Dear friends.Please give me advice on my stupid question. How to troubleshoot toilet fans?

[mika and yacht]

 

[simonfraser]

this time of the year in the UK poss not enough sun to make it work.

when did it break ?

 

[PCUK]

If it's a solar fan it may need a new rechargeable battery.

 

[jfm]

What’s the question? That looks like a 12v fan from the ECS catalogue. Millions of them in all the mainstream boats. Junk, by the way!

 

[Boathook]

Undo the screws and take it out, give up with any repair and purchase a new one.

 

[petem]

Undo the screws and take it out, give up with any repair and purchase a new one.

That's a bit lazy. More often than not the cause is a poor connection or broken fuse.

At least test the power supply for 12v first (every boat should have a multimeter on board).

 

[jrudge]

The Ecs fans have been discontinued as they went bust.

The fans as jfm says are junk.

I did find one that fit on eBay with a light in that works well. My bathroom has 2 fans. One is shallow fit and this fan won't fit. The deeper fit on does fit.

I will try and find a link but it was some years ago.

 

[jrudge]

It was this sort of thing.

Pardon our interruption...

 

[oldgit]

On mine, the little plastic window over the photo electic cell had gone all milky and crazed.
Threw it away and bought a new fan.