Every Auxiliary Battery thread is full of dead images!

[vvolfbus]

Hello friendly Samba community,

I am trying to get my 78 Bus ready for winter camping and want to start by adding an auxiliary battery. I've spent about three hours reading threads on here trying to find clear, step by step directions, with a list of needed parts.

Those that seem promising are full of dead images and disagreements in the comments about the steps taken by the lead post. Is there a tutorial anywhere out there (I checked Ratwell, Air-cooled, and lots of Google searching) that has a clear instructional for Type 2s with a list of parts that a beginner can understand?

Thank you for your help!

Nicole

[Tram]

Nichole, I am a huge fan of simple. I bought one of these to hook up an aux battery on a customer's Riviera:

Red is where your regular battery hooks up. Black is to your switched ignition power- e.g., activates and closes the bridge between the two big terminals with the key on only. Blue goes to the + side of your aux battery. I used a heavy duty marine battery in this case.

The function of the solenoid is such that with the key off whatever you are running on the aux battery cannot drain the starting battery. Easy peasy and dead simple. Cheap too... $23 on Amazon. Buy an extra just in case.

https://www.amazon.com/Tow-Ready-118665-Isolation-Solenoid/dp/B004R36U8M

Note that in order to function this needs to be mounted to body metal to ground.
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[BayCreamPuff]

The simplest setup is how Westfalia did it originally for deluxe campmobiles.

Get yourself a 40 amp bosch style relay and wire it up they way Westfalia did it.

If you're unfamiliar with how a relay works. It's basically an automatic on/off switch. So when you start up the bus the blue alternator wire gets power, then opens the relay and connects the two batteries in parallel allowing both to be charged from the alternator.
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[aeromech]

Every Auxiliary Battery thread is full of dead images!

Bullshit. I am a paying customer of Photobucket and I think all of my images are fine. Like here

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=682069&highlight=aux+battery
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[Tram]

[aeromech]

[Abscate]

STop reading the threads , 95% of which are poor workmanship , and get a good book on wiring like Don Casey’s Book on marine wiring

Expertise is not a quantity that lends itself to collectivism , and wiring requires expertise.
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[aeromech]

Actually, West Marine has some good tech articles for free on their website. At least 2 or 3.
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Lead Mechanic: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Licensed Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic
Licensed Pilot (Single engine Land)
Boeing 727,737-200-300-400,757,767
Airbus A319,320,321
DC9/MD80
BAe146
Fokker F28/F100
VW type 1 1962,63,65,69,72
VW Type 2 1971 (3 ea.) 1978, 1969
VW Jetta
VW Passat
Capable of leaping tall buildings in a single bound