Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 07:44:09 -0500 (CDT)
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From: Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@lenti>
Subject: Re: Stupid Electrical error
I'm going to try to get this one to go again...
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> On Thu, 7 Apr 1994, Joel Walker wrote:
> > first. on the vw LED's, bentely sez that the negative (annode?) lead is
> > slightly wider (like you can really tell in the photo!).
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> Thank GOD you told me that <grin>. I pulled one of those suckers without
> thinking and have been sitting here for the last half hour trying to
> decide how I would know how to put it back. I can put a meter on it to
> tell which wire is which, but I don't know how that corresponds to where
> it goes. Now I can look at the others without pulling them and getting
> even more messed up.
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> > as for the dash lights, you are talking about those little bulbs in the
> > little square white housings, right? those are incandescent bulbs (as i
> > recall) and you have to twist those white housings 90 degrees to remove it.
> > you might be able to replace them with radio shack wheat bulbs.
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> Yup, I got them all out, and two are bad and one is good.
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> > the bentley book doesn't show any fuses in the foil, but a resistor could be
> > bad. if you match ohms and carefully solder it, it should work ok. on my
> > 1980 bus, i added a tach (in place of the clock), and had to solder some
>
> Gee, a tach would be REAL nice. I already have a clock in the radio, so
> I'm not sure what the clock is worth.
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> > connections to the fold. in doing so, i broke the foil in one place, so i
> > soldered a straight piece of wire across the break and it worked ... still
> > working, i guess. i saw the old bus going down the road a couple of days ago.
>
> I hope it isn't a resistor -- I don't want to start soldering on the foil.
> I'd just be asking for more trouble.
>
> Thanks for all the help.
>
> --
> Gerry
> Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@lenti.med.umn.edu> U of MN Med.School.Admin 6-5379
> 1984 VW Vanagon Waterboxer 1915
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Gerry
Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@lenti.med.umn.edu> U of MN Med.School.Admin 6-5379
1984 VW Vanagon Waterboxer 1915
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