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I Can't turn off my ceiling fan
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the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]] In article I've made some progress!!!. I was able to attach those other 2 wires to the switch and now I have high, medium, low but no "off". When I "hold" the chain after "low" I can hear the motor stop, but as soon as I let it go it starts to run again. Any advice? , TimR wrote: GFRfan wrote in message news:x0yMc.21707$eM2.1485@attbi_s51... sytech.at.oohay.moc wrote: I have a Hunter-Douglas (Home Depot) ceiling fan in my office. It has one of those chain "puller" switches to adjust the speed and to turn it on or off. As I was turning on the fan, the chain pulled out and now I can't turn the fan off. HELP!!!!!!!!! Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks, Sy When you go to Home Depot and buy the replacement fan switch, you're going to notice it has several wires. They are different colors. I do not know what colors they are because I am color blind. The result is that my ceiling fan does not go High, then Medium, then Low like most. It goes High, Low, Medium. If you know what the chances are of that combination, you are way too good at math. PS it is good to turn the power off before changing the switch. Especially if you have kids. When they hear cuss words they repeat them to Mommy. Don't ask me how I know this. smiley -- Please post and reply to |
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I Can't turn off my ceiling fan
"Salty Thumb" wrote in message ... (TimR) wrote in m: Salty Thumb wrote in message . .. (TimR) wrote in om: GFRfan wrote in message news:x0yMc.21707$eM2.1485@attbi_s51... sytech.at.oohay.moc wrote: I have a Hunter-Douglas (Home Depot) ceiling fan in my office. It has one of those chain "puller" switches to adjust the speed and to turn it on or off. As I was turning on the fan, the chain pulled out and now I can't turn the fan off. HELP!!!!!!!!! Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks, Sy When you go to Home Depot and buy the replacement fan switch, you're going to notice it has several wires. They are different colors. I do not know what colors they are because I am color blind. The result is that my ceiling fan does not go High, then Medium, then Low like most. It goes High, Low, Medium. If you know what the chances are of that combination, you are way too good at math. I seriously doubt that the color of the wiring has anything to do with fan speed. The pull chain on a ceiling fan connects to a part called a rheostat which handy people should be able to replace. You can also get a wall switch or a remote control device that has its own rheostat and leave the one on the fan on 'high' (provided the one on the fan isn't busted completely). Now if you get a wall switch or remote control device, the wires will have different colors, white, green or bare copper and probably two more of black, red or blue. By code, the white is always the grounded wire and the green or bare always is the grounding wire. The other two are hot and connect to the fan or light. No, this is not correct, fan motors with pull chains don't work on a rheostat, or anything similar. Fan switches are multiple position, and one wire at a time is hot. I intended some humor with this reply, but I actually did make that mistake once. When you get a fan apart you'll see lots of wires - mine had four suspended lights plus of course four or so fan wires, it takes care to get them all poked back in. Sorry, but that sounds ridiculous. I'm not an expert, but I have installed 5 ceiling fans in my life (and installed a couple of them more than once). These were all modern fans, model year 2000 or higher. None of them had any wires other than I mentioned. If your fan switch does indeed have multiple wires, then where do they connect? You have one supply wire for the fan. Connecting your multiple wires to the one supply wire (or the fan motor) is tantamount to having one connection. If you have any splitting, it would be much more economical (and idiot proof for the installer) to have the splitting internal to the control device. I don't suppose the fan you are talking about is a Hunter Original fan? The previous poster was not talking about installing a fan, but replacing the speed switch. Yes there is only one wire to supply power from the house to the fan. But in many fans, there is a speed switch that has one wire that bring electricity in and three that go out. They go to three different windings (coils) in the fan motor itself. That mistake I've never made. Don't just turn it off, get a meter and do live/dead/live, and prove it is off. You should not touch a home electrical repair, ever, even the simplest, without a meter. Turning it off isn't good enough. You never know how bad the do-it-yourselfer before you screwed it up, sometimes there's power in surprising Good advice, although most of the cheap meters I have seen are only rated for max 10 amps whereas household wiring can carry 15 or 20 amps. You don't need to know how much electricity is flowing, just whether it is on or off, which you can test with a relatively cheap light probe. But when it comes to your life, it pays to be anal. If you are checking VOLTAGE, the number of AMPS running through your meter is close to zero. Yes, I have blown the fuse in my meter once, but it was because I got frustrated and accidently went to check a live circuit with the meter set on resistance (OHMS). It stupidity, not price of the meter, that was at fault. places. I got shocked once from a computer chassis, because some moron wired the outlet backwards, and the LAN cable was hot instead of grounded. And how exactly do you do that? I've also assembled my share of computers and what you've typed makes no sense. It makes perfect sense. He is talking about the house receptacle the computer was plugged into. AC current works by one side doing a push/pull cycle of electrons while the other side is grounded. As long a electricty is flowing first one way and then the other at the proper rate, it usually doesnt matter which side is the live one. I knew (not well) a guy who wired in some lights for some illegal plants he was growing ih the basement. He bypassed the electric company's meter (and in the process the breaker panel) to save money. He later went to change a burnt out bulb while standing on a damp cement floor in bare feet. If he hadn't switched the wires, he would be alive today. He had the screw threads of the bulb socket live instead of the little dot in the middle. |
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I Can't turn off my ceiling fan
"Michael Lyons" wrote in
nk.net: The previous poster was not talking about installing a fan, but replacing the speed switch. Yes there is only one wire to supply power from the house to the fan. But in many fans, there is a speed switch that has one wire that bring electricity in and three that go out. They go to three different windings (coils) in the fan motor itself. okay, in that case, it make sense. So between the supply and three output wires to the fan motor, is the device called a rheostat or not? And if not what is it called? If you are checking VOLTAGE, the number of AMPS running through your meter is close to zero. Yes, I have blown the fuse in my meter once, but it was because I got frustrated and accidently went to check a live circuit with the meter set on resistance (OHMS). It stupidity, not price of the meter, that was at fault. Yet another reason to keep things simple. places. I got shocked once from a computer chassis, because some moron wired the outlet backwards, and the LAN cable was hot instead of grounded. And how exactly do you do that? I've also assembled my share of computers and what you've typed makes no sense. It makes perfect sense. He is talking about the house receptacle the okay that makes a little more sense. I was thinking he was refering to an outlet on the computer and the times I considered rewiring an ATX plug for a non-standard MB. I still don't see how having a live LAN cable can give you shock unless it was coax instead of twisted pair. |
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I Can't turn off my ceiling fan
Salty Thumb wrote in
: "Michael Lyons" wrote in nk.net: The previous poster was not talking about installing a fan, but replacing the speed switch. Yes there is only one wire to supply power from the house to the fan. But in many fans, there is a speed switch that has one wire that bring electricity in and three that go out. They go to three different windings (coils) in the fan motor itself. okay, in that case, it make sense. So between the supply and three output wires to the fan motor, is the device called a rheostat or not? And if not what is it called? never mind. if you have one of those that connects to different windings on the motor, I suppose that's just a switch. duh. |
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Salty Thumb wrote in message ...
snip And how exactly do you do that? I've also assembled my share of computers and what you've typed makes no sense. It makes perfect sense. He is talking about the house receptacle the okay that makes a little more sense. I was thinking he was refering to an outlet on the computer and the times I considered rewiring an ATX plug for a non-standard MB. I still don't see how having a live LAN cable can give you shock unless it was coax instead of twisted pair. Yes, I didn't explain that well. The outlet in the wall was wired so that the normal hot was neutral and vice versa. The circuit was run in thinwall electrical conduit with no separate ground wire (the EMT was serving as ground) IIRC. (It's been a while.) The metal chassis of the computer should have been at ground. But it was hot. The computer ran fine, all it cares about is 110 VAC. The LAN cable was twin-ax, two connectors covered by a coaxial shield, with nice big metal end connectors. So the shield and connector at this PC was hot. The next PC on the network was at proper ground, so its shield and connector were at ground. The two LAN cables were hooked together in the middle with a double female barrel connector, so when I connected them I had a hot metal connector in my left hand and a grounded one in my right hand, and got that old familiar tingle. Had they been power wires I would have tested with a meter first, but who ever thinks of a network line carrying power? |
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