I had problems with capacitors not lasting and expensive to replace.

Nowdays I run two wires through centre piping and mount microwave oven capacitors on top of motor either series or paralel depending on what values you need.

Microwave caps are more or less [2000 working voltage] and therefore outlasts the motor.

It does look a bit awkward when you know they are mounted there, but hey, who looks up to your ceiling fan.

I have a Hunter Mod #20656 013811, Cat #00100 and can’t get help nor parts. This is a remote controled unit with the Remote circuit board not only SHOT but unreadable. Leads from Motor windings (7 leads)terminate into a 9 pen plug. Colors are Red, Black, Yellow, White, Pink, Gray, and a small Black that appears to be around an 18 or 20 Gauge stranded.I am looking for the lead hook-up and capacitor assignment to make it a conventional (switch Controled) hook-up. I really don’t care if I have anything but High speed as I want to conrol it with a wall potentiometer. Do you have a reference to such or direction to where I might find the info (Hunter is no help), or just a wild guess? Anything would be greatly appreciated.

You mentioned the motor got hot, that indicates an issue. Whether the heat resulted in the motor windings breaking down, tripping a safety fuse of some kind, or something else is hard for me to guess.

A floor fan is probably somewhat to quite a bit different than a typical ceiling fan, and I believe I mentioned above that I’m not an engineer. My ceiling fan “motor” is powered by AC, but is the floor fan “motor” you have powered by AC or DC is a question you need to ask yourself. If it’s a DC motor, but the unit plugs into an AC wall outlet, then the circuitry between the plug-in-the-wall cord and the motor itself is going to be quite a bit different.

I think you have a tracing problem, in other words, find out if and where in the circuitry the power is interrupted, you probably can solve the problem. There are capacitor testers. If there’s power at the motor itself, there are resistance tests (measured in ohms) that can be performed on some types of motor windings using a tool such as what used to be called a VOM or Volt-Ohm-Meter to insure the very-thin and nearly-transparent insulation between the wires hasn’t broken down (possibly as a result of too much heat) and shorted. In all of these cases, it’s easiest if you have a schematic to go from, and it sounds like you don’t have one (a common problem). A top-of-the-line tool is an oscilloscope, this allows you to look at the shape of an electric waveform.

You can buy some types of capacitors at some electronic supply shops. As far as what I found for ceiling fans, my prior post has a list of a few of those suppliers. You could try using a search engine, which is how I found those that I listed.

Good Luck!