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Old 12-29-2015, 03:09 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Alright, it does not work with the resistor. All it did was heat up the resistor real good. With the resistor the frost was perfectly comfortable sitting on the resistor grid lines them selves.
I wired it straight up to power, it was drawing 9.5 amps.
That melted the frost.
I think what I will do is make a High and low switch. The works because all I had was an On-off-on switch.
To regulate power down to the deicer I think I will need a PWM.

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