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On 23 Mar 2005 at 23:03, Russ Wolfe wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 22:42, Jim Adney wrote: > > > And if you want more staying power, parallel a second battery under the > > > other side of the rear seat. > > > > I've done that. It sure lets you get a lot of extra years out of a battery, > > too. ;-) > > > > > Someplace I have the schematics to do this and wire it so when the > > > engine is off, you pull from the aux battery, and when the engine > > > starts, it automatically starts recharging off the system. > > > > I've never figured out a simple way to do this. There must be a good way to do > > it with a really big transistor, but I wasn't THAT interested. > > TA-DUMM..... > http://classicvw.org/spec10.jpg Okay, that's gonna take some thinking to work thru it all. So VW made a special battery relay that was packaged just like a VR? I've certainly never seen one of those, have you? I'm gonna print that out and study it.... ;-) And thanks for the OG explanation. That makes much more sense than I was expecting. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~