does the fan motor turn in any switch position?
a new switch resistor will always smoke some .... the "coil" on it is the dropping resistor, should be a 2 or 3 position switch to control fan speed

Bill



Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
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