

| Subject: | Re: Stupid Electrical error |
| From: | Gerald Skerbitz |
| Date: | Fri, 8 Apr 1994 07:44:09 -0500 (CDT) |
I'm going to try to get this one to go again... > The body of the message has a checksum matching those messages already > distributed. > > The message is included below: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [header removed] > > On Thu, 7 Apr 1994, Joel Walker wrote: > > first. on the vw LED's, bentely sez that the negative (annode?) lead is > > slightly wider (like you can really tell in the photo!). > > Thank GOD you told me that <grin>. I pulled one of those suckers without > thinking and have been sitting here for the last half hour trying to > decide how I would know how to put it back. I can put a meter on it to > tell which wire is which, but I don't know how that corresponds to where > it goes. Now I can look at the others without pulling them and getting > even more messed up. > > > as for the dash lights, you are talking about those little bulbs in the > > little square white housings, right? those are incandescent bulbs (as i > > recall) and you have to twist those white housings 90 degrees to remove it. > > you might be able to replace them with radio shack wheat bulbs. > > Yup, I got them all out, and two are bad and one is good. > > > > the bentley book doesn't show any fuses in the foil, but a resistor could be > > bad. if you match ohms and carefully solder it, it should work ok. on my > > 1980 bus, i added a tach (in place of the clock), and had to solder some > > Gee, a tach would be REAL nice. I already have a clock in the radio, so > I'm not sure what the clock is worth. > > > connections to the fold. in doing so, i broke the foil in one place, so i > > soldered a straight piece of wire across the break and it worked ... still > > working, i guess. i saw the old bus going down the road a couple of days ago. > > I hope it isn't a resistor -- I don't want to start soldering on the foil. > I'd just be asking for more trouble. > > Thanks for all the help. > > -- > Gerry > Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@lenti.med.umn.edu> U of MN Med.School.Admin 6-5379 > 1984 VW Vanagon Waterboxer 1915 > -- Gerry Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@lenti.med.umn.edu> U of MN Med.School.Admin 6-5379 1984 VW Vanagon Waterboxer 1915
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