Help! wiring S&P200 fan with fantech WC15 speed controller

[Igignokt]

No idea. Had speedster (I think), it was simple where you'd just plug in the cord from the fan and that would do the trick. Problem was it made a very loud hmm when it was working, so I ditched it

Now I have the fantech WC15 speed controller since I've heard good things. problem is I need to do the wiring. The fan only has two wires, + and ground. The speed controller has two + wires and one ground. How do I go about this?

On the speed controller I know one + is input and the other + is output, but the solo grounding wire is what confuses me. Does it work as grounding wire for both?

Pics needed?

Any help would be appreciated cause I gotta get odor taken care of ASAP

 

[FreezerBoy]

The green ground is not part of the circuit. The green wire goes to the metal housing of the fan. The S&P is housed in plastic, it needs no green ground.

 

[Igignokt]

So basically, do I just connect the ground wire from the outlet directly to the fan, and only connect the hot wires to the controller en route to fan?

 

[FreezerBoy]

The ground wire is not part of the circuit. It doesn't need to connect to anything. Connecting it to the metal housing is a safety option that SHOULD be taken except, you have no metal. You have nothing to connect the green wire to.

White to white. Black to black or brown (depending on choice of speed) green goes nowhere. NOTE THIS IS FOR PLASTIC HOUSED FANS ONLY!

 

[qbert]

NOTE THIS IS FOR PLASTIC HOUSED FANS ONLY!

afaik, the TD-200 has a METAL body. The inner blade and the ducting connectors on the end are plastic, but the fan housing itself (at least the one in my possession) is definitely metal.

 

[FreezerBoy]

Far be it from me to tell you what's in your hands but the description I got from S&P was "Low profile mixed flow fans, manufactured in plastic material (up to model 200) or in galvanized steel sheet protected with Epoxy paint (model 250 and up)" You'll forgive me for trusting the manufacturers description.

If the housing is metal, that's where the green wire goes. If it's plastic, the green wire becomes pointless.

 

[qbert]

Far be it from me to tell you what's in your hands but the description I got from S&P was "Low profile mixed flow fans, manufactured in plastic material (up to model 200) or in galvanized steel sheet protected with Epoxy paint (model 250 and up)" You'll forgive me for trusting the manufacturers description.

Actually, I posted it cause I too had seen that description in their pdf and went "huh" when the fans arrived and the 200 was metal. Just letting yall know.

Would you recommend grounding the metal housing then? I really need to bone up on my AC wiring guidelines.

 

[FreezerBoy]

Would you recommend grounding the metal housing then?

Hell yes! Escaped electricity is like lightning. All it wants is to get to the center of the earth and, lacking an easier, direct route (like a ground wire) it will happily use your body to do it.