{"id":20221,"date":"2024-05-02T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T16:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/?p=20221"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:27:57","slug":"cart-fan-troubleshooting-and-faqs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/20221","title":{"rendered":"Cart Fan Troubleshooting and FAQs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/product\/cart-fan\/\">Cart Fan<\/a> (<nobr>DTS-CFAN<\/nobr>)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/manuals\/DTS-CFAN\">Specifications and User Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TROUBLESHOOTING<br \/>\u2013 Primary Test: Press the Start\/Stop button. The fan should turn on. Select a thrust level using the Selection button and press the Start\/Stop button. The Thrust\/Duration Indicator LEDs will flash orange for 2 sec as a countdown before turning on the fan. If the fan battery is low, the Thrust\/Duration indicator and charging LEDs will alternately flash red.<\/p>\n<p>New Cart Fans will arrive with a variety of battery states. Some may be nearly fully charged, others very low. It is recommended you charge new Cart Fans for 8 hours before using them in class. If you use it immediately, you may find that the Cart Fan cannot provide higher thrust levels or durations. For more details, see <a href=\"\/til\/20471\/\">My Cart Fan flashes a red LED sequence. What does that mean?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED ARTICLES<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/20461\/\">My Cart Fan doesn't turn on.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/20471\/\">My Cart Fan flashes a red LED sequence. What does that mean?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/20617\/\">How do I replace the rechargeable battery in a Cart Fan?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/20739\/\">Can I use the Cart Fan (DTS-CFAN) with a Vernier Dynamics System (VDS) Cart?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/22132\/\">How do I install the Cart Fan mounting plate on a plastic DTS cart?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/22326\/\">My Cart Fan is loose or falls out of the mounting bracket.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/22263\/\">How do I use the Cart Fan propeller spacing tool?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/2103\/\">Cart and Track System Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/17745\/\">Which model dynamics cart do I have?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SPECIFICATIONS<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Attaches to Go Direct Sensor Carts and Dynamics Cart and Track System (DTS) Carts<\/li>\n<li>Mounting plate accommodates 1, 2, or 3 fans<\/li>\n<li>Fan(s) can be oriented up to 75\u00b0off-center (in 15\u00b0intervals)<\/li>\n<li>4 thrust levels (low, medium, high, super)<\/li>\n<li>4 duration levels (1, 3, 6, 60 s)<\/li>\n<li>Includes rechargeable battery and charging cable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>RELATED VERNIER PRODUCTS<br \/><a href=\"\/product\/dynamics-cart-and-track-system\/\">Dynamics Cart and Track System<\/a> (<nobr>DTS<\/nobr>)<br \/><a href=\"\/product\/dynamics-cart-and-track-system-with-go-direct-sensor-carts\/\">Dynamics Cart and Track System with Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Sensor Carts<\/a> (<nobr>DTS-GDX<\/nobr>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specifications and User Guide TROUBLESHOOTING\u2013 Primary Test: Press the Start\/Stop button. The fan should turn on. Select a thrust level using the Selection button and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100811,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4007,7695,7548,687,2886,2560],"class_list":["post-20221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dts","tag-dts-cfan","tag-dts-gdx","tag-dynamics-cart","tag-fan","tag-fan-cart"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}