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Originally Posted by Ryland
My boss had the heated mirror on his Saab burst into flames a while back...
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That's the OEMs for you.
Take a good idea and stuff it by cutting corners, getting "it" to work as cheaply and usually as inefficiently as possible.
With my heaters I was planning to trim the voltage down to the point where it was just enough to melt the ice and put them on a timer, so they turn off after a few minutes. If the mirrors ice up again then I hit the switch again.
I hear that some OE mirror heater make the mirror hot to the touch, might be why they catch fire.
I am trying to run an alt delete, not fry an egg on my mirror, so the less power my mirror heaters waste the better.
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