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Originally Posted by guudasitgets
Intriged this controller does that, the speed varys depending on the cooling required, but for me I think it would be fine just either on or off with no thermostat. Like I said this setup is too pricy for my little beater.
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Yeah, most of us can't afford a lot of the things we would like.
I was thinking out loud there that a cheap DIY would be using the control circuit for the cooling fan (a lot have a two speed relay setup) and modify it to drive a water pump motor at the higher speed when needed. It would be pretty car-specific, but there ought to be a way! If nothing else, a windshield wiper motor has to be close to a continuous duty cycle, and somewhere back there was a post about someone using one of those.
You know, there's a lot of different things that I have heard about over the years (like this) that are beginning to gel together into what would be a long-term experiment into getting much better gas mileage. Kinda exciting!
