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Date:         Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:30:21 -0800
Reply-To:     Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Westy water level indicator fixed,
              interesting fridge fringe benefit?
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Hello, all;

When I haven't been replacing seals or injector pumps on my diesel Westy, I've been nibbling at a nagging problem concerning my water level indicator LEDs, which weren't working.

Listmember David Beierl has been helping me track down this and that over the last week or so, and yesterday a test procedure he suggested helped locate the problem... a weak/open ground between the bottom (black) terminal on the water tank and ground. I ran a new ground from that terminal back to the 110v green ground wire where it contacts the body, and everything immediately started working.

But there's more... anecdotal evidence shows that the battery indicator LED, which always worked, glows brighter, and the fridge lights first time and stays lit with minimum pumping, etc. Less than a 10 second job now, whereas the fridge would light and then die out two or three times before it would stay lit, say over an hour period. Plausible, coincidental? Don't really know. I just know that I've checked it out and it works differently now.

If you're having fridge or water level problems, take a multimeter and check out that ground.

Jim


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