I never knew that there were laws regarding ceiling fans in this country. My girlfriends ceiling fan started to malfunction. Specifically the lights. I'm no stranger to electronic or electronic wiring and after taking it apart I found a relay integrated circuit board where there had no need of one being. I did some searching online to find the part and replace it and discovered that it was a board meant to limit the total wattage the fan could output to 190W. I thought this was odd and did some more digging and and found that back in 2009 the department of energy introduced a law saying that all ceiling fans had to be limited to 190W for the lights. The reason behind the law was to save energy.
Why are we funding these kinds of pointless laws? Does anyone really benefit from the time it took to draft, pass, and enforce this piece of legislation? I think perhaps only half dozen inspectors that were hired to make sure manufacturers were being enforced benefit from this non sense. What a waste of resources and a prime example of the BS our tax dollars are wasted on.
In the end I just bypassed the limiter and wired the lights up like they normally would have before 2009.