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title: "Hood lamps work but the fan does not"
description: "Lamps lit and the motor silent, which is more useful than it sounds: on almost every hood the lamps and the motor sit on different circuits after the switch, so"
url: "https://askomiami.support/symptoms/hood-lights-work-fan-does-not/"
date_modified: "2026-09-13"
Appliance type: "Range hoods"
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# Asko hood lamps work but the fan does not

### What to do in the next ten minutes

Try every speed in turn and listen — a hood that hums at the highest setting and does nothing at the lowest is telling a different story from one that is silent throughout. Wipe the control area dry and try again, because a wet touch strip behaves like a broken one. Then switch the circuit off for a minute and back on.

### Why a concealed liner costs more to reach

These are built to disappear into somebody else’s millwork, often with no service access at all. Getting to one is joinery as much as appliance work, and we say before the visit what will have to come off — and we do not open a cabinet we cannot put back to the same standard.

### The lamp detail worth knowing

Lamp type, wattage and holder are matched to the liner. The wrong lamp fitted into a concealed hood runs hot enough to destroy the holder it sits in, which turns a two-minute job into a part and a visit. If the lamps have been changed recently and one has failed again quickly, that is usually why.

The touch strip or switch has failed

Common where the hood is cleaned daily, and a straightforward part. It reads as a speed problem rather than a control one, which is why the speeds are tried in turn.

The motor or its capacitor

A hum with no rotation points here. Measured for current draw and bearing play rather than replaced on a sound.

Something is jammed in the impeller

Rare and worth ruling out, because a motor straining against a jam draws wrongly and looks electrically dead.

Do the lamps work?

If they do, the supply is proven and the problem is after the switch. That is the whole value of this observation.

Does it hum?

A hum with no movement is mechanical or a capacitor. Silence is the switch or the control.

Is the panel wet?

A touch strip with water on it behaves exactly like a failed one. Dry it and try again before assuming anything.

The lights come on and nothing moves

What it usually means

Lights working proves the supply and halves the diagnosis

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

The wrong lamp type destroys its own holder in a concealed liner

What to do in the next ten minutes

Try every speed in turn and listen — a hood that hums at the highest setting and does nothing at the lowest is telling a different story from one that is silent throughout. Wipe the control area dry and try again, because a wet touch strip behaves like a broken one. Then switch the circuit off for a minute and back on.

Why a concealed liner costs more to reach

These are built to disappear into somebody else’s millwork, often with no service access at all. Getting to one is joinery as much as appliance work, and we say before the visit what will have to come off — and we do not open a cabinet we cannot put back to the same standard.

The lamp detail worth knowing

Lamp type, wattage and holder are matched to the liner. The wrong lamp fitted into a concealed hood runs hot enough to destroy the holder it sits in, which turns a two-minute job into a part and a visit. If the lamps have been changed recently and one has failed again quickly, that is usually why.

### Can I change the lamps myself?

Generally yes, and it is worth matching the type exactly rather than fitting whatever is at hand — a concealed liner runs hotter than an open one.

### It works on one speed only.

That is the control rather than the motor, and it is the cheaper of the two. Worth saying on the phone.

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