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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 5, 2009 17:37:27 GMT -5
Jean's doesn't have a white, and I have regular quiet fan speed controls just like the one he described. I'm not sure if it is compatible with Jean's type of wiring. And it says on the instructions: No additional wiring required.
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Post by John Shelley on Mar 5, 2009 19:27:57 GMT -5
Did the control have the little insert with installation instructions? Even if not, I've dealt with these controls before. It sounds like a strange wiring system, as opposed to what I'm used to. I usually deal with a main black, white and ground, and a black, white and ground from the ceiling box. With this type of wiring, you connect the two grounds with the control ground, the two whites together(there's no white on the control as you mentioned), and a black goes to either black wire from the main and ceiling connections. If you only have the three wires in the wall box, I don't know what you would do. Yes thats the problem, I only have a white, a black and a ground in the switch box. Yes the control comes with instructions that show two ways to install but none of these two ways matches my switch box. I don't have two different wires coming in this box only one that goes up to the ceiling. That's means the wire that brings the power to the ceiling fixture come in the ceiling box and not in the wall box. In the ceiling fixture there 3 wires that comes in. ( by 3 wires I mean 3 wires all each including a black, a white and a ground.) Your wiring is a normal switch loop setup. The green wire ont the swict goes to the ground wire. One black wire on the switch goes to the black wire the other goes to the white wire.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 5, 2009 20:02:16 GMT -5
Yes thats the problem, I only have a white, a black and a ground in the switch box. Yes the control comes with instructions that show two ways to install but none of these two ways matches my switch box. I don't have two different wires coming in this box only one that goes up to the ceiling. That's means the wire that brings the power to the ceiling fixture come in the ceiling box and not in the wall box. In the ceiling fixture there 3 wires that comes in. ( by 3 wires I mean 3 wires all each including a black, a white and a ground.) Your wiring is a normal switch loop setup. The green wire ont the swict goes to the ground wire. One black wire on the switch goes to the black wire the other goes to the white wire. Yeah I toughed about doing that but I did not know you could hook a white wire to a black one. Are you SURE that's safe? The diagram that show for when you have one wire going to the ceiling only show TWO BLACK wries in the switch box. That's weird. But if someone can confirm this I will try it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2009 2:38:38 GMT -5
Connect your new switch to the same wires as the old switch, it will work fine.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 6, 2009 16:42:29 GMT -5
Connect your new switch to the same wires as the old switch, it will work fine. No its not that easy Dan the new switch INCLUDES wires on the back of the switch unlike the other standard switch that was there before that you just have to screws your wires on it now you have to make connection with other wires. Do I put one black on the black and the other black from the control on the white like John said?? I don't see any other way than that.
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Post by Cole S. on Mar 6, 2009 17:06:07 GMT -5
I don't know exactly, but it seems what John said would work. It would make sense with how the wiring "loops".
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 6, 2009 17:43:00 GMT -5
If its the wrong wiring what do I risk a shock or just that the fan will not work?
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Post by John Shelley on Mar 6, 2009 19:53:31 GMT -5
If its the wrong wiring what do I risk a shock or just that the fan will not work? If it is wrong the fan just will not work.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2009 21:10:20 GMT -5
Jean you wire the new switch exactly like the old switch. Remove the two wires from the old switch, connect them to the two wires from the new switch. Green to ground if you have it.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 7, 2009 2:15:56 GMT -5
Its OK I got the 3-speed wall control working! I did like John told me. Thanks for the support everybody. Its just that I don't do wiring every week and I've been told that you should never put a white with a black. Plus electricity is not something to play with. The RPM are about 85/140/210. Really does not have a very fast high speed, I toughed it would have been much faster than that. Its almost as slow as my Craftmade. But it got a fast medium and low speed. And there not a big difference between the high and medium. Unlike some other said about those 3-speed wall control it did not slow down my fan that much . Because of the POOR installation of the electrical box it makes a hum hum hum sound to the fan but the motor it self is not too loud it really the way the electrical box is mounted to the wood beam in the ceiling that makes that. But at least it does not wobble at all. And moves a lot of air even of low you get a noticeable breeze. ;D Anybody have any comment about the paint job of the blades. I'm open to both positive and negative comments. I will make a video of it.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 8, 2009 4:04:30 GMT -5
Finally here the video. It took sooooooooo long to upload. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM1PMZpo7BMAnd it says that the video it still processing and after the processing the quality of the video will be improved so that why some parts of the video might look blurry. Sorry for all the background noise
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Post by jeremy on Mar 8, 2009 5:52:06 GMT -5
wow nice fan,good video,i wish the stencil is still shown as good as my cec spinners but still job well done and beautiful!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2009 0:06:51 GMT -5
It might need oil/new bearings or a new capacitor.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 22, 2009 2:36:39 GMT -5
Yes I had to try this. ;D Those are the blades from my Encon Princess 42''. But don't worry I did not kept these longer blades on it for too long. The square tip of it looks awful on this fan. They are longer but the wood is skinnier they are also skinnier in wideness. But it really made the fan to spins slower.
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Post by JW on Mar 22, 2009 10:30:15 GMT -5
Yes I had to try this. ;D Those are the blades from my Encon Princess 42''. But don't worry I did not kept these longer blades on it for too long. The square tip of it looks awful on this fan. They are longer but the wood is skinnier they are also skinnier in wideness. But it really made the fan to spins slower. I, on the other hand, think the blades are very proportional to the fan. How much air did it move in comparison to having its regular blades on?
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