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Post by Jonathan A. on Mar 16, 2015 21:32:09 GMT -5
Adam, is SMC Laguna your favorite fan, considering you have one on VCF logo?
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Post by Adam D. on Mar 16, 2015 21:41:57 GMT -5
It's one of my favorites.. It's something I use to see alot of in my childhood, and was one of the first fans I was seeking when I started collecting ceiling fans..
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Post by Adam D. on Mar 18, 2015 17:36:53 GMT -5
My, I'm still shocked, an end of an era took place right in this thread.. Now that all of that is behind us.. We can get back to the subject..
I believe you're right about the switch housing.. Going by that metal can cap, it looks like one of the earliest Lagunas which would've had the plastic switch housing on it at one time.. It most likely was broken off at some point and they connected the motor wires and used it with a wall control.. As for anything being hookup if you found a switch housing, pull switch and variable speed control would be hooked up in series from either of the leads..
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Post by Jonathan A. on Mar 18, 2015 18:33:55 GMT -5
If I can't find switch housing or variable speed, would a wall-mounted solid state speed control work? And this is the only Laguna of any versions I've ever seen in person.
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Post by Adam D. on Mar 18, 2015 18:38:45 GMT -5
A wall mount speed control would probably work better for it.. You can try any variable speed control, some may make the fan noisy, which was the case originally..
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Post by Jonathan A. on Mar 18, 2015 19:57:36 GMT -5
Yeah, the noise is fine as long as I don't install it in noise sensitive area.
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Post by Jordan U on Mar 18, 2015 21:20:27 GMT -5
Where do you intend to install it?
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Post by Jonathan A. on Mar 22, 2015 19:44:41 GMT -5
Turns out that it wasn't a capacitor that was causing it to spin slower than most Lagunas. I tried new 5uf and 8uf capacitors in parallel, and it was still spinning the same RPMs. I now have spare capacitors. I measured the blade pitch on one of the brackets and it was around 11 degrees. Are SMC Laguna supposed to have a blade pitch that steep?
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Post by Jordan U on Mar 22, 2015 21:02:27 GMT -5
That's pretty shallow, so I imagine that's not the problem. How are the bearings?
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Post by Adam D. on Mar 22, 2015 21:06:30 GMT -5
The blade pitch on them are about as normal as any other common fan.. If one is pitched more than the others, I would even it with the rest of them..
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Post by Jonathan A. on Mar 22, 2015 21:10:24 GMT -5
That's pretty shallow, so I imagine that's not the problem. How are the bearings? It spins down nicely.
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Post by Jordan U on Mar 22, 2015 21:16:32 GMT -5
Sometimes if the grease has stiffened, it may spin down fine but at higher speeds there is more resistance.
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Post by Adam D. on Mar 22, 2015 21:20:10 GMT -5
I've never heard of that.. If it has a nice long spin down time, that shows bearings are not the problem...
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Post by Jonathan A. on Mar 22, 2015 21:20:42 GMT -5
Sometimes if the grease has stiffened, it may spin down fine but at higher speeds there is more resistance. When I powered on the motor without blades, and disconnected the power, it took a while for the motor to even slow down to RPMs most SMC Lagunas would spin. Also, I want to say that it spun much faster when I only put 2 blades on than when I put 4 blades on.
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Post by Jordan U on Mar 22, 2015 21:41:47 GMT -5
I've never heard of that.. If it has a nice long spin down time, that shows bearings are not the problem... I've had that happen in a few of my portable fans, specifically Marvin window fans; they have terrible bearings. This may not apply to ceiling fans, I'm not sure.
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