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No. They are two separate devices. The resistor is a very small and simple part. At about 4 inches long and 3 inches deep it will easily fit in your hand.
The resistor controls the fan speed by using different gauges and lengths of wire.
When you set your fan to the slowest setting, the power from the battery travels through a longer, smaller gauge (gauge refers to the diameter of the wire) coiled wire so the electricity has to travel further and less electricity can flow through since the gauge is smaller.
When you set your fan to the fastest setting, the power from the battery travels through a shorter, larger gauge wire so the electricity travels faster and a shorter distance so more electricity is running your blower which turns the fan faster.
Hope this helps.
The blower fan power module:This is a computer device that achieves virtually any speed you wish from the fan motor using computer control.This is accomplished by the computer turning the fan power on and off very quickly, 100 or more times a second in some cases.
The speed difference comes in the proportion of on time verses off time. Each of those 100 pulses is broken down into % on and off. The computer turns the power on full blast at the start of each pulse and may only keep it on for .0001 second and leave it off for the remaining .0009 of the pulse . This is about 10% power.
If the fan power is on 10% of the time the motor should run at about 10% of max speed (it won't: it usually requires about 25% to make the fan move).
At 90% of the time on should be 90% of the max speed
This is called pulse width control.
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