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smoosh · Apr 7, 2007, 01:30 PM

Guys - I've got a Hampton Bay fan with light and remote in my bedroom. One night while watching TV and getting ready to fall asleep the light - on its own - went dim, then bright again and dim again and stayed dim. It is not out, just dim. I changed the bulbs and it didn't help... didn't expect it to, but you can hope, right? A buddy of mine who has done some electrical contracting suggested it may be a problem with the switch in the light of the fan. Have you seen this or do you have a suggestion? :o

smoosh · Apr 7, 2007, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by smoosh

Guys - I've got a Hampton Bay fan with light and remote in my bedroom. One night while watching TV and getting ready to fall asleep the light - on its own - went dim, then bright again and dim again and stayed dim. It is not out, just dim. I changed the bulbs and it didn't help ... didn't expect it to, but you can hope, right? A buddy of mine who has done some electrical contracting suggested it may be a problem with the switch in the light of the fan. Have you seen this or do you have a suggestion? :o

Also, where would the switch be?

ceilingfanrepair · Apr 7, 2007, 08:13 PM

First, have you tried the dim function on the remote, to see if you can get the lights bright again?

eeseely · Apr 8, 2007, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by smoosh

Guys - I've got a Hampton Bay fan with light and remote in my bedroom. One night while watching TV and getting ready to fall asleep the light - on its own - went dim, then bright again and dim again and stayed dim. It is not out, just dim. I changed the bulbs and it didn't help ... didn't expect it to, but you can hope, right? A buddy of mine who has done some electrical contracting suggested it may be a problem with the switch in the light of the fan. Have you seen this or do you have a suggestion? :o

Previously, did you remote turn the light on and off?

If it did, then I would suspect the light module which is controlled by the a signal sent from
From the fan control module which responds to your remote controller. The problem
Is I don't know where you can buy the light module.

smoosh · Apr 8, 2007, 03:48 PM

Wow - it would be easy to just never come back here! ;-) That was the problem! It had been so long since I had dimmed the lights that I forgot that they did dim. Thanks so much! I forgot the first rule of troubleshooting - try the obvious stuff first.