STILL blowing fuses
    Ti Kan 
    ti at amb.org
       
    Fri May 17 11:44:55 EDT 2002
    
    
  
Motor Sport Visions Photography writes:
> Only one minor detail, that shorted fan's current draw will all go
> through that relay coil in the fail mode so the alert could be just be a
> passing blink of an eye before the relay coil evaporates when the smoke
> gets let out. Hmmm...have you addressed that yet?
No that won't happen.  The relay coil is of sufficiently high resistance
to prevent enough current from flowing.  Think about it... the coil is
supposed to go to +12V on one end and to ground on the other anyway.
-Ti
01 S4 2.7 biturbo quattro
84 5000S 2.1 turbo
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