Shaded pole foot controller?

Nov 27, 2007 20 Replies

Many ceiling fans & similar devices use/d shaded pole motors. Commonly the speed controller was a tapped inductor in series. The speed notches simply tapped off a different series inductance, ie it was used as a

2-terminal device.

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