Other fans use multiple capacitors for speed changes.
Ceiling fan slow speed only.
Ceiling fans are single phase motors and rely on capacitors to start and run.
Some fans have a combination start stop capacitor and some have a capacitor for each.
In your breaker box flip the breaker that powers your fan to the off position.
The ceiling fan would turn on by using the wall switch but it would only work on one speed low speed.
Fan still seems slow on high but there is now a difference between high med and low.
This video will give some insight into replacing the capacitor in a ceiling fan.
Why is this problem happening.
I have a hampton bay ceiling fan.
The enemy of all ceiling fans is friction too much and the fan won t turn properly.
It s only working on one speed high.
Hello i have a hampton bay ceiling fan that is functioning at a very low speed on it s highest setting.
It will then continue on the high setting.
Turning the knob to high or medium did nothing.
Ceiling fan spreads the air in all over the room and helps to improve the indoor environment more amiable but there are few situations where your ceiling fan noise.
It does not have a wall switch or remote speed controller.
A user recently asked.
The culprit maybe your ceiling fan speed switch.
It turns on all three settings but all at the same speed.
Watch this video as this will help you troubleshoot and repair it under 10.
Not only do you want to clean the ball bearings but lubricating them with some oil is a good idea too.
Because it occurred within a few months of the remodel and because our house s wiring has always been a little bit flakey anyway i figured that there must be some sort of electrical problem.
It is at least 3 years old now and used to work fine at one time.
Our ceiling fan was not turning at full speed when selecting high speed the.
With a simple replacement you should be able to get all 3 speeds again.
A hum in fan is generally due to the quivering of a motor and the amount of noise is based on housing blades and mounting.
Everything is hard wired in the fan housing and conrolled by the pull chain only.
Is your fan running slow.
I ve already checked to make sure that the wiring did not come loose and that everything was connected as it should be.
Hampton bay fan working at slow speed.
It will only run on low speed.
I replaced the pull switch and it still does the same thing.
Black base instead of the 4 wire switch red base i needed.