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Post by Jonathan A. on Jun 1, 2017 23:28:01 GMT -5
...when the fans are wall controlled, even on very high ceilings? In this video, there are 6 Emerson Summer Night in a parlor, each row of 2 fans are controlled by a 4-speed wall control, and the ceiling is very high. One of the fans had the bottom part of the chain stuck between the switch cap and top part of light kit. At some times between 2 years ago and recently, the chain on one of the fans somehow got from high to medium, and it's the fan with bottom part of chain between switch cap and light kit. And I should know it's not the bad capacitor because I already had maintenance man try pulling the chain with a ladder and a reacher, and it brought the fan back up to speed! So my question, is that even if ceiling is very high, would it be a good idea to remove the pull chain completely when the fans are wall controlled to be sure that chains would stay on high setting? There are some ways to completely remove chain that can be undone, which is removing chain nut, then cut the chain so there is just a bit sticking out of switch, then put nut back in. That way, chain can still be reached by having nut removed.
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Post by fancollector12 on Jun 2, 2017 0:30:19 GMT -5
Uh, no... it doesn't matter... the end.
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Post by Cullen D. on Jun 2, 2017 12:56:58 GMT -5
Disney World does this in their hotel rooms as far as I know, and it appears they cut the chains.
I'm OCD so I never want a fan to have a pull chain that isn't supposed to be used. When the fan is wall or remote controlled, I put the fan on high speed, unscrew the finial, and instead of cutting the chain I push it completely into the switch housing and plug the hole with either a switch cap finial or a spare pull chain finial on a threaded pipe. This way does involve taking the switch cap off but the fan can easily be converted back to pull chain control.
If I'm installing a fan that has separate light and fan switches I remove the light pull chain altogether and also plug the hole. I did that with the Delta I in my room. I have separate light and fan wall switches in there, so it has a pull chain for the fan but not the light.
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Post by Jonathan A. on Jun 2, 2017 13:09:31 GMT -5
Disney World does this in their hotel rooms as far as I know, and it appears they cut the chains. I'm OCD so I never want a fan to have a pull chain that isn't supposed to be used. When the fan is wall or remote controlled, I put the fan on high speed, unscrew the finial, and instead of cutting the chain I push it completely into the switch housing and plug the hole with either a switch cap finial or a spare pull chain finial on a threaded pipe. This way does involve taking the switch cap off but the fan can easily be converted back to pull chain control. If I'm installing a fan that has separate light and fan switches I remove the light pull chain altogether and also plug the hole. I did that with the Delta I in my room. I have separate light and fan wall switches in there, so it has a pull chain for the fan but not the light. Are Disney World hotel fans wall controlled? BTW, this resort have some of chains removed and left on high speed and are wall controlled, usually in hotel rooms, but not on all hotel room fans or those fans. |
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Post by Cole D on Jun 2, 2017 18:26:52 GMT -5
My Fasco has its pull chain set to high since it's wall controlled, but there is still a little bit of chain, probably not as long as it would have come with, but it's enough to pull it. My SMC in the living room is made to be wall controlled for the speeds, so it doesn't have a pull chain, but its light kit appears to have the chain removed completely, from what I can tell as it is also switched at the wall. It's too high to get an up close look though to see if the chain is still there or not.
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Post by Cullen D. on Jun 2, 2017 19:12:41 GMT -5
Yes, the fans at Disney World are wall controlled. At least the ones in the Grand Floridian are. Once I stayed at Saratoga Speinga and the fans were pull chain controlled, so not all Disney World hotel fans have the pull chains removed, but some do.
And this thread is ironic because today, just hours after posting about my Delta I, I converted it to remote control using Cole's tutorial so now the pull chain is inside the switch housing and the fan appears to have no pull chains now.
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