John Bange
'90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"

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