Date:         Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:18:03 -0700
Reply-To:     mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Overhead Westy light - aux battery wiring
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If the main advantage was to allow forgetfulness with a reduced penalty,
a simple alarm to warn when the lights are left on would have been the
way to go. No factory wiring need be disturbed for such a device to
work.With the new headlight on law in California, I have been
considering just such a mod.

In Cali we must now also use our headlights whenever weather conditions
require our wipers to be on. Lots more chances to leave the lights on in
the daytime after parking.

Mark

Jonathan Poole wrote:

> Just to throw in a little support for Allistair, I have the same, or very
> similar setup where all of my electronics run off of the house battery
> except for the starter.  It has been a year or two since I wired it
> up, and
> I did have some circuits that were bridging the two batteries but I
> was able
> to eliminate all connections of the two batteries except for the relay
> that
> connects them when the van is running.  I did test this.  Works great,
> especially for someone like me that leaves the lights etc. on sometimes,,
> even parking lights can run the cranking battery down after a while!
>
> Jonathan Poole
> '82 ac westy
>
>