Ceiling Fan Light Chain Broken

Ceiling fans with lights have a pull chain to turn the fan or the lights on or off.

Ceiling fan light chain broken.

If you pull too hard on the pull chain the chain can break or come out of its socket. Flip off the circuit breaker to the ceiling fan s electrical circuit. Disassemble the switch and reconnect the chain. Check the bulb for broken filaments.

Disassemble the switch and reconnect the chain. If your ceiling fan pull chain is broken because it was pulled out of the switch there s an easy way to fix it. These pull chains get pulled on daily and can be broken. A broken pull chain on a ceiling fan almost always requires replacement of the on off switch as a repair.

Then use a screwdriver to loosen and remove the fixture from its electrical box. Hold a noncontact voltage tester. Gently pull the fixture down without touching the wires. Open up the switch in the ceiling fan and remove the broken piece of chain before replacing it with a longer one.

There s one nut holding the pull chain to the light kit housing. Replacing a broken pull chain switch on a ceiling fan. First remove the light bulb if you re working on a ceiling light fixture. It s hardwired to the light kit.

An easy repair you. Again take a picture of the wiring then undo the two wire nuts that wire it to the rest of the light kit. If your ceiling fan light isn t working try replacing the pull chain first. When ceiling fan pull chain is broken inside of the ceiling fan when no pull chain is visible this likely means that the pull within the ceiling fan has broken near or inside the ceiling fan pull switch.

If your ceiling fan or the light on the fan doesn t work when the chain is pulled then the problem is most likely a broken fan pull chain switch. If the chain on your ceiling fan has ever pulled out then this is how to repair it. With a voltage tester touch one end of the probe to the black wire and the other to the white wire. A few models do allow you to reattach the chain but you must access the switch before.

Also the light switch itself may wear out or fail. Unscrew the metal collar through which the pull chain should extend.