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.

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. It has 3 settings and when we initially purchased the fan. Loss of bearing lubrication and poor blade balance. Essentially we ll use process of elimination to get to the root of the problem.

For a hampton bay fan 4 wire capacitor 3 speed switch. Either a bad capacitor or damaged winding. If certain ceiling fan speeds are not working there are a few things that could be the problem. We have owned a minka aire ceiling fan for about 4 years and it has been great overall.

Ceiling fans that operate at speeds slower than normal can have one of four problems. Is your fan running slow. The switch replacement is below. Running for 24hrs a day.

The speed was noticeable and the air movement was as well. Turning the knob to high or medium did nothing. Sometimes either or both the switch and capacitor fail. It now seems as though the highest setting is not much different then the middle setting.

Luckily finding out the source of the problem is not all that difficult. Watch this video as this will help you troubleshoot and repair it under 10. Two of these issues are mechanical. The other two are electrical.

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. The ceiling fan would turn on by using the wall switch but it would only work on one speed low speed.