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title: "Hood light and control service"
description: "Lamps out, a touch strip that has stopped responding, or a hood that runs at one speed whatever is asked of it. Small work, and it splits the machine usefully:"
url: "https://askomiami.support/services/hood-light-and-control-service/"
date_modified: "2026-09-13"
Appliance type: "Range hoods"
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# Asko hood light and control service

### Lights working proves the supply and halves the diagnosis

On almost every hood the lamps and the motor sit on different circuits after the switch, so a lit lamp and a silent fan is a genuinely useful observation: the supply is fine and the problem is downstream. What is left is the switch or touch strip, the motor and its capacitor. Touch strips fail in kitchens where the hood is wiped daily and they are an ordinary part — but they present as a speed problem rather than a control one, which is why every speed is tried in turn.

What this involves

Lights working while the fan does not points away from the supply

Touch strips fail from daily cleaning, and they are an ordinary part

Lamp type matched to the liner, because the wrong one cooks its own holder

Split the circuits

Lamps and motor tested separately to establish what still has power, which usually settles the direction in a minute.

Test the control rather than replace it

Touch strip or switch read electrically, because a strip that has lost one segment behaves like a hood with a speed problem.

Fit the right lamps

Type, wattage and holder matched to the liner. The wrong lamp in a concealed liner runs hot enough to destroy the holder it sits in.

### It only works on one speed.

That is the control rather than the motor, and it is the cheaper of the two. Worth saying when you call because it changes what goes on the van.

### Can I change the lamps myself?

Generally yes, and match the type exactly. A concealed liner runs hotter than an open hood, and the wrong lamp destroys the holder it sits in — which turns a two-minute job into a part and a visit.

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