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BS-Tech: Casablanca Fan Mystery
| Barbara Shaw | 09 Nov 09 - 04:08 PM | |
| Amos | 09 Nov 09 - 04:53 PM | |
| Art Thieme | 09 Nov 09 - 04:54 PM | |
| GUEST,Tunesmith | 09 Nov 09 - 05:03 PM | |
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BS-Tech: Casablanca Fan Mystery
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Subject: BS-Tech: Casablanca Fan Mystery From: Barbara Shaw Date: 09 Nov 09 - 04:08 PM Our Casablanca ceiling fan with a light suddenly developed a very weird malady. It works fine with the pull chains for the light or the fan. There are two wall switches, one on each end of a staircase, and either one can turn the thing on or off if the light or fan is left on via the chain. Past tense. All of a sudden, the wall switches can NOT turn the light or fan off unless the switch is moved to the MIDDLE position, where there isn't really a position. Toggling either switch up or down does nothing, and the light stays on. Holding it in the middle of the switch path causes the light to go out. We tried replacing both switches, to no avail. Casablanca doesn't know what the problem is but suggests buying a new circuit board for the fan plus tax plus shipping plus re-stock fee plus more shipping if we return it because it doesn't solve the problem. Any ideas? |
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Subject: RE: BS-Tech: Casablanca Fan Mystery From: Amos Date: 09 Nov 09 - 04:53 PM HEre's the thing: it is unlikely that the same malady would develop in both switches simultaneously. If there is a single lead between the switches on one of the poles then I would want someone to check that lead for undue impedance. If it is not a common lead between the switches (whcih is possible but not likely from the sound of the problem), then the governing issue is the fan itself and themost liekly candidate is indeed the circuit board. One component on a small circuit board can screw the whole logic of the thing, although I can't quite figure the half-switch position thing. A |
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Subject: RE: BS-Tech: Casablanca Fan Mystery From: Art Thieme Date: 09 Nov 09 - 04:54 PM Yes, certainly! The ghosts of Bogie and Ingrid Bergman have inhabited the device. They had given up all hope of ever being with each otgher in Casablanca.--But no... Art |
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Subject: RE: BS-Tech: Casablanca Fan Mystery From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 09 Nov 09 - 05:03 PM You must remember this: a fan is just a fan. |
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