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Date:         Mon, 4 Jul 2011 08:47:42 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Junction box?
Comments: To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <CACGkSd1C7VFa9pxcJLQWNUncXTb5zCSDQr9Rk1OEf=Vs-=np_Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks Jake!

That "Victory" box looks about perfect. There is no information about how it's wired up, but it appears to be an eight-in eight-out box. I can live with 8 circuits.

Now I gotta figure out how to source that thing from someone closer to Oregon so I can get it by next weekend.

Me likee.

-- RJS

On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 08:04 -0700, Jake de Villiers wrote:

> Hey Mike, > > Let your local marine supply help you out here. A quick Google for > "marine terminal block" brought up pages full of things like this: > http://www.pridemarine.com/index.cfm?category=10002| > 10205&product=8555220&code=773692050867 > > Looks like a neat solution! ;) > > > > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Rocket J Squirrel > <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have installed an exciting new gauge cluster atop the > instrument pod > on Mellow Yellow, my '84 Westy. Some of the gauges are waiting > to be > connected (oil pressure, oil temp, ATF temp, aux battery) and > the wires > for them are presently hanging out the fuse box opening, > neatly curled > and taped to the pillar. > > Next weekend I will be building up a wiring harness to bring > up the > sender signals (as well as several other "spare" wires for > future > connection) from the rear. > > I could just solder the gauge wires to the sender wires and > leave the > spares unconnected. But I'd like to use some kind of terminal > block or > junction box, for neatness sake. > > I wish there was sufficient room behind the fuse box to mount > such a > thing, but it's kind of a tightly-packed mess of spaghetti in > there. But > there's room on the pillar to bolt something, if that > something isn't > too big. > > Does anyone know of a terminal block or box that could be > mounted there > to accept 10 wires, possibly something with a cover so my toe > tip > doesn't snag anything? > > If not, then another place to mount a terminal block would be > in the aux > battery compartment under the driver's seat. My aux battery is > under the > rear bench so I have room in there once I shove some spare > parts out of > the way. > > Again, a neat terminal box with cover would be good there. My > familiarity with terminal blocks ends with old-school barrier > strips and > eurostyle terminal strips, and those usually don't have > covers. > > Suggestions? > > > -- > Rocky J Squirrel (Jack Elliott) > '84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") > '74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, > Calif.) > Bend, OR > KG6RCR > > > > > -- > Jake > > 1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX - 'The Grey Van' > 1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Subie - 'Dixie' > > Crescent Beach, BC > > www.thebassspa.com > www.crescentbeachguitar.com > http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27 >


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