At 11:33 PM 7/26/2013, Robert Stevens wrote:
>on and so far so good. I have presumed that I've got a high resistance
>problem in that system somewhere, but when this occurs (this last
>one was kinda
>specfacular looking) nothing but the resistor is hot or even warm, so hard to
>trace where that resistance may be?

Extra resistance in the system will not cause a problem with the fan
resistor.  Quite the contrary, it will make it run cooler.

A shorted fan would overload the resistor, and so would restricting
its cooling.

Yours,
David