*Great unit that’s easy to install and use. It’s relatively quiet compared to window units and **Fastly.Cool** , and it cools down our whole living room, side room and bathroom; which is a large space for any unit to cool.*
Also using a different control voids a warranty. So you shouldn’t have thrown out the control. Cause if fan turned out to be defective they are going to have you make sure that you are using the control that came with the fan.
Right, I would keep the control a bit in cause the fan fails. We didn't use the factory controller because it would have looked gaudy on the wall in our home. This fan is now about 5 years old and still works great on our back porch.
Fast, metal blade fans like this are common in homes in India, Sri Lanka, Australia, Singapore, etc. They are not common in North American homes because of stricter safety regulations around metal blade ceiling fans, where manufacturers are required to say that the fan must be installed with the blades at least 10 feet high. So in North America they’re usually only used in commercial and industrial applications. You get Indians coming to the US and noticing how weak the fans are bc they’re used to “scary” fans!
Love the fan of death, you really feel the breeze and it blows the mosquitoes away. Yes regulations in the US makes things suck, when we lived in Honduras we had a 220 heater on the faucet in the shower. Did have some shocking situations from that! Thank you for sharing your perspective from other countries.
Good video. I had three of these installed years ago and they worked fine through 3 South Florida rainy seasons, etc, in an outdoor covered patio. They weathered pretty well but with rust/oxidation but cleaned up real well with a little WD-40. Great windflow and not loud at all (I installed with wireless remotes). They finally crapped out because I was stupid enough to get a little overspray from garden hose while cleaning spiderwebs. Also, they will cut a broom handle in two if you get two close! Didn't know they were "indoor only" till I looked them up today to replace. I'm actually debating to buy 3 more to replace. Can get 'em for $50 x 3. Almost worth $150 total if I can get another 3+years from them vs. spending $300 each for some indoor outdoor version. Just thinkin....
Yes our fan is now 3 years old! I have a video where we restored the fan because it was rusting, and we also spray lubricant in the holes on the top of the fan motor. One time I came out and the fan was locked up because I power washed the ceiling, just sprayed lubricant in it and turned it manually and it worked fine again.
Thank you for your video. When you mentioned "no reverse" does this mean there is no way to operate it counterclockwise? Isn't that what I want in hot weather when I need a fan the most? I bought a number of these fans. If I can't reverse it for cooler wind I'm thinking I made a bad choice.
@@DylanKevilleSirens Fan reverses when you switch polarity of ONE motor windings compared to another, or when you switch windings between direct power and capacitor. On brushed DC motor, you can reverse just by switching polarity to whole motor, but AC motor is different, there's no regular + and - on AC, the only difference between hot and neutral is that neutral is grounded making it safe to touch neutral wire.
Hi - did you end up getting remote? Is a remote possible? Hubby wants these in his workshop but needs to be on a remote because of the wiring we have....thanks!
You can use remote, but keep the original wall control in case fan turns out to be defective. Westinghouse is going to have you make sure you're using a control that came with the fan, so throwing away included control will void a warranty.
+SimsForever2000 make sure all the blades are tight, if that'snot it you may have to get weights to stick on the top of the blades to get it in balance.
+Lucas Tucek I would not install this fan on the inside of my house, it is way too loud, and if you didn't have high enough ceilings I wouldn't want anywhere where a piece of my body could get in that fan.
With the wall control installed they are not loud at all, they are just not meant to be used without a wall controller otherwise they will run on high only. On lower speeds they are very quiet.
unlit it gets wet for being installed outside. then It will rust, the bearing will lock up and fry the motor. Seen it a million times. Also stamped steel doesn’t not dissipate heat well like cast iron would. This is the cheapest model you can get basically and they will not hold up 👌 but what do I know right? Cheers.
Still have it up, made it through hurricane Irma and still works fine. The bar going down to the fan is weathered, but for the $40 I paid for it, I am very happy, it does exactly what I want it to do, blow air.
