Date:         Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:43:52 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: +24v electrical system
Comments: To: vw4x4@fyi.net
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So what you're saying is that you can't see at night.
Military vehicles use 24v because they must have 24 v to accomidate a
wide variety of assist in battle field conditions.
Aircraft over a certain size in civilian usage go to 24 volt for the
lighter wiring you mention.
Commercial / Millitary aircraft use 24 volt because of the long cable
runs and servo motors can be made smaller in 24v vs 12v.
I have a 66 Westy (37 years old) 12v conversion, and an 83 Westy 20 years
old ................. where are my wiring problems?.
I think you make 'too much adoo' about nothing.
I'm thinking that installing a second battery and just putting the
headlights on a 24v circuit might be enough, just leave everything else
alone to avoid nightmares.

Stan Wilder


On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:43:45 -0500 vw4x4@fyi.net writes:
> In any wiring system, current is the main limiting
> factor to the wire itself.  Having problems with this
> in the head light circuit, rather than re-wiring with
> thicker wire it is easier to keep the same power
> to the lights by doubling the voltage and running
> half the current. Half the current thru the same
> wires mean the wiring no longer acts like
> mutch of a limiting resistance problem, and light will
> be as  bright as they were intended.  Other Vanagon
> wiring problems could be solved in the manner.
>                                              Eric
>
>
>
> Stan Wilder wrote:
>
> > > So now I'm considering
> > > running only a portion of the Vanagon on 24v.....Just food for
> > thought...
> > ---------------------- Clip ----------------------------
> > Stupid question ........................... why?
> > Please explain what benefits you expect to gain.
> >
> > Stan Wilder
> >
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