Box Fan Quit Working

Heres how to get started to see if a simple fix is within reach to make your fan work again.

Window fan walmart in store. Unless it is a window fan dont leave a fan in an open window while it is raining. But what happens when your electric fan stops working. How to fix a box fan.

Hi i know. Never work on a box fan without unplugging it first. Again depends on the model.

Could be the switch as well as an internal fuse on the fan. Depends on your model but i would unplug it and find a way to disassemble the fan to check the wiring to the fan motor and switch. This video shows you how to locate and replace the fuse inside a fan.

Every now and then this will happen and i can open em up and clean em out to get everything going again but sometimes it just wont go. I have an ancient rex air window fan not just a box fan but a true window fan with a real sheet metal baffle for the blades from at least the early 1950s. The motor turns well wo resistance and the switch seems to be switching so the only part i could see going bad is a little box with a mf v and.

Please help i dont want to throw it away. Never operate your box fan near a sink or bath tub. In some fans the fuse is hidden inside one of the short fiberglass sleeves gold color.

Our cool master box fan just quit working its clean. 2 years ago on step 7. It belonged to my parents.

The motors and bearings on box fans have a tendency. I wouldnt doubt that dad paid a good weeks salary for it. Box fans work by having a set of fan blades attached on the shaft of a small motor.

Then measure the individual points to where you have power and where it stops.