Yes, The Adventurewagon uses an isolator that reqiures a separate sense lead to the regulator. The alternator needs to have a tab cut and proivision made for this connection to the regultor. Personallly, i would tkae that isolator crap out and use stand alone combiner or controlled relay to handle charging of the house batteries. A good electrical guy should be able to sort this out. Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: Loren Busch Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:35 pm Subject: AW Electric Question To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > There is a thread going on the Adventurewagen list that isn't getting > answered but I'm sure somone here can answer. The individual > has an '87 AW > that lost an alternator. A VW dealership replaced it but could > not reattach > one wire, said that when attached to the alternator the > alternator 'reved > out of control'. The dealership commented that the old > alternator was not > to factory specs. This AW also has a solar panel. The owner > also says this > wire (orange leading to a red) seems to connect to some kind of > batteryseparator. The description sounds like the AW has a > Surepower Isolator that > requires a modification to the connection at the regulator on > the alternator > and to get the charging system back to where it was that mod > needs to be > made before the wire is reconnected. > Can someone confirm that the '87 AWs were wired that way? > |
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