John Bange 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.....

So . . . do we know what voltages are present on those wires under
normal operating conditions? Fault conditions? Like:

INDICATOR       NORMAL          FAULT   REFERENCED TO
Oil Lamp        12V             0V      GROUND
Alternator

...etc. I made that example up.

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