Post by Jean Lemieux on Sept 1, 2014 20:00:38 GMT -5
I got this Sanyo fan about three weeks ago locally on Kijiji Montréal. This Sanyo model seems only commonly seen in Ontario but it seems that a few were sold in Québec too along with some brown versions without cane in the United States.
It's almost all made of plastic except for the pole and brackets. Normally I don't like ceiling fans with so much plastic but this is a big exception. The quality of the plastic is much better than I expected and the finish looks as good as if it was on metal. Philippe came over a few days ago and didn't believed it was plastic at first until he knocked on it.
It's all complete except for the original double claw bracket. I was lucky to get a model that didn't have a light because otherwise the switch cap would have been missing. The way to add a light to this fan and the pull chain mechanism are both very unique and different. I show the inside of the switch housing in the video.
The pull chain only changes the direction so I show it with a speed controller in the video. I tried it with two different controllers and the speeds were pretty close to one another with both controls. About 65/120/165. It's slow for a high speed but it has a lot of pitch so it blows a lot of air on all speeds.
It's not dated but it has a lot of stickers on top of the housing and cool ones too. They are all shown in the video. They are all français/english so it's a product that was officially sold around here. It's my first ceiling fan made in Japan.
What I like the most about it are the blades and brackets. The bracket have an original shape with ornamentation. The blades are literally 8 mm thick! The thickest blades I have ever seen on a ceiling fan with regular wood blades. Normally the thickness of ceiling fans blades are barely measurable. It has gorgeous tight cane very wide on the blades and coming out of the blades instead of being inside the blades like we always see. You will see in the video that the blades also have a certain shine to them.
It's almost all made of plastic except for the pole and brackets. Normally I don't like ceiling fans with so much plastic but this is a big exception. The quality of the plastic is much better than I expected and the finish looks as good as if it was on metal. Philippe came over a few days ago and didn't believed it was plastic at first until he knocked on it.
It's all complete except for the original double claw bracket. I was lucky to get a model that didn't have a light because otherwise the switch cap would have been missing. The way to add a light to this fan and the pull chain mechanism are both very unique and different. I show the inside of the switch housing in the video.
The pull chain only changes the direction so I show it with a speed controller in the video. I tried it with two different controllers and the speeds were pretty close to one another with both controls. About 65/120/165. It's slow for a high speed but it has a lot of pitch so it blows a lot of air on all speeds.
It's not dated but it has a lot of stickers on top of the housing and cool ones too. They are all shown in the video. They are all français/english so it's a product that was officially sold around here. It's my first ceiling fan made in Japan.
What I like the most about it are the blades and brackets. The bracket have an original shape with ornamentation. The blades are literally 8 mm thick! The thickest blades I have ever seen on a ceiling fan with regular wood blades. Normally the thickness of ceiling fans blades are barely measurable. It has gorgeous tight cane very wide on the blades and coming out of the blades instead of being inside the blades like we always see. You will see in the video that the blades also have a certain shine to them.
