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[Durbkat]

Just yesterday when I turned my ceiling fan on in my bed room it made a wierd noise and it stopped working the whole ceiling fan stopped working even the fan so for light I have to use a lamp and I assume the reason my brand new fan stopped working is because I have to many tanks in my room and other stuff plugged up and this is an old apartment so I imagine that the outlets can't handle all the electricty so I was wondering since I'm not going to be using my 20g for about 3 weeks could I unlpug the heater and everything else running in it since the filter to it is in the 55g so I can be using less electricty and won't destroy another new ceiling fan?

 

[debiasir]

if the tank is not being used for anything and is empty bar water yeah unplug it as there is no benefit having it plugged in really unless you are fishless cycling it

 

[Animation]

Should be alright but make sure you get it running again 1-2 weeks before you accomadate it

 

[Durbkat]

Thanks guys.

 

[tttnjfttt]

If the tank is currently empty and has no fish in it for a few days, then odds are the bacteria have died already. If you have been feeding the bacteria, then moving it to the 55 gal will be fine.

 

[Animation]

No probs durbkat goodluck

 

[Durbkat]

I just hope that the when the friend of the family comes over to have a look at the fan doesn't yell at me to much or tells me I have to shut one of the tanks down so I don't use so much electricty.

 

[smithrc]

I just hope that the when the friend of the family comes over to have a look at the fan doesn't yell at me to much or tells me I have to shut one of the tanks down so I don't use so much electricty.

if the fan isn't working because too many things are plugged in - it will have blown the supply fuse and nothing will be working. if the tanks are running but the fan isn't - its a fault with the fan.

 

[Durbkat]

Yeah its just the fan do you think it was an overload on it because before I left it was working then I turned it off but when I came back it made a wierd popping noise like the sound when a bulb goes out then the whole thing just stopped working. I even tried turning the circut breaker off and on twice to see if the fan just tripped a circut but it still didn't work.

 

[Tolak]

Sounds like a defective fan, or a bad wiring job on the fan install. Working with older wiring can be tricky, metal fatigue can short a connection in a wiring job that looks solid. A popping sound usually means a short & smoked wire, it's unrelated to anything plugged into any outlets. I've installed countless ceiling fans in older houses, sometimes the old wiring works, I've had situations where I had to pull new wire.

Best bet is to get someone in there who has worked with electrical problems. A bad fan can toast a connection, usually it's bad wire at the end that sits above a ceiling fixture that heats the wire for years. Over decades this heating & cooling causes the insulation & wire itself to deteriorate. Sometimes pulling new wire is needed.

Pulling new wire is easier than installing the fan itself. Having new wire makes the fan install go easier as well.

Tolak

 

[Durbkat]

Well the guy that installed the fan in my room and living room knows alot about electricty and he is coming over today to check it out, do you think it is easy to install new wires?

 

[Tolak]

You can usually attach the new wire to the old wire, and as you pull out the old wire it pulls the new wire through. I have yet to see a switched ceiling fixture in an older house where this isn't the case. Rarely there is a junction box that has to be opened. If someone wired the place this way, they should consider a new line of work.

Fire codes require wiring to be run through conduit, a sort of bendable pipe that encases the wires. In more recent years, a product called romex is used, but if the structure is 30+ years old you won't find this unless there was a total rehab on the building.

 

[Durbkat]

Well this building is about 46 years old and has had hardly any things changed about it I think that it barley keeps up to code because this guy is cheap and won't re wire the place. Well the guy that said he was coming over said he will come over tommorow and hook up a electric tester thing to see if any electricty is even running into the fan.