broken fan

[Kitsune06]

How much did it cost? I mean... if you wanted to conduct some sort of science experiment, I'm sure there are directions online on how to wind a relatively simple AC motor.

(this comes with the disclaimer that you'd have to be very careful, yadda yadda, don't burn or electrocute yourself, don't chew on cables or touch two things at once and complete any circuits or ground live wires. ) FWIW, it probably wouldn't be that much of a stretch to get an insulated wire of a slightly larger gauge than was originally in the fan and solder the connections, but the bind you'd run into there is if it was originally engineered to use a stupidly fine gauge so the proper gauge would never fit. Tiny wires reap the benefit of a greater surface area for better conduction but if the resistance is too high, they overheat very very easily, and heat lowers the conduction of a surface anyway. :/ Kind of a bummer, but yeah, if they can churn out a few hundred thousand and assume that when A breaks you'll buy B, they still profit more by making an inferior (but cheaper) product. Shame.

Anyway, I was looking around and found some directions that seem plausible. My original disclaimer still stands though. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, and if you fail, well, it was sort of broken already. Can't kill what's already dead, as I like to say.

http://www.ehow.com/how_7656697_do-r...an-motors.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Rewind-an-Electric-Motor


Before going too deeply into this, you might want to figure out if it's an AC or DC application. My bet is it's a DC motor with a transformer somewhere inside it, so you can plug it into your regular AC outlet and it uses DC so you don't notice the (albeit really fast) oscillation between currents. HTH!