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Subject What are you using to control the electric fan?
     
Posted by -Grimm- on June 16, 2014 at 9:47 AM
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In Reply To Re: Ditch the front mount, it's detrimental to cooling posted by ZTom on June 16, 2014 at 08:04 AM
     
Message Could be that your on/off points are not set up well enough to keep your engine cool at certain conditions.

I have a 18" electric fan from a Lincoln MK8 that is capable of moving (ive read) 4000 CFM. It fit the radiator nearly perfectly (had to be trimmed a tiny bit in the corners, and shortened an inch or so).

Since e-fan's start up is such a high current draw, I built a circuit to control the fan based off temperature with a soft start and damped ramp rate (similar to PID controls). I haven't had a problem with it, and ambient temps break 100 here during the summer.

I imagine this is more efficient than the mechanical fan, and I cant imagine the mechanical fan moves that much air, especially at lower RPM's.

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