What manual or schematic are you looking at. The Westy fridge relay is controlled by the alternator. The red/black wire goes from one side of the coil and grounds through the starter solenoid. The Blue wire goes from the oter side of the coil and goes to the alternator warning light circuit. The idea is that the relay is disabled during engine cranking, (no ground) and the alternator has to actually be producing current to operate the 12v heating element in the fridge. The contacts on the relay are wired so that the fridge fan, water pump, and light panel are connected with the battery on one side, and the fridge 12v heater circuit is controlled by the relay. In VWs the brown wire is almost always the ground. Hope this helps. Dennis
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of Randy Charrette Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 11:28 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Fridge wireing? I am in the process of wireing in a westy fridge to my Syncro GL. Question on the 12V hook up. I'm looking at the manual and it appears the Black is Posative, Blue is Negative (-), and I don't know what the brown wire does??? Any help is appreciated. Randy 87' Syncro (Tiico) _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail |
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