Ceiling Fan Running Slow On High

All ceiling mounts have copper black white and red wires coming from them and are connected to a two way switch on the wall one controls fan speed the other the light.

Ceiling fan running slow on high. Most are not designed for dimmers and in addition to producing a humming noise the dimmer switch can burn out the motor. Luckily finding out the source of the problem is not all that difficult. Ceiling vans have very little torque and almost any problem may cause the fan to run slowly. Ceiling fans that operate at speeds slower than normal can have one of four problems.

Turn a ceiling fan that hums at a slow speed to high speed and then turn it back to slow. The first thing to try is to clean and lubricate. Two of these issues are mechanical. If certain ceiling fan speeds are not working there are a few things that could be the problem.

What is causing the motor on an electric fan to slow down and stop. Is your fan running slow. Run new ceiling fans and those that. Generally fan creates humming sound at low velocity and the noise is not heard after a sufficient long run of a fan so that every part or bearing of a fan is to be greased.

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. You can sometime test by reversing the motor and see if it runs faster. You might have a normal operating fan and just the distance from the ceiling to the blades can effect fan speed. If it is a high efficiency fan it don t take much to slow the speed down even blades out of balance can change the fan speed.

Joe has a ceiling fan here that is. Loss of bearing lubrication and poor blade balance. Don t hook up ceiling fans to dimmer switches. New ceiling fan runs slow even on highest setting our home is a new build and was pre wired for ceiling fans.

Check with the electric switch to which the ceiling fan is connected because at times that switch creates the hum resonance when the fan is in working state. The other two are electrical. Essentially we ll use process of elimination to get to the root of the problem. Watch this video as this will help you troubleshoot and repair it under 10.

Turning the knob to high or medium did nothing. The ceiling fan would turn on by using the wall switch but it would only work on one speed low speed.