Ceiling FAN DC motor ESPHome

Hi,
It rather depends on your knowledge of microelectronics - if in doubt, please stop and don’t injure yourself or someone else. Mains voltages are rather dangerous, and large electrolytic capacitors (like those on the PSU section of this board) can hold a 400V charge for hours (good kit uses bleed resistors to discharge, but not all kit is good…).

I can see:

  • dedicated driver chip in the middle
  • Power section on the right with common mode filters, and two relays
  • Top left has an interesting board slot - just the sort of slot a Tyua or similar control board would solder into.

There’s three main approaches:

  • Find a similar device, or upgrade module to replace the control gear (you’ve already found the common AC fan control modules)
  • Work out what the motors use, and replace the lot with a custom board (e.g. trace out the relays and power control section, and replicate using an ESP). Flipped digital camera photos make PCB reverse engineering easier.
  • Reverse engineer the possible missing control board connections, and possible interface to the uP top-right. Logic analyser and isolated oscilloscope probe not included!

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