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Switch to turn on electric fan

67Continental
May 8th, 2006, 04:00 PM
I would like to wire a switch to turn on my electric fan whenever I want - particularly when I am in traffic, or when I am waiting in line at the drags. I found a tutorial here for mustangs:

http://www.mustangforums.com/m_171586/tm.htm

Does anyone know the wire locations for the Mark?

driller
May 8th, 2006, 04:30 PM
I would like to wire a switch to turn on my electric fan whenever I want - particularly when I am in traffic, or when I am waiting in line at the drags. I found a tutorial here for mustangs:

http://www.mustangforums.com/m_171586/tm.htm

Does anyone know the wire locations for the Mark?

That Mustang mod won't work. This will...

http://mark8.org/users/driller/pics/Schematic.jpg

67Continental
May 8th, 2006, 04:50 PM
thanks for the quick reply - i appreciate the diagram, but I am not an electrician, and I don't understand how to read it :( What exactly does it mean?

buddylee
May 8th, 2006, 06:31 PM
thanks for the quick reply - i appreciate the diagram, but I am not an electrician, and I don't understand how to read it :( What exactly does it mean?


it's been years, but cut the light blue wire and put a switch on the lb (light blue)


I never liked wiring !

67Continental
May 8th, 2006, 06:47 PM
cool -this is the wire in the fan harness?

driller
May 8th, 2006, 10:03 PM
At the fan, they are 3 wires in the harness.

Light Blue = +12 V
Black = Ground

The 3rd wire(Iforget the color) is not used and terminates in the harness.

I have measured 30 amps at the fan. You need a good relay and prefferably a circuit breaker. I use a switch to control the relay. The common pole of the relay is connected to the blue wire going to the fan. The switched pole is wired to the +12V from the battery. The normally closed pole of the relay is connected to the light blue wire from the harness coming from the VCRM.

With the switch controlling the realy 'off' the relay feeds power as normal operation from the VCRM, as the factory design is a variable speed controlled by the PCM. With the switched flipped 'on', energizing the relay, power direct from the battery energizes the fan at high speed. Use heavy gauge wire for the power feeds to and from the fan, relay and battery.

Dadillac
May 9th, 2006, 09:04 PM
Why not just run a switch for the ground wire? It would be easier, and cheaper.

Don


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