Flex-A-Lite #31147 Electric Fan Control, anyone using it?

[HaynStang]

I picked up this electric fan control at a local shop to use with the SN95 fan that I'm putting on my fox. It's adjustable from 160-220* and basically turns the fan on at a set temperature. Does anyone have any experience with this fan control, and does it work pretty well?

I know the DCC is the best one out there but $80+ is out of my price range right now. Maybe in the future I'll upgrade to that but for now I just want to ditch my mnechanical fan which has seen better days.

Does anyone have any wiring advice for an SN95 fan? Or links to any good writeups? I don't know if I should just use the low speed setting exclusively or wire it up for high and low speeds.... or if I should wire it to always turn on (or go from low speed to high) when the A/C is turned on...

 

[HISSIN50]

Where do you live and what kind of ambient and operating temps do you see?


The 94-95 GT fans could be problematic. Ideally, you would go from off to low to high speed, but that can get kind of complicated using simpler controllers and relays. If wiring isnt your thing, treating the fan like a single speed unit would work (use only high speed).

FWIW, on a 95-95 fan, if it's oriented as it would sit in the car, the top terminal is ground, middle is low and bottom-most terminal is high speed.

Random thoughts.
Good luck.

 

[HaynStang]

I live in Oregon, so the temperature's pretty moderate most of the time, but it varies. The past couple years we've had a few 95* summer days as well as some near freezing weather in the winter. My car's a daily driver so it sees in entire range of temps.

I just have the stock temp gauge (I know, it's junk)... after installing the Griffin rad it would usually stay right at the 1/3rd mark no matter what, until recently... now sometimes it barely reaches the 1/4 mark. I think the fan clutch is letting the fan spin faster than it needs to when this happens (the fan is louder, and the car feels more sluggish and reluctant to rev than when the temp gauge is at 1/3 up),. I know the stock gauge is pretty innacurate so who knows what temp the car is really running at. I'll be getting better gauges before too long.

The fan I have is actually off of a '96 GT. I hope I didn't make a bad choice. I was looking at Taurus and MkVIII fans and this was a little cheaper... I assumed it was the same thing as the Taurus fan but with a different shroud.

 

[HISSIN50]

Sounds good.

I don't know much about the '96 fans (in terms of whether they had the shorting out issues like the 94-95 fans). But in any case, you could simply follow Monte Smith's Mark VIII fan write-up (it's the same principles for about all two speed fans):

http://www.geocities.com/smithmonte/Auto/MarkVIII_Fan.htm?200724

Jrichker here also has a nice fan diagram that would work well (you would just substitute his temp sensor for yours).

Good luck.