At 11:54 6/5/2000, Joe L. wrote: > While it "should" be a simple out with the old and in with the new >there are a few things that happened to me. I went through about 6 of these >things in the space of 8 months. It seems that these things are VERY >sensitive to heat and burn out a lot on some vans that put out just a tad >too much voltage. I tried many things but what finally cured the trouble was >an additional heat sink. If you want to go this route take your old There's a service bulletin for older Vgons that if the regulator pops, install the new one with a 1N400x diode in series with one of the legs -- I forget which one, unfortunately, but someone here will know. david David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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