Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:23:52 -0800
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From: mdrillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Westfalia instrument panel.
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Right, the early panel had 4 leds for water level, the 2 bottom ones
both red. It also has a transistor in the panel to turn off power to the
pump whenever the very bottom led is on. If you open your fridge you can
see a little square meter in the upper right of the controls panel. This
is the fridge lit indicator for early fridges. The needle of the gauge
will move into the green area when the pilot is lit. Fridges with this
meter don't have the wire needed to drive a pilot led so merely adding a
panel with the pilot led won't be enough. You can add this wire if you
have a panel that needs it but the fridge must come out.
The second kitchen wire is supposed to hook up to the alternator
charging circuit. This lets the fridge run on 12 volts only when the
engine is running. It will kill even a big aux battery in a single night
so this type of control signal for the relay is essential. There are
other places to get a control signal and I prefer the "X" circuit
available on the back of the rear window defogger switch.
Mark
craig cowan wrote:
> My panel has 4 LED's for the water level which always made me think
> the bottom one was supposed to be the Fridge-Lit-Light, but it also
> has a standalone Green LED in the middle of the panel, which makes me
> think This is the fridge-lit-light.
> If that second wire goes to a relay that's already in place, should i
> just wire that to +12V ? same as the red wire?
> I was looking at the Bentley and it is confusing on the subject of
> having two lines.
>
> -Craig
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> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:06 PM, mdrillock <mdrillock@cox.net
> <mailto:mdrillock@cox.net>> wrote:
>
> I doubt that your led panel has a fridge lit led.
> The early panels had no switch and no pilot led.
> Someone could have swapped the panel of course.
>
> No need for a switch as the panel takes very little power.
> Early kitchens had a fridge relay mounted to the top of the fridge
> and the other of the 2 wires to the kitchen controls this relay.
>
> Mark
>
>
> craig cowan wrote:
>
> Hello Vanagon Gang!
> I just finished wiring an aux battery circuit into my '85
> passanger van
> turned full westfalia and have a few questions....
>
> The Westfalia kitchen attaches to the aux battery
> with two connectors. As i understand it, the red main wire is
> used to
> actually feed power to all the westy bits, and the second wire
> is in some
> way related to the operation of the fridge on 12volts when the
> car is
> operating. I am yet to hook that up to anything. Well with the
> red main wire
> hooked up and the car started, the aux battery recieving 12+
> volts, and the
> fridge lit, the water level sensor lights came on (properly),
> the fridge lit
> light came on, and the battery level light came on as to be
> expected.
> The Interior is from a 1980 westfalia, and does not have any
> kind of swtich
> built into the panel. My question is, does this mean the panel
> lights will
> be on ALL THE TIME? Do i need to install a switch?
>
> -Craig
> '85GL turned WESTY
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