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Silver Surfer wrote:
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> My fairly old ceiling fan needs a speed control switch replacement. It's a
> three-speed fan with a three wire switch. There are no capacitors; instead
> it appears to use some kind of smallish transformer looking device for speed
> control. My Googling to find what the circuit might look like has been
> fruitless. Can someone point me toward an educational source of speed
> control schemes for these fans or else explain to me how mine works?
You can buy a replacement at most larger hardware stores fairly
cheap, probably for less that you could repair the bad one.. Usually,
it is the switch contacts that fail. If the inductor fails, you'll
smell burning shellac of Formvar insulation.
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Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.
Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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