- Dec 23, 2004
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Hi all
We have a cheap floor fan that has a lot of gizmos on it that we never used, including remote control and digital readout. Something in the circuit board went, and it cuts out if you jostle the box. Anyway, I took it apart, and saw that the main fan mechanism had 5 wires coming out of it: red; black; white; grey; beige; blue.
The red and black ones seem to just loop into some black box and back into the motor. IIU the diagram correctly, connecting grey with one of the color (white, beige, blue) will give different speeds (although they probably don't work as such now as they looped into the circuit board which I disconnected). So I hooked the wall plug cord directly, white to white, and black to grey. You can see this in the first picture below. It works fine. IIUC, the diagram on the fan motor says 100v 60hz, which is what comes out of our wall. You can see this diagram in teh second picture below.
So my question is is this safe? It would likely be left running unattended all night. I don't want a fire/shock etc. Should I throw it out? Add an additional component?
???
I'm not running it until I find out.
"Sweltering in Japan"
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b334/excipio/IMG_0963.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b334/excipio/IMG_0962.jpg
We have a cheap floor fan that has a lot of gizmos on it that we never used, including remote control and digital readout. Something in the circuit board went, and it cuts out if you jostle the box. Anyway, I took it apart, and saw that the main fan mechanism had 5 wires coming out of it: red; black; white; grey; beige; blue.
The red and black ones seem to just loop into some black box and back into the motor. IIU the diagram correctly, connecting grey with one of the color (white, beige, blue) will give different speeds (although they probably don't work as such now as they looped into the circuit board which I disconnected). So I hooked the wall plug cord directly, white to white, and black to grey. You can see this in the first picture below. It works fine. IIUC, the diagram on the fan motor says 100v 60hz, which is what comes out of our wall. You can see this diagram in teh second picture below.
So my question is is this safe? It would likely be left running unattended all night. I don't want a fire/shock etc. Should I throw it out? Add an additional component?
???
I'm not running it until I find out.
"Sweltering in Japan"
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b334/excipio/IMG_0963.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b334/excipio/IMG_0962.jpg