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billd
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The style shown, 1970, often has an issue with oxidation and then downright rust. It's not the resistors inside that protective housing, it's the housing and terminals.
Making them look good depends on how good the finish is today - elbow grease without giving it a high sheen may work but if the plating is gone due to exposure to the elements, it may take more. I have taken them apart and replated the housing or shell and put them back together. Be careful cleaning the insulating plate the resistors and terminals are mounted in - you can't really get the original look back easily (at least in my experience)
In the one in the photo, I did replate the terminals themselves and the cover but did a high-sheen job on it for kicks. |
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farna
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I put a standard relay on mine on the "high" speed (straight through, no resistor) in an effort to get a little more air moving. It didn't help much, maybe a little. At least I won't run any wiring hot! AC switch just trips the relay, which supplies direct battery voltage -- same as some do for headlights (I did that too, and was when I got the idea). You can use a modern resistor pack, but will have to mod the housing and maybe the wiring connectors also. As stated, these are pretty robust, but if yours is missing/bad... depends on if you have a restored car or driver, really.
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Frank Swygert
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billd
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I ha e Doug's apart. Terminals clean and plated. Housing in process. Biggest issue is keeping terminals clean to avoid heat and resistance.
Relays way to go on non-stock. |
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billd
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george w
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Night and day improvement in appearance. Some of these blocks had a distinct dark greenish tint to finish on the housing.
FWIW, AMC did offer a retro-fit A/C relay kit for the earlier pre-relay equipped models. The relay itself was/is mounted to the wiper plenum area above the blower motor. The kit includes the relay, which looks very much like a horn relay, a short wiring harness to tie into the existing blower harness wiring, two red power feed wires of different lengths for 6 and 8 cylinder cars that attaches to the battery side of the starter relay (solenoid)and a couple short hex head screws to attach the relay. There are at least three different part numbers for the same kit: 448 5922, 448 5936 and 812 1212 The relay provides for a 12 volt direct feed to the blower motor when the fan switch is placed in the high position. Takes the high current draw load off the fan switch and gets more voltage to the motor for a higher fan speed. Edited by george w - Jan/30/2018 at 6:56pm |
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DoughertyAMX
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Impressive! Looks great Bill.
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JeeperJolene
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The wiring in my 73 is shot and the blower switch is nasty looking. I'm looking to convert the switch so that it itself doesn't have any resistors in it, but instead controls relays that use resistor wires so that none of that draw is going inside the dash or through the switch. However, it seems I would need three relays to make that work:
There has to be a better way to do this or something else I could do that I'm not aware of. Any suggestions? As it stands now, I dare not touch that switch in its current state.
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farna
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I can't see any other way. I just use one relay on mine (not a Javelin, 63 Classic), for high speed. You can use miniature relays instead of the typical automotive relays. I had to replace a circuit board in a kitchen range a few years ago and was surprised to find miniature relays on the 220V controls. You would need a small piece of breadboard to mount them, but weouldn't take up much room.
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Frank Swygert
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JeeperJolene
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Breadboard is actually a pretty good idea. If I go that route then I'll post the parts list and schematic that I make. I guess all that's left is figuring out what kind of resistance I need for low and medium. I did some Google-fu and wasn't finding what I need. Since the switch is shot, I can't really read the resistance on it.
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304-dude
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Ha a bread board. Why not simplify things if rewiring without the factory resistor block.
A simple pulse width modulation will do the trick. It controls how often or I should say steady current is sent to the motor. Many motor drives are pulse width modulated, as the circuit runs cooler and is more accurate in speeds. There are many kits or modules to wire up in series. Some are very simple 555 timer, capacitor, potentiometer adjusted, with a driver transistor. Others are built with a PLL circuit and binary circuit for forward/reverse and preset multiple stage motor control. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=pulse+width+motor+control&_sacat=0 |
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