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Godoh
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Joined: 26/09/2020
Location: Australia
Posts: 578

Posted: 07:23am 31 Oct 2025

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My partner smelt a strange smell coming from one of our second bathroom today. I went to investigate and could smell burnt plastic too.
I had a look at the inverter in the outside bathroom and yep that is where the smell was coming from.
It turned out that the fan was cooked. And I mean cooked, it had caught fire and melted leaving just chunks of charred plastic.
Fortunately there was no other damage, so a good clean up of the circuit board, a new fan and this time an inline fuse sorted the inverter out.
I will be fitting inline fuses now to my other inverters too.
I have had fans die in the past but never catch fire.
Fortunately this was a cheap lesson.
Pete

Revlac

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Joined: 31/12/2016
Location: Australia
Posts: 1192

Posted: 09:34am 31 Oct 2025

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At least you were home to catch it, I have a few fans stop working but never had one burn, obviously its possible, I did have a 230vac fan get jammed from some plastic blown in form a storm and it blew the fuse,
I will check a few fans I have perhaps some have a thermal cutout.

Cheers Aaron
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