Thanks for the replies, everyone.

What I am planning on doing is wiring the (non-hidden) outlet so that it can
be run off an inverter from the battery.  I know the way people often do
this is by splitting the outlet so that one is shore power, one is
inverter.  I'd rather have them both switchable between the two. I'm
thinking of getting one of these for this purpose:
http://store.solar-electric.com/ioitauactrsw.html

I guess I'm going to have to do something so that it *doesn't* power the
hidden outlet, though, since that's where I'm planning on putting my battery
charger, which I plan to just always leave in the on position, so that it
comes on whenever there's shore power.  I don't really want to be charging
the battery off the battery through an inverter, after all!

What I was referring to as far as the gasket is that
now-dried-and-disintegrating piece of foam between the plastic outlet and
the wall of the van that is supposed to keep moisture from entering from
outside.

Thanks again!
Wes

 Mike and Loren.

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:03 PM, pickle vanagon <greenvanagon@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> What's on the rear end of the camper vanagons' electrical inlet? How is it
>> wired... is there a three pronged plug coming from the van that plugs into
>> the rear of the van?  I know I could check, but I don't want to disturb my
>> gasket until I'm ready to replace.
>>
>
> That's all a little confusing.  The stock setup, on a Vanagon with the
> Westfalia camper conversion, has a connector on the outside of the van,
> drivers side, that when the flap is lifted exposes a male connector for 110v
> AC cord.  That terminates two places.  First on the cabinets down by the
> floor byu the rear seat, complete with a manual restable breaker between the
> two outlets.  The second is inside the cabinet that holds the
> stove/sink/refigerator and is located at the back of the storage under the
> sink.  There will be one power cord already pluged into it from the
> rifigerator.  Caveat here, I'm talking about a stock setup.  Some PO could
> well have made changes.
> BTW, the Canadian setup is just a little different.  The 110v AC connection
> is at the bottom of the van on the left side, not with the water tank fill
> or shore water connections.  And the Canadian setup has a cord already
> attached, hard wired to the van.  It stores inside the little door and is
> pulled out to connect to shore power.
>
> And I really am puzzled by the comment about a gasket.
>
>