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Re: Fans from the PCM?

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Originally Posted by Christopher149 View Post
Strictly speaking, looking at the manual, I can only seem to find fans being powered off motor controller input leads as being explicitly legal (unless I'm blind).
The purpose of that is to make it legal to cool the motor controller with a fan, and to take the power from the motor controller power leads. I don't think it was intended to be limiting.