Ya know, it's too bad that governors such you find on old wind-up phonographs and the like aren't employed more on such as fans. I had a variable-speed turntable with a 4-pole nonsynchronous motor equipped with such a governor. The motor ran quite cool and changes in line voltage didn't affect the speed. \Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Leavens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Fan maintenance
> My guess is that some or most of the coils of the particular winding for the > medium speed had shorted or burned out. There was enough magnetic field to > disturb metal in the area or to maintain a little movement once inertia and > momentum were overcome for a time at least. > > I have a big industrial type ceiling fan I used to have installed in an > office once to drive the overhead heat supply down to where we people lived. > Well it operated for many years from one of those variable speed varactors I > think they are called, a dimmer switch but eventually the draw has caused > enough of the windings to fail that the top speed is only a few RPM and it > hums like an entire choir that has forgotten the words. > > I would dearly love to find another which would operate from a dimmer for > the infinitely variable characteristics but they seem to be unavailable. > > > Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype DaleLeavens > Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jay Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:57 AM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Fan maintenance > > > > That sounds more like dirty contacts on the switch that selects speed. > > Unless the fan is intended to run off other power sources than house > > mains, > > there's no transformer or other electronics. > > Jay > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dan Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:47 AM > > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Fan maintenance > > > > > >> Just out of curiosity, can Max or Tom shed a bit more light on the fan > >> subject? I wonder if it is not something electronic and not just > >> mechanical, such as burned out coils on the transformer or something like > >> that. > >> > >> I also had a big box fan that I ran every night for white noise. I ran > >> it > >> on medium speed for years. After a long time, if I turned the fan on > >> medium it would not start turning. I could possibly feel a bit of > >> vibration like it might sort of been trying to turn, but it just wouldn't > >> get started. However, if I turned it on low or high, it worked just > >> fine. > >> If I turned it on high, let it get started, then turned it to medium, > >> sometimes it would stay going, but more often than not it would just slow > >> to a stop. > >> > >> Later. > >> > >> -- > >> Blue skies. > >> Dan Rossi > >> Carnegie Mellon University. > >> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Tel: (412) 268-9081 > >> > >> > >> To listen to the show archives go to link > >> http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > >> or > >> ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > >> > >> The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > >> http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > >> > >> The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > >> http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > >> > >> Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > > Various List Members At The Following Address: > >> http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > >> Visit the new archives page at the following address > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >> For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > > list just send a blank message to: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Yahoo! 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