RE: Can X10 control a ceiling fan? An LM12U buzzes and doesn't spin fast!

["Darren Thrower" <dlt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The fan is one of the industrial types:-

http://www.ceilingfan.co.uk/fans_list.php?type=4
It's the MM30023 - so it
doesn't have the chain to control the fan speed.

Thanks for the reply and hopefully someone can advise me further.

Best regards,

Darren Thrower

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Crawshaw [mailto:golcarbob@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 October 2004 22:58
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Can X10 control a ceiling fan? An LM12U buzzes and
doesn't spin fast!


Don't use a lamp module to control a fan, it doesn't work like that, use an
appliance module to do the switching on/off the only speed control you will
have are by the chain/string attched to the fan body (most are 3 speed)

Lamp modules will control a resistive load, motors are an inductive load
Or summat like that :)   someone with far more inteligence than I should be
along shortly to correct me :)


Regards.
Robert Crawshaw




Subject: [ukha_d] Can X10 control a ceiling fan? An LM12U buzzes and
doesn't
spin fast!

Bought a ceiling fan from www.ceilingfan.co.uk to go in the living room and
thought not to buy a speed controller as I'd use an X10 lamp module to
control the speed.

Fitted it, and connected it to the mains, only to find the module and fan
buzzed a lot and the fan didn't go over 100rpm (approx - I didn't count it!
;-) )

So is there any other way X10 can control it better than an LM12U?

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