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This evening my wife turned on our MaxxAir fan and it did something I’ve not seen before. A green LED began flashing and there was an audible alarm…an urgent beeping sound.
I tried pressing fan buttons to stop it but no luck. Then I noticed the blade was hitting something and couldn’t turn. It looked like a small rock.
I removed the screen as quickly as I could but before I could get it off the alarm stopped and the LED changed from flashing green to solid green.
The small rock turned out to be a largish chunk of mud-wasp nest.
I tried holding down the power button hoping for a reset but no luck. We happen to have cell signal tonight so I was able to learn that it can be reset by disconnecting power from the fan, then reconnecting it.
That worked and there appears to be no damage done.
I can’t see any evidence of a mud-wasp nest anywhere around the fan so that’s quite a mystery. When I get home I’ll look more closely from the outside.
My fan is the MaxxFan Deluxe 5100k model.
I tried pressing fan buttons to stop it but no luck. Then I noticed the blade was hitting something and couldn’t turn. It looked like a small rock.
I removed the screen as quickly as I could but before I could get it off the alarm stopped and the LED changed from flashing green to solid green.
The small rock turned out to be a largish chunk of mud-wasp nest.
I tried holding down the power button hoping for a reset but no luck. We happen to have cell signal tonight so I was able to learn that it can be reset by disconnecting power from the fan, then reconnecting it.
That worked and there appears to be no damage done.
I can’t see any evidence of a mud-wasp nest anywhere around the fan so that’s quite a mystery. When I get home I’ll look more closely from the outside.
My fan is the MaxxFan Deluxe 5100k model.