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Post by osceolakid on Sept 16, 2015 17:54:11 GMT -5
Hi, The fan stopped working and the 2 speed pull switch got partial melted and seized. unfortunately none of the wires where attached to switch so not sure exactly what color wire does what? Tried to contact Hunter for the switch part and it doesn't exist anymore. I'm wondering if I use any 3 speed switch and hook up the L 1 and 2 would work and that would do it. From reviewing I see wire colors of Grey, Black with White stripe, Red, Black, Black with tag on it says "Connect Black lead of light kit for control with fan switch here", White with tag with torn no real info to get, White. Yes the Fan has a light kit. Got the fan to run once with jumpers and seems weird the switch would seize and partial melt? Any insights would help me loads getting this brass original working again? Thanks!
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Post by Obi-Wan Canopy on Sept 16, 2015 17:56:10 GMT -5
You can use MOST but not ANY 2 or 3 speed switches. You need an L-1-2 or L-1-2-3 switch.
The wires are in three bundles. A black, white, and black and white stripe from the supply. A blue, red, and white from the motor.
Black from supply goes to L on the pullchain. White from supply goes to white from the motor and white from the light. Black and white stripe goes to black from the light.
Blue goes to 1 on the pullchain. If you have a 2 speed pullchain, red goes to 2. If you have a 3 speed pullchain, red goes to 3.
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Post by JW on Sept 17, 2015 23:02:04 GMT -5
You could also take the opportunity to convert the fan to 3-speed if you can acquire a small enough 10-12mfd capacitor and some wire (insulated single strand 18ish gauge should be fine).
With this setup, black would still go to L, white would still go to motor white as well as white from light kit, and striped would still go to light kit.
Blue would still go to 1.
For the red, you would connect one wire that would run straight to 2, and then a second wire that would connect to the capacitor, which in turn would connect to 3.
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Post by osceolakid on Oct 11, 2015 12:14:15 GMT -5
A sincere Thank You is in order to Obi-Wan Canopy. Ordered a 2 speed switch and the wiring instructions where spot on. Also the 3 -speed solution sounds good. Thanks JW.
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