Bought a NEW Hunter Original- Model 23845! (Thanks Best Buy)

[Noah C]

Dec 8, 2016 0:01:27 GMT -5 fancollector12 said:

Brian says the brackets are poorly-designed still, with poor molding on the side that is hidden by the blade (facing upwards towards the ceiling). I have a feeling that those blade arms that were ugly and used when the new Originals were first introduced were only used as prototypes, and never shipped with fans, or it was CGI (computer and videogame geeks should know what CGI means)... manufacturers do that a lot when they have a 4B and a 5B fan of the same kind... they just use CGI to (poorly) remove a blade from the fan. I've never seen a picture of an installed new Original that uses the ugly brackets. BTW, it WAS always 52", which again makes me think that those brackets were CGI and never actually made it to production. I also wouldn't say they're Casablanca-style, but more new Hunter style, like Hunter uses on all of their redesigned models to replace the more traditional "generic" brackets they always used (which are MUCH better than the new ones IMO). My 23845 Original (White) has the standard brackets like Hunter shows now on their website.

According to Brian Hicks, via DTVF: 
"There's so much controversy surrounding it that I don't believe it either way until I have one in my hands. That fan is a prototype and didn't make it to production"

"That particular pictured fan with those brackets did not make it to production, however, one with slightly different brackets (not the same ones as now) did make it to production. I am subject to be wrong as they have not said anything"

So, it was indeed that the aforementioned bulky, proportionally altered brackets were pre-production prototype brackets that were only shown on Hunter's website until a little after the fan was released in mid-late 2015.

BTW CGI stands for Computer-generated image... I am kind of a computer geek.

[fancollector12]

I really don't know what the blade arms were/are made of... Casablanca makes/made theirs out of Zinc so maybe Zinc IDK... I think the fans Texas Ceiling Fans had were prototypes. If anyone would know about that, it'd be Brian Hicks. Hunter's brackets were ALWAYS almost heavier than those of no-name-brand or "Builder-Grade" fans. Still are. I don't know for sure of the blades being cut longer, but then again, we'll probably never find out the answer to that. Again I think that's a CGI that Hunter used just to get an image on their site at the time the new Originals were first announced. It's kind of like a car manufacturer will show a car with options that don't make it onto the actual production models. Ford had a certain shade of bright blue that they used to debut some of their performance models but it never ended up making it to production. Same with Hunter (kinda).

[JW]

Texas Ceiling Fans did have one or two prototype Originals with the bulky brackets in their shop for a while. The hole pattern was, interestingly enough, much more along the lines of a badge style blade. I couldn't tell you whether the blades themselves were longer or if the fan was less than 52".

[Noah C]

Dec 8, 2016 8:16:31 GMT -5 JW said:

Texas Ceiling Fans did have one or two prototype Originals with the bulky brackets in their shop for a while. The hole pattern was, interestingly enough, much more along the lines of a badge style blade. I couldn't tell you whether the blades themselves were longer or if the fan was less than 52".

Precisely.

[fancollector12]

I'm just glad they didn't do that... AFAIK they still use the standard Hunterblanca hole style that Hunter's been using since the 1980s and Casablanca adopted when they redesigned their models around 2013 or so.

[fancollector12]

Another update: I put the Original up on display in my basement. The box for the fan shows a white rotor, however, the fan still has a black rotor, so apparently the white rotor is also CGI. I'm still not disappointed, however. It's still a good-looking fan!