I just had a Broan Elite E662 hood installed and it is blowing out instead of pulling air in. I held a tissue up to the filter and it does not pull it up...rather it blows it down. Was something done wronf in the installation?
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The same thing was happening to my Broan 83000 kitchen hood. If I held a piece of paper up to the hood it was blowing down and not sucking upwards. I took the cover off, disconnected the power ( 2 wires on each end, plastic snap in) by pulling the 2 plastic pieces awart, unscrewed the 2 butterfly looking nuts and and slid the motor out. The problem was that the exhaust on the motor was facing to the wall and the sucked in air had no where to go causing a sucking effect. The fan motor should have been turned up to face the vertical duct so the air could go up and out. Now my hood suck air up perfectly.
It sounds like the fan blade may be installed upside down, or the entire motor/fan assembly is upside down. Typically, these small motors aren't reversible, so you should check the blade first.