Alternative Fan Wiring -- A Sanity Check, Please...

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by RICK LAKE

Fuseable links are what you need.

Now you tell me.

I think the truth of the matter is that my POS Smiths Ammeter gauge just isn't worth a crap when it comes to readings -- and the needle sticks when it goes all the way to the left. I've never blown the 30A fuse on the fan circuit (which is both the pushers and the puller) and, if you can believe the literature, the puller yanks 15 amps and the pushers yank 8 amps. I know I own a clamp-on inductive amp gauge but I believe it's only for AC. I'll check that later today. If it's AC only then I'll trot out and buy a DC one. I'll measure the spike and running loads along the circuit. I'm serious about the Smiths gauges. They look cool, but they're absolutely garbage. My fuel gauge never read right, then it "sprung" apart in the dash, I replaced it, it still didn't read right but read differently than the first one. If the amps on the combined fans are anywhere near the circuit breaker's theshold then what I thought I might do is split the pushers off the fan circuit and route them, only, to the manual override switch on the dash and leave the puller running off the thermostatic switch - separate relay and circuit breaker as well. It really bugs me that the Smiths gauges are such crap. C'mon, how hard is it to make an ammeter gauge anyway?