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Do you have an estimate of how many watts your lights consumed together?
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I estimate all my lights together were drawing about 175-185 watts before on DRL/parking lamp. I have just about switched everything over, and I will be running about 10-12% of the original amount. Of course, when I do run my headlights I'll still be drawing an additional 110 watts, but thats still a heck of alot better then close to 300 I was drawing at night before!
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e-fans will save gas providing the thermostatic programming doesn't have them engaging all the time. The fuel saving trick with e-fans is making sure they do not need to be working at speeds above 25mph.
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Well I got my e-fan partially wired up tonight and it certainly cools the motor down on demand. I've been thinking of a way to kill the fan at a certain land speed, but most of what I've come up with have been too complicated. I'm thinking now some sort of switch on the gas pedal that will shut it off when I'm at about 1/3 throttle or more. Should be easy enough to figure out.
I never did get around to finishing the job tonight (girlfriend brought down some refreshments and the truck was forgotten). Anybody know of a good/easy place to wire up the lead that goes hot from the ignition switch? I was thinking of using the ignition coil since its right there (no trailing wire halfway accross town, no drilling holes into the cab to run wire if I can avoid it). I will probably end up getting out the testlight tomorrow and hunting something down if nobody's got a good idea to shoot this way
