Timeline for When I flip the switch to turn on the ceiling fan it works...for a while. Then the circuits in the room blow. Is the issue electrical or an old fan?
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| Jul 31, 2018 at 14:54 | vote | accept | jason | ||
| Jul 26, 2018 at 21:12 | comment | added | Wayfaring Stranger | Does fan housing get hot? Sometimes a failing capacitor will act this way. | |
| Jul 26, 2018 at 16:13 | answer | added | jason | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 20:50 | comment | added | DrMoishe Pippik | As @Harper states, a lost neutral is a serious issue, causing one leg of split 120-0-120 VAC to drop in voltage while the other leg increases. It causes the risk of shock (because the neutral will not be at ground) and possibly fire, if appliances overheat. A common cause is a break at the service drop of the neutral (often bare aluminum) wire. See inspectapedia.com/electric/Electrical_Service_Drop.php | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 18:17 | comment | added | jason | I will add that I did go ahead and replace the fan with a new one. The new one seems to be working fine so far. I also didn't anything out of the ordinary while remove the old fan, but this was a first time for me so....who knows. Issue could have simply been the old fan motor having gone bad. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 15:37 | comment | added | jason | I've never heard of that. How would I add a datalogger? What exactly does that mean "a lost nuetral"? Some grounding wire in the mix has become ungrounded? | |
| Jul 22, 2018 at 17:07 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | The "some bulbs burn out quickly" problem smells an awful lot like a lost neutral. Probably fairly far upstream, either at your meter or even at the utility transformer you share with other customers. I would be checking my voltages a lot, every day. A datalogger would not be excessive. If I'm right, a lost neutral would explain a lot of other problems. | |
| Jul 22, 2018 at 15:36 | comment | added | jason | They don't dim. They just go out. Actually asked a question about that some time ago. diy.stackexchange.com/questions/25717/… | |
| Jul 22, 2018 at 15:16 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Let's back up to the part where your light bulbs burn out fairly fast. Are they dim in other places? Can you tell us more about that? | |
| Jul 22, 2018 at 13:28 | comment | added | jason | through the chain on the fan itself. Light switch isn't a dimmer. | |
| Jul 22, 2018 at 6:11 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | How do you control the speed of the fan? Is the light switch a dimmer? | |
| Jul 22, 2018 at 4:11 | history | edited | jason | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2018 at 3:58 | history | asked | jason | CC BY-SA 4.0 |