Tony,
At 09:56 27/03/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Maybe we need to use a clutch on the fan similar to AC units. That way we
>have the efficiency of direct drive of the fan, but only a little draw (I
>hope) of electricity to run the clutch. Does anybody have experience with
>AC unit clutches? I sure don't.
The Dolomite/TR7 engines have a viscous-coupling pulley-driven fan. I don't
know of anybody who has found it necessary to replace one with an electric
unit (an it gets hot down here!)
Allen Nugent
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia
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