Ceiling Fan Running Slow On High

New ceiling fan runs slow even on highest setting our home is a new build and was pre wired for ceiling fans.

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. Either a bad capacitor or damaged winding. Run new ceiling fans and those that. Sometimes this solves the problem.

Don t hook up ceiling fans to dimmer switches. Two of these issues are mechanical. 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. The torque to drive the motor of your electric fan comes from the magnetic field induced in the motor coils when electricity.

You can sometime test by reversing the motor and see if it runs faster. The other two are electrical. 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. 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.

Ceiling fans that operate at speeds slower than normal can have one of four problems. Is your fan running slow. The first thing to try is to clean and lubricate. Essentially we ll use process of elimination to get to the root of the problem.

Turn a ceiling fan that hums at a slow speed to high speed and then turn it back to slow. Luckily finding out the source of the problem is not all that difficult. What is causing the motor on an electric fan to slow down and stop. Watch this video as this will help you troubleshoot and repair it under 10.

The ceiling fan would turn on by using the wall switch but it would only work on one speed low speed. You might have a normal operating fan and just the distance from the ceiling to the blades can effect fan speed. 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. Joe has a ceiling fan here that is.

If certain ceiling fan speeds are not working there are a few things that could be the problem. Loss of bearing lubrication and poor blade balance.