[PLUG-TALK] fan speed control..

Brent Rieck bsr at spek.org
Sun Jul 3 05:14:00 UTC 2005


Russ Johnson wrote:
> http://www.fancollectors.org/info/speed.htm
> 
> FAN DIMMER, or ELECTRONIC FAN SPEED CONTROL: $ 10-20
> (Solid state phase angle firing of a triac with additional needed
> components for inductive load (motor) operation) I've seen them with a
> rotary switch or a slider control. They always turn on at high speed and
> then adjust to slow. Good ones have a minimum speed adjustment. (If they
> don't have a min. speed adjustment they don't go very slow.) (Get one with
> a user settable minimum speed adjustment) No solid state dimmer operates
> real well at real low speeds. Fan dimmer type speed controls are usually
> rated about 5 amps. Did I say to get one with a minimum speed
> adjustment??? These controls are quite efficient.

Interesting, all the ones I've found for sale online reference ceiling
fans - are ceiling fans and my fan similar enough such that I can use
one of these to slow down my fan?  Are these tye types of controllers
that Keith has mentioned.

--Brent




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