Ghost ceiling fan

Post #374,010 by crazy 4/19/13 9:05:47 AM Reply	Ghost ceiling fan Our front room has a ceiling fan in light fixture. The switch is by the front door, and could be knocked by someone rushing out. It seemed to turn itself on. Randomly. Everyone says it wasn't them. When it was down to 2 people in the house, I had to explain it was me or him, and it was NOT me, or the ghost, and left it at that. I TAPED the switch. And it happened again. ARRGGG! Hmmmm. The 2nd floor hall has 2 switches. 1 controls the hall ceiling light. The other ... ... ... SOB! It controls the front hall light/fan. I had no idea, and assumed it did a wall socket. I've been here a year, and am still discovering things.
Post #374,011 by folkert 4/19/13 9:11:08 AM 4/19/13 9:41:53 AM Reply	I can print you a switch "lock" Switch Lock: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:69806 Or a Switch Cover: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:38431 Or this lock: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:57337 Or this lock: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:70587 Or this switch cover: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:36961 Or this switch cover: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6688 -- greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Edited by folkert April 19, 2013, 09:13:27 AM EDT Edited by folkert April 19, 2013, 09:41:53 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #374,019 by boxley 4/19/13 11:00:33 AM Reply	duct tape is cheaper :-) Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #374,031 by Bman 4/19/13 1:36:03 PM Reply	Re: I can print you a switch "lock" you'er have to much fun with that thing :-) "Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand" Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
Post #374,013 by hnick 4/19/13 9:59:01 AM Reply	Re: Ghost ceiling fan A couple years ago, before I had my back surgery, we had a fan installed in my wife's study/office. It has a remote switch, like a one button garage door clicker. The fan turns itself on at random times. I don't know if it's power surges or something else can generate a compatible signal, or what. Since it's random, it makes it difficult to analyze. Be happy you have something you can figure out.
Post #374,027 by Another Scott 4/19/13 1:06:02 PM Reply	Same here. Just figured it was RFI. http://en.wikipedia...._consumer_devices One of our ceiling lights with a radio remote always turns itself on if there has been a power glitch (e.g. lightning), but rarely on other occasions too. Cheers, Scott.
Post #374,015 by drook 4/19/13 10:30:05 AM Reply	We've got one of those Whoever gets up first can turn on a downstairs light so they can see where they're going without waking everyone else up. Took us a couple of weeks to figure out what that second switch was, but there were no outlets nearby so we knew it couldn't be that. -- Drew
Post #374,051 by static 4/19/13 7:54:27 PM Reply	Switch oddities... I was to say that you Americans do have odd switch placements, but then I remembered I grew up with someone who liked them to make sense. Even today, Dad will not have a light switch in a strange spot. Friends' and relatives' houses, though. One relative had a random light switch in the middle of the wall of the (indoor) laundry. It turned a light on in the ceiling cavity. Completely non-obvious. And then there are always posts on Stack Exchange's Home Improvement site from people trying to figure out some weird wiring. Or sometimes trying to create weird wiring... Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/

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