Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:13:48 -0700
Reply-To: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: "yawn" Another (trivial) Jetta conversion Fuel Pump relay
question.... ;^)
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No worries. :^)
For sure. Golf/Jetta '93 - '99 Bentley.
Maybe to limit current.
Thinking about it now, maybe it has to do with the impedance of the coil too.
But that stuff is beyond me!
As long as it works, I'll be happy.
Neil.
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:09 PM, pdooley <psdooley@verizon.net> wrote:
> Sorry to insult your intelligence:)
>
> I assume the Bentley you are using is for the MK3.
> I don't have that one.
>
> You got me curious now though.
> Maybe it limits current going through the coil.
>
> It's been a long time since I popped a relay cover off, I may have to
> dissect a spare in the garage now.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> neil N
>
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 11:49 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
>
> Subject: Re: "yawn" Another (trivial) Jetta conversion Fuel Pump relay
> question.... ;^)
>
> mmm.... nope
>
> :^)
>
> What I saw is certainly a resistor. Got the colour bands on it.
>
> It would be hard to take a pic of. Maybe I could get a shot of the
> diagram on the housing.
>
> I wish I could recall what little I learned of electricity when I was
> younger, but I know for sure there's a difference between a resistor
> in series within a circuit, and one in parallel. Why it's there I
> don't know.
>
> Neil.
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:28 PM, pdooley <psdooley@verizon.net> wrote:
> > Neil,
> > Relays activate when a low current electromagnetic coil is energized.
> > The coil then closes the contacts of a switch.
> > The switch has heavy contacts and carries high current on the circuit
> with
> > the heavy gauge wires.
> > The little thing that you think is a resistor is the coil.
> >
> > The standard VW numbering system for relays lists the low current circuit
> > with the coil as pins 85 and 86.
> > The current carrying circuit is 30 and 87.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of
> > neil N
> > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 9:25 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: "yawn" Another (trivial) Jetta conversion Fuel Pump relay
> > question.... ;^)
> >
> > Hey guys.
> >
> > My conversion now starts and runs. There were several problems why it
> > didn't run before. I'll report these to the list later.
> >
> > One thing I had to do, was run a jumper between 30 and 86 on FP relay.
> > In Bentley, it shows an internal connection doing the same (though
> > there's no "86" shown):
> >
> >
> http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/FPrelaydiagram.jpg/FPrelaydiagram-full.jpg
> >
> > Interesting. But there are about 3-4 different relay model numbers
> > listed that are used in the '93 - '99 Golf/Jetta. Maybe some had that
> > internal connection.
> >
> > My potentially trivial quesiton:
> >
> > In diagram on fuel pump relay, there is an icon between 85 and 86. I
> > looked inside and there was a resistor.
> >
> > Why is that resistor there?
> >
> > Just curious,
> >
> > Neil.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco"
> >
> > http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
> > http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco"
>
> http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
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>
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