At 07:58 AM 7/13/2010 Tuesday, Mark A Kippert wrote:
>Troubleshooting electrical issues are tough for me. I'm much better
>at mechanical.

Most electrical stuff on a Vanagon can be usefully treated as
plumbing, if that helps.  Voltage is psi, amperage is gallons per
minute, switches are valves, resistors are constricted sections of
pipe, loads are  turbines or whatever.  Opens are clogged pipes;
shorts are leaks.  Some of the plumbing does work; some only passes
information (I worked briefly at a stud mill in Passadumkeag ME and
the "log deck" had a fairly complex system of logic governing
interlocks and so forth that was all operated by compressed air, no
electricity at all.  They kept me too busy painting railings to learn
much about it, though).

Yrs,
d