This is Joshua Peterson with Peterson Electric. We are here in Fort Collins with a customer. The compliant was that they had an issue with 2 ceiling fans in two separate rooms, same brand, same fan starting to mishap. Once they narrowed it down. The husband said that it was one room. Just so you know it is called a phantom. It will just react on & off. The thing about getting ceiling fans is if you are going to install them yourselves & you think you know how to do it, no problem, make sure you change your dip switches in all the ones in the home. A dip switch is described as, in the back of the module of the remote, the dip switches are right here, 1 through 4. Up there in the module, there is the same thing. You have to program them. These guys actually did do that & they were still having an issue. What we narrowed it down to is everything was responding a 100 percent of the time. Everything with the fan & modules, even the ceiling fans were responding. What we were narrowing it down to is that they have 4 apartment complexes. They have aother neighbor, who goes to Loews or another big box store & gets the same kind of fan & just throws it up & you don’t have to reprogram them when you do that. All the dip switches are down or up, 1 through 4, well guess what? These things can give off to a hundred foot away & respond. I have even seen garage door openers kick on the fan in the same home. When you get your ceiling fan make sure you change it. Just to give you heads up, your big box stores are starting to have these come in the box, they are already preprogrammed themselves. I have had this frustration in someone’s home. Three Casa Blancas & I had to go through the house & call Casa Blanca & talk to them about an hour on how to reprogram them separately. Instructions did not say if you have three fans in the home & you bought them all in the same brand or different that they are preprogrammed & when you hit them & follow all the steps, that they will actually program at the same time. What the frustration was that one remote was turning on all three rooms, where we wanted one remote per room. The other quick hit, I will give you is go ahead & get one of these at Home Depot, plastic guard. They don’t make it for the paddle switch, but for your toggle switch. These can help you from hitting that switch on & off. Once you get this, you do want to keep that switch in my opinion. It is called a disconnect. If at that point, if that module goes bad in the middle of the night or you smell smoke or see a black ring around your white paint around there, this is nice. You can hit the disconnect & wait for the electrician to come. Otherwise, you are going to have to hit that breaker or the whole house panel & you are going to have to call someone immediately because that could catch fire, so keep that switch there. This little guard here works well here for a toggle switch, so no one keeps hitting it. When you hit it, that has to reset it again & again. Every time you reset it, it kind of wears the part out. Also, one other thing, don’t forget to hit your switch & change the direction of your fan every 6 months. There are 3 windings on the top & 3 windings on the bottom you want wear those evenly just like want to wear your wires on your car. Thanks for joining us! See you next week!
