no I did not open up a panel to measure the size of the brass that
goes to E3.

The modified circuit powers the cig lighter and 4 X  led festoon
lamps, from the aux battery, in through E3. The cig lighter is used to
power ipod.

The feed to E3 is fused back at an aux panel beside aux battery, 15A
fuse.

I prefer this set up to a wire stuck in the lower slot of #3 fuse.

alistair

On 8-May-11, at 8:24 PM, mark drillock wrote:

> How did you determine that E3 would support the current load that
> use of
> it may entail? Did you open up the panel and check?
>
> The same fuse panel was used in various VW models from 83-91. Pin E3
> is
> used in all the models I found other than Vanagon. The largest wire
> connected to it ws 20 awg or .5 mm.
>
> B11 is always the high current connection for fuse #3.
> Never E3 or B12.
>
> Quantum, Scirocco, Cabriolet, Jetta(German)
>
> Mark
>
> Alistair Bell wrote:
>> I never did like that kludge and moved my power tap to the back of
>> the
>> panel (86), shown here:
>>
>> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/aux-battery-connection-to-fuse-panel/
>>
>>
>>
>> alistair
>>
>>