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gareth111278

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Hi
The little cinq is going well.
One small problem is that the heater fan only works on full speed. I suspect the resistor pack. I had this on a Rover 400 once and my mate got the resistors from Maplin and replaced them for me.
does anyone know,
A. If its possible with the Cinq &

B. What value the resistors will have to be for the two different speeds?

If not are resistor packs availble?

Cheers Gareth:)
 
Try this:

Get a variable resistor (potentiometer) wire it up and turn it slowly until you get the desiered speed, then measure the resistance at each position, repeat this until all four speed are established; you will then know the resistor to use for each setting:)
 
spedo said:
Try this:

Get a variable resistor (potentiometer) wire it up and turn it slowly until you get the desiered speed, then measure the resistance at each position, repeat this until all four speed are established; you will then know the resistor to use for each setting:)
Click to expand...

You forgot about how much power the fan motor uses, most POTs will last micro seconds as they are rated in mA and not Amps,
 
Thanks guys, good ideas there but at 80p each its no big deal to trail & error resistors.
I can't see why they would be massively different to those on the Rover mentioned in the link above.

I've got resistors now so I'll give it a go. :)
 
Could do that, but its 3 hours round trip to any scrappy from here, If you get one un-seen whats the chances that too is U/S?

I'll give this a bash.;)
 
I got it by post from a member on here that was stripping a car.

So no need for a 3-hour trip.
Just wait for it to drop through the letterbox.

Place a "wanted" ad and look through the sale ads.
 
cc1 said:
You forgot about how much power the fan motor uses, most POTs will last micro seconds as they are rated in mA and not Amps,
Click to expand...

My thinking was to wire the pot up as a rheostat, in this way it should be able to handle the current from the motor, at least for the duration of the testing.
 
David C said:
I got it by post from a member on here that was stripping a car.

So no need for a 3-hour trip.
Just wait for it to drop through the letterbox.

Place a "wanted" ad and look through the sale ads.
Click to expand...


I'm 95% there now with these resistors , but if it dosn't work I'll take your advice:)
 
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