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Originally posted by david914
OK, if you're familiar with transistors, a triac is similar. It allows a small amount voltage (controlled by the potentiometer) to control a larger voltage (your fan). Like transistors, there are different kinds with different ratings, so we'll need to know exactly what you've got and go from there.
Does your fan operate at all? If so, is it stuck at full speed?
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It turns on only with the potentiometer, as it was designed. No pull chain switch on these old timers. At this point, it will run at full speed and just off full speed. At about 1/5th of the full rotation of the knob, it cuts out. Put it back into the 1/5th range and it goes again. So, we can't use any of the lower speeds.
Rick, yours is a later model or, at least not a "Victorian" (series I). As I said, this is an 80's model. IIRC, I go it in 1980. No fan company makes an infinitely variable fan these days. to get the fan to turn real slow, like below 20 RPM, I think you need one of these.
Someone told me that I could get a 3-speed fan and a separate 3-speed controller. Instead of setting the fan speed on high and controlling it with the remote, he said set it on the lowest speed and then control it with the remote. I just thought this was a recipe for disaster, so I never bought either device.
We like to run the fan 24/7 on a real low speed. Low enough that you can't feel a breeze, but the air is being moved about. I haven't seen a fan yet that will run at, say, 10 RPM, except mine. Again, it's good for 10 years. Even the service techs that fixed it last time said, "10 years." I should have bought a 2nd circuit at the time.