Ceiling Fan Humming Sound

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Ceiling fan humming sound. Your ceiling fan may create grinding noise rattling sound rubbing noise buzzing noise clicking noise squeaking noise or humming noise. Many modern fans have parts that mute the hum but sometimes these parts fail. If this is the case you should replace your dimmer switches with standard ones.

Dimmers are not intended for use with ceiling fans. Dimmer switches were never intended to be used with ceiling fans. If you re controlling your fan with a dimmer switch then you re more likely to experience buzzing or humming issues.

This is usually electrical related and can happen just as often in new fans as older ones. If your ceiling fan has a control system with a receiver a defective receiver can create a humming noise. For example a grinding noise may be due to faulty noisy ceiling fan motor.

Replacing the switch with a compatible one usually solves the problem. Eventually your ceiling fan may start producing humming or rubbing noise. A hum in a ceiling fan is usually caused by the vibration of the motor and the volume of the noise depends on the mount housing and blades.

One of the most common sounds that ceiling fans make is buzzing or humming. One of the common reasons a ceiling fan makes an electrical humming noise is that the voltage the motor is receiving is too low. A buzzing noise can be from some electrical issue.

Please contact us for help. This problem is easy to correct and generally only requires a set of screwdrivers. A rattling sound may mean there are some loose parts.