Terminating The Fan Regulator Wires

I guess lots of you still uses the old fashioned fan speed regulator like the one you see above. These speed regulators works with a copper coil as resistance to regulate the amount of current passing through to the fan. There is of course the speed dial ranging from 1 to 5 or sometimes 0 to 5 where 0 means it fan is switched off with no current passing through. 5 would mean all the current passes through offering no resistance at all. At speed level 5, the fan will be running at full speed. Anywhere in between 9 and [...] Read more »

The Ceiling Fan Switch

Many people mix up the ceiling fan’s speed regulator with he ceiling fan’s switch. The fact is the ceiling fan has two items controlling it. First you have a normal switch for switching the fan ON or OFF. Then we have a speed regulator to regulate the fan’s speed. Each is an individual item though they are inter dependant on each other to make the fan run smoothly. The fact that I said both are individual items is because the fan will still be able to run with any one of them. We can forgo the switch and have the [...] Read more »