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Old 01-20-2011, 02:32 AM   #7 (permalink)
Clev
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Originally Posted by vacationtime247 View Post
Let's face it, people are stupid. They'll drive their cars with the temp gauge pegged in the red. Electric fans go out, relays go bad and fuses blow. Dual fans are a fail safe to prevent over heating causing significant damage.
Right, but if your electric fan fails, you're least at risk when traveling at 65 mph and most at risk when crawling through traffic--a time when a mechanical fan is the least useful.

If they wanted to go with redundancy, they should have put in a second electric on its own circuit.
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