Yeah, I was the one who brought it up....November 2009...after broken alternator/water pump belt in Texas caused freeway roadside breakdown.� "Was light on for seconds or minutes?" was how I phrased it.� Further thought indicates that the electronic design fix needs to include a "delay" of some kind for when the red lights come on...specifically, it would drive me nuts to have the alarm every time I put the key in the ignition and got the momentary red lights...so needs to have a "reasonable" delay of 10 seconds or so, so that only alarms when there is real trouble while running.� Like a broken belt.

Come on you Electrical Engineers!� Couple IC's and discretes, some perfboard, some wires.....� (ignorant Mechanical Engineer speaking).

Rich 
85 Vanagon
San Diego

--- On Mon, 5/24/10, Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

From: Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Warning Lights Audible Buzzer
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 5:27 PM

I know the subject came up like a year ago. A few of the smarter
electronics fellows were tossing ideas, that's all I recall; I don't
know if this idea was ever realized.

But -- something to fire off a piezo buzzer or klaxon if a warning light
comes on? At least the alternator lamp and the overheat lamp. Some
circuit with enough smarts to stay shut up when the bulbs are lit but
should be.

Was that thing ever worked out?

And while I'm at it -- isn't the '84 supposed to have a buzzer for when
the headlights are on but the engine isn't? Who sells that thing and
where does it go? I think I have an empty socket near the fusebox.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR