I decided to give myself another project and take my 36" Hunter Comfort Breeze blades and put them on my gear driven fan. The result was pretty interesting.
Sounds like a 3 phase motor upon windup to full speed, these should have come from the factory like this. Putting it on the 2 and 1 settings on the controller wouldn’t change the speed much, I can tell by the sound of the motor that it’s already close to max speed, (3000 rpms), the grinding was likely just motor vibration between the gears, the gears have to be able to withstand the full torque of the motor and these blades actually reduce load on the gears.
I did not think the motor could handle that many rpms, and that makes sense, the grinding just did not sound normal so I didn't want to take the risk considering the gears made of plastic. Yes these blade do reduce the weight so I knew the motor would at least handle the #3 speed.
You can actually get metal gear for the ceiling fan instead of plastic First he take the gears out of the ceiling fan and coat them in oil then you push the gears into clay to mold the shape of the gears gently pull the gears from the mold.pour molten aluminum into the mold then drill the holes in the gears and tap them
@@nickandhizfanz Dan Spiffy Neuman converted a Nutone friction drive ceiling fan to a spinner motor in this video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aM5C6tDY_O0.html I know they are two totally different fans but am curious if it is possible to convert one to a spinner motor. I would think getting the gear with the blades attached would be the hardest part to get to spin with a spinner motor.
its actually going to be under less load even at high speed like that with short blades, that's how it got so fast the only real danger is the grease flying off the gears which could be solved by using some thick grease on the gear teeth
I honestly couldn’t tell you. I had to relocate so no longer have that control around but I still have the fan. I just wasn’t willing to risk a possible failure in the motor by pushing it too hard
I got the motor itself from ebay. It didn't come with the rest of the parts so the blades and blade arms are from my 36" Hunter Comfort Breeze which is also from ebay
