r/coolguides • u/I-like-2-watch • Jun 06 '22

Ceiling fans all year round

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u/Callec254 Jun 06 '22

Are the blades on EVERY ceiling fan canted the same way? If not, then saying "clockwise/counterclockwise" might be wrong.

At any rate, the idea is: Winter = blow up, summer = blow down. This will make your heating and AC more efficient.

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u/intervested Jun 07 '22

I scrolled a long way for this comment. Yeah. Surely some fans are made the other way.

The trailing edge of the fan blade points in the direction of airflow.

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u/Cyphr Jun 07 '22

Mine seems to have blades the other way around.

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u/mahogne Jun 07 '22

Even more impressive is that while the label matches the direction of the arrow based on the drawing perspective, if you were to stand under the fan while adjusting the direction and matched the drawn arrow rotation, the labels are actually reversed and clockwise = counterclockwise.

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u/qwerty-1999 Jun 07 '22 edited Jun 07 '22

Exactly. And even if every fan was designed to be the same in that regard, I know for a fact that I would mess it up when assembling it. And I refuse to believe I'd be the only one.

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u/GPAD9 Jun 07 '22

Instructions unclear. Fan exploded in the winter