Savona fans
1 report to CPSC, the latest made May 23, 2024. A report isn’t a recall.
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At a glance
From SaferProducts.gov, released Oct 25, 2026.
- 1report to CPSC
- May 23, 2024the latest report was made
- May 23, 2024the earliest
- 0with the company’s comments
- Brand
- Savona
- Maker
- ZEPHYR CORP.Makers, importers or sellers, as the reports name them
- Product
- FansCPSC’s product type: Fans (code 380), in Home Maintenance and Structures: Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning
By month
The numbers, as a table
| Month | Reports |
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| May 2024 | 1 |
How badly anyone was hurt
- Hurt, no treatment 1 CPSC: Injury, No First Aid or Medical Attention Received
As each report says it, in short words; CPSC’s own words are under each.
The reports, as CPSC published them
Reports people made to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC publishes each one after sending it to the company named, and doesn’t guarantee they’re accurate. A report isn’t a recall.
Each report is the words of the person who made it, as CPSC published them. The company’s comments, where CPSC published any, are set apart as the company’s own.
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Hurt, no treatment Made May 23, 2024, sent to the company May 29, 2024, published by CPSC Jun 12, 2024
The product, in the report: Zephyr Savona ZSA-M90S, first generation, “Made in Italy”, “Cod. K44.Z.902.300”, “UL Listed”
With the light switch in the “off” position, I received a 110V shock while replacing a light bulb in a Zephyr Savona ZSA-M90S range hood. The shock caused minor injury to my hand. The circuit was not (nor was it required to be) a GFCI nor AFCI, so the circuit remained online even after I had received the shock.
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I am the owner of the home and the appliance.
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During the installation, I was following all labeled instructions on the unit, as well as all warnings in the manual. I was also practicing basic safety techniques associated with changing a typical household (E26, Edison-base) light bulb.
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Upon further investigation, I discovered that the circuit controlling the light is switched-neutral. The same circuit also controls the motor, so the motor is also switched-neutral. This appliance is thus unsafe by design; any attempt by an end-user to replace the light bulb would require de-energizing the entirety of the circuit at the breaker panel in order to avoid being shocked. Further, any short to ground on the neutral side would result in, at minimum, the energizing of one or more elements of the appliance without any ability to turn them off, if not also electrical arc/fire hazards.
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A retrofit kit, consisting of Zephyr part numbers 11000041 and 56210050, is available. This retrofit kit maintains the switched-neutral configuration. Figure 1 on Page 2 of the the document “ZSA-M90S Switch Retrofit”, labeled “MAY08.0301”, shows a wiring diagram for the kit. This diagram clearly shows that the intended wiring is that the white (neutral) wire from the AC supply goes to the switch, while the black (hot/line) wire goes directly to the lights.
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Further, the design of the lampholder itself is problematic. A [REDACTED] (phenolic resin) lampholder base is attached to a “trapeze”. This trapeze is bent downwards to enable threading of the bulb, then bent back up so that the bulb fits snugly against the bottom plate of the range hood. Performing this operation requires the user to place their hands inside the cavity of the range hood, increasing the likelihood of exposure to the live 110V leg of the circuit that is always present. It also means that a user who wishes to have the lights sit flush as designed must carefully balance between screwing in the bulb further and retracting the trapeze. These actions increase the likelihood of the E26 threads embedded into the phenolic resin breaking down/apart, as they did in my case; this was a contributing cause of the shock that I received, though in a different configuration, the broken threads could easily have provided a short-circuit path that bypassed the lamp, posing a fire hazard.
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While rewiring the motor to no longer be switched-neutral is beyond my skills, I was ultimately able to effect a simple retrofit to remedy the issue with the lights. With one of the traces on the PCB removed, I ran a separate wire for “hot” to the switch for the lights, and then reversed their positioning on the downstream lampholders. It’s probably not realistic to expect an end-user to be comfortable breaking traces on a PCB, but my retrofit demonstrates that Zephyr could at least partially resolve this issue for no more than the cost of a replacement PCB and a wire or two.
- Model
- ZSA-M90S
- Serial number
- 1001668AEX
- Where
- Washougal, Washington: Home/
Apartment/ Condominium - Who was involved
- Age 41, Unspecified
- The reporter’s relation to them
- Self
- As this report names them
- Brand Savona, made or sold by ZEPHYR CORP.
- How badly, in CPSC’s words
- Injury, No First Aid or Medical Attention Received
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, SaferProducts.gov public database export.
Released Oct 25, 2026 and checked Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.
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