Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:03:32 -0700
Reply-To: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Help with 12v Dometic wiring
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Fridge relay terminals : 85 is ground (negative), 86 is positive key-on power, 30 is battery always hot, and 87 is load.
86 connects to the blue alternator wire under the dash.
Robert
1982 Westfalia
--- On Tue, 6/9/09, Rick Foster <redhawkf@PEOPLEPC.COM> wrote:
> From: Rick Foster <redhawkf@PEOPLEPC.COM>
> Subject: Help with 12v Dometic wiring
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 3:41 PM
> Thanx Craig for your reply.
> Maybe I was bit hazy in my problem. I'm good about the
> Dometic's operation, and it is all good when I bench tested
> in the garage. I'm ready to reinstall and was checking
> the 12v wiring in the van and found the problem I
> described. I checked all the circuits with the a)
> ingnition off, b) ignition on, and c) with the engine
> running. I don't have power to the relay accept from Bat at
> term 87. Is this supposed to this way? Seems
> like there ought to be power to the #12 wire coming into
> term 85 which connects to the ignition switch. Hope
> that helps to de-fog my delema. Thanx for any help!
>
> Rick Foster
> 85 westy
> "Cassidy"
>
>
>
> Now I'm stumped and stymied with getting back on the road
> with my Dometic working. It never has, but with help
> of Lorean and Ken, I took it out, refurbished it, bench
> tested each system and it worked. Before putting it in, I
> tested the 12v input and here's what I've got:
>
> 1- no auxillary battery, just stock wiring
> to'refrigerator heater relay'(bently 97.32.e), plan to put
> in aux bat in future.
>
> 2- clean wiring from relay thru fuse block and to
> ignition switch.
>
> 3- + Power from bat at term 87 thru term 30 to frig
> connection.
>
> 4- continuity in blue wire from term 87 to D
> connection at the
> alternator.
>
> 5- No Power at term 85 from the ignition switch but
> + continuity thru this wire to the ingnition terminal (term
> 50). This term is coupled with a #10 wire that goes I
> know not where. Bently (97.62) looks like it's track 78, but
> it looks like it goes off where 'no man has been before'! I
> can't read any 'track 78' anything functional and I'm not
> spark engineer. Spock where you!
>
> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:58:36 -0700
> From: craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: problem with 12v power to dometic frig- long
>
> The first thing to keep in mind is that the fridge on 12v
> only works while
> the engine is running, and takes quite some time to "warm
> up". If you have
> the fridge completely off and turn it onto 12 v and drive
> for 2+ hours,
> you'll feel the fins getting cold. If you just drove around
> town....i
> wouldn't expect much of anything. The 12v selection is
> really just to keep
> things cold while driving
>
>
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