Power surge knocked out a ceiling fan. Can it be repaired?

[Auggie]

I understand the circuitry in some of these is pretty fragile, and an outage/power surge can knock them out of commission. I know it's not the wall switch (it has power) or remote (new).

Anyone have experience with this? Is it an easy repair or is my unit toast? Thanks.

[Cattledog]

1. It would probably cost more to repair than replace.

[CentralMass]

2. You might try goigling the fan using its brand nsme + troubleshooting.

Sometimes thet mfg offers replacement boards (i'm assuming the surfe fried yours). If so, if you know how to work around ekectricity (shut the breaker off), they are not too difficult to replace.

[Auggie]

5. Thanks. I'm guessing it's the receiver in the fan ...

unit is 16 years old so it's a toss up to fix or replace. Problem is, similar fan costs $200.00. And I need two.

[demosincebirth]

3. If it's the fan - replace it.

[cyclonefence]

4. I learned too late to help us

but our electric company reimburses customers for appliances damaged during power surges. I don't know if it's worth the trouble, but a phone call can't hurt.

I've had to replace dishwashers, tvs and coffeemakers. After we were struck by lightning, we had to have our house rewired, with lightning protection. Even with surge protectors and new wiring, we lost appliances to the surge.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

6. Perhaps the remote receiver burned out. The light switch feeds the receiver

So your question is does the receiver distrubite the power or is it history.Replaceable part. OK so, if the switch is sending power to the receiver and the fan does not work ,since you know for sure you have power at the fan ,you will assume the receiver is toast. To be sure you can hard wire the fan light to switch as you would without a remote. At that stage in it, it works or it don't. Of course you look for any fried wiring before you conduct the tests.
replacement receivers are sold because those items do burn out over time anyway .

[Auggie]

7. Yeah -- I think it's the receiver inside the fan

Thanks

[Auggie]

8. SOLUTION FOUND

Last-ditch effort before I called an electrician: flipped the circuit breakers. Now they're working.

Other stuff on the same circuit worked all along, so it's a mystery why the fans reacted to a simply on/off of the breakers. Whatever ...

THANK YOU to all who responded.

[Demsrule86]

9. You probably tripped a GFI...that happened to me...and we used to have cut the power to get it our

jetted tub to work...couldn't find the damn thing. We finally redid this house and put GFI's in logical places and made a list too.

[Auggie]

10. No

It wasn't a GFI

[Demsrule86]

11. What do you think it was some mechanism in the fan to protect the engine?

Just curious. In my case it was a GFI...used to drive us crazy.

[Auggie]

12. That sounds like a better guess ...

everything else in the room was powered. I'm just glad I tried the circuit breakers. There was no reason to suspect that would turn them back on. Had the electrician discovered it I would have been embarrassed as hell, not to mention $100 poorer.

[Demsrule86]

13. Right that has happened to me...

I am a techie but once I failed to notice that WIFI was in the wrong slot...so embarrassing.