[T3] Clock Fuse, power draw

[Jim Adney]

On 21 Oct 2017 at 10:41, Phil Hof wrote:

> Are we talking about the newer quartz type clock, or the older solenoid "thunker?"

Either one. I suspect the long term current draw is similar. I'm not worried 
about what happens overnight or in a day or 2, but some of my Type 3s sit 
for a month or several months without being driven. Right now our street is 
under construction and nothing can get in or out of our driveway from 
mid-Sept to maybe 2 weeks from now.

I've added a trickle charger to the car that sits in the garage over the winter, 
but I figure the battery would be better off if the charger and clock weren't 
working against one another.

And for those who don't have a charger, the old thumper clocks are known to 
run down the battery and then blow their internal fuse.

It sure seems like it would have been good to run the clock off a fuse that 
could be easily removed before storage. That might be easy up to '70, but 
after that the clock wire comes from the headlight switch, which means that 
moving it would require removing the headlight switch, which is beyond what 
most owners want to attempt, because it takes a special tool to 
remove/install it.

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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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