Cooker Extractor Fan - Troubleshooting Tips?

[SteveHulme]

Hello

I\\\'m trying to work out why the extractor fan above the cooker has stopped working.

The kitchen was fitted by a previous owner, but I\\\'m presuming that the \\\'fuse box\\\' below the extractor unit is the correct one to check and the 3amp fuse in there looks fine (in fact I exchanged it to make sure). I can\\\'t follow the wiring to as it is all tiled in between this fuse box and the extractor unit.

The extractor unit panels look pretty difficult to take off and I haven\\\'t been successful so far.

Is there anything simple I should be checking - inside or outside the house - before I start burrowing into the unit and looking for loose connections?

Many thanks in advance

 

[Taylortwocities]

Are you sure that switch is the one for the extract fan? If you assume it makes an ass out of u and me!
I have been to a number of non-op extract fans only to find the isolator is in a cupboard and someone has bushed a box of Shreddies onto the switch and it has turned off.
Well worth the call-out charge that sort of thing!!


If your sure the FCU is the right one, check the supply is leaving the FCU (with a voltage tester or multimeter not a neon screwdriver). If its OK there then test where the cable comes into the extract fan. If you've got power there then there's a fault with the fan.
TTC

 

[unclebuck001]

most extractor fans come with a moulded plug and if a bulb blows it sometimes takes the fuse with it normally the closest one, i would check if there is a plug some where either above your units or in the flu its self, replace that fuse...

 

[securespark]

Simply replacing the fuse may not be enough to ensure you have a working one.

If I had a quid for all those call-outs where customers have insisted that the lamp/fuse is OK because they've checked them, I'd be a millionaire!