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Date:         Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:42:05 -0700
Reply-To:     Mike Elliott <j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Elliott <j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Typical wiring for Vanagon >  trailer?
Comments: To: Edward Maglott <emaglott@BUNCOMBE.MAIN.NC.US>
In-Reply-To:  <6.0.3.0.0.20060617163220.01c88ec0@buncombe.main.nc.us>
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On 6/17/2006 1:35 PM Edward Maglott wrote: > Just got one of these today at my FLAPS for $12.49. Alternately, you > could > make your own wiring set up and add some extra lights for the > trailer. Then your hookup on the van would only work with your trailer > though. I have opted fro the $12.49 solution...

Wise idea. I am mindful of the time when I came to work one Monday morning and found the charred remains of an automobile hitched to my tent camper. In those days I had a Coleman popup camper and kept it in the company parking lot behind the building when I wasn't using it. Anyway, a little investigation showed that when the fellow starting hooking up the camper's tail lights before stealing it -- which was what he was obviously in the process of doing -- he made a wiring error and set his own darn car on fire.

Heh.

Heh.

Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh . . . heh . . . .

<sighs contentedly>

Yeah, it still makes me laugh.

Vanagon content: be real careful how you wire things up. Stick with conventional wiring when you bring your Vanagon's wires out into the world. You never know what might get attached to them, and the battery in the vehicle has more than enough current available to turn the wires red-hot and ignite the insulation and everything nearby, so fuse, and fuse often. --

Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") KG6RCR


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