Electric Fan Spal Controller???

[AUBURN1111]

Intalled a spall fan contoller and a fan out of an older Lincoln Town car...the fan is good controller wired up per instructions but will not run the fan. After rechecking everything come to find out the Spal fan controller will go into some protection mode if the fan pulls more than 30amps so it kicks it off.

Anyone running this controller with a Lincoln fan, I need some advice Im about ready to scrap this fan and go back to stock!!!

 

[kpack5982]

I wish I could help, but I've decided to say hell with my fan thing too, I had a hayden controller and the wiring wasn't meant for my mark viii fan so I put the stock one back on for the time being until I can get a controller designed to deal with the amperage pull. Good luck with your search tho, I really do wish ya the best of luck

 

[AUBURN1111]

anyone else?

 

[kpack5982]

sorry didn't mean to play devil's advocate there, but you could run the controller to another relay, like a bosch 75 amp and have the controller basically control the powering of the fan. That's what I did temporarily anyways with my controller when it was blowing the fuse on the controller.

 

[Markus]

I use a spal fan pwm also, but with a 11 inch dual spal fan (2 x 30 amp). 60 amps are a way too much for a single fan on this controller.
Two choices: other fan or other controller

good luck
Markus

 

[S&B]

sorry didn't mean to play devil's advocate there, but you could run the controller to another relay, like a bosch 75 amp and have the controller basically control the powering of the fan. That's what I did temporarily anyways with my controller when it was blowing the fuse on the controller.

thats what I would do

 

[HISSIN50]

This keeps coming up. A PWM controller isnt meant to drive a relay coil. I'm guessing people don't understand how PWM works.

IIRC the Spal controller has a high speed relay option, so that could work (though the controller would be basically on/off, wasting its soft-start PWM features).

For a true and totally PWM'd unit (i.e. Delta Control), a relay is not an option.