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Old 05-16-2018, 02:35 PM
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Pot goes in, set it and forget it!
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Originally Posted by digitaltrucker
Pot goes in, set it and forget it!
nice. I'll order now.

no radio shack here
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Bump, its hot outside!
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Originally Posted by digitaltrucker
Bump, its hot outside!
but not inside, thanks to you.
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Originally Posted by Oldsmuggler

but not inside, thanks to you.
Thanks, I merely fanned the flames that bigdog started along with others!
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Originally Posted by Bigdog364





Temporally in glove box





Wires in back of plug





Small hole drilled for relay probe1/8 " deep carful





Resister spliced in one wire





Extra wire in glove box





Power for relay
I read the instructions but still can't figure out how to remove the plug&connector and have it like shown here in this photo.
The white tab seems to be a key but is it. I can hardly get my hands on it. There seems to be another tab underneath but it doesn't seem to move either.
Why do they put thing where they can't be reached? Thoughtless I'd say.
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Originally Posted by 3kushn
I read the instructions but still can't figure out how to remove the plug&connector and have it like shown here in this photo.
The white tab seems to be a key but is it. I can hardly get my hands on it. There seems to be another tab underneath but it doesn't seem to move either.
Why do they put thing where they can't be reached? Thoughtless I'd say.

You do realize that Bigdogs was a prototype, and as this developed, all that was needed was a resistor?
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I ordered my 1 Mohm pot...for some reason 50 degree vent temps do not do well when outside temp is 109+ in phoenix .

After reading the entire thread I do have one question. I see some people left this in and some didn't. For those that did, any ill effects for winter time heating?
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Originally Posted by jdunk54nl
I ordered my 1 Mohm pot...for some reason 50 degree vent temps do not do well when outside temp is 109+ in phoenix .

After reading the entire thread I do have one question. I see some people left this in and some didn't. For those that did, any ill effects for winter time heating?
From what I have read, most just leave it in. Having said that, in the donor truck we found that simple minor adjustments over 73 did not seem to warm up like we felt it should, so we pulled it during winter and simply put back in when winter left. As you have read, no 2 trucks seem to react the same.
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I left mine in all winter and experienced no effects on heating whatsoever. Once I switched back to using ac for the summer it performed just as it did when I put it in last summer.

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