[DeTomaso] fluidyne radiator question

[Julian Kift]

Dave Londry makes the PoweOne controller, capable of controlling your fans, plus customizable to monitor/control a number of critical functions. More details from the link below or direct from Dave.

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Julian

> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 07:05:10 -0700
> From: forestg at att.net
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] fluidyne radiator question
> 
> Jon's controler is a PWM system and allows for soft starts.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
> To: Will Kooiman <will.kooiman at gmail.com>; Justin Greisberg 
> <justingreisberg at hotmail.com>
> Cc: "detomaso at realbig.com" <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Fri, June 15, 2012 10:52:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] fluidyne radiator question
> 
> Usually, you use a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) power supply for a DC motor.  I 
> guess you could use a stepper motor to adjust a potentiometer (a pot), but that 
> would be like using a club to dice onions.
>  
> Ken
> 
> From: Will Kooiman <will.kooiman at gmail.com>
> To: Justin Greisberg <justingreisberg at hotmail.com> 
> Cc: detomaso at realbig.com 
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 5:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] fluidyne radiator question
> 
> I haven't started my car with it yet, but I have Jon Haas's fan controller.  It 
> has a stepper motor to control fan speeds.  I hope I'm saying that right.  I'm 
> not an EE.
> 
> At any rate, it pulses to both fans to run them as fast as necessary to keep the 
> temps down.  Pretty cool.
> 
> Like I said, I haven't tried it yet, so I don't know how well it work.  If it is 
> like the rest of his stuff, it works perfectly.
> 
> On Jun 15, 2012, at 6:01 AM, Justin Greisberg wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I am pretty sure I got the sensors based on the info on sean korb's site, as 
> >references in Will's message.
> > 
> > I may have gotten my radiator from absolute radiator - it was closer to $500 
> >and that was a few years ago.  But it came just fine.
> > 
> > 
> >> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] fluidyne radiator question
> >> From: chance.dorsey at yahoo.com
> >> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:44:05 -0500
> >> To: justingreisberg at hotmail.com
> >> 
> >> Hey Justin,
> >> 
> >> Thanks for posting this. I would love to see the pictures you have. Also, do 
> >>you happen to have the part numbers for the sensors that you used? Any other 
> >>info you have would be awesome.
> >> 
> >> Thanks, Chance
> >> 
> >> On Jun 14, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Justin Greisberg <justingreisberg at hotmail.com> 
> >>wrote:
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> I got my fluidyne radiator from a cheap online source - saved a ton of moneyI 
> >>>searched the internet and found a racing supply shop that carried right angle 
> >>>rubber hoses that made the turns for me, so no special metal fittings needed. I 
> >>>searched the internet and found a pantera guy who told the story of some 
> >>>chrysler/jeep sensors that will fit in the radiator holes. They were cheap at 
> >>>auto parts store, but they never seem to get hot enough to turn on the fan. I 
> >>>ended up putting a temp sender in the upper thermostat metal pipe hole that then 
> >>>activates my fans when that temp reaches 190. I got a couple of electric fans, i 
> >>>think from Spal or something, not too fancy, straight blades, and I took some 
> >>>strips of aluminum and made thin long brackets that have right angle bends and 
> >>>mount the fans to rivets I put in the top and bottom of the radiator - the top 
> >>>and bottom are just metal plates. just be sure not to drill into the cooling 
> >>>tubes below the plates
> (easy to be careful here). I use no other shroud and my car never overheats. 
> Although I did lots of my own designing for the pantera, not all of my ideas 
> worked out (see my fuel injection frustrations last year). But this was not too 
> expensive and looks great!!! way cheaper than $1000 for whole setup pre made, 
> and I did it myself! justin
> >>> i can forward pics to anyone interested. 
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