My ancient fan (probably over 20 years old) stopped working, just buzzed. After watching this vid I went and flicked the direction switch a few times back and forth. Now it's working again, only with no buzz. Thanks for the vid.
Thanks. I’ve been living in a new house for four years now. And we’ve been putting off Fixing our fan because we couldn’t figure out what was wrong, you just fixed our fan. Thanks for the video.
Thank you sooo much. It wasn’t a new fan, I just replaced the light zing ear string , put it back together, tried it and fan didn’t moved. Your video was the first one I watched and it worked. Save me big time.
Thank you Scoobyrogers! I have thought my bedroom ceiling fan had been "broke" for many months. On the first day it was hot enough for me to want the fan on, I thought MAYBE I'll get lucky and find a quick fix on RUclips. YOU gave me that quick fix, sir!!! My direction switch was down, not in the middle. I flipped it back and forth quickly several times. Fan worked with switch "up". Then I tested it w/switch "down". It hummed but this time you could see the fan was trying to turn, barely moving. With fan off, I again flicked the switch up and down, this time maybe ten times. NOW the fan works in both direction as normal. Woooo Hooo! So, I assume the switch may have some corrosion or dust or for some other reason it was not able to pass through enough current to operate the fan motor. So First Thing:::: flick your fan's directional switch back and forth maybe twenty times to possibly clean the switches contacts. That might get you back in business like it did for me. Again, Huge Thank You to Scoobyrogers for taking the time and effort to post this video. Much gratitude, Sir!
Dude!!! You just saved me from such a headache!!! I turned my fan on when I put up the Christmas tree in November since it's my only overhead light in my living room. I didn't turn it on for probably two months due to the cold weather. So when the tree is getting taken down I'm like why is the fan not running anymore?? The light works. Just a hum. Couldn't find answers and then here's your video a month or so later. Thank you!!!! The directional switch was stuck.
Your very welcome. I have a million things I've fixed, lol, just putting them all on video isn't easy. Glad I could help....and saved you some headaches and money!!!!
Sometimes the video serves provides the solution and sometimes the comments provide the solution. In my case, it was the comments. Someone wrote that exercising the reversing switch with power applied, apparently cleaned the contacts enough to get their fan moving again. So it was with mine. My fan is 26 years old! I found a wired replacement switch on Amazon and have ordered it. In the meantime, the fan is fully functional, whereas previously, the fan only hummed. Thanks for posting the switch idea, Scooby. You provided the forum!
A customer had a worse issue. Ceiling fan and lights didn't work. I asked if she changed the batteries in the remote. She said yes. I tested the batteries, turns out someone put old batteries in the pack so she just switched out bad batteries for bad batteries. Thanks for the video
Thanks, that lead me to follow the wiring and I had a yellow wire that "pulled" out of the harness between the fan and light/fan assembly. Works great now!
Foooooooock! I just installed a NEW Hunter in my kids bedroom, all wired right, huuuuummmmm no turning. Tested wires. Tested connections. Was gonna take it down and return it..... until your video. THANKS!!
You are very welcome. If it doesn't work by a quick flip of the switch, then cycle it up and down vigorously to clear any internal dust or loose connection. Then try it. I hope it helps.
Good video. I’m fixing a problem with a humm right now. switch is good new capacitor installed now when I turn it on it doesn’t start from a dead stop unless I lightly touch it... I like my things to work flawlessly so I got the fan motor on my work bench
Thank for the idea. I am going to try this. I have installed about 20 fans over the years and it is bugging me that this one is not working. I have actually tried two of the same fan with the same result. I also tried different wall switches and all i get is humming.
Good advice regarding the switch. I too have a "humming" NEW ceiling fan from Hunter (remote). After the install, I turned it on and there was a humming noise at all speeds. Well I wasn't happy about that so I contacted Hunter direct, they said to exchange it for another one. Ok, I did that, still humming. They asked me to tr one more exchange, which I did, still humming. I took it back, purchased a different model, still hums. All wires are connected properly, as I have 6 new ceiling fans over the last couple of years, this is the only room that hums. Any idea? And yes, the blades are balanced.
Yes.. you do not have enough power going to the fan. Most wiring, about 99% in a home feeds from another fixture or outlet in the same room, or a room close by. So ask yourself this. Has anything been replaced in the room next to it? Any light fixtures, ceiling fixtures, fans, etc ? If so, you JUST found your problem. I would check the wiring to the problem fan 1st, check and see where it feeds from. I would also replace the light switch to this fan to elevate the power reduction. I have had issues exactly like this. The light fixture I replaced in a Dining room and everything, I thought, was connected properly, gave reduced power in the kitchen. That caused the kitchen fan to turn the lights on, but not enough power to run the fan. After checking all wiring and almost giving up, I checking the Dining wiring again and found the wire that feeds the kitchen was barely inside the wire not...so badly touching power wires, which gave significantly reduced power to the kitchen. I have also found outlets and light switche wires badly attached to the screws, or burned out. (Fire Hazzard waiting to happen). I just replaced with new ones, connected properly and works great. So think outside the box....and room and see where that leads. Turn off the power at the breaker box and see what is on the same circuit as your problem fan. EVEN switches and outlets. You would be surprised what a builder does. Good Luck.
@@scoobyrogers Thank you for the feedback and ideas. To answer, no, we have not added anything new to our home in over 10 years. The ceiling fan I replaced was just obsolete and my wife wanted a remote fan. The switch on the wall only supports power to the fan. Everything is ran through conduit pipes.
So when you turn off the breaker to that room, only that fan turns off? You have to have some other line feeding into that room. If you have not done any other changes, I would still check switches and outlets in the same room amd other rooms. Check everything that is not supplied power when you turn the breaker off to that fan. You can catch a potential fire Hazzard. Still sounds like something is under powered. The remote fans are terrible in my openion. I have one and rather trash it. I do not ever recommend working on electricity while breakers are on... I found one of my loose wires when I left power one, removed an outlet and seen/heard sparks. It looked tight, but was not even close.
@@scoobyrogers Thank you for the reply. So you are saying that there is possibly not enough power to the fans? I looked at my breakers and my 3 bedrooms are split it appears between 2 - 15 amp breakers. You're saying I should upgrade to possibly 30 amp in order to eliminate the hum noise? Can we email direct?
nice tier 1 troubleshooting tip! i've got a rf controlled ceiling fan that does not spin. i can hear the motor quietly 'hum" an airybody keeps saying it's the capacitor. aren't the capacitors in factory rf controlled fans actually inside the rf receiver? i haven't had the time to take it down and tear it apart yet, but i have feeling the motor is gunked up with dust and needs to be 'set free'. but as always, just throwing 'guesses' at it at this point.
I do not believe when people say "capacitor" . Lol i honestly have not come across one that needed a capacitor. It was always some other issue. So yours was working and quit? These switches go bad too. I have had a fan quit, and swapped out this direction switch and worked again. The new RF remote fans are a pain. The rf fan we have didn't have the remote, so I removed the control box inside the fan and wired to the wall switches.
I have a couple of Hunter fans, and one started humming but not spinning. Swapped the control box with the good one which has direction switch and the capacitor but unfortunate. I think the motor issue because other control box works with other fan.
Thank you so much I appreciate it because you're absolutely right there is no video that includes what I'm looking for which is I took the blades off of my ceiling fan to recover and I covered them with contact paper put them backup and all of the bolts were not the right ones in the 1st place and the piece that goes on to the fan blade that kind of gold bracket thing that's vans out at the base of it so it holds the blade on the fan though thing that bolts that on their one of the 4 was a different size and I think it's because my landlord just buying whatever he wanted to to fix it before I had moved in and long story short I go to put them backup and all of the bolts are lots of them were stripped so I put them up with zip ties LMF AOI know that sounds really ridiculous but it did not look fad I assure you and long story short the fan will no longer turn but I can hear it and the light works and this is the most bizarre part if I loose and 1 of the bolts of the 1 of the blades it will turn but I can't have it turning and spinning with a wobbly
Lmao... your welcome.. you should be able to take the screws to Lowes and buy the next bigger size screw. Even better may be longer screws with lock nuts. The wobble makes me laugh reading this. Please be safe. I see a RUclips video from you soon of this sketchy fan wobbling to music!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
If you are safe,, power off and confident ro mess with electrical...proceed.. if not,, I would call someone.. Typically isn't the capacitor. Could be the switch is the gunked up, or went bad. I would push with some pressure up and down and see if it cleans the contacts inside. If it's loose feeling, switch is bad. Next I would lower the fan down and check wiring connections. I personally would s Disconnect the 2 wires on the switch and then check. If it works, it's the switch..if not, after checking all connections by removing and reconnecting, then if nothing works, THEN I would say capacitor. Note: room wiring runs from one room to another. You can have a loose wire in adjacent room, which causes less power to the room with the fan. If you changed a light, fan, outlet or fixture, in a room that has the same circuit, then you may have loosened a connection.
@Marcio could be part of their plans. They want you to hire a professional. Sadly many professionals do not flip the switch as a troubleshoot. They do it by accident while scratching their heads....they just don't tell the homeowner.
Ok so just bought brand new fan and it’s humming but blades won’t turn, I already flipped that switch back and forth and it still just hums and won’t turn blades. Any pointers or do I have to replace something?
Disconnect the power wires again and double check everything. Sounds like lack of power. Or could be as if the switch needs flipped a few more times....spin the blades around to see if motor is stuck.
@@scoobyrogers thanks for the help, I tried all of those things but no luck. I took it back and got another one and it works perfect. They said it must have just been a bad motor or something. Thanks again.
@codieorten3909 perfect. Yeah sometimes it's best to return and start fresh. I have seen wires connected properly and nothing work but a hum and disconnected everything and started fresh and everything worked properly again.
I personally would flip the rotation switch numerous times up and down. There could be rust. If you do not feel any kind of resistance, the internals of the switch may be gone. Which rarely happens. Typically it is dust or gunk build up to stop the connection. I have heard of people changing the switch, and the fan work normal again. Also, I would turn off the power to the Gan, and pull the whole fan down and check internal connections, tug on wires, etc. I give a slight tug, you'll know if it's a loose connection or not. I had a fan that didn't work, pulled down and enveloped normal. Gave some wires a tug, and one wS just sitting in the wire connectors not touching anything. Stripped wire, reconnected and worked fine.
I sure was hoping you had me fixed, but I have had about 4 different fans and they all had low speeds. Cant be the capacitor....thanks but I am back to the drawing boards
All the fans were installed in the same room??? I answered another comment previously. You may not be getting enough juice to that room. Check other rooms that are in the same circuit breaker, even outlets. You can have loose wiring in the next room over light fixture or ceiling fan, an wire on an outlet, or a bad outlet, or a wall switch. Depends on how your previous owner/builder installed the wiring.
@@brettdman2908 it's ok. Disclaimer: I take no responsibility for what your next actions are. It's pretty easy for me, and can be for you.... if you pulled the fan down, you can easily do the same in the other rooms. Make sure your fan has good connections. Turn all lights on and flip breakers until you know which ceiling fixtures are attached to the room you are diagnosing. Also take note to switches and outlets. (This may be part 2 of diagnosing) Once you know what rooms to check. Keep breaker off for safety and lower those ceiling fixtures. Inspect connecting wires. You SHOULD have a wire that goes from 1 room, to your low powered room. Check connections, burned wire, etc. Do this in each room that is on the same breaker. Disconnect and reconnect in my opinion, cause it MAY look properly connected, but coul not be. So reconnect everything again. After everything is connected, turn breaker back on and check fan again. If still same, I would turn off breaker and start checking outlets. You MAY have a burned outlet, which causes the DAISY CHAIN wire to supply less or no power to your fan. I have had a light switch and a fixture quit, due to an outlet in another room burn up a partial wire. Was hard to find, because it looked just fine, outlet worked fine, but the exit wore is what burned. Therefore would not supply the adjacent room ceiling fixture. Another time putting in a light, cause a ceiling fan in next room to have low power, light dim and fan didn't work. Went back to adjacency room and daisy wire was belly touching power wire. Hope this helps. 🙏
Thanks for the vid... for some reason it’s still not working only hum. It does look as if it wants to spin but isn’t ( let alone I’m only getting high speed so I have to check it all again)
You will need to try and see what fan and model you have. This fix is for those that have reverse direction switches. Most fans have reverse direction. Some are a switch and some are a chain if it's a chain, then same thing...pull a few times and see if it knocks the dust and crud off to get a good contact, or replace the connection. Does your fan have a remote? It may have a wire not hooked up for reverse direction! You can have a failed capacitor, or burned wire. If your getting humming, your getting power...start with that. You may not be getting enough power. Wires could be barely touching, etc. Many think if the light works, fan has power, which isn't true. You will most likely need to lower the fan down and look at all the wiring inside. If it has a separate light kit, you could probably lower that too and look.
My fan switch is good, I've read that a sign of a bad capacitor is it hums, but will spin of you start it by hand. Mine won't spin, is it possible it's still the capacitor? Thanks man
Most of the time it is not the capacitors. I have dealt with 100"s of fans and never had a bad capacitor. Not saying yours isn't the issue.. I am saying typically, go back through your wiring. Check loose connections, check correct wires are connected correctly, check wires on switches, and any internal wiring. Give a slight tug and a loose wire will pull out easily. I had a fan that had a hum issue, and when I took it down, and connected into another room it worked fine. Put it back up and original room and found a bad wire. I snipped, rewired, then worked fine.
@@scoobyrogers thanks for the reply, I took the blades off, and gave it a good spin and it kept going. With the blades on it won't turn... It's almost like the motor isn't strong enough to turn with the blades. Ended up picking one up at Lowes, but trying some last minute rigging. All wires were connected good, I even retwisted them into the caps.
@@seanvaglica1000 yeah, sounds Iike something is wrong, and sounds to me still not enough powe through the wires.. Did you check with an ohm meter? I had an outlet not get the right power, and once I tracked down the issue, it was a jumper from a switch in a different room that was on the same circuit. See if another room shares the same circuit breaker in the breaker box. Most wiring is in series, so goes from one room, to another, etc. It is possible to have a bad wire in one room say ROOM 2, due to another rooms wiring being burned, or loose that feeds from ROOM 1 to ROOM 2..
@@scoobyrogers I ended up just replacing the fan, the new one works like a champ. I would have driven myself nuts trying to track down the issue. I appreciate the replies, and moral support. Keep making videos, you have a good personality.
What if it’s a new dc fan motor with remote on a Home Depot brand fan that doesn’t even start. The light doesn’t work, the fan sounds like it’s trying to calibrate (ticking trying to spin one way then the other) but never starts spinning and light never works!
Sounds like either wired wrong, or dead fan. I would double check wiring. If this is replacing a light and fan that was on 2 separate switches, and now it is controlled by a remote. You should be using one switch. If I remember correctly, you should have a wire in the ceiling not used, that goes to one of the switches. Really feel, double check wiring. 2nd, return to Home Depot for same one...if you have same issues, again refer to wiring!!!
scoobyrogers I did return it for a new one. We wired it correctly my brother is an electrician and he is stumped too. Thinks it could be in the wall that it’s damaged somewhere between the breaker box and ceiling mount. 🤷🏼♀️ so I bought another fan thinking it might just be this energy efficient dc motor fan. We are trying a regular hunter fan now to see if it’s the actual wires in the wall. Thanks for your help. If u have any other advice I would love to hear it.
I do not have a direction switch on my fan. It's on the remote. I just get a hum--in all three speeds in both directions. Seems like the motor isn't wanting to move. You can tell power and signal is going to it, and the motor spins freely with a push. Just no movement. 2004 fan... Shouldn't be inop.
@@scoobyrogers It's a 23530-300 from June 2004. The answer to fixing this is: hammer the direction button a bunch of times, intermittently trying the low-med-high settings. It finally started up. Taking the whole thing apart is NOT the answer.
I had the directional switch fall apart and wired in a new one. Nothing. Replaced the capacitor - nothing. Thought of buying the pull switch, but I'm guessing again now. I am about to give up on this fan
The capacitor isn't a human use thing. If you don't hear a hum or can test for power, I personally would change the pull chain switch. Those EASILY wear out, especially if used frequently or pulled too hard by kids. Try it, and if it doesn't fix it, return the pull switch, direction switch and capacitor id possibly use that money toward a new fan.
Flip switch up and down several times. Contacts get dusty and dirty, could have loose connection. You can replace that switch. I personally would switch up and down vigorously with power off to see if its dirty connection, then replace switch. If you are electrically inclined, you can take bypass the switch to see if that is it or not.
When I removed the part of the light exposing the wires, I noticed there was copper, I think I accidentally pulled something that made the fan stop moving. The lights turn on and it makes a sound.
Move switch up and down numerous times, it could be dust build up. If the switch doesnt work, then you have another issue. Are you getting power? Does the light come on, if it has one?
Gotta say this was a bit of a waste, I have one that's been up for a long time and it kicked on after I cleaned it and after a minute it shut off, it hums, I guess the capacitor or whatever went out
Many times people think the capacitor but its most of the time the switch. The get dirty easily. Flip the switch up and down numerous times to break free dust and dirt. I have even had to replace a switch before due to, rust believe it or not!
Might be a long shot but maybe you can help me. My fans less than a year old and I went to go change that switch (winter and all that) and everything worked. I changed it back on a particularly warm day and when it got cold again, I turn off the fan, switch the setting back to winter mode and I get that hum but no spin. The switch isn’t in the middle it’s pushed all the way so I don’t know what to do.
These switches are terrible. Switching back and forth imo destroys them. I say, with power switch off, switch it back and forth vigorously and then see. I say it does sound like the switch to me. They are all cheap.
@@scoobyrogers IT WORKED! Thank you! I was thinking that maybe the motor had busted in that specific direction or something haha. Maybe some dust was getting in the way of the contacts? Either way I won’t be switching it until spring. Thanks again!
@Sins4Jesus welcome. These switches loose contact... dust, or loose contacts cause the failure. I try not to switch them, ever. Lol. Welcome. Good luck.
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My ancient fan (probably over 20 years old) stopped working, just buzzed. After watching this vid I went and flicked the direction switch a few times back and forth. Now it's working again, only with no buzz. Thanks for the vid.
Welcome.. glad I could help!
Thank you so much for your video I made the same mistake by not checking that switch too.
Thanks. I’ve been living in a new house for four years now. And we’ve been putting off Fixing our fan because we couldn’t figure out what was wrong, you just fixed our fan. Thanks for the video.
Your welcome. ❤❤❤❤
Enjoy the "new" fan. Hahah
was your problem the switch too?
Lee Leviner yes it was.
Thank you sooo much. It wasn’t a new fan, I just replaced the light zing ear string , put it back together, tried it and fan didn’t moved. Your video was the first one I watched and it worked. Save me big time.
Glad it helped..I searched before and there was nothing to help, so I made this video. Like and subscribe!!!!
Thank you Scoobyrogers! I have thought my bedroom ceiling fan had been "broke" for many months. On the first day it was hot enough for me to want the fan on, I thought MAYBE I'll get lucky and find a quick fix on RUclips. YOU gave me that quick fix, sir!!! My direction switch was down, not in the middle. I flipped it back and forth quickly several times. Fan worked with switch "up". Then I tested it w/switch "down". It hummed but this time you could see the fan was trying to turn, barely moving. With fan off, I again flicked the switch up and down, this time maybe ten times. NOW the fan works in both direction as normal. Woooo Hooo! So, I assume the switch may have some corrosion or dust or for some other reason it was not able to pass through enough current to operate the fan motor. So First Thing:::: flick your fan's directional switch back and forth maybe twenty times to possibly clean the switches contacts. That might get you back in business like it did for me. Again, Huge Thank You to Scoobyrogers for taking the time and effort to post this video. Much gratitude, Sir!
Sooo very welcome. I am glad it worked for you as well. It's the simple things in life. Lol. Enjoy your new fan!!!
Just installed a brand new fan. After taking down and checking wiring twice I was about to return it. Thank you for making this video.
So very welcome ! 👍
You just saved me a massive headache. Thank you!!!!
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Dude!!! You just saved me from such a headache!!! I turned my fan on when I put up the Christmas tree in November since it's my only overhead light in my living room. I didn't turn it on for probably two months due to the cold weather. So when the tree is getting taken down I'm like why is the fan not running anymore?? The light works. Just a hum. Couldn't find answers and then here's your video a month or so later. Thank you!!!! The directional switch was stuck.
Your very welcome. I have a million things I've fixed, lol, just putting them all on video isn't easy. Glad I could help....and saved you some headaches and money!!!!
Sometimes the video serves provides the solution and sometimes the comments provide the solution. In my case, it was the comments. Someone wrote that exercising the reversing switch with power applied, apparently cleaned the contacts enough to get their fan moving again. So it was with mine. My fan is 26 years old! I found a wired replacement switch on Amazon and have ordered it. In the meantime, the fan is fully functional, whereas previously, the fan only hummed. Thanks for posting the switch idea, Scooby. You provided the forum!
You are very welcome. Enjoy your "new" fan!! Lol
A customer had a worse issue. Ceiling fan and lights didn't work. I asked if she changed the batteries in the remote. She said yes. I tested the batteries, turns out someone put old batteries in the pack so she just switched out bad batteries for bad batteries.
Thanks for the video
Yeah, that's crazy. I dislike the whole remote thing.
You saved me from disassemble whole unit! Thank you!
Your welcome. Glad my little video could help!
You saved me from taking it apart for a second time after changing the capacitor. then cussing out Home Depot staff. Haha
@@russterry8997 your welcome. Lol. Sorry you didn't see this sooner.....And home depot workers are too!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Awesome!!! Was about to call an electrician and pay way too much! Thanks
Your welcome.
Had this same problem mine wasnt stick half way, but i moved it from forward to reverse then back to forward and its working now. Thanks a lot man
Very welcome.
@@scoobyrogers thank you
Thanks, that lead me to follow the wiring and I had a yellow wire that "pulled" out of the harness between the fan and light/fan assembly. Works great now!
Perfect. I hope the video helped you some with that. lol.
Foooooooock! I just installed a NEW Hunter in my kids bedroom, all wired right, huuuuummmmm no turning. Tested wires. Tested connections. Was gonna take it down and return it..... until your video.
THANKS!!
Welcome.. I try to help others best I can.
Awesome!! Thanks man, didn’t ever think to check the switch after installing new fan. Problem solved 👍🏽
Welcome...its the simple things in life !!!!
Boy howdy if that works I'm a happy happy gal. Thank you very much
You are very welcome. If it doesn't work by a quick flip of the switch, then cycle it up and down vigorously to clear any internal dust or loose connection. Then try it. I hope it helps.
Good video. I’m fixing a problem with a humm right now. switch is good new capacitor installed now when I turn it on it doesn’t start from a dead stop unless I lightly touch it... I like my things to work flawlessly so I got the fan motor on my work bench
Thank you for saving me taking it back 👍👍😊
Your welcome. Glad I could help!!!
Thank you. Did this and it worked
Welcome. So happy it worked for you. Enjoy your new fan. Lol
Thank for the idea. I am going to try this. I have installed about 20 fans over the years and it is bugging me that this one is not working. I have actually tried two of the same fan with the same result. I also tried different wall switches and all i get is humming.
Hope this works and saves you the headache and money.
Very good point- thanks!
Thank you, was about to disassemble the entire thing!
You ate welcome. Glad I saved a HUGE headache for you!!!
After replacing bearings, same problem... but my fan has no switch. Guess I'll keep searching.
Thank you for making this video!
Welcome. I hope it helped save you money and headaches!!!!
Thank you sir. It was driving me insane
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Thanks! Video worked for me!!!
Glad I could help!!! Enjoy your new fan!!!!
Omg I will die if this is what's wrong with the fan In my girls' room. I'm going to go check. Thanks for the video!
I hope it is, however, please don't die..Disclaimer: my videos are not responsible for heart failure!!! 🤭🤣🤣🤣
what was the problem to your girl's fan?
@@leeleviner8159 IDK...maybe she did die!!! :(
We didn't hear back from you ....you ok??? hope you were joking about dying.
Thanks! This just solved me problem!!
Welcome. Glad I could help!!!
My exact problem. Hah! Thanks for the clue. Should have checked it earlier.
No worries. You are welcome.. enjoy your new fan!!! Lol
Good advice regarding the switch. I too have a "humming" NEW ceiling fan from Hunter (remote). After the install, I turned it on and there was a humming noise at all speeds. Well I wasn't happy about that so I contacted Hunter direct, they said to exchange it for another one. Ok, I did that, still humming. They asked me to tr one more exchange, which I did, still humming. I took it back, purchased a different model, still hums. All wires are connected properly, as I have 6 new ceiling fans over the last couple of years, this is the only room that hums. Any idea? And yes, the blades are balanced.
Yes.. you do not have enough power going to the fan.
Most wiring, about 99% in a home feeds from another fixture or outlet in the same room, or a room close by.
So ask yourself this. Has anything been replaced in the room next to it? Any light fixtures, ceiling fixtures, fans, etc ? If so, you JUST found your problem. I would check the wiring to the problem fan 1st, check and see where it feeds from. I would also replace the light switch to this fan to elevate the power reduction.
I have had issues exactly like this. The light fixture I replaced in a Dining room and everything, I thought, was connected properly, gave reduced power in the kitchen. That caused the kitchen fan to turn the lights on, but not enough power to run the fan. After checking all wiring and almost giving up, I checking the Dining wiring again and found the wire that feeds the kitchen was barely inside the wire not...so badly touching power wires, which gave significantly reduced power to the kitchen.
I have also found outlets and light switche wires badly attached to the screws, or burned out. (Fire Hazzard waiting to happen). I just replaced with new ones, connected properly and works great.
So think outside the box....and room and see where that leads. Turn off the power at the breaker box and see what is on the same circuit as your problem fan. EVEN switches and outlets. You would be surprised what a builder does.
Good Luck.
@@scoobyrogers Thank you for the feedback and ideas. To answer, no, we have not added anything new to our home in over 10 years. The ceiling fan I replaced was just obsolete and my wife wanted a remote fan. The switch on the wall only supports power to the fan. Everything is ran through conduit pipes.
So when you turn off the breaker to that room, only that fan turns off? You have to have some other line feeding into that room. If you have not done any other changes, I would still check switches and outlets in the same room amd other rooms. Check everything that is not supplied power when you turn the breaker off to that fan. You can catch a potential fire Hazzard. Still sounds like something is under powered. The remote fans are terrible in my openion. I have one and rather trash it.
I do not ever recommend working on electricity while breakers are on... I found one of my loose wires when I left power one, removed an outlet and seen/heard sparks. It looked tight, but was not even close.
@@scoobyrogers Thank you for the reply. So you are saying that there is possibly not enough power to the fans? I looked at my breakers and my 3 bedrooms are split it appears between 2 - 15 amp breakers. You're saying I should upgrade to possibly 30 amp in order to eliminate the hum noise? Can we email direct?
@JazzMan not enough power as in a wire is possibly not all the way connected. Not as in amperage. You can email at scoobyrogers@hotmail.com
Tg for this video! I almost had a meltdown
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thanks much saved me a headache
Thank you, my problem exactly
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nice tier 1 troubleshooting tip! i've got a rf controlled ceiling fan that does not spin. i can hear the motor quietly 'hum" an airybody keeps saying it's the capacitor. aren't the capacitors in factory rf controlled fans actually inside the rf receiver? i haven't had the time to take it down and tear it apart yet, but i have feeling the motor is gunked up with dust and needs to be 'set free'. but as always, just throwing 'guesses' at it at this point.
I do not believe when people say "capacitor" . Lol i honestly have not come across one that needed a capacitor. It was always some other issue.
So yours was working and quit? These switches go bad too. I have had a fan quit, and swapped out this direction switch and worked again. The new RF remote fans are a pain. The rf fan we have didn't have the remote, so I removed the control box inside the fan and wired to the wall switches.
I have a couple of Hunter fans, and one started humming but not spinning. Swapped the control box with the good one which has direction switch and the capacitor but unfortunate.
I think the motor issue because other control box works with other fan.
Thanks for doing this! Saved me a lot time. I must’ve moved the switch while cleaning it.
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Thanks that worked for me. 👍
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good to know thanks buddie .
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Thank you so much I appreciate it because you're absolutely right there is no video that includes what I'm looking for which is I took the blades off of my ceiling fan to recover and I covered them with contact paper put them backup and all of the bolts were not the right ones in the 1st place and the piece that goes on to the fan blade that kind of gold bracket thing that's vans out at the base of it so it holds the blade on the fan though thing that bolts that on their one of the 4 was a different size and I think it's because my landlord just buying whatever he wanted to to fix it before I had moved in and long story short I go to put them backup and all of the bolts are lots of them were stripped so I put them up with zip ties LMF AOI know that sounds really ridiculous but it did not look fad I assure you and long story short the fan will no longer turn but I can hear it and the light works and this is the most bizarre part if I loose and 1 of the bolts of the 1 of the blades it will turn but I can't have it turning and spinning with a wobbly
Lmao... your welcome.. you should be able to take the screws to Lowes and buy the next bigger size screw. Even better may be longer screws with lock nuts. The wobble makes me laugh reading this. Please be safe. I see a RUclips video from you soon of this sketchy fan wobbling to music!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Dang mine is old. I hear the hum. I’m switching that switch up and down. So might be the capacitor then?
If you are safe,, power off and confident ro mess with electrical...proceed.. if not,, I would call someone..
Typically isn't the capacitor. Could be the switch is the gunked up, or went bad. I would push with some pressure up and down and see if it cleans the contacts inside. If it's loose feeling, switch is bad. Next I would lower the fan down and check wiring connections. I personally would s
Disconnect the 2 wires on the switch and then check. If it works, it's the switch..if not, after checking all connections by removing and reconnecting, then if nothing works, THEN I would say capacitor.
Note: room wiring runs from one room to another. You can have a loose wire in adjacent room, which causes less power to the room with the fan. If you changed a light, fan, outlet or fixture, in a room that has the same circuit, then you may have loosened a connection.
Didn't know some fans had switch. There's lot to see in this world
The switch is not on/off, it is to reverse direction for use in winter to blow hot air off the ceiling down.
OMG......thank you
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@@scoobyrogers why don't they tell you that in the instructions SMH
@Marcio could be part of their plans. They want you to hire a professional. Sadly many professionals do not flip the switch as a troubleshoot. They do it by accident while scratching their heads....they just don't tell the homeowner.
Ok so just bought brand new fan and it’s humming but blades won’t turn, I already flipped that switch back and forth and it still just hums and won’t turn blades. Any pointers or do I have to replace something?
Disconnect the power wires again and double check everything. Sounds like lack of power. Or could be as if the switch needs flipped a few more times....spin the blades around to see if motor is stuck.
@@scoobyrogers thanks for the help, I tried all of those things but no luck. I took it back and got another one and it works perfect. They said it must have just been a bad motor or something. Thanks again.
@codieorten3909 perfect. Yeah sometimes it's best to return and start fresh. I have seen wires connected properly and nothing work but a hum and disconnected everything and started fresh and everything worked properly again.
Was the light on the fan turning on before you moved the switch?
Yes. Light was fine. Switch is for direction, not light.
I did everything like you but I swallowed the screw!
🤣🤣🤣 I hope your kidding!!!! Sometimes you have to move the switch up and down vigorously to clean the contacts.
Mine won't turn and not humming. Also checked the capacitor and it doesnt appear to be bulged. Any idea?
I personally would flip the rotation switch numerous times up and down. There could be rust. If you do not feel any kind of resistance, the internals of the switch may be gone. Which rarely happens. Typically it is dust or gunk build up to stop the connection. I have heard of people changing the switch, and the fan work normal again.
Also, I would turn off the power to the Gan, and pull the whole fan down and check internal connections, tug on wires, etc. I give a slight tug, you'll know if it's a loose connection or not. I had a fan that didn't work, pulled down and enveloped normal. Gave some wires a tug, and one wS just sitting in the wire connectors not touching anything. Stripped wire, reconnected and worked fine.
I sure was hoping you had me fixed, but I have had about 4 different fans and they all had low speeds.
Cant be the capacitor....thanks but I am back to the drawing boards
All the fans were installed in the same room???
I answered another comment previously. You may not be getting enough juice to that room. Check other rooms that are in the same circuit breaker, even outlets. You can have loose wiring in the next room over light fixture or ceiling fan, an wire on an outlet, or a bad outlet, or a wall switch. Depends on how your previous owner/builder installed the wiring.
@@scoobyrogers yes, all same room. I figured not enough current, just not good enough to know how to check. Thanks again
@@brettdman2908 it's ok.
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It's pretty easy for me, and can be for you.... if you pulled the fan down, you can easily do the same in the other rooms. Make sure your fan has good connections.
Turn all lights on and flip breakers until you know which ceiling fixtures are attached to the room you are diagnosing. Also take note to switches and outlets. (This may be part 2 of diagnosing)
Once you know what rooms to check. Keep breaker off for safety and lower those ceiling fixtures. Inspect connecting wires. You SHOULD have a wire that goes from 1 room, to your low powered room. Check connections, burned wire, etc. Do this in each room that is on the same breaker. Disconnect and reconnect in my opinion, cause it MAY look properly connected, but coul not be. So reconnect everything again.
After everything is connected, turn breaker back on and check fan again.
If still same, I would turn off breaker and start checking outlets. You MAY have a burned outlet, which causes the DAISY CHAIN wire to supply less or no power to your fan.
I have had a light switch and a fixture quit, due to an outlet in another room burn up a partial wire. Was hard to find, because it looked just fine, outlet worked fine, but the exit wore is what burned. Therefore would not supply the adjacent room ceiling fixture.
Another time putting in a light, cause a ceiling fan in next room to have low power, light dim and fan didn't work. Went back to adjacency room and daisy wire was belly touching power wire.
Hope this helps. 🙏
Thanks for the vid... for some reason it’s still not working only hum. It does look as if it wants to spin but isn’t ( let alone I’m only getting high speed so I have to check it all again)
Did you get it figured out ??
What if my fan doesn't have the switch and it's behaving the same way
You will need to try and see what fan and model you have. This fix is for those that have reverse direction switches. Most fans have reverse direction. Some are a switch and some are a chain if it's a chain, then same thing...pull a few times and see if it knocks the dust and crud off to get a good contact, or replace the connection.
Does your fan have a remote? It may have a wire not hooked up for reverse direction!
You can have a failed capacitor, or burned wire.
If your getting humming, your getting power...start with that. You may not be getting enough power. Wires could be barely touching, etc. Many think if the light works, fan has power, which isn't true.
You will most likely need to lower the fan down and look at all the wiring inside. If it has a separate light kit, you could probably lower that too and look.
My fan switch is good, I've read that a sign of a bad capacitor is it hums, but will spin of you start it by hand. Mine won't spin, is it possible it's still the capacitor? Thanks man
Most of the time it is not the capacitors. I have dealt with 100"s of fans and never had a bad capacitor. Not saying yours isn't the issue.. I am saying typically, go back through your wiring. Check loose connections, check correct wires are connected correctly, check wires on switches, and any internal wiring. Give a slight tug and a loose wire will pull out easily. I had a fan that had a hum issue, and when I took it down, and connected into another room it worked fine. Put it back up and original room and found a bad wire. I snipped, rewired, then worked fine.
@@scoobyrogers thanks for the reply, I took the blades off, and gave it a good spin and it kept going. With the blades on it won't turn... It's almost like the motor isn't strong enough to turn with the blades. Ended up picking one up at Lowes, but trying some last minute rigging. All wires were connected good, I even retwisted them into the caps.
@@seanvaglica1000 yeah, sounds Iike something is wrong, and sounds to me still not enough powe through the wires.. Did you check with an ohm meter? I had an outlet not get the right power, and once I tracked down the issue, it was a jumper from a switch in a different room that was on the same circuit. See if another room shares the same circuit breaker in the breaker box. Most wiring is in series, so goes from one room, to another, etc. It is possible to have a bad wire in one room say ROOM 2, due to another rooms wiring being burned, or loose that feeds from ROOM 1 to ROOM 2..
@@scoobyrogers I ended up just replacing the fan, the new one works like a champ. I would have driven myself nuts trying to track down the issue. I appreciate the replies, and moral support. Keep making videos, you have a good personality.
What if it’s a new dc fan motor with remote on a Home Depot brand fan that doesn’t even start. The light doesn’t work, the fan sounds like it’s trying to calibrate (ticking trying to spin one way then the other) but never starts spinning and light never works!
Sounds like either wired wrong, or dead fan. I would double check wiring. If this is replacing a light and fan that was on 2 separate switches, and now it is controlled by a remote. You should be using one switch.
If I remember correctly, you should have a wire in the ceiling not used, that goes to one of the switches. Really feel, double check wiring. 2nd, return to Home Depot for same one...if you have same issues, again refer to wiring!!!
scoobyrogers I did return it for a new one. We wired it correctly my brother is an electrician and he is stumped too. Thinks it could be in the wall that it’s damaged somewhere between the breaker box and ceiling mount. 🤷🏼♀️ so I bought another fan thinking it might just be this energy efficient dc motor fan. We are trying a regular hunter fan now to see if it’s the actual wires in the wall. Thanks for your help. If u have any other advice I would love to hear it.
I do not have a direction switch on my fan. It's on the remote. I just get a hum--in all three speeds in both directions. Seems like the motor isn't wanting to move. You can tell power and signal is going to it, and the motor spins freely with a push. Just no movement. 2004 fan... Shouldn't be inop.
What's the model# and Brand ???
@@scoobyrogers It's a 23530-300 from June 2004. The answer to fixing this is: hammer the direction button a bunch of times, intermittently trying the low-med-high settings. It finally started up. Taking the whole thing apart is NOT the answer.
@@joelwitzel5444 Good to know
I had the directional switch fall apart and wired in a new one. Nothing. Replaced the capacitor - nothing. Thought of buying the pull switch, but I'm guessing again now. I am about to give up on this fan
The capacitor isn't a human use thing. If you don't hear a hum or can test for power, I personally would change the pull chain switch. Those EASILY wear out, especially if used frequently or pulled too hard by kids.
Try it, and if it doesn't fix it, return the pull switch, direction switch and capacitor id possibly use that money toward a new fan.
@@scoobyrogers Thanks - I'm in agreement.
@@timetryp422 welcome. Hope it works out.
My fan was the same way, I had mine for 1.5 years and it just stop but only humsss , I flip the switch like you said but stills does nothing 🤷🏻♂️
Flip switch up and down several times. Contacts get dusty and dirty, could have loose connection. You can replace that switch. I personally would switch up and down vigorously with power off to see if its dirty connection, then replace switch. If you are electrically inclined, you can take bypass the switch to see if that is it or not.
Capacitor is another faulty item inside that can cause the hum.
When I removed the part of the light exposing the wires, I noticed there was copper, I think I accidentally pulled something that made the fan stop moving. The lights turn on and it makes a sound.
Copper where?? Like a wire?? Typically that is your ground wire. Just depends what or where your copper you speak of is.
@@scoobyrogers I ended up replacing the fan because the electrician said that something was broken the capacitor wasn’t working.
thanks alot.🖒
I on da switch bt the fan doesn't moving. Bt ita was staff whole winter so what maybe the reason though board is wdll
Move switch up and down numerous times, it could be dust build up. If the switch doesnt work, then you have another issue. Are you getting power? Does the light come on, if it has one?
@@scoobyrogers ok bro bt it is a new fan bt not working i well see
@@alishahali8188 ok, gotcha. Sounds like a wire isn't connected right.
go to 1:45 to see solution: pushed directional switch down
They could need to push it up!! Thanks for misdirection
Gotta say this was a bit of a waste, I have one that's been up for a long time and it kicked on after I cleaned it and after a minute it shut off, it hums, I guess the capacitor or whatever went out
Many times people think the capacitor but its most of the time the switch. The get dirty easily. Flip the switch up and down numerous times to break free dust and dirt. I have even had to replace a switch before due to, rust believe it or not!
Bad place for a switch.
I agree, but very common.
It’s a bad motor
Yours? Cause mine and many other people's are not. The switch was stuck in the middle !. Flip the switch, perfect fan!
Might be a long shot but maybe you can help me. My fans less than a year old and I went to go change that switch (winter and all that) and everything worked. I changed it back on a particularly warm day and when it got cold again, I turn off the fan, switch the setting back to winter mode and I get that hum but no spin. The switch isn’t in the middle it’s pushed all the way so I don’t know what to do.
These switches are terrible. Switching back and forth imo destroys them.
I say, with power switch off, switch it back and forth vigorously and then see. I say it does sound like the switch to me. They are all cheap.
@@scoobyrogers IT WORKED! Thank you! I was thinking that maybe the motor had busted in that specific direction or something haha. Maybe some dust was getting in the way of the contacts? Either way I won’t be switching it until spring. Thanks again!
@Sins4Jesus welcome. These switches loose contact... dust, or loose contacts cause the failure. I try not to switch them, ever. Lol.
Welcome. Good luck.