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Subject:Re: Westfalia instrument panel.
From:craig cowan
Date:Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:14:11 -0500

My panel has 4 LED's for the water level which always made me think the
bottom one was supposed to be the Fridge-Lit-Light, but it also has a
standalone Green LED in the middle of the panel, which makes me think This
is the fridge-lit-light.
If that second wire goes to a relay that's already in place, should i just
wire that to +12V   ? same as the red wire?
I was looking at the Bentley and it is confusing on the subject of having
two lines.

-Craig

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:06 PM, mdrillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:

> I doubt that your led panel has a fridge lit led.
> The early panels had no switch and no pilot led.
> Someone could have swapped the panel of course.
>
> No need for a switch as the panel takes very little power.
> Early kitchens had a fridge relay mounted to the top of the fridge and the
> other of the 2 wires to the kitchen controls this relay.
>
> Mark
>
>
> craig cowan wrote:
>
>> Hello Vanagon Gang!
>> I just finished wiring an aux battery circuit into my '85 passanger van
>> turned full westfalia and have a few questions....
>> The Westfalia kitchen attaches to the aux battery
>> with two connectors. As i understand it, the red main wire is used to
>> actually feed power to all the westy bits, and the second wire is in some
>> way related to the operation of the fridge on 12volts when the car is
>> operating. I am yet to hook that up to anything. Well with the red main
>> wire
>> hooked up and the car started, the aux battery recieving 12+ volts, and
>> the
>> fridge lit, the water level sensor lights came on (properly), the fridge
>> lit
>> light came on, and the battery level light came on as to be expected.
>> The Interior is from a 1980 westfalia, and does not have any kind of
>> swtich
>> built into the panel. My question is, does this mean the panel lights will
>> be on ALL THE TIME? Do i need to install a switch?
>>
>> -Craig
>> '85GL turned WESTY
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