Skip to main content
Gerry | Vanagon
Checking account...
← vanagon.com home · Continue the discussion in the forum
Subject:Re: Electrical Mods
From:Werner Kenneth Hellmer
Date:Tue, 19 Apr 1994 13:46:55 -0500 (CDT)

Hello all,
		Many thanks for the generous responses.

>From DAVE:)
> 
> Here's an idea that I have been turning over for a few years.  In my motor,
> there is an unused pulley behind the fan housing.  It was originally used
> to drive the A/C compressor.  I have been toying with the idea of mounting
> a second (55 amp) alternator where the A/C compressor was and driving it
> with this pulley.  That would (theoretically) give me 110 amps, and with
> 3 large batteries in my bus, I could use it :)  What do you think?

BINGO BINGO BINGO 
I just wanted to hear someone else say it. I think a little fabrication here
and there and this would work perfectly. I just removed the ac stuff and
was thinking of converting it into a fancy shmancy heater, but I'll ask
more about that later.

With regard to the ammeter, I want to find one with a digital sender ($$$)
so that I can keep track up front. (ANY IDEAS?) I also want to have a 
seperate reading for each circuit (ala Aircraft technology). Anybody
have an address for aircraft/boat sales places; I don't find alot of
this stuff in Iowa.

*Werner Hellmer		whellmer@icaen.uiowa.edu