I blame you'se guys for my battery going dead..(of course it sat for a
month..)
Of course I figured that I would never use the Optima to Main batt option
for starting..nope.never happen to me..  Now I gotta go back in and wire up
the Surepower option..
Do agree with Loren that a set of jumpers is the universal item to carry for
all them there 'mergencys...
Daryl of AA Transaxle
425-788-4070
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Vickers" <jeff@VICKERSDESIGN.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: A Current Question of humor

>I connected my two batts with a 1315 separator. It has a cool little
> feature of being able to connect the two batts together using a simple
> SPST switch. I found a BIG red push button switch that I mounted to
> left side of my steering column plastic. Since the switch just acts to
> open a circuit on the 1315, you can use 16 or 18 gauge wire. The PP
> connecters are a good idea for making jumper cables though...
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> On Nov 14, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>
>> Date:    Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:15:28 -0800
>> From:    Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
>> Subject: Re: A Current Question of humor
>>
>> RE:
>>
>>> So I reckon that if I find myself with a discharged starter battery
>>> and a
>>> charged house battery and hope the start the engine I'll jump the two
>>> batteries together with a jumper cable, sit and watch the hills for
>>> a few
>>> minutes, then crank 'er over.
>>>
>>
>> In fact BTDT last January coming out of Borego Springs when the
>> brushes in
>> my alternator gave up the ghost. Even though it took a couple of
>> minutes at
>> the side of the I-8 freeway (had to move 'stuff' to get to the house
>> battery
>> under the rear bunk/seat and dig out the jumper cables from the
>> back) with
>> the jumper cables in place between the house and starter battery I
>> started
>> right back up and drove another 30+ miles to my brother in laws
>> place in
>> Chula Vista, put in the spare regulator/brush pack, and was back in
>> business. Since then I've thought about doing what would be needed
>> to just
>> throw a switch to accomplish the same thing but given how often such
>> a setup
>> would be needed I think I'll keep it elegant and simple instead of
>> complicated and wonderful.
>> BTW, I use Anderson Powerpole connectors for anything that I wire up
>> and
>> needs to be able to be 'unwired' at some point.  And they are also
>> 'elegant
>> and simple'.  The big ones can handle most anything you'll ever be
>> able to
>> plug into them when dealing with a Vanagon and it's needs.