Thanks David. I can't read the cap's value very well.
Does 2 uF 63 volt sound right?

Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of David Beierl
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 1:51 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Troubleshooting Blinking LED
>
> At 10:11 PM 4/30/2014, Mister Tom wrote:
> >Is that the "big" electrolytic  capacitor? Does it charge up to say the
> >test time period is done, to stop the test flashing?
>
> Exactly.  The actual blinking is accomplished by the LED itself; but the
driver
> circuit inside the gauge times out when that cap reaches a certain
percentage
> of full charge.  When the cap gets leaky it takes longer and longer to
time out,
> and leakage across the circuit board becomes a factor.
>
> See
> http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=353678&postdays=
> 0&postorder=asc&start=0
>
> Yrs,
> d