Troubleshooting a ceiling fan

[sandyut]

Like @chopsaw said, check all gfci thru out the house.
Brother had no power out to patio. Found out it was a gfci tripped in the bathroom that is never used.

Im with this idea. Someone put a GFCI in the garage and when it trips 90% of the garage goes dark.

 

[mike243]

Was at a new house 2 years ago and every breaker in it was a GFI , fridge was tripping it, can't stop it and not supposed to be on a circuit with 1,

 

[Brokenhandle]

One more tip... if you never turn them off you don't know they are dusty! If you want to dust them, reverse the air flow... best done when wife is not there... there is a " look " you'll get!

Ryan

 

[gwest77]

I would not look there, its a relatively new switch, about 5 years old.

I would try a new switch anyway because the ones they make today are junk compared to the old ones. Also if you have a remote sensor in the fan, that may or may not be the problem.

 

[gwest77]

Batteries in the remote?

Batteries in the remote would not stop the switch on the wall from working.

 

[Steve H]

The problem has been found. The fan is defective.

 

[Chris_in_SoCal]

One more tip... if you never turn them off you don't know they are dusty! If you want to dust them, reverse the air flow... best done when wife is not there... there is a " look " you'll get!

Ryan

 

[Smokin Okie]

Just to follow up here ........... I finally got around to replacing the kaput fan ...... and it was the fan. Put a new fan up and its working fine.

 

[sandyut]

New ceiling fans are nice! Just replaced an undersized one in our bedroom, the 64” is dreamy and silent.

Hope your new one is nice and quiet. Fan noise drive me insane…probably more an issue for me than most As I sleep like crap on a good day.