"stan" wrote in message
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On Mar 10, 4:01 pm, "CraigT" wrote:
I've got a Hampton Bay ceiling fan that spontaneously started running in
the wrong (winter) direction when I turned it on the other day to dry some
carpeting I had cleaned. From what I understand after talking with the
supplier (through Home Depot) is that it originally came with a wired
remote
that had a button that reversed the motor, for summer/winter setting. I
guess the previous owner of the house installed it with a Hampton Bay
wireless remote rather than running a wire to a wall switch. I also assume
that some sort of voltage spike/gremlin caused the internal brain of the
fan
to go into winter setting. The tech guy said to try to force the blades to
go in the right direction and turn it on. This failed repeatedly. He also
said to switch the fan off and on quickly, but there is no direct
connection
between the switch and fan, so I did try to disconnecting the power to fan
a
couple of times. This failed too. The only thing I can think of to do now
is to try this with the hot wire going down the down rod, but I'll
probably
want to take off the blades seeing that I'll be doing this up by a 13'
ceiling. Or, I guess I could purchase a replacement wired transmitter and
receiver and hook it up for just a minute so as to allow me to reset the
motor direction.

Any other suggestions?

Have you taken the battery out of or de-powered the remote????? Maybe
do that and let is rest for a few minutes! Also de-power the fan unit
at same time? Surely something to reset it to zero; e.g. any holes in
the case into which to insert a straight pin or paper clip to reset
the unit?
This sounds, to my mind, like one of those "Too bl**dy clever by half"
gadgets!


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Yes I have. Taken the battery out. Tried flipping it in backwards (9V).
Disconnected the receiver.

I see multiple holes than might do the trick, but nothing that stands out or
is asymmetrical. They all look like something left over from manufacturing.