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Date:         Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:47:45 +0300
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From:         zeidler@NTCNTG02DU.ntc.nokia.com (Zeidler Helmut NTC/Dusseld.)
Subject:      Re: Mystery Black Box

Bill, this is the disconnecting circuit for your secondary battery. It's a simple relay driven by the D+ port of your alternator. The relay should switch to on when the battery light goes out. Then the batteries are connected together. On my '80 Camper the two heavy wires are going directly to the batteries, but they are both read inside a black cover. The relay should be a 40 Amps, that the original VW set up.

Helmut '80 Camper ---------- Von: bill An: Multiple recipients of list Betreff: Mystery Black Box Datum: Donnerstag, 17. April 1997 07:38

I am still trying to identify the mysterious black box on my '81 Westie. Plastic, sealed, with a double, heavier black wire, like lamp cord, a single orange wire, and a double grey wire coming out of it. It is 3" by 2 1/2" by 1", with three hole flat plastic mounting flanges on two sides. It says part #3206, and made in Taiwan. I found it screwed to the metal air channel behind where the glove box goes when I was taking out the AC, but it doesn't seem associated with the AC. The wires all go to the fuse panel, as near as I can tell.

Anybody else have one?

Thanks, Bill ---------------------------------------------------------- 90% of life is just showing up.


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