Anyone who has an idea, please chime in. Please.
Here's the story.
It's an older ceiling fan with a four light bottom unit. Only one of the four small base bulbs have legible writing and it's a 60 watt bulb.
The owner thought that the wall switch was bad because the lights would go out in an erratic manner. So, she left the wall switch in the ON position and just used the pull chain to turn the lights on and off. Then the erratic behavior started again.
This is the point at which I've entered the picture.
The story so far...
1) The lights are in parallel circuit as should be. There is a inch and a half or so length plastic box in the circuit that I think must be an automatically resetting overload circuit breaker, but I don't know for certain that this is its function. I just cannot fathom it being anything else.
2) I've replaced the pull chain switch and the wall switch.
3) I've remade the circuit connections to the lights to eliminate the possibility of a fault there.
4) After re-assembly, initial testing was performed with a bulb in one of the four fixtures. And the switches work perfectly.
5) Install all four bulbs (brand new 60 watts) and the lights go out in the exact same erratic manner.
6) Remove two of the four bulbs and it works just fine. Add a third bulb and it gets goofy again.
Suspicions
1) Perhaps it is supposed to have 40 watt bulbs and I'll have to buy some.
2) if the little black box is a circuit breaker then maybe it's gone goofy.
Should anyone have thoughts, I'm all ears!
Here's the story.
It's an older ceiling fan with a four light bottom unit. Only one of the four small base bulbs have legible writing and it's a 60 watt bulb.
The owner thought that the wall switch was bad because the lights would go out in an erratic manner. So, she left the wall switch in the ON position and just used the pull chain to turn the lights on and off. Then the erratic behavior started again.
This is the point at which I've entered the picture.
The story so far...
1) The lights are in parallel circuit as should be. There is a inch and a half or so length plastic box in the circuit that I think must be an automatically resetting overload circuit breaker, but I don't know for certain that this is its function. I just cannot fathom it being anything else.
2) I've replaced the pull chain switch and the wall switch.
3) I've remade the circuit connections to the lights to eliminate the possibility of a fault there.
4) After re-assembly, initial testing was performed with a bulb in one of the four fixtures. And the switches work perfectly.
5) Install all four bulbs (brand new 60 watts) and the lights go out in the exact same erratic manner.
6) Remove two of the four bulbs and it works just fine. Add a third bulb and it gets goofy again.
Suspicions
1) Perhaps it is supposed to have 40 watt bulbs and I'll have to buy some.
2) if the little black box is a circuit breaker then maybe it's gone goofy.
Should anyone have thoughts, I'm all ears!