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Your fan speed resistor is open circuit on speed one and two. It will be somewhere in the heater box (to keep resistor cool) Find and remove it. You may find that the resistor coils are broken..
Here's what a Feroza one looks like, they're normally mounted in the air ducting somewhere near the fan motor. Your's should be similar- try fixing that first and then see how you go from there.
murcod wrote:Here's what a Feroza one looks like, they're normally mounted in the air ducting somewhere near the fan motor. Your's should be similar- try fixing that first and then see how you go from there.
Thanks for that. Found mine and although a little larger, there was a break in the same place (third coil of the main winding). Can a solder join be used to bridge the 1 - 1 1/2 mm gap?
Buy a new one - or do a fix like I did with high wattage resistors. Even if you managed to get the solder to take to the wire it wouldn't last long.
The wire on the coils has obviously melted from overheating and it would have a lot higher melting point than solder. The coils glow red hot if they aren't in a good airflow (found that out when fixing mine!) and solder will start to melt at above around 250 degrees Celcius.
