Hood fan has two speeds, low does not go on, and High blows instead of sucking
2007-01-02 13:24:00 · 10 answers · asked by alsdrywall1 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
This happened to me with my new house, switching the wires does no good.
I turned the fan part around, it required drilling new holes in the sheet metal but it works great now!
2007-01-03 08:53:14 · answer #1 · answered by thesuper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same thing was happening to my Broan 83000 kitchen hood. If I held a piece of paper up to the hood it was blowing down and not sucking upwards. I took the cover off, disconnected the power ( 2 wires on each end, plastic snap in) by pulling the 2 plastic pieces awart, unscrewed the 2 butterfly looking nuts and and slid the motor out. The problem was that the exhaust on the motor was facing to the wall and the sucked in air had no where to go causing a sucking effect. The fan motor should have been turned up to face the vertical duct so the air could go up and out. Now my hood **** air up perfectly.
2014-04-05 12:06:33 · answer #2 · answered by J D S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Needs more detail. Did it just start doing that or has it always been that way?
If it just started doing that you need to buy a new fan.
If it has always been doing that you need to buy a new fan.
If you just bought it, take it back.
For all other cases, sounds like you slow speed wiring has burnt out and you high speed has some wires crossed.
To change direction look for the 4 wires and find the 2 that go to high speed. You do this by using your ohm meter to find connecting path. Take those to and switch them.
2007-01-02 21:37:50 · answer #3 · answered by Poncho Rio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's AC then reversing the wires won't do any good. Turn the fan around and reinstall it.
Actually it sounds like it's faulty anyway. Might be a short and if it actually is AC you'd be better off getting a new one rather than risk electrocution.
2007-01-02 21:32:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Turn the fan around. But it sounds to me like you put this together yourself and did not read all the directions. So switch the wires to get 'low' to work and turn the fan around.
2007-01-02 21:28:06 · answer #5 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you wire this in yourself?
You might have something backwards as the fan is going the wrong way.
If this is a new unit and it has the standard 2 wire hook up return it as there in backward wiring inside.
2007-01-02 21:27:32 · answer #6 · answered by zen522 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone got the wires switched around on the terminals. Change them around.
2007-01-03 06:22:27 · answer #7 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL...your fan is confused!! That question is too funny, but I'm sure it's frustrating...looks like you got some good answers!!
2007-01-02 21:31:50 · answer #8 · answered by wondering... 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You got the wires crossed. Switch them.
2007-01-02 21:25:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
check fan rotation or reverse the fan-flow
2007-01-02 21:42:58 · answer #10 · answered by ckd_xl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋