The general populaces understanding of *what* a thermostat is, and actually does, is kinda weird, i've seen all sorts of people and given reasons for using a lower thermostat - most don't make sense.

Thanks for making the comments, if no one discussed this, we'd get no where, i'm all for discussion :)
Understand that this is one thing that is pushing me to an EFan, not the only thing, i will still look at the reasoning/causes of this 'problem' and i do appreciate the differing issues i can introduce with this setup.

I'm curious about loads though, for example, the Taurus has a 75a alternator, Vs the Rangers 95a - whilst trim configurations change this, just what are the chances that my truck has more general power draw (by default) than a Taurus with electric everything?
I will add my truck is a base model with power nothing

 

Sounds interesting, feel free to post anything in here with what you get, did you order a new Contour fan?

 

If i remember, i want to do the pan test, i ordered a new one last night as you've previously helped me in regard to the thermostat questions.

The very design of a mech fan, even clutched, to me, doesn't work fine. That's just me though, i come from a land and a history of essentially no mechanical fans, as a general rule, they're horribly inefficient, the EFan is a cool play/project/upgrade to me.

 

I picked up a used one on ebay for about $50.

 

you can test the load on the electrical system...

 

Hmmm, why didn't i think of that?