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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jul 24, 2016 21:58:05 GMT -5
I got this at the beginning of June while I was in Granby, QC. A pretty rare Quatre Saisons metal blade model. It's made around the same this as this model and uses mostly the same parts except for the motor that is very different. The canopies are metal. It's my first fan with this type of motor. A thai motor that was later adopted by Taiwan too. I first saw this model NIB on eBay in 2005. I believe it was located in Nova Scotia. Until I get this one I had never seen one in person. They are very uncommon and seem to have no logical places where to see them more than others places. They are scattered here and there. Although there is this cool photo of three of them in an abandoned loft in Montréal. The lady I got them from said her husband brought them from Abitibi to sell them in Granby so they came all the way from there. It's in very good condition and it works very well. That's the original ivory paint on it. It take a long time to spin down. It moves so much air without having to spin very fast with these contoured blades and with the motor being 0,65 amps which is rather low for an 140 cm fan from the 1980's. I probably get 185 rpms on high speed at most. It makes a very deep helicopter sound and has a very cool speed up sound on high. Here it is spinning. Listen carefully to the speed up sound. I made an up close. I also show what under the lower canopy for those who like to see this. Enjoy!
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Post by markwelker on Jul 24, 2016 22:00:58 GMT -5
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jul 25, 2016 19:51:10 GMT -5
I must add that this is probably the same fan that Cole S. posted a picture of a few years ago in 2008 or 2009.
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Post by Cole S. on Jul 25, 2016 22:04:30 GMT -5
LOVE and all of the want!! Love anything with this motor, but especially this size. The Caribbean Breeze-type thing I posted with upper and lower canopies had actual Caribbean Breeze-shaped canopies, I assume plastic. Still have no idea what derivative that thing was, it could've been just about any label with those canopies. Haven't seen another like it since.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2016 0:26:05 GMT -5
That fan is awesome, that style of motor looks ten times better with a lower canopy. Love the sound on high too.
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Post by Max C. on Jul 26, 2016 1:21:03 GMT -5
To converse I dare, more from The King Of Four Seasons Venair This is the first time I have seen an up-close view of this model. Needless to say, excellent find!
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Post by Jordan U on Jul 27, 2016 17:43:52 GMT -5
Very nice! That does have a cool startup sound,, almost sounds a little like 240V..
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jul 27, 2016 21:04:19 GMT -5
LOVE and all of the want!! Love anything with this motor, but especially this size. The Caribbean Breeze-type thing I posted with upper and lower canopies had actual Caribbean Breeze-shaped canopies, I assume plastic. Still have no idea what derivative that thing was, it could've been just about any label with those canopies. Haven't seen another like it since. It's odd how most of the ones seen with this motor in the US are almost always 90 cm. I tried to find the picture of this fan again in your threads but I could not find it. Do you still have that picture?
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Post by Cole S. on Jul 27, 2016 21:14:41 GMT -5
I can't even remember where I posted that originally. Had to dig into the archives, but here it is.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jul 27, 2016 21:22:57 GMT -5
Ah! Thanks for posting it. It's indeed 140 cm but with plastic Moss style canopies. Adam have a brown one is this size but it has a nut and no lower canopy.
I suppose this fan was removed long ago? It was in Fargo?
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jul 29, 2016 1:18:50 GMT -5
Very nice! That does have a cool startup sound,, almost sounds a little like 240V.. Ah interesting. How does it sounds like on a higher voltage? The pronounced speeding up sound?
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Post by Jordan U on Jul 30, 2016 14:14:09 GMT -5
Ah interesting. How does it sounds like on a higher voltage? The pronounced speeding up sound? Yes,, the sound it makes when speeding up.. It has kind of a zing - zing - zing sound to it that the 240V fans often do..
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Post by Cole S. on Jul 31, 2016 11:04:10 GMT -5
Ah! Thanks for posting it. It's indeed 140 cm but with plastic Moss style canopies. Adam have a brown one is this size but it has a nut and no lower canopy. I suppose this fan was removed long ago? It was in Fargo? It was in Fargo, in an old building downtown. The building was completely overhauled when a business moved in a few years back. I tried to obtain it (and two Silver Lines) when the discount store that was in there when I took the picture closed, but unsuccessfully.
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Post by becausecanadia on Jul 31, 2016 11:06:54 GMT -5
I had two of those, they were missing the upper canopies though. I tossed one because it was unbearably loud and I still have the other.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Aug 1, 2016 3:01:52 GMT -5
That fan is awesome, that style of motor looks ten times better with a lower canopy. Love the sound on high too. Humm yes indeed. The thai versions almost always have a lower canopy. Did you ever saw a fan with this motor in Australia?
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