Electric Fan question...
#31
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I used a 40a maxi fuse. It's not pictured in my originaL posts. I found a 8g amp hot wire with an inline Maxi Fuse and swapped the fuse out to a 40a. Of course...I found the wire and fuse at the salvage yard. Just feed your fan hot wire(s) with the 40a wire/fuse from your battery.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-G-MAXI-FUS...c1aa45&vxp=mtr
http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-G-MAXI-FUS...c1aa45&vxp=mtr
#32
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I used a 40a maxi fuse. It's not pictured in my originaL posts. I found a 8g amp hot wire with an inline Maxi Fuse and swapped the fuse out to a 40a. Of course...I found the wire and fuse at the salvage yard. Just feed your fan hot wire(s) with the 40a wire/fuse from your battery.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-G-MAXI-FUS...c1aa45&vxp=mtr
http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-G-MAXI-FUS...c1aa45&vxp=mtr
#33
So I didn't pull these fans at a salvage yard, I got them new... still decently priced I must add... but anyway if you look at the picture I posted there are 3 wire that come from each of the two fans RED, BLACK, and BLUE... I have some sort of idea that black is ground, red is hot, and blue is some kind of control? Anyway they are spliced together into 4 wires, RED, BLUE, BLACK, AND RED W/BLACK STRIPE... What wire are what? I tried to look it up but I'm not finding anything...
Why'd ye start another thread on this? https://www.f150forum.com/f10/want-f...answer-294990/
That just confuses folks due to lack of continuity, disjointed responses etc, and I think is kinda frown-upon... maybe ask a Mod to merge?
Anyhoo -
Those are either 2-speed fans, or one wire is an RPM sense output.
Can you post a link to where you bought these and/or manufacturerlabel with model # ( sorry - dint read back much in this thread ). This may help find the answer I reckon.
Redneck method is to cut off the connector and use a FUSED 12vdc source, test each fan to find the low/high speed windings. But first, use an ohmmeter to ground on each wire - if one is high impedance, that is a sense wire - the fan windings will be very low impedance.
good luck
MGD
Last edited by MGD; 03-24-2015 at 08:41 AM.
#34
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[MENTION=95667]unit505[/MENTION] and [MENTION=176282]fltdriver[/MENTION] thanks for all the information and help! My fans are running great, my truck is staying cooled and I can already tell the power has upped a tad! Thank you thank you thank you!