Disconnect for ceiling fan motor?

[ritelec]

Hi all.

In the past I would wire to a steady feed in a ceiling fan box for the motor (operated from pull chain) and switch leg for the light from a wall switch........all good right?

This week someone wanted a couple ceiling outlets installed for a couple of ceiling fans, they had no problem operating it from the pull chain as "it will get turned on at the beginning of the summer and turned off at the end",
so I crawled around in the attic for a feed, installed boxes and installed fans. Fans operate from pull chain. Then I just started wondering, is this actually correct for servicing of the motor?


One more thing, with these stupid ceiling fans, I like to make the splice in the "box" rather than poke the (line) conductors through a little hole supplied in the mounting bracket (surface mount fan as opposed to pendent)then splicing in the
canopy which gets all squished and crushed when installing or mounting of the fan. Why can't these engineers get it together??? Or is it me?

Thanks for the reply... and have a great day.

Rich

 

[Little Bill]

Hi all.

In the past I would wire to a steady feed in a ceiling fan box for the motor (operated from pull chain) and switch leg for the light from a wall switch........all good right?

This week someone wanted a couple ceiling outlets installed for a couple of ceiling fans, they had no problem operating it from the pull chain as "it will get turned on at the beginning of the summer and turned off at the end",
so I crawled around in the attic for a feed, installed boxes and installed fans. Fans operate from pull chain. Then I just started wondering, is this actually correct for servicing of the motor?




Thanks for the reply... and have a great day.

Rich

I would think if the motor needed servicing, you would turn off the breaker and remove the whole fan as it would be hard to do anything to the motor while it was mounted. Well, maybe replacing the pull chain switch. Other than that I have never heard of anyone needing to service a ceiling fan motor.

 

[ritelec]

ha ha ....just had to mention...........I find very often when I look at the clock it's 11:11.................spiritual??? Mothman stuff??? I don't know.
Just noticed my original post was at 11:11............I hope it's a good thing.

 

[ritelec]

Thank you Bill