On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:58:15 -0400, "Tomsic" wrote:


"TomR" wrote in message
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Big Snip....


Thanks for everyone's help with this. Here's the final outcome.

I ordered the capacitor online for about $13.50 plus $5 shipping. The
person I was helping with this project put it in yesterday. He also
replaced the old pull chain switch that the chain had pulled out of and
was bad.

The capacitor worked like a charm and the fan motor now works perfectly.

Regarding the switch -- at first he thought he did something wrong with
the switch because the lights didn't work. The he figured out that all of
the bulbs were burnt out -- duh. He thinks that maybe the bulbs got
damaged will moving the fan back and forth from his shop etc. He replaced
the bulbs and all is well.

Incandescent bulbs get more sensitive to shock and vibration as they age
because the filament gets brittle. Halogen bulb filaments are the worst as
they're thin to start with and the coils are closer together than filament
coils in standard bulbs.

Buy the ones with no "coil" at all, just a straight filament? Like I said in
an earlier post, I've only replaced bulbs in one fixture (and that rarely
used). The other five fans in the house still have the original bulbs.

Handle incandescent bulbs gently once they've burned for a while.