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Default Root cause insight into the common BMW blower motor resistorfailures

Bimmer Owner wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:15:16 -0700, jim beam wrote:

that's why pwm is the better solution


Does pulse width modulation cause radio EMI?


It can if it's not properly filtered. And the reason why I think beam is
correct about this being a linear control is that there is no filtration
in there.

My guess is that the cost of proper filtering and shielding makes the pwm
controller cost more than the linear controller in this case, which is
probably why they went the linear route.
--scott
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