Saturday, August 14, 2010

Dangerous Light in Ceiling Fan


Zac, Monte, and Wayne worked on his Eagle project again on Thursday night. Little by little it is getting closer to finished.

I was happy to see that Gretchen didn't win this week on Project Runway. That woman drives me up the wall. Too smug. Too self assured. Too delusional--she believes everyone looks up to her.

Seth came over a week ago and took apart Zac's ceiling fan. The light fixture has been going bonkers for years. First it made sparking noises, then everytime Zac turned it on the lightbulbs would go "pop" and burn out. So we just turned off the lights and only used the fan.

Seth took it all apart and found out the wires to the lights had been rubbed by the twirling fan. The wire casing was completely rubbed away, and then the wire was shorting out and sparking inside the fixture. You can see the burned places.

Its a good thing we quit using it.

Now he has rewired it and put it all back together safely. It makes me wonder how many other ceiling fans have the wires touching the rotating part.

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