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    Feb 1, 2011, 06:53 PM
    My ceiling fan will not reverse
    My ceiling fan will not reverse direction. I made the mistake of changing directions while the fan was still running. The fan would not change direction. After the blades stopped turning, the motor would only hum. I had to change the direction switch back to original position to get the fan to run again in the original direction. Anyone have any idea what happened when I operated the direction switch while fan was still moving?
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    Feb 2, 2011, 07:19 AM

    I don't know if a bad winding could do that. Many reversing switches have 4 wires, that swap connections. I wonder if the reversing switch is partially damaged?
    Temporarily wiring without the switch would be an easy test. If it rotates one direction, swap the pair and it should reverse?
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