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Re: Ceiling fan speed control

Subject: Re: Ceiling fan speed control
From: "zack"
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:17:54 +1000
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.repair
if its runs at high speed only control is
burned out or open, if it runs high speed on
all settings control is short out or burned out.
you can replace them with a capacitor 3 speed
control, ive done this to some fans.
goto a electrical store to get them, some
have the circuits with them to follow.

"Silver Surfer" <h.mcguffinspamouflage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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?
>
>



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