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Old 10-13-2008, 07:38 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Your fan is supposed to have a diode somewhere to prevent that. The extra juice can mess with some electronics

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Old 10-13-2008, 07:50 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Well, if it does have a diode, it is upstream of where I tied in. As a result, I guess all the juice is going thru my LED. I tapped the power to the fan, wired it thru my LED, and landed a new ground wire.
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Old 10-13-2008, 09:09 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Thats where I tapped it as well, right at the fan.
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Obviously, the losses would outweigh the gains, but we have speculated, "what if" we put "mini windmill" fans at strategic locations on the front of our cars in order to get a little bit of "free juice".
No such thing as "free juice". The drag from the windmill would more than offset anything you got out of the alternator on it.

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we all know that soD, reread the quote again.
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mine used to do the same. Funny was it did it when i was having problems with the fan. So i'd try to turn it on then[thinking it was getting stuck] nope, no power coming from the controller. This reminds me i need to rewire that light from the new relay
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Interesting discovery!

I wonder if this guy's LED comes on...



(Blister's link reminded me of this pic...)
I would kill to know the drag coefficient on that thing.

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