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How not to install a ceiling fan. Terry 04-02-2007
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Posted by Terry on April 2, 2007, 2:52 pm


I just put a ceiling fan in my sister's house in her son's bedroom.

If I had it to do over again I would put both the fan and the light on
the switch.

There are not too many times in a bedroom that you need a fan and not
the light.


Posted by professorpaul on April 2, 2007, 3:31 pm


Well, you often need the fan at night down here in Slower Lower
Delaware, and NOT the light! Best bet is one of those Hunter radio
control gadgets that allow you to power up the whole mess, then
separtely control lights and fan with a hand controller. I've found
them especially helpful in "after the fact" fan installations in a
couple of houses over the years when all you have is a single switch
for an overhead light, and want to put both a fan and light in place,
without having to redo the wiring, etc.


Posted by Larry W on April 2, 2007, 10:06 pm


---------

>Well, you often need the fan at night down here in Slower Lower
>Delaware, and NOT the light! Best bet is one of those Hunter radio
>control gadgets that allow you to power up the whole mess, then
>separtely control lights and fan with a hand controller. I've found
>them especially helpful in "after the fact" fan installations in a
>couple of houses over the years when all you have is a single switch
>for an overhead light, and want to put both a fan and light in place,
>without having to redo the wiring, etc.
>

I agree with the desirability of running the fan with the light off,
and those RCs are nice too, but what's wrong with the old fashioned
pull chain switches included with most fans?


--
There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat,
plausible, and wrong." (H L Mencken)

Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland - lwasserm(a)sdf. lonestar. org

Posted by Mark Lloyd on April 3, 2007, 8:40 pm


On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 02:06:15 +0000 (UTC),
lwasserm@sdf.lNoOnSePsAtMar.org (Larry W) wrote:

>---------
>
>>Well, you often need the fan at night down here in Slower Lower
>>Delaware, and NOT the light! Best bet is one of those Hunter radio
>>control gadgets that allow you to power up the whole mess, then
>>separtely control lights and fan with a hand controller. I've found
>>them especially helpful in "after the fact" fan installations in a
>>couple of houses over the years when all you have is a single switch
>>for an overhead light, and want to put both a fan and light in place,
>>without having to redo the wiring, etc.
>>
>
>I agree with the desirability of running the fan with the light off,
>and those RCs are nice too, but what's wrong with the old fashioned
>pull chain switches included with most fans?
>
>

They're likely to be in inconvenient locations. Not by the door, and
not reachable from the bed without getting up.

The fan and light (and a computer monitor) in my bedroom use X10
modules with controllers in both places.
--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"Never underestimate the power of stupid
people in large groups"

Posted by dpb on April 2, 2007, 3:33 pm


> I just put a ceiling fan in my sister's house in her son's bedroom.
>
> If I had it to do over again I would put both the fan and the light on
> the switch.
>
> There are not too many times in a bedroom that you need a fan and not
> the light.

Night time comes to mind???


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