[regularfry]

What's odd is that while what you describe is true for fans with a rotary mechanical switch, where you have to physically turn the contacts through "High" to get to "Low", it's also very common for fans with independent speed buttons to put the "High" button next to "Off", with "Low" furthest away. I don't know if that's just a hold-over from rotary switches because people are used to the sequence, or if there's something else mechanical going on inside the switch unit which has the same effect. And on this occasion I'm not taking mine apart to find out.