Apparently, Ceiling Fans Have A Dual Purpose Switch But Not Everyone Knows That Interview With Author
You may have been using your ceiling fans wrong, dear Pandas. A lot of people were stunned to realize that plenty of ceiling fans actually have dual-purpose switches after Anthony Bertoncin shared this useful little insight on TikTok.
“I finally realized that my ceiling fan has been making my room a sauna for six years,” the 20-year-old influencer from Kansas City, Missouri, said in his viral video. He told his audience of 1.5 million people how he always has his fan on because it’s hot. After a FaceTime call with a friend, he learned about the existence of the fan switch and realized that he had been making his room unbearably hot by himself. He flipped the switch and voilà—his room was noticeably cooler.
Anthony told Bored Panda that the majority of the people who didn’t know about the dual-purpose switches on ceiling fans happened to be on the younger side of Millennials and Generation Z. “My dad claims this was common knowledge 20 years ago but he didn’t show me this little trick, did he?! Apparently, this trick is explained in every owner’s manual when you buy a ceiling fan but personally, I can’t tell you a single time one of my friends has bought a ceiling fan. Maybe they can add this as a lesson when they reform the education system!” Scroll down for the rest of our interview with him.
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Influencer Anthony shared this surprising detail about ceiling fans having dual-purpose switches with his 1.5 million followers
@bertoncinOne. Little. Switch. 🤦♂️🤦♂️ ##foryou ##riseandshine ##layerup ##tellmeajoke♬ original sound – bertoncin
Anthony said that he’s surprised that his video has bounced back in popularity once again. “When I initially posted the video in late 2019, it got a good amount of traction (a few hundred thousand views) but then halted. During that time, over 3,500 people saved and used my sound in their videos, showing them discovering the little trick. Recently one of those videos blew up and got over 14.5 million views! Because of that video going viral with my sound, it drove a bunch of traffic back to my video which resulted in another spike of virality!”
We also wanted to know what other ‘obvious’ things Anthony realized since posting his ceiling fan video. “Around the same time, I also found out New Zealand wasn’t in Europe. After 15 years of schooling, I just made that realization.”
Anthony’s video from October 2019 got more than 547.7k likes on TikTok and was viewed by more than 2.2 million people. Though the video might be old, it’s still popular as Summer’s upon us and people really need to cool down. Some TikTokers are thanking the influencer for sharing this cool information. While others were surprised that so many people weren’t aware of the switch in the first place.
Here’s how the ceiling fan switches work
So the way that the switch works is that it toggles the direction in which the ceiling fan rotates. As it spins counterclockwise, it cools the air; while it warms the air by spinning clockwise if you’re feeling a bit chilly.
The logic is simple: when the fan blades move in a counterclockwise direction, they push the air down and this creates a breeze. The faster the fan spins, the cooler you’ll feel.
“This cooling effect doesn’t change the temperature of the air, it only makes you feel cooler. That is why you should turn the fan off when the room is empty. Otherwise, heat from the motor will actually increase the temperature in the room,” Today’s Homeowner explains how ceiling fans work.
However, when the fan rotates clockwise, it pushes the hot air upward. If it’s Winter, you’ll want to keep the fan rotating slowly, otherwise, it’ll create a strong draft and cool you down just like in Summer.
Did you know about fans having dual-purpose switches, dear Pandas? Or have you been using your ceiling fans wrong? Let us know in the comments below!
Some people already knew about the switch…
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…while others were shocked to learn about it
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Here’s how some other internet users reacted to the info
I think this article sums up the majority of "influencers" quite nicely
And their followers. Combined IQ of room temperature when the ceiling fan is in summer position.
Parmeisan, smart-having or showing a quick-witted intelligence. Intelligence-the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
Hey, that's not an IQ thing; it's whether or not anybody ever told you. Ya, I knew that at 8, doesn't make me any smarter than anybody else.
Brains made of rocks.
No argument there.
RTFM
Wow so much shaming down here... Sorry guys, I didn't know this either! It's not necessarely common knowledge.
right? i only lived 3 months in the US but i didn't know this nor did anybody explain this to me... and we had those fans in the house i lived in
Francis, Im quite sure even wherever you’re from, hot air goes up and cold air comes down..
Just so. I checked my ceiling fan. Can't even find such a switch. Nor a "rotate direction", or even a "warm/cool" option on the remote. Also, those who intuitively knew of this warming option: please explain in more detail why "pushing hot air upwards" would make it warmer in the room (assuming your bed is at "normal" height, and not close to the ceiling). Doesn't make sense with basic university thermodynamics.
Yeah, Boring Panda did a horrible job of explaining this. Fans don't change air temperature; they circulate it, which generally makes the whole room around the same temperature. The airflow is essentially in a "taurus" shape, like going around a donut from the middle out and back again. Without a fan, the warmer air in a room rises to the ceiling, which is usually well above where people reside (if it is not, please don't get a fan!) When you circulate the air, the lower part of the room naturally gets "warmer" just because it gets mixed with that warmer air up near the ceiling. Thus, fans which circulate air will *always* increase the temperature of the part of the room where people and other gravity-bound objects tend to reside. At the same time, the breeze cools. So, if the air is blowing down from the fan with force, you get cooled even though it is warmer air.
Tom Dibble, a "taurus" shape? Sounds like a lot of bull to me. ;-) I think you mean "torus."
@Electric Ed, The explanation is wrong, that's why it's confusing. See my other post.
Karin, it is literally in the literature that came with your fan. If the fan was already installed when you moved in, you should have looked up the operating instructions and features. Did you not see the switch when cleaning your fan and wonder why it was there?
I think the majority of "normals" never read an instruction manual and likely never clean their ceiling fans with the level of precision which would cause them to notice, much less wonder about, a little black switch on the side.
Yeah, but when you're cleaning the fan (you DO clean the fan, right?) you would come across the switch. That wouldn't make you a little bit curious? You wouldn't wonder what the heck it was for?
Apparently neither is spelling necessarily correctly.
I didn't know either! But to be fair I'm pretty sure my ceiling fan doesn't have the switch anyway?
Almost all fans have a reverse switch these days, but it is possible you have a really old fan which predated the reversible switch (~early 90s I believe is when this became standard). Yours might just be less obvious than some. If you find the model number on the fan, you can look up the manual and it should point out the reversing function.
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Having attended high school second year phisic class would have made it mandatory to know to get to the third year.
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It's as stupid as an adult sincerely believing that the stork brings babies.
I've never lived in a house that had a ceiling fan. If I moved into a place and wasn't handed a manual for one, I wouldn't have known this either.
So if you move into a house with a common machine that has two switches, on/off and a mystery switch, you just accept that as reality? You don't ask the next local "what?", you don't flick the switch to see a difference, you don't Google? That is just weird to me. But then, I don't have any valid warranties.
Always flip the mystery switch!
We have a switch on the wall in the kitchen of our house. We assume there used to be a ceiling fan over the table but we haven't a clue as to what the switch is for now. 15 years and counting. :-)
The point is - most of us (save Anthony, of course) for whom this is news have never owned or used a fan. Or owned/used only a fan without a direction switch. Weird how elitist you owners/users of a dual-direction fan seem to feel about this? Why is that?
So, if I make a video about turning my matress upside down, would I become an influencer too ?
Maybe by flipping your mattress AND rotating it.... surely you'll dine out on that post for months!
Please, do! I will upvote it!
When I was a kid my mom always switched the direction of the fan every winter to push the heat down. I thought everyone knew this......
The article says you should push the heat up, not down, in winter for warming effect... Pushing it down does make more sense, though.
sure. in theory, it makes sense. heat rises, colder air sinks. the fan is designed for air movement and mixing the temp difference (but hat happens in either direction). having the air moving across a body has an immediate cooling effect. in winter, pushed air is akin to a draft. perhaps in larger rooms, the designed principle is better utilized, but in humbler homes, the down in winter/up in summer is hard to sell your spouse. in that sense, it's nonsense. i.e. don't matter how warm/cool the room is, i'll be wrong, i'll lose the argument, and i am not married to the principle.
Exactly, you switch directions with the seasons. In summer you want the heat pulled up, in winter you want the heat pushed down. That's how they were designed.
Fans always push the heat "down" (because heat rises, and fans circulate that air...) However, in the winter, you want the heat going "down" at the walls (ie, spread out to where you don't feel the wind chill) whereas in summer having the breeze hitting you from the fan overrides the temperature difference.
I happen to know this, but I can see why other folks might not. It's not intuitive.
Its not intuitive. Its in the DIRECTIONS
Sometimes the words or a symbol indicating the forward/reverse purpose is written right on the fan or the toggle chain. Its sad to see how many young people don't have someone in their lives to teach them basic things, and they act astounded by the simplest of DIY tasks or common/available knowledge. Makes me think of Snowdon's "amazing" revelation about the gov't... spoiler alert: bears also poop in the woods, and all the elected Popes always somehow end up being Catholic... what a conspiracy!
six years should give anyone the 'intuitiveness' to realize a fan meant to move air toward a person isn't moving the air toward a person. rather the higher the speed setting, the higher 'wtf' inclination should be triggered. i.e. "why the heck can't i feel anything? this thing is like moving like an airplane prop! my pants should be pushed to my ankles with the wind coming off this thing!" simply - why would they not ask another person/landlord/HVAC why the ceiling fan isn't cooling? forgoing the fact that a person can feel the difference in pushed/drawn air. simple inquisitiveness should have carried the day.
never seen one fan do this in India. boyfriend looked at me like I have lost my marbles when I told him this. :/
Wow, I guess people didn't know this, I've known it since I was little...
It's not a hot/cold switch. it changes the direction of the fan so the air goes up/down. same temperature just different spread of the air.
Apparetly, lot of people know it.
Is it just me or did anyone else think that he should have turned the fan off, before touching the switch? Those blades were getting pretty close.
Not just that; reversing the motor while it is in motion puts a huge strain on the motor. Maybe if he'd read the manual this could have all been avoided ...
Really? I mean the fan came with operating instructions. Even if you did not read them, would you not try the switch out of curiosity to see what it does? Common sense has died. RIP.
In many ways it's died.
Do all fans do this or only in countries where there are 4 seasons? I live in a tropical country and NEVER heard of this. XD
Good question. Also, are there fans in countries with 4 seasons? I've always associated them with countries of eternal summer.
If your fan has a switch on the side of it, it does this.
Seriously, I'm in my forties and have only just discovered this myself. Mind blown.
Who the f**k doesn’t know this?
Does no one bother to read owner's manuals anymore?
I've known this for about 50 out of 66 years, but here's what no one ever shares: Counterclockwise looking up at it? Or down on it? :-)
If someone is considering installing ceiling fans, it should be noted that some fans don't have a switch to reverse direction -- in my experience, cheaper fans and industrial fans (6-10 foot blade span). It's infuriating to discover this after you've already installed the fan. Many fans that have a remote control do not have a switch on the unit, because the fan reversal is on the remote hand unit. When switching direction, make sure the fan has come to a complete stop -- reversing the motor against itself causes it to burn out faster.
everyone who didn't know this because they've never lived somewhere with a ceiling fan: i'm not shaming you, i just feel bad for you, ceiling fans are amazing and wonderful
Duh...
Yes, I know about the switch, always have. Trying to find it, even with a ladder is not easy. Switch if one way, get down, turn on fan and observe its direction... be nice if they printed the words in letters for something larger than an ant to read from a ladder.
What has always intrigued me is the "clockwise" 'counterclockwise" instruction. From looking up at it? Or the direction moving when down... :-) You'll see it change before your very eyes.
It's an "adulting" thing...you figure it out. ;-) I'm still laughing at him getting too close to the fan while it was on and ... THUDTHUDTHUD - "Ooops!" Something else for him to learn, apparently. ;-)
Adulting. My next favorite word after "influencer" but before "conversate and tied with with the phrase "hate on" as in "everyone hates on influencers."
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People are so proud of their ignorance. Next we'll learn how to hold a knife and fork.
THey just how are learning to wash their hands.
Come on now, figure it out.
Problem solving went by way of coddling and helicopter parenting.
I guess it depends on the model of the fan and if you had one before. Growing up, all the ceiling fans I've seen had 2 cords. One was the on/off switch and the other was to choose the direction of the rotation. I learned about it very young because I asked about why we would want to change the rotation. I guess if you've never seen a 2 cords model, you'd never have thought there was a way to change the rotation.
yup. that makes some of us more knowledgable than others. would guess if one didn't know that, they've never bought one, let along installed one. even so, just the difference in the draw and push of air should have stirred some inquires. noting how the air movement is different when a fan is facing a person versus facing away. it can be felt. just being under a fan, feeling no breeze, even if the fan was set at high movement - why wouldn't that register? (don't tell me some people aren't aware there are speed settings too?) but the guy also put his hand next to a moving fan blade. so it figures.
Completely inaccurate explanation. First, clockwise or anticlockwise will push air down depending on which way the blades tilt, cause you can buy them tilted either direction. Second, the size of the room has an affect on whether pushing or pulling the air is more efficient at circulating the air. Remember, fans don't cool or heat at all, they just move air. They are circulators. They work with your HVAC, they don't provide their own.
Don't tell that to the people who leave fans on when they aren't in the room. They think they're saving money on a/c.
That's not correct either. In a properly designed climate control system the ceiling fans keep the air from becoming trapped in a room and becoming heated. This keeps the overall temperature down throughout the house, reducing the work your HVAC system has to do.
Daniel, you are just wrong. If the fan was not designed that way, why is there a switch on it to reverse direction? AND why does it FEEL cooler or warmer depending on which way the fan turns?
No - he is completely correct in that the explanation was inaccurate.
pog
Good PSA
Dual purpose? It just changes the rotation to blow down or up. Everybody knows this, I would have thought.
Everyone knows that cigarettes cause cancer, but they still smoke. There's no accounting for ignorance as a choice.
Are people really this ignorant or are the just practicing ?
Jerry Silverman no
yes they are. both. practice makes perfect. :-)
How reckless. Im not sure it’s one of those questions Id like to know an answer.
Ah, the value of reading instructions. :)
I've known this since I was a kid. My parents switched the setting on the fan every year. They obviously weren't cleaning their fan often otherwise they would have wondered why there was a switch on it.
...you're only just now learning that fans can go in reverse?
There's this thing called a "manual" that comes with. Read it. It tells you.
How many people get the user manuals to ceiling fans that are already installed in houses they move into?
Rtfm... And besides that: let us simply ignore "influencers", even if now or then they find out something useful.
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Who doesn't know this? It's not like the switch is hidden in any way. In fact, most newer ceiling fans have a bright red and white sticker beside the button that TELLS YOU in block letters what it's for.
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What kind of fools don't know about this?
https://xkcd.com/1053/
Quite a few apparently. But there was a recent study of adults and 40% thought chocolate milk comes from brown cows. So there is that.
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It concerns me that a large swath of his 1.5M fans didn't know this basic truth.
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Well, like Carlin said, 50% of the people are below average. This guy is living proof.
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Do these people also need a spotify playlist to remind them to breath? Luckily we don’t need those horrid things in our houses here. Most of the time it’s cool enough and we have airco for when things get really hot.
Fans are more efficient and cheaper to run than airco. Houses in North America are built differently than here in the UK/Europe so fans are a great way to circulate air in the home.
Yes, but it makes no matter if you aren't IN the room. Fans only make you feel cooler because the air is blowing on you. If you aren't in the room, it makes no difference.
Yes, but how many 90F days do you get in a year? Even in Chicago, it gets WAY too hot for a fan to compensate. People here die every year of heat stroke because they have no way of cooling their homes. ...///... We're going to have some serious problems very soon, because the city won't be able to open high school gyms and other large public spaces as cooling centers for people who don't have A/C, because they can't do that and maintain social distancing.
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Just open some eindows?
I think this article sums up the majority of "influencers" quite nicely
And their followers. Combined IQ of room temperature when the ceiling fan is in summer position.
Parmeisan, smart-having or showing a quick-witted intelligence. Intelligence-the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
Hey, that's not an IQ thing; it's whether or not anybody ever told you. Ya, I knew that at 8, doesn't make me any smarter than anybody else.
Brains made of rocks.
No argument there.
RTFM
Wow so much shaming down here... Sorry guys, I didn't know this either! It's not necessarely common knowledge.
right? i only lived 3 months in the US but i didn't know this nor did anybody explain this to me... and we had those fans in the house i lived in
Francis, Im quite sure even wherever you’re from, hot air goes up and cold air comes down..
Just so. I checked my ceiling fan. Can't even find such a switch. Nor a "rotate direction", or even a "warm/cool" option on the remote. Also, those who intuitively knew of this warming option: please explain in more detail why "pushing hot air upwards" would make it warmer in the room (assuming your bed is at "normal" height, and not close to the ceiling). Doesn't make sense with basic university thermodynamics.
Yeah, Boring Panda did a horrible job of explaining this. Fans don't change air temperature; they circulate it, which generally makes the whole room around the same temperature. The airflow is essentially in a "taurus" shape, like going around a donut from the middle out and back again. Without a fan, the warmer air in a room rises to the ceiling, which is usually well above where people reside (if it is not, please don't get a fan!) When you circulate the air, the lower part of the room naturally gets "warmer" just because it gets mixed with that warmer air up near the ceiling. Thus, fans which circulate air will *always* increase the temperature of the part of the room where people and other gravity-bound objects tend to reside. At the same time, the breeze cools. So, if the air is blowing down from the fan with force, you get cooled even though it is warmer air.
Tom Dibble, a "taurus" shape? Sounds like a lot of bull to me. ;-) I think you mean "torus."
@Electric Ed, The explanation is wrong, that's why it's confusing. See my other post.
Karin, it is literally in the literature that came with your fan. If the fan was already installed when you moved in, you should have looked up the operating instructions and features. Did you not see the switch when cleaning your fan and wonder why it was there?
I think the majority of "normals" never read an instruction manual and likely never clean their ceiling fans with the level of precision which would cause them to notice, much less wonder about, a little black switch on the side.
Yeah, but when you're cleaning the fan (you DO clean the fan, right?) you would come across the switch. That wouldn't make you a little bit curious? You wouldn't wonder what the heck it was for?
Apparently neither is spelling necessarily correctly.
I didn't know either! But to be fair I'm pretty sure my ceiling fan doesn't have the switch anyway?
Almost all fans have a reverse switch these days, but it is possible you have a really old fan which predated the reversible switch (~early 90s I believe is when this became standard). Yours might just be less obvious than some. If you find the model number on the fan, you can look up the manual and it should point out the reversing function.
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Having attended high school second year phisic class would have made it mandatory to know to get to the third year.
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It's as stupid as an adult sincerely believing that the stork brings babies.
I've never lived in a house that had a ceiling fan. If I moved into a place and wasn't handed a manual for one, I wouldn't have known this either.
So if you move into a house with a common machine that has two switches, on/off and a mystery switch, you just accept that as reality? You don't ask the next local "what?", you don't flick the switch to see a difference, you don't Google? That is just weird to me. But then, I don't have any valid warranties.
Always flip the mystery switch!
We have a switch on the wall in the kitchen of our house. We assume there used to be a ceiling fan over the table but we haven't a clue as to what the switch is for now. 15 years and counting. :-)
The point is - most of us (save Anthony, of course) for whom this is news have never owned or used a fan. Or owned/used only a fan without a direction switch. Weird how elitist you owners/users of a dual-direction fan seem to feel about this? Why is that?
So, if I make a video about turning my matress upside down, would I become an influencer too ?
Maybe by flipping your mattress AND rotating it.... surely you'll dine out on that post for months!
Please, do! I will upvote it!
When I was a kid my mom always switched the direction of the fan every winter to push the heat down. I thought everyone knew this......
The article says you should push the heat up, not down, in winter for warming effect... Pushing it down does make more sense, though.
sure. in theory, it makes sense. heat rises, colder air sinks. the fan is designed for air movement and mixing the temp difference (but hat happens in either direction). having the air moving across a body has an immediate cooling effect. in winter, pushed air is akin to a draft. perhaps in larger rooms, the designed principle is better utilized, but in humbler homes, the down in winter/up in summer is hard to sell your spouse. in that sense, it's nonsense. i.e. don't matter how warm/cool the room is, i'll be wrong, i'll lose the argument, and i am not married to the principle.
Exactly, you switch directions with the seasons. In summer you want the heat pulled up, in winter you want the heat pushed down. That's how they were designed.
Fans always push the heat "down" (because heat rises, and fans circulate that air...) However, in the winter, you want the heat going "down" at the walls (ie, spread out to where you don't feel the wind chill) whereas in summer having the breeze hitting you from the fan overrides the temperature difference.
I happen to know this, but I can see why other folks might not. It's not intuitive.
Its not intuitive. Its in the DIRECTIONS
Sometimes the words or a symbol indicating the forward/reverse purpose is written right on the fan or the toggle chain. Its sad to see how many young people don't have someone in their lives to teach them basic things, and they act astounded by the simplest of DIY tasks or common/available knowledge. Makes me think of Snowdon's "amazing" revelation about the gov't... spoiler alert: bears also poop in the woods, and all the elected Popes always somehow end up being Catholic... what a conspiracy!
six years should give anyone the 'intuitiveness' to realize a fan meant to move air toward a person isn't moving the air toward a person. rather the higher the speed setting, the higher 'wtf' inclination should be triggered. i.e. "why the heck can't i feel anything? this thing is like moving like an airplane prop! my pants should be pushed to my ankles with the wind coming off this thing!" simply - why would they not ask another person/landlord/HVAC why the ceiling fan isn't cooling? forgoing the fact that a person can feel the difference in pushed/drawn air. simple inquisitiveness should have carried the day.
never seen one fan do this in India. boyfriend looked at me like I have lost my marbles when I told him this. :/
Wow, I guess people didn't know this, I've known it since I was little...
It's not a hot/cold switch. it changes the direction of the fan so the air goes up/down. same temperature just different spread of the air.
Apparetly, lot of people know it.
Is it just me or did anyone else think that he should have turned the fan off, before touching the switch? Those blades were getting pretty close.
Not just that; reversing the motor while it is in motion puts a huge strain on the motor. Maybe if he'd read the manual this could have all been avoided ...
Really? I mean the fan came with operating instructions. Even if you did not read them, would you not try the switch out of curiosity to see what it does? Common sense has died. RIP.
In many ways it's died.
Do all fans do this or only in countries where there are 4 seasons? I live in a tropical country and NEVER heard of this. XD
Good question. Also, are there fans in countries with 4 seasons? I've always associated them with countries of eternal summer.
If your fan has a switch on the side of it, it does this.
Seriously, I'm in my forties and have only just discovered this myself. Mind blown.
Who the f**k doesn’t know this?
Does no one bother to read owner's manuals anymore?
I've known this for about 50 out of 66 years, but here's what no one ever shares: Counterclockwise looking up at it? Or down on it? :-)
If someone is considering installing ceiling fans, it should be noted that some fans don't have a switch to reverse direction -- in my experience, cheaper fans and industrial fans (6-10 foot blade span). It's infuriating to discover this after you've already installed the fan. Many fans that have a remote control do not have a switch on the unit, because the fan reversal is on the remote hand unit. When switching direction, make sure the fan has come to a complete stop -- reversing the motor against itself causes it to burn out faster.
everyone who didn't know this because they've never lived somewhere with a ceiling fan: i'm not shaming you, i just feel bad for you, ceiling fans are amazing and wonderful
Duh...
Yes, I know about the switch, always have. Trying to find it, even with a ladder is not easy. Switch if one way, get down, turn on fan and observe its direction... be nice if they printed the words in letters for something larger than an ant to read from a ladder.
What has always intrigued me is the "clockwise" 'counterclockwise" instruction. From looking up at it? Or the direction moving when down... :-) You'll see it change before your very eyes.
It's an "adulting" thing...you figure it out. ;-) I'm still laughing at him getting too close to the fan while it was on and ... THUDTHUDTHUD - "Ooops!" Something else for him to learn, apparently. ;-)
Adulting. My next favorite word after "influencer" but before "conversate and tied with with the phrase "hate on" as in "everyone hates on influencers."
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People are so proud of their ignorance. Next we'll learn how to hold a knife and fork.
THey just how are learning to wash their hands.
Come on now, figure it out.
Problem solving went by way of coddling and helicopter parenting.
I guess it depends on the model of the fan and if you had one before. Growing up, all the ceiling fans I've seen had 2 cords. One was the on/off switch and the other was to choose the direction of the rotation. I learned about it very young because I asked about why we would want to change the rotation. I guess if you've never seen a 2 cords model, you'd never have thought there was a way to change the rotation.
yup. that makes some of us more knowledgable than others. would guess if one didn't know that, they've never bought one, let along installed one. even so, just the difference in the draw and push of air should have stirred some inquires. noting how the air movement is different when a fan is facing a person versus facing away. it can be felt. just being under a fan, feeling no breeze, even if the fan was set at high movement - why wouldn't that register? (don't tell me some people aren't aware there are speed settings too?) but the guy also put his hand next to a moving fan blade. so it figures.
Completely inaccurate explanation. First, clockwise or anticlockwise will push air down depending on which way the blades tilt, cause you can buy them tilted either direction. Second, the size of the room has an affect on whether pushing or pulling the air is more efficient at circulating the air. Remember, fans don't cool or heat at all, they just move air. They are circulators. They work with your HVAC, they don't provide their own.
Don't tell that to the people who leave fans on when they aren't in the room. They think they're saving money on a/c.
That's not correct either. In a properly designed climate control system the ceiling fans keep the air from becoming trapped in a room and becoming heated. This keeps the overall temperature down throughout the house, reducing the work your HVAC system has to do.
Daniel, you are just wrong. If the fan was not designed that way, why is there a switch on it to reverse direction? AND why does it FEEL cooler or warmer depending on which way the fan turns?
No - he is completely correct in that the explanation was inaccurate.
pog
Good PSA
Dual purpose? It just changes the rotation to blow down or up. Everybody knows this, I would have thought.
Everyone knows that cigarettes cause cancer, but they still smoke. There's no accounting for ignorance as a choice.
Are people really this ignorant or are the just practicing ?
Jerry Silverman no
yes they are. both. practice makes perfect. :-)
How reckless. Im not sure it’s one of those questions Id like to know an answer.
Ah, the value of reading instructions. :)
I've known this since I was a kid. My parents switched the setting on the fan every year. They obviously weren't cleaning their fan often otherwise they would have wondered why there was a switch on it.
...you're only just now learning that fans can go in reverse?
There's this thing called a "manual" that comes with. Read it. It tells you.
How many people get the user manuals to ceiling fans that are already installed in houses they move into?
Rtfm... And besides that: let us simply ignore "influencers", even if now or then they find out something useful.
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Who doesn't know this? It's not like the switch is hidden in any way. In fact, most newer ceiling fans have a bright red and white sticker beside the button that TELLS YOU in block letters what it's for.
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What kind of fools don't know about this?
https://xkcd.com/1053/
Quite a few apparently. But there was a recent study of adults and 40% thought chocolate milk comes from brown cows. So there is that.
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It concerns me that a large swath of his 1.5M fans didn't know this basic truth.
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Well, like Carlin said, 50% of the people are below average. This guy is living proof.
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Do these people also need a spotify playlist to remind them to breath? Luckily we don’t need those horrid things in our houses here. Most of the time it’s cool enough and we have airco for when things get really hot.
Fans are more efficient and cheaper to run than airco. Houses in North America are built differently than here in the UK/Europe so fans are a great way to circulate air in the home.
Yes, but it makes no matter if you aren't IN the room. Fans only make you feel cooler because the air is blowing on you. If you aren't in the room, it makes no difference.
Yes, but how many 90F days do you get in a year? Even in Chicago, it gets WAY too hot for a fan to compensate. People here die every year of heat stroke because they have no way of cooling their homes. ...///... We're going to have some serious problems very soon, because the city won't be able to open high school gyms and other large public spaces as cooling centers for people who don't have A/C, because they can't do that and maintain social distancing.
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Just open some eindows?