John, Thanks for your detailed explanation. DMC Joe Tech Information, DMC Joe Help Club, & Store "Summer Parts Sale" http://shopping.oraclesmallbusiness.com/dsvstore DeLorean Website Directory www.dmc.tv ----- Original Message ----- From: <dherv10@xxxx> To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [DML] Fan Fail Light Without Actual Fan Fail > Martin, Joe and Group. > The Fan Fix is not an engineering marvel. It's an electronic device that > works and keeps the price down under $100.00. The way it's wired, each fan > works on it's own relay, so you have a 14 amp fan load on a 40 amp relay > instead of two fans working on one 40 amp relay. The unit is wired to show > voltage going to the fans:hense the fan fail light, lights up when power is > going to them. It's not a hall effect sensor effect. As yawl know the under > design on the De lorean didn't work long till it burned up or cooked it's > self and was rendered useless. So, due to the extreme low to no failure rate > of the fans, The Fan Fix and the fan Fail replacement was wired to show > voltage going to the fans by lighting the center consol light. The upgrade I > build is better than the official replacement in the De lorean work book and > replacement. De lorean used a jumper wire. We fuse ours where they didn't. De > lorean wasn''t worried about the fans either due to the low failure rate. > If people will look at the positive instead of always looking at the negative > and understand the unit before it's criticized, you may see some of the > positive features of the fan fix lighting the light on the dash. > #1. You can see the cycling of the A/C low pressure switch when your low on > Freon. This will help you from destroying the $250.00 + compressor. :-) > #2. When the A/C isn't running, you can now see when the otterstat is cycling > on and off by the dash light and not have to guess or not even hear at all > the fan are or not coming on. :-). Then you can reference by the gauge when > they are coming on. > #3. The way The Fan Fix Dual 2 x 2 is wired, the Circuit breaker is > eliminated because we now faster acting fuses instead of the old slow circuit > breaker. :-). > The circuit breaker is always going to over heat and scorch the wires and > turn on and off giving you false sense of what's going on. :-(,,. If you > upgrade to the 40+ amps breaker, your just allowing more current to flow and > you have lost any protection you may have had. > #4. Also by the way I wire it, you no longer draw power off the wiring loom > which will lessen the load on the electronic ECU's. > By these simple ways of designing the units, the price is right, it's > warranty for life, and it's not an engineering, complex device that has more > parts to over heat, break and run the price up. I go by the KISS theory. > Keep up the good work. I like to see engineers get onto a problem and make it > bigger that what is:-).. > P.S. I could build all the features into my unit, then the price would go up > and then all I would hear is the complaints of high price. > Have a good one. > John Hervey > http://www.specialtauto.com/ > Trying to keep it simple.