I have a 30inch (approx) ceiling fan in a bedroom and it has stopped working. It does not have a remote. The light is working fine. The blades do not turn but I can hear the motor running when the blades are turned on.
So, the power seems to be going to the blade motor(or whatever) but the blades aren't turning. The blades will spin easily by hand. They are well balanced and they have never been noisy.
I cannot remember the make.
What might the problem be?
eliz
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:29:46 -0700, eliz Has Frothed:
Motor might be bad wouldn't you think?
Sounds more like a bad startup capacitor. These are mostly generic and available in the lighting department at Home Depot (assuming the OP is in the States).
Usually repair involves demounting the fan and some disassembly.
jak
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:56:33 -0500, jakdedert Has Frothed:
Didn't know that kind of motor had a cap in it.
Some probably use shaded pole motors, better ones are likely to be PSC which use a cap. There really isn't much else to go wrong, if it turns freely by hand and hums when power is applied, there's gotta be a second winding that isn't powered.
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:14:35 +0000, James Sweet Has Frothed:
Did you know the first Hunter fans were water powered?
I have two Hunter and two Hampton Bay fans and they both employ shaded pole motors. Seen plenty permanent split cap motors tho with my HVAC background just not one in a for home use fan. However some of the larger industrials I've seen must be PSC because they don't display the SP motor housing characteristics.
Might be anything.
Very funny.
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:59:49 -0400, kip Has Frothed:
You don't say....
It's true. The Line Locking Wedge Phase Shifter can cause all sorts of problems, esp. if they put an anti clockwise one into a clockwise fan.
Meat Plow wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@nntp.sun-meatplow.local:
Yeah, although my first thought was the dilithium crystals might need to be repolarized and straightened...
eliz ha escrito:
Probably a bad run capacitor. You should dismantle the lamp kit of the ceiling fan. The lamp kit is usually attached to circular metal housing. Inside the housing you will find the cap, the two switches of the ceiling fan (one for the lamp and the other for the motor fan) and the reverse switch. Normally these capacitors have three wires, two of them goes to the motor switch and the third one goes to the reverse switch. Just replace the cap with other of similar specs, and you will have your ceiling fan operating again.
God's teeth don't do that. ALWAYS polarized and restraightened.
Hi!
Now that's an interesting idea. Who knows, it might even still be practical in buildings with water circulation systems. (Chilled water, etc...)
I once saw some ceiling fans that were actually ceiling mounted furnace vents. The air came out through a squirrel cage like fan device with paddles attached at four points on the bottom.
What's a Meat Plow?
William
"Homer J Simpson" wrote in news:uLXUg.51472$E67.458@clgrps13:
Gee, Homer, now you've got me wondering. I believe I used to straighten first and then repolarize, although it's been so long since I've done it.... but then, I didn't use God's teeth. Do you?
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:11:58 +0000, William R. Walsh Has Frothed:
The name of a song.
Home Depot had some the last time I needed one.
More than likely to be an out of phase non reversing clack valve.
They tend to get a bit rusty and give up the ghost - especially in wet climates like the UK.
Best of luck with it.
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