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I have never had one fail twice. The secret is a copious amount of a high quality dielectric grease in the connector during install. Make sure the gasket surface is really clean when you put the 2 screws in. Then literally fill the front and back of the connector with dielectric grease, where the wires go in the back as well as where the spades go in the front. Put enough inside the cavity of the resistor so it squishes out when you push it in. Wipe it off, you have a near forever heater resistor that you can actually pull the plug off of if you want.
The resistor coils are inside the heater box to be cooled. When you use the blower it blows by the coils. The coils are only needed when the blower is on. A marriage made in heaven. The most amperage is realized at the lower speeds probably why the low speeds go first.
Creating a resistor pack for this would need a large heat sink. I'm sure someone has done it but if you are going that far just make it variable speed with a potentiometer instead of a switch. Then you have all the speeds :)
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