"ransley" wrote in message
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On Mar 10, 2:01 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?

A tech said try to force it to go in the other direction! There should
be a switch on the fan to reverse it. Why not buy the wireless
transmitter.

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That is what he said.

Yeah, every other fan I've ever seen had a switch and I thought I had maybe
bumped it when I was dusting, but I couldn't find one and the tech said it
is on the wired transmitter.

I have another wireless transmitter sitting around the house from another
fan intall, but I don't know if swapping it out would do the trick. You
really only have two wires coming out of a transmitter going to the fan
motor. Somehow, according to the tech, the orginal wired receiver had the
ability to signal or pass along the signal from the transmitter to an
electronic relay in the fan so as to change direction.

I imagine I could reverse the wires, but I'm not too keen on energizing the
outside of the appliance.

The repair, according to the tech, would require me to purchase a wired
transmitter (that has a reversing button) and wired receiver from Hampton
Bay. Then wiring them inline to the fan.

If I were to do this I'd probably do thuis using an extesion cord just to
reset the fan. Then rewire everything like it is now with wireless devices.