STILL blowing fuses

[Motor Sport Visions Photography]

Ti Kan wrote:
>
> 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
> 80 4000 2.0
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Good point Ti, I didn't think it all the way through (something about my
head throbbing with a massive ear infection clouding my thinking
perhaps--damm those big block Panoz cars are going to hurt tomorrow at
Sears Point). Thank you for the wake up call. Makes Brett's great idea
all that much better, it should work!

Mike Veglia
Motor Sport Visions Photography
http://www.motorsportvisions.com