I'm in! Make me one that beeps and flashes for low oil and water - I'll
watch the others myself.

Do you take Paypal?  ;)

Seeya, Jake

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:10 PM, John Bange <jbange@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" <
> camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So it seems like the place to start is to lay out a list for the
> > different years of the Vanagon, identify what are the lamps, etc., that
> > need monitoring, and determine how to gain access to their signals.
> >
>
> I just perused the Bentley circuit diagram, and it'd be trivial to monitor
> oil, alternator, coolant level, headlights, and tachometer from the wires
> leading TO the cluster and splice into them BEFORE the blue foil, rather
> than dealing with the LEDs and such. Hook up seven wires, and I could have
> a
> box that screams whenever any of that stuff goes south. Hmmmm.....
>
> --
> John Bange
>

--
Jake

1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX 'The Grey Van'
1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Suby 'Dixie'

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