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Subject:Re: Totally Trivial Question About The Digital Clock
From:Kevin ...
Date:Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:21:44 -0700

Ok I'm still a newbie in so many Vanagon ways but what's the purpose of this clock? Mine just ticks on seemingly resetting itself back close to zero every time I start the engine. I've been using it to mark engine hours like an aircraft.
 

> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:05:36 -0700
> From: camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: Totally Trivial Question About The Digital Clock
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> 
> I bow to your trivia-fu. 
> 
> On Oct 30, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> > In the last couple of weeks I've pulled the fuse that feeds all my aux
> > stuff. That includes the digital clock in the dash, it goes out. Now the
> > curiosity. When the clock gets power again it starts at 1:25. It's done
> > this several times now so the 1:25 isn't random. Every other digital clock
> > I can remember seeing goes to either 9:99 or 12:00 on power up. So why the
> > heck does a Vanagon clock (at least mine) power up with such a strange time?
> > (Isn't this more fun than a tire or oil or troubleshooting a dead battery
> > or some such?)

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