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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2008 0:29:30 GMT -5
I've not heard of this happening before.
Try bypassing the control and see if the fan or light comes on. Just take the two wires that go to the control and connect them together.
I suspect it's the board.
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Post by fixitmike on Jul 25, 2015 17:15:00 GMT -5
Rewind, you may not be SOL. Does the board have a large yellow capacitor on it, along with about 8 other parts? If so, it's like mine, and I got my fan working again. With AC power off, pop the little board out of the housing (there are 4 snap-in mounting posts), and unplug the nylon wire connectors from the board (I think there are 5 or 6 of them -- you may need a screwdriver to pop them up). On my board there was a burned resistor next to the big yellow capacitor (should be 39 ohms, 1/4 watt), and some melted solder around a couple of the connector posts. In addition, my variable-speed control (5K 5w wire-wound) was internally damaged (wire was shreaded), which may have been the original cause of the problem. Anyway, I replaced the 39 ohm resistor, re-soldered the damaged pins, cleaned up the board, and put everything back together again. I will look for a replacement speed control, but in the meantime I removed the two red wires from the control, stripped them back a little, and twisted the bare ends together (same as setting the control to 0 ohms, or max speed). Now the fan runs at max speed, but I can control that with the dimmer-switch I use to run the lights. Hope that gets your fan spinning again.
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