Sorry to insult your intelligence:)

I assume the Bentley you are using is for the MK3.
I don't have that one.

You got me curious now though.
Maybe it limits current going through the coil.

It's been a long time since I popped a relay cover off, I may have to
dissect a spare in the garage now.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
neil N
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 11:49 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: "yawn" Another (trivial) Jetta conversion Fuel Pump relay
question.... ;^)

mmm.... nope

:^)

What I saw is certainly a resistor. Got the colour bands on it.

It would be hard to take a pic of. Maybe I could get a shot of the
diagram on the housing.

I wish I could recall what little I learned of electricity when I was
younger, but I know for sure there's a difference between a resistor
in series within a circuit, and one in parallel. Why it's there I
don't know.

Neil.

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:28 PM, pdooley <psdooley@verizon.net> wrote:
> Neil,
>  Relays activate when a low current electromagnetic coil is energized.
>  The coil then closes the contacts of a switch.
>  The switch has heavy contacts and carries high current on the circuit
with
>  the heavy gauge wires.
>  The little thing that you think is a resistor is the coil.
>
>  The standard VW numbering system for relays lists the low current circuit
>  with the coil as pins 85 and 86.
>  The current carrying circuit is 30 and 87.
>
>
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of
>  neil N
>  Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 9:25 PM
>  To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>  Subject: "yawn" Another (trivial) Jetta conversion Fuel Pump relay
>  question.... ;^)
>
>  Hey guys.
>
>  My conversion now starts and runs. There were several problems why it
>  didn't run before. I'll report these to the list later.
>
>  One thing I had to do, was run a jumper between 30 and 86 on FP relay.
>  In Bentley, it shows an internal connection doing the same (though
>  there's no "86" shown):
>
>
http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/FPrelaydiagram.jpg/FPrelaydiagram-full.jpg
>
>  Interesting. But there are about 3-4 different relay model numbers
>  listed that are used in the '93 - '99 Golf/Jetta. Maybe some had that
>  internal connection.
>
>  My potentially trivial quesiton:
>
>  In diagram on fuel pump relay, there is an icon between 85 and 86. I
>  looked inside and there was a resistor.
>
>  Why is that resistor there?
>
>  Just curious,
>
>  Neil.
>
>
>  --
>  Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco"
>
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>

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