Needless to say, as the heatwave gets under wave, our pedestal fan has gone "bang". (Well, actually, it's gone [silence], but you know what I mean). It was whirring away last night in our bedroom and it just stopped, as if it had been turned off.
The thing is, I can't find anything wrong with it. I've checked the fuse, which is fine, and the mains it's plugged into is fine. I've dismantled it (thank the Lhord for the Screwfix security screw set) and essentially it's a motor with 4 wires coming out of it to a switch for the speed control & 2 more to a capacitor. The switch seems to be OK - I've checked that it switches between the common and 3 other outputs. The capacitor seems OK AFAICT - an ohmeter shows a steadily increasing value until it appears open circuit (as it charges up, I assume). I've measured the resistance between the common and the three other wires coming out of the motor and they're all low resistance, so I connected the common and one of the other wires to mains & ... nothing.
So, what am I doing wrong? Or is it dead in some exotic manner?