Post by Jonathan S on Apr 24, 2018 9:11:41 GMT -5
Hello everybody! It's been a long time since I posted anything fan related online. I was a member of DT Vintage Fans but I hear that's now defunct and Jean tells me all the action is here.
About 3 years ago I bought a shed in the outer western suburbs of Sydney in Australia, and mid-last year I finally turfed out the tenant and moved in myself. The main purpose of the building is to house my collection of preserved vintage buses, but a secondary purpose of course was the display of fans.
My collection of ceiling fans has been building for about 15 years and they are pretty much all industrial. The collection is still incomplete (of course!) but I'm very glad to have everything that I do.
You will see from the photos below I arranged the fans in 5 rows. The middle row are the 56" fans, either side are the 48" and along the walls are the 36" fans. This seemed like a nice layout for symmetry, and also meant I could locate the 3 sizes of matching models together laterally across rows.
The fans are controlled by 5 variable controllers at the front of the room (1 per row), which is a little crude but the best I could manage without running several miles of cables for individually controlled fans.
My camera made the lighting seem much yellower than it really is. I tried editing the photos to remove the yellow, but decided in the end they looked better as they are. The entire shed is lit with 4000K cool white fluorescent tubes (I don't believe in LEDs!). They are office grid ceiling troffer lights with eggcrate style silver grilles (not visible in the photos due to over-exposure of the lights), chosen to minimise glare as you look across the room. I painted the housings of the lights dark green to make them look older than their actual 2001 build date.
Ah yeah, and I like photos taken with a long zoom :-P
I trust you will enjoy, and comments (good or bad) are welcome.
Main view from front entrance
P1320704 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
Looking down the centre row of 56" fans
P1320858 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320864 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320873 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
Close-up of 3 x Crompton Greaves fans, each in a different size - 56", 48", 36"
P1320900 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320897 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
Three sizes of Martec / Omega / TAT fans as we know them in Australia
P1320885 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320876 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320873 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320930 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
Close-up of 56" Revelair Usha, one of my absolute favourite fans
P1320922 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
Three sizes of Australian made Mistral fans, to my knowledge only found in Australia and New Zealand
P1320918 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
Three sizes of older Mistralaire/TAT fans. For some reason the middle 48" size didn't have the same curved blade tips like the others
P1320909 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
Young 36" Mistral followed by older model 36" Mistralaire / TAT
P1320960 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320957 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320945 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320936 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320933 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320978 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320975 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320972 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320969 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
About 3 years ago I bought a shed in the outer western suburbs of Sydney in Australia, and mid-last year I finally turfed out the tenant and moved in myself. The main purpose of the building is to house my collection of preserved vintage buses, but a secondary purpose of course was the display of fans.
My collection of ceiling fans has been building for about 15 years and they are pretty much all industrial. The collection is still incomplete (of course!) but I'm very glad to have everything that I do.
You will see from the photos below I arranged the fans in 5 rows. The middle row are the 56" fans, either side are the 48" and along the walls are the 36" fans. This seemed like a nice layout for symmetry, and also meant I could locate the 3 sizes of matching models together laterally across rows.
The fans are controlled by 5 variable controllers at the front of the room (1 per row), which is a little crude but the best I could manage without running several miles of cables for individually controlled fans.
My camera made the lighting seem much yellower than it really is. I tried editing the photos to remove the yellow, but decided in the end they looked better as they are. The entire shed is lit with 4000K cool white fluorescent tubes (I don't believe in LEDs!). They are office grid ceiling troffer lights with eggcrate style silver grilles (not visible in the photos due to over-exposure of the lights), chosen to minimise glare as you look across the room. I painted the housings of the lights dark green to make them look older than their actual 2001 build date.
Ah yeah, and I like photos taken with a long zoom :-P
I trust you will enjoy, and comments (good or bad) are welcome.
Main view from front entrance
P1320704 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
Looking down the centre row of 56" fans
P1320858 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320864 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320873 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
Close-up of 3 x Crompton Greaves fans, each in a different size - 56", 48", 36"
P1320900 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320897 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
Three sizes of Martec / Omega / TAT fans as we know them in Australia
P1320885 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320876 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320873 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320930 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
Close-up of 56" Revelair Usha, one of my absolute favourite fans
P1320922 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
Three sizes of Australian made Mistral fans, to my knowledge only found in Australia and New Zealand
P1320918 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
Three sizes of older Mistralaire/TAT fans. For some reason the middle 48" size didn't have the same curved blade tips like the others
P1320909 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
Young 36" Mistral followed by older model 36" Mistralaire / TAT
P1320960 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320957 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320945 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320936 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320933 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320978 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320975 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320972 by Jonathan S, on Flickr
P1320969 by Jonathan S, on Flickr