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Post by Andrew G. on Apr 2, 2004 18:59:57 GMT -5
Remember that evergo fan I was talking about, the one with severe water damage, every time I try to turn it on after I put the electronics in, the fan shorts out and blows a fuse. The variable speed control is bad but that's not the problem. I'm guessing it's the capacitor but it could also be the wiring. the fan has four main leads, a red, black, white and I think yellow. The fan has the forward/reverse pullchain and it is light kit adaptable so the light wires would have to fit in there somewhere aswell. the reason why i'm rewiring the fan is because I needed to replace both barings, check the windings, and anything else that was damaged.
Dan, do you have any ideas?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2004 15:55:43 GMT -5
Ok, I'm a little unclear on your description.
I need to know:
How many wires are coming from the motor
How many wires go to the pullchain
How many wires go to the capacitor
And what colors.
And the way it's wired that's blowing a fuse, is that the original wiring, or did you disconnect and reconnect it?
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Post by Andrew G. on Apr 3, 2004 17:46:23 GMT -5
Ok, I forgot to mention this earlier. My fan has a lower canopy but the capacitor is in ther switch housing. The motor has 6 wires coming into the housing, two for the variable speed control, a red, black, white, and a yellow. Two wires come from the capacitor (both black). 3 wires come from the pullchain, a red, black, and a yellow.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2004 17:59:18 GMT -5
Ok, I forgot to mention this earlier. My fan has a lower canopy but the capacitor is in ther switch housing. The motor has 6 wires coming into the housing, two for the variable speed control, a red, black, white, and a yellow. Two wires come from the capacitor (both black). 3 wires come from the pullchain, a red, black, and a yellow. So what's in the lower canopy? And I understand the fan has 6 wires coming from the housing, but how many come directly from the motor windings? 3?
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Post by Andrew G. on Apr 3, 2004 18:50:54 GMT -5
So what's in the lower canopy? And I understand the fan has 6 wires coming from the housing, but how many come directly from the motor windings? 3? There is nothing whatsoever inside the lower canopy. It is completely empty. I'm pretty sure four wires come from the windings. Note: forward/reverse pullchain
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2004 19:18:37 GMT -5
There is nothing whatsoever inside the lower canopy. It is completely empty. I'm pretty sure four wires come from the windings. Note: forward/reverse pullchain Most fans that have forward/reverse pullchains are wired like this: The pullchain switch has 3 leads: a line (usually black) and a '1' and a '2' usually red and blue, but I suppose red and yellow would be fine. The capacitor has two leads, and it doesnt matter what colors they are because they're interchangeable. The motor has three leads: one of them will be the common, either black or white. The other two will be the two coils, and they're usually the same color as the switch leads. You have two leads from your power source, hot and common (black and white) and I'm ignoring the variable speed control, which is wired in series with everything else. The Line from the pullchain switch and the common from the motor are connected to your two AC leads, doesnt matter which. Usually the pullchain is connected to hot(black) and the motor's common is connected to neutral (white). Each of the two other pullchain leads is connected to each of the two motor coils. Theoretically they'll be the same color, so you'll have red to red, and blue to blue (or yellow to yellow). The capacitor is connected ACROSS these. So one lead from the capacitor is connected to the two red wires, the other lead from the capacitor is connected to the two blue/yellow wires. But if the fan's shorting out, and you havent messed with the wiring already, something else could be wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2004 11:55:32 GMT -5
Did it work?
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Post by Andrew G on Apr 6, 2004 12:38:08 GMT -5
No, I disconnected everything when I took the housing off and it still doesn't work
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2004 13:05:33 GMT -5
No, I disconnected everything when I took the housing off and it still doesn't work WEll, if you disconnected everything, I'm not surprised it didnt work! Did you try wiring it according to my suggestion above? Did the number and color of wires match up? it's always possible you have a componant that's badm like the capacitor, the windings, or even a wire or connection. Do you have any way to take digital photos of the fan?
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Post by Andrew G on Apr 6, 2004 13:23:58 GMT -5
Do you have any way to take digital photos of the fan? Yes, I'll do that when I get ahold of my dad's camera and then I'll get them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2004 18:23:19 GMT -5
Did you try wiring it according to my suggestion above? Did the number and color of wires match up?
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Post by Andrew G. on Apr 17, 2004 17:30:23 GMT -5
Did you try wiring it according to my suggestion above? Did the number and color of wires match up? Only one of my evergo fans has three lead wires, the other one has four winding leads.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2004 0:16:55 GMT -5
Only one of my evergo fans has three lead wires, the other one has four winding leads. And both are variable speed?
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Post by Andrew G. on Apr 18, 2004 9:03:55 GMT -5
And both are variable speed? yup, both fans are the same except one is light kit adaptable and the other one isn't. The one that had the light has four wires but only two main leads, not three. the other fan looks like it has a flat portion with three holes in it like the motor is multi-purpose or something. this fan motor has three leads.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2004 20:32:31 GMT -5
yup, both fans are the same except one is light kit adaptable and the other one isn't. The one that had the light has four wires but only two main leads, not three. the other fan looks like it has a flat portion with three holes in it like the motor is multi-purpose or something. this fan motor has three leads. Ok, I've become thoroughly confused by your descriptions and details. If the problem cannot be solved by the wiring suggestions I posted earlier, you're going to need to give me a call, so we can talk about it in detail, or show it to someone in person.
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