Travis,
I was the guy who originally found and used the Saab Thermoswitch. I had
sent you my pictures and information when you contacted me before. None of
the diagrams that I sent you links to had power going to both lo and hi. I
don't believe it is designed to be run that way, but it may not be a
problem. Did you wire it so both hi and lo wires are powered when on hi?
I've been running it for over a year now, works great. I did the same as you
as far as mounting the switch.
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Travis Bailey <dusterrt@msn.com>
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Date: Sunday, August 08, 2004 11:07 PM
Subject: DML: Viper Fan/Saab Switch Followup II
>
>I headed into day two with my electric fan setup. I am mainly reporting
>these as no one had any input when I had questions about doing the Saab two
>speed switch due to it either not working the way they liked or never got
>around to putting it together. All in all I am happy with it so far and
>don't plan on making any changes.
>
>Once again, it's a nice day in the mid or high 70s. Most of the time I've
>been running around with the fan off alltogether. However, once the engine
>gets good and warmed up low speed pretty much stays on, even on the highway
>(this is where the in cab kill switch is nice). Just to see how it worked
I
>drove around in town with it off where my engine temp gets to around (a
>guess) 190-195, and then I let it idle in the drive to get it a little
>warmer. This set off high speed on the switch and obviously the fan. I
>will say the fan performed very well..cooled it quite quickly. Once the
>temp got down to the 180 or so mark it dropped it to low speed where it
just
>stayed on until I shut the truck off.
>
>So in a nutshell: the switch will trigger the fan at 180 (low) and 195
>(high). If engine temp triggers high it will cool until 180 and then it
>will run at low speed until 175 or so. (Mine doesn't get cool enough to
>switch off; my friend mentioned that might not be a bad thing since it's
>probably harder on the fan motor to be cycling on and off all the time
>anyway. Just to be safe I plan on upgrading my alternator sooner or
later.)
>
>When it triggers high it also triggers low so both of my relays are active
>when high speed is on, not just one. As far as if the fan is designed to
>work like this, I don't know. Didn't seem to make a difference during
bench
>testing if the low speed wire got power or not.
>
>Someone had mentioned in a message I found in the archives about the fan
>runs on low when either of the wires are hot and high when both. On mine
at
>least there was a high and a low wire, orange stripe was low and yellow was
>high. Sending power to both didn't make it run faster. Speaking of bench
>testing, make sure you secure it down somehow, mine really wanted to move
>somewhere other than where I had it laying down! Lol.
>
>Other notes: not sure if I addressed this in my first message but this fan
>is pretty quiet. Maybe it's just my duals but it seems quieter than the
fan
>in my sister's Intrepid she had. So it is by far a lot quieter than a
stock
>engine driven fan.
>
>That's all for now.
>
>Travis
>'92 Dak 5.2 4x4
>
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