That's what gives you two speeds for the fan. It drops the voltage reaching
the heater fan so it runs slower. The extra voltage gets turned into heat.
Kevin Rhodes
Freddy the Spit
At 09:43 PM 11/2/2004, Tburke4@aol.com wrote:
>One of the things I'm going to check tomorrow is something I think is called
>the "heater resistor" which I took to be a coiled bare wire inside the heater
>vent box. I am not sure of its purpose, (other than to ignite mouse nests
>that
>get set up in there). But I removed the heater motor and replaced it (since
>the mouse had also eaten about a third of the fan) and I vacuumed in
>there. I'm
>suspicious that I might have bent the wire coil enough to touch it to the
>box. The only thing is that I have disconnected the green wire to the
>heater so
>AFAIK that should not be the reason that it still blows the fuse.
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