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Post by fancollector12 on Mar 21, 2016 23:29:57 GMT -5
A long overdue update of fairly recent sightings: -Last year a seafood place opened up where an old bar/restaurant used to be. The old bar/restaurant had 4 white Hampton Bay Palm Beaches on the outdoor porch area with matching light kits. They're still there with the new seafood restaurant, but the new place hasn't ever turned them on. They're a bit rusted, too. -The Greene Turtle, which is a sports bar and grill chain opened a location in my local mall. The main dining ares and bar have nickel 60" Hampton Bay Industrials. The controls are wired incorrectly (1 is high speed and 4 is low speed). In the screened porch area there are 4 bronze Hampton Bay Farmingtons that are hardly ever on. -There's an irish restaurant near me, and when you walk in you enter the main bar. There is a system of I think Woollen Mill belt-driven fans that are propelled by a motor on the wall, which is held up by a bracket formed to look like a human fist, which is weird, yet looks nice. The belts are messed up from years of use and no maintenance. In the back dining room and secondary bar, there are 4 pewter Craftmade Presidential II's with hand-carved wooden blades. 2 of those fans have messed up blades possibly from people throwing stuff into them. They're all controlled by wall switches, and are set on medium speed by the pull chains. The private party room and bar, which also functions as a third dining room, has 4 Hunter Adriondacks. -There used to be a Joe's Crab Shack near me (I may have posted about it earlier in this thread). They had some Matthews Fan Company/Atlas Fan Company 3 round-bladed wall-mounted fans (Melody, I think, is the model name) in nickel, with the 4-speed wall controls mounted directly below each fan. There were also some larger wall-mounted industrial fans (which I think are Daytons) in the enclosed porch area. Joe's decided to close this location, and a local brewery and restaurant took its place. The place hardly remodeled (they used the buckets for the scrap crab shells at Joe's Crab Shack to hold the condiments at each table, for example), and all of the fans remain. I've never seen any of the fans turned on. -There's a restaurant and bar near me that has 4 or 5 Hampton Bay Delanos in the main dining room. The place changed ownership and remodeled, but I believe they still kept the fans. -There's a pizza place/sports bar near me that just opened called Boston's. The only fans are outside on the patio, which hasn't opened yet since they just opened in the winter. They have 4 Regency or Kendal Lighting fans that have an uplight and the 4 odd-shaped blades are mounted directly to the bottoms of the fans. I haven't yet seen them on. -There was a Red Lobster near me (I may have posted about this in this thread before) that had 4 early 2000s black Hunter Santa Barbaras in the bar. They recently remodeled, and the fans were removed. They re-tiled where the fans used to hang. -There's a Jimmy John's in my local mall that has a single black Haiku fan in the front entrance. It's always on, and it's the only fan in the place. -There was a cafe that closed that had 4 bronze Harbor Breeze Builder's Bests/Classic Styles installed on those weird recessed light-to-fan conversion kits. A bar opened up in its place and installed some modern-looking Hampton Bay or Harbor Breeze things in their place. -There was an Italian restaurant near me that had 42" Broan Europas in white with schoolhouse light kits in the main dining areas and party room, and 4 56" white Canarm industrials in the bar. The place remodeled and renamed themselves (but still kept the same ownership). The place became a sports bar and restaurant, and the Europas got replaced by bronze Hampton Bay Glendales. The bar expanded and relocated the ceiling boxes, so now there are 8 52" bronze Harbor Breeze Tilghmans with matching light kits in place of the industrials. -There's a restaurant near me styled after a ski lodge. They have a separate outdoor dining area, and in that area there are several bronze Hampton Bay Metros or Minka Aire Rainmans. There are also several wall-mounted misting fans around that area. That's all I can think of for now! They're not wired incorrectly. If anything incorrect, they would be wired backwards, in which case the speed 1 is still like on/off switch turned on. 1 IS supposed to be high and 4 IS supposed to be low. Uh, I'm pretty sure I know what I'm talking about.
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Post by Jonathan A. on Mar 21, 2016 23:59:01 GMT -5
They're not wired incorrectly. If anything incorrect, they would be wired backwards, in which case the speed 1 is still like on/off switch turned on. 1 IS supposed to be high and 4 IS supposed to be low. Uh, I'm pretty sure I know what I'm talking about. What I'm saying is that 1 as high and 4 as low is normal for that control. Even if speeds are messed up on that control, it could be fan capacitor issue, and not a control problem at all.
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Post by Noah C on Mar 22, 2016 3:05:18 GMT -5
Uh, I'm pretty sure I know what I'm talking about. What I'm saying is that 1 as high and 4 as low is normal for that control. Even if speeds are messed up on that control, it could be fan capacitor issue, and not a control problem at all. Jonathan is right here; the fan control's only other variation of speeds would be backwards, but they would still be in the correct sequence (simply backwards on the control). The control also would not be wired backward because that would mean the wires inside the componentry of the control would be non-operational because they would be connected to the wrong sockets. How I know this? Because I have had to solder circuit boards and make them function properly, and if anything was soldered backward (backward polarity, not direction on said motherboard), then the whole thing (or most of it) would not operate. Most likely, the contractors installed the control upside down in the socket and the faceplate the way it should go, making any person without at least a somewhat complex understanding of computerized componentry and how it works, think that something is internally wrong with the device.
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Post by fancollector12 on Mar 22, 2016 23:08:48 GMT -5
What I'm saying is that 1 as high and 4 as low is normal for that control. Even if speeds are messed up on that control, it could be fan capacitor issue, and not a control problem at all. Jonathan is right here; the fan control's only other variation of speeds would be backwards, but they would still be in the correct sequence (simply backwards on the control). The control also would not be wired backward because that would mean the wires inside the componentry of the control would be non-operational because they would be connected to the wrong sockets. How I know this? Because I have had to solder circuit boards and make them function properly, and if anything was soldered backward (backward polarity, not direction on said motherboard), then the whole thing (or most of it) would not operate. Most likely, the contractors installed the control upside down in the socket and the faceplate the way it should go, making any person without at least a somewhat complex understanding of computerized componentry and how it works, think that something is internally wrong with the device. Again, unless you see the fan, you wouldn't know what I'm talking about... also the fan does NOT use any computerized board, just a regular old speed control. Heck, you could run the fan off of a toggle on/off wall switch on one speed and it would still run.
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Post by Noah C on Mar 23, 2016 21:07:00 GMT -5
Jonathan is right here; the fan control's only other variation of speeds would be backwards, but they would still be in the correct sequence (simply backwards on the control). The control also would not be wired backward because that would mean the wires inside the componentry of the control would be non-operational because they would be connected to the wrong sockets. How I know this? Because I have had to solder circuit boards and make them function properly, and if anything was soldered backward (backward polarity, not direction on said motherboard), then the whole thing (or most of it) would not operate. Most likely, the contractors installed the control upside down in the socket and the faceplate the way it should go, making any person without at least a somewhat complex understanding of computerized componentry and how it works, think that something is internally wrong with the device. Again, unless you see the fan, you wouldn't know what I'm talking about... also the fan does NOT use any computerized board, just a regular old speed control. Heck, you could run the fan off of a toggle on/off wall switch on one speed and it would still run. Even a regular ol' speed control has a circuit board, or else it could not transmit signal through the wires, which would not be soldered to anything, but I get your point. That is, unless, the speed control simply carries its assembly and wires so it will work. The speed control's problem is that the knob assembly (body that knob is attached to) is installed upside down. That is why it does what it does. What fans are these you speak of again?
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Post by fancollector12 on Mar 23, 2016 23:15:37 GMT -5
Again, unless you see the fan, you wouldn't know what I'm talking about... also the fan does NOT use any computerized board, just a regular old speed control. Heck, you could run the fan off of a toggle on/off wall switch on one speed and it would still run. Even a regular ol' speed control has a circuit board, or else it could not transmit signal through the wires, which would not be soldered to anything, but I get your point. That is, unless, the speed control simply carries its assembly and wires so it will work. The speed control's problem is that the knob assembly (body that knob is attached to) is installed upside down. That is why it does what it does. What fans are these you speak of again? As I said, they're Hampton Bay 60" Industrials... you could wire them directly to a regular toggle on/off wall switch and get them to turn on as a single-speed (high speed) fan if you wanted to (they sell most new industrial fans that way and you have to get a separate control for them or they're working off of a wall switch). No circuit board is needed for them to work.
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Post by Cole D on Mar 25, 2016 23:42:44 GMT -5
The only ones I can think of are:
Arby's has Hampton Bay Huntington III fans in a dark finish. It used to have 42" white huggers with stencil.
Captain D's Seafood has an antique brass Original 52" four blade, it used to have two but one was replaced with a brushed nickel builder fan several years ago.
Dairy Queen has four white Hunter Low Profile 42". They replaced two white close mount fans, as well as an antique brass close mount and antique brass hugger around 2005.
Village Inn used to have an antique brass Fasco Charleston but it was removed some years ago.
The Little Ceasar's Pizza Station in Kmart used to have white 42" Originals but they were removed when the snack bar closed a few years back.
McDonald's used to have some kind of builder fans outside but they are long gone.
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Post by fancollector12 on Mar 26, 2016 0:50:18 GMT -5
DQ here used to have white 5B 52" Originals installed on a high open ceiling (4 or 5 of them) but they remodeled and put in a drop-tile ceiling, fans are gone. The Little Ceasars Pizza Station in a local Kmart had 42" white Originals on long down rods installed on a drop-tile ceiling but with the traditional grid that the down rods went up through. The place changed into a flea market, and they closed that area off. Then another flea market took it over and they reopened the area, but removed the fans. McDonald's have remodeled around here, they used to have Hampton Bays from the 90s, no fans outside. The one closest to me (my friend works there) was built in 2012 and has no fans.
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Post by Cole D on Mar 26, 2016 16:11:29 GMT -5
I remember also, Burger King used to have fans with stripes on the end of the blades, like Casablanca Saturns or maybe copies of some kind. They were removed in a remodel in the late 90s and the restaurant was rebuilt in 2012ish and has no fans.
Subway used to have the four blade 52" Hunters with square vents in polished brass, I don't know the model name, but they were replaced with Regencies most likely as were some Hampton Bay Landmark and Landmark II that were in another Subway.
Ruby Tuesday used to have fans, but I can't recall what kind, removed in a remodel.
I think Outback Steakhouse has some outdoor fans in white on the porch as well as misting fans.
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Post by Jordan U on Mar 26, 2016 16:40:32 GMT -5
All the Outbacks around here have fans.. One has Hunters and the other has I think Emersons.. They're always all on low downdraft,, and in good clean condition, so it would seem that someone somewhere along the lines actually cares about the fans..
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Post by fancollector12 on Mar 27, 2016 0:25:03 GMT -5
No BK's around here have fans. Outback around here had 4 white GEV 52" HB Landmarks, replaced by HB Grayton II's, removed in a remodel. They had brown Emerson Legend II's and some bronze Hunter Custom Home II's inside, all poorly-maintained and wobbly with dropped canopies, all removed in a remodel. Most Subways around here have nickel-colored Regencies, though one has Bright Brass Hunter Passport II's. Ruby Tuesday had 1994-era Alaska/Emerson Northwind Designers in PB and a black one in the bar, removed in a remodel, then when the place became a Marlin's and Ray's, they installed bronze Hampton Bay Metros or Minka Aire Rainmans, then it became an IHOP, and all fans were remove.
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Post by Cole D on Apr 2, 2016 7:59:30 GMT -5
I remember the Walmart snack bar had 42" Lasko close mounts in beige with stencil back in the 90s.
A local diner has white outdoor fans on the patio.
A local mom and pop type place has generic looking antique brass 52" huggers with filigree.
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Post by Cole D on Aug 20, 2016 14:45:21 GMT -5
Well they just finished building a new Taco Bell here and there is a patio out front and it has three outdoor ceiling fans of some type. Couldn't get a good look at them but they seem to have a big bladespan with wooden blades and a big black rounded motor. I know terrible description, but it's not open yet to get a closer look.
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Post by colts18to88 on Aug 20, 2016 14:51:15 GMT -5
Just saw a circa 1987 NuTone Decorator in a winery. The restaurant used to have a bunch of NuTone Haciendas which were tragically replaced by modern junk 10 or so years ago.
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Post by Cole D on Sept 19, 2016 20:13:41 GMT -5
I went to Captain D's recently after they remodeled and expanded it and they got rid of the Original and the builder fan and now have no ceiling fans. I will say it felt a lot nicer and brighter though. I also recall a Captain D's I ate at back in 2006 had 52" Nutone Haciendas in antique brass.
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