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i got a question, last night i got home from work and went to the bedroom and the celing fan didn't work. it has a light with it and i just was wondering if it was the fan or maybe the switch on the wall? any suggestions would be helpful. thanks.
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Not knowing how your fan was wired i.e. direct off a circuit, off a wall switch etc makes it difficult. On the body of the fan is a directional control switch. Usually up is up flow, down is downflow. If it's in the middle - no flow. There are two pullchains, one for the fan, one for the light. Follow this sequence. drop the canopy of the fan. find the black wire. with a test lamp or meter, check for a voltage there to ground. go to the light switch or what you consider to be the control for the fan and switch it on. Check at the black wire again for a voltage. If you have 120 volts - go back to the switch and shut it off. Put the canopy back up and screw it in place. Pull each pullchain once and go back to the switch - switch it on - Oh make sure the directional switch is all the way up or down. If the fan turns and the light lights you found the problem. Pullchains in wrong position. If you have voltage at the black but nothing works, the wires going inside the 3/8" tubing may be broken at some point. Also the white neutral may have come off from under the wirenut. Normally colors going through the tube are white, black or red, and blue.
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