Date:         Fri, 20 Mar 1998 07:54:57 -0600
Reply-To:     Marvin Westenburg <westenburg@CENTURYINTER.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Marvin Westenburg <westenburg@CENTURYINTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: '97 Furnace and Battery
Comments: To: TTiessen@PROVIDENCE.MB.CA
Comments: cc: Eurovan Update <ev_update@db.erau.edu>, vanagon@vanagon.com
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Congratulations on your '97 Eurovan purchase! Hope your house battery was
just low, and needed charging and the problem is now past history. When I
bought my '95 EVC I found that the dealer had let the house battery
discharge; due to its discharged condition it had frozen and cracked the
case and needed to be replaced. I spent a lot of time trying to neutralize
and clean up the acid in the battery box. The new battery I installed fixed
the problem. If the vehicle isn't used for a period of time (say a couple
weeks) the house battery should be charged by plugging the vehicle in
overnight. The propane alarm is a continual slight drain on the battery. If
I'm going to park my camper unused for a while I remove the fuse for the
propane alarm and replace it when I'm going to use the camper again.

Marve
'95 EVC
'82 diesel Vanagon

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