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Post by Jordan U on May 20, 2017 23:38:56 GMT -5
That's rated for over 5,000 CFM.. That's not that bad..
The blades look like they're a bit on the skinny side.. 5,300 CFM for a fan with a 188×22mm motor in it and a 16° blade pitch? That's pathetic. If you've seen any of these at a Subway (one of the local ones around me has them), then you'd know that the blades are relatively wide and therefore have pretty good surface area. And it's not simply the CFM rating being too low; the aforementioned Subway constantly runs theirs on high speed, and the amount of air they move is mediocre at best. Your Air Cool in your computer room probably moves about as much air as this thing...and it's got a 153×18mm motor (or as Hampton Bay called it, when the Huntington III and the Quick Connect used this motor, the Power Plus) and about a 12° blade pitch. |
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Post by Parkman on May 21, 2017 0:14:58 GMT -5
The Redington III's switched to MDF blades had droopy blade brackets and the quick connect light shades. The specs may be good but I still don't look at it as quality with the people I know with them that had problems continuously with them.
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Post by Noah C on May 21, 2017 1:14:37 GMT -5
The Redington III's switched to MDF blades had droopy blade brackets and the quick connect light shades. The specs may be good but I still don't look at it as quality with the people I know with them that had problems continuously with them. That was at the beginning of the mass market application of the remote control; those units had their issues, of which I can relate to because I have dealt with them too many times. The Redington IIIs in the pizza restaurant I mentioned earlier still don't have droopy blades and they have been in there for quite a bit. I think the Redington III was before they switched to MDF blades; the Redington IV, released in 2006 and sold alongside the Redington III for some years as the lower end pull chain variant, switched to MDF blades and cheaply made brackets. |
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Post by Noah C on May 21, 2017 1:17:58 GMT -5
5,300 CFM for a fan with a 188×22mm motor in it and a 16° blade pitch? That's pathetic. If you've seen any of these at a Subway (one of the local ones around me has them), then you'd know that the blades are relatively wide and therefore have pretty good surface area. And it's not simply the CFM rating being too low; the aforementioned Subway constantly runs theirs on high speed, and the amount of air they move is mediocre at best. Your Air Cool in your computer room probably moves about as much air as this thing...and it's got a 153×18mm motor (or as Hampton Bay called it, when the Huntington III and the Quick Connect used this motor, the Power Plus) and about a 12° blade pitch. From what I can tell when I see them running, they probably do about 150-160 RPM, which should be enough, with its blade pitch, to at least move as much air as most K55-types. But they don't move any more air than the mediocre, every-day ceiling fan of average size. But then again, Regency fans as a whole seem to underperform for their specifications for some odd reason. |
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Post by Parkman on May 21, 2017 7:48:17 GMT -5
I'm not referring to Remote Controls. I'm referring to bearing noise, broken blade brackets, and swelling of the blades similar to HB Quick Connects.
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Post by Noah C on May 21, 2017 13:26:59 GMT -5
I'm not referring to Remote Controls. I'm referring to bearing noise, broken blade brackets, and swelling of the blades similar to HB Quick Connects. Which means they had indeed switched to MDF blade construction... interesting...though I will admit, I did quite like the style of the Redington III and IV. |
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Post by Parkman on May 21, 2017 14:33:55 GMT -5
I think its cause they basically continued to look the same although the light kits changed and so forth.
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Post by MattS on May 21, 2017 15:15:42 GMT -5
I was skeptical about the CFM ratings even before this thread, I'd say 6100 CFM in high at MOST. I think they are the most powerful fans of the bunch, but I obviously can't have a side by side comparison. So do they make any good Hampton Bays at all nowadays?
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Post by Noah C on May 21, 2017 17:05:27 GMT -5
I was skeptical about the CFM ratings even before this thread, I'd say 6100 CFM in high at MOST. I think they are the most powerful fans of the bunch, but I obviously can't have a side by side comparison. So do they make any good Hampton Bays at all nowadays? Yes, the Home Decorators Collection contains more contemporary, higher-echelon designs, many of which were previously sold as Hampton Bays; the fans of the HB/HDC lineup manufactured by Air Cool or Minka Aire usually are of relatively high quality, most notably those of the HDC lineup. Home Depot also sells a line of fans called "Aire" which is "A Minka Group Design", aka Minka Aire's line of fans for Home Depot, similar to Fanimation's Studio Collection made for Lowe's. Also, what CFM ratings are you referring to? The Ascot? In which case, anything between around 6000 and 6500 CFM sounds about right to me (aka about the same as most K55-type fans). Link to fans on the Home Depot website: www.homedepot.com/b/Lighting-Ceiling-Fans-Ceiling-Fans-Accessories-Ceiling-Fans/Aire-a-Minka-Group-Design/Home-Decorators-Collection/N-5yc1vZbvlqZ4vrZfnk/Ntk-SemanticSearch/Ntt-Ceiling%2Bfans?NCNI-5&Nao=120&Ns=None |
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Post by MattS on May 21, 2017 18:29:10 GMT -5
They are definately similar except for the blades |
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