eliz ha escrito:

I have a 30inch (approx) ceiling fan in a bedroom and it has stopped
working.
It does not have a remote.
The light is working fine.
The blades do not turn but I can hear the motor running when the blades
are turned on.

So, the power seems to be going to the blade motor(or whatever) but the
blades aren't turning.
The blades will spin easily by hand. They are well balanced and they
have never been noisy.

I cannot remember the make.

What might the problem be?

eliz

Probably a bad run capacitor. You should dismantle the lamp kit of the
ceiling fan. The lamp kit is usually attached to circular metal
housing. Inside the housing you will find the cap, the two switches of
the ceiling fan (one for the lamp and the other for the motor fan) and
the reverse switch. Normally these capacitors have three wires, two of
them goes to the motor switch and the third one goes to the reverse
switch. Just replace the cap with other of similar specs, and you will
have your ceiling fan operating again.