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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2019 21:38:29 GMT -5
What's your opinion on five blade ceiling fans? I like them enough, but I like four blade ceiling fans better, because they're more vintage and cool looking.
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Post by Cole D on Apr 4, 2019 22:59:54 GMT -5
For me it depends on the fan. But 5 bladed fans tend to be some of my favorites, because with some fans, it just looks more complete. I like 5 blade GE vent fans and the 90s Fascos and Hunters with 5. Although I think recently 3 and 4 blades has made a comeback, especially on larger fans where typically 5 blade had been the norm for about 20 years. 6 blades though seems to have not come back into popularity at the moment.
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Post by Parkman on Apr 5, 2019 7:07:22 GMT -5
I love four and five bladed. Obviously 4 bladed fans look more traditional so it depends on the model.
I HATE Casablanca's with four blades. The Four Seasons I like with it but I can't stand Delta II's, Panama's, etc. with four but every other brand I love four blades on.
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Post by Noah C on Apr 5, 2019 16:31:51 GMT -5
I like 5 blades on fans, but most 5 bladed designs I see, I'd probably say look cooler with 4 blades. The only fans I don't or wouldn't overwhelmingly prefer with 4 blades are the Emerson Premium, Amphora, Athenian, and Botanica, just because I tend to relate builderfan vents to 5-blade design, and those sloped motor housings look better with 5 blades to me. Same with Casablanca's Nouvelle. The rest of Emerson's designs, along with basically anything else K55/XLP Casablanca, among other 4/5 blades fans, I'd prefer with 4 blades.
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Post by philippe1995 on Apr 6, 2019 13:52:08 GMT -5
5 bladed fans are cool on sizes like 52 inches. I like especially designs like stationnary housing. Hunter original looks better 5 blades in my opinion. I have to say I prefer 4 blades for smaller sizes and huggers. Spinners with 5 blades looks weird.
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Post by Cole D on Apr 6, 2019 14:12:01 GMT -5
5 bladed fans are cool on sizes like 52 inches. I like especially designs like stationnary housing. Hunter original looks better 5 blades in my opinion. I have to say I prefer 4 blades for smaller sizes and huggers. Spinners with 5 blades looks weird. True, although I like how the small fans like the Fasco Vanity Fair look with 5 blades. And I actually do agree with you on the Hunter Originals, although some would probably say it goes against the originality of it. lol But I did think the Hotel Originals look great with 4 blades. Spinners with 5 blades look unusual although I do think the Encon Princess looks cute with it and I like some of the Canadian 5 blade spinners. In general if a fan has the option of 4 of 5 blades, in most cases I prefer them with 5. Casas it kinda depends. The earlier ones I think look great with 4 but later 80s and 90s ones I prefer 5.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Apr 14, 2019 1:26:19 GMT -5
I prefer a lot more four blade fans over five. Five looks cluttered especially on classic style fans that have previously existed as four blade fans only. Some contemporary fans can look good with five blades. Hunter Originals went 4/5 blade for no good reason. I also prefer most of classic Casablanca such as Deltas and Venturas in their four blade configuration. It looks clean and classic. Four blade fans are usually the easiest to balance. They move more air than five bladed fans without sounding like an helicopter on high speed.
I still prefer a lot more five blades over anything more than five.
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Post by Noah C on Apr 14, 2019 1:40:04 GMT -5
I prefer a lot more four blade fans over five. Five looks cluttered especially on classic style fans that have previously existed as four blade fans only. Some contemporary fans can look good with five blades. Hunter Originals went 4/5 blade for no good reason. I also prefer most of classic Casablanca such as Deltas and Venturas in their four blade configuration. It looks clean and classic. Four blade fans are usually the easiest to balance. They move more air than five bladed fans without sounding like an helicopter on high speed. I still prefer a lot more five blades over anything more than five. Totally agree with this. Actually I even prefer contemporary designs with three or four blades to five; five blades is fine to me but nothing too special. I prefer five blades to six on most fans though, like six-blade Kontrust-made fans like Sierras and Design House stuff, and four blades to five on those. I also prefer Homesteads with four blades over six, save for fans like the Chippendale or the Metro, the latter of which I generally dislike the look of.
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Post by Brian L. on Apr 14, 2019 1:56:56 GMT -5
My stance on the Four or Five blade aspects on fans is that it really depends on the model of fan like what some people have said. Now some fans look fine with the interchangeability of four or five blades on them. However, I would like to toss out that if the fan was designed with the intention of the number of blades it was given that is how it should look. So for example, if you look at a lot of the Six-blade model Homesteads, they were designed with the six blade density in mind. If you use any less, such as four, or even three, I would say it looks awkward because the blades are generally skinny and it looks very lacking.
Models like the Panama or the Delta II are definitely fans that look fine with the Four or Five blade look as that was something that was thought of. Fans such as the Casablanca California Zephyr, Constellation, San Marino and other fans with blade arm skirts were designed with 5 blades in mind. Using four looks yet again, awkward, as there are little gaps between those blade arm skirts. This completely breaks the design and destroys the flow of what the designer wanted to intend it to be.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Apr 14, 2019 2:05:46 GMT -5
I prefer a lot more four blade fans over five. Five looks cluttered especially on classic style fans that have previously existed as four blade fans only. Some contemporary fans can look good with five blades. Hunter Originals went 4/5 blade for no good reason. I also prefer most of classic Casablanca such as Deltas and Venturas in their four blade configuration. It looks clean and classic. Four blade fans are usually the easiest to balance. They move more air than five bladed fans without sounding like an helicopter on high speed. I still prefer a lot more five blades over anything more than five. Totally agree with this. Actually I even prefer contemporary designs with three or four blades to five; five blades is fine to me but nothing too special. I prefer five blades to six on most fans though, like six-blade Kontrust-made fans like Sierras and Design House stuff, and four blades to five on those. I also prefer Homesteads with four blades over six, save for fans like the Chippendale or the Metro, the latter of which I generally dislike the look of. By contemporary I mean mostly soft contemporary and transitional fans such as the Emerson models you named for exemple and many fans with a rounded shape housing like a Nadair Opéra, Fantasia Mayfair, Fantasia Capri, Encon/Westinghouse Jewel and Swirl, Casablanca Metropolitan, Artisan and Capistrano etc.
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Post by Jonathan A. on Apr 18, 2019 22:45:38 GMT -5
4 blade fans do blow more air than 5 blade fans, but some fans like Harbor Breeze Aero would not look right with 4 blades. I wonder how older people who were used to only 4 blade Hunter Original felt when they first saw 5 blade Hunter Original.
Casablanca basically popularized 5 blade fans by introducing Panama 5, though there were few 5 blade fans before Casablanca started, but Panama 5 was the first 5 blade fan when 5 blade fans started to become very common.
The first fan I tried both 4 and 5 blades on was Hampton Bay Waterton that I had to replace the capacitor on, and I didn't really notice the difference in airflow.
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Post by John Shelley on Jun 30, 2019 20:12:29 GMT -5
I tend to dislike 5 bladed fans or rather the trend for fans to be 5 blade only there used to be many fans tha could take 4 or 5 now thats rare. even the DC Islander is 5 blade only where as the K55 version is 4/5, normally i would use 5 blades unless the the light kit was some sort of 5 sided light, also I would love to see 6 blades make big come back, 4/5/6 fans were the best of all worlds as far as blade configs but they are rare.
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Post by Adam D. on Jul 2, 2019 13:50:53 GMT -5
I prefer 5 blades on rare obscure early 1980s stuff, but then again I tend to like everything no later than the early 1980s, but there are very few exceptions.. I just like stuff that's rare and very hard to find...
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Post by vishalsharma on Jul 24, 2019 0:06:09 GMT -5
What's your opinion on five blade ceiling fans? I like them enough, but I like four blade ceiling fans better, because they're more vintage and cool looking. In my opinion three blade and four blade ceiling fan is better than five blade. More blades do not move more air even one, two, or three bladed fans can be extremely efficient.
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Post by Noah C on Jul 24, 2019 8:34:14 GMT -5
What's your opinion on five blade ceiling fans? I like them enough, but I like four blade ceiling fans better, because they're more vintage and cool looking. In my opinion three blade and four blade ceiling fan is better than five blade. More blades do not move more air even one, two, or three bladed fans can be extremely efficient. True; three and four blade designs are most economical and functional, especially for average sized fans. Your comment brings about the differences between how the Western world (USA, Canada, Western Europe) uses ceiling fans when compared to how ceiling fans are used in the rest of the world, which is a really interesting contrast to me. I imagine you are from a territory that tends to utilize ceiling fans as utilitarian, primary airflow more or less, whereas Americans and Canadians tend to use ceiling fans moreso as decoration or supplementary airflow to A/C, hence why most of the stuff over here has five blades. I think four blades is probably the middle ground between both usage scenarios and is my personal favorite blade configuration. A fan with one blade is not very feasible because you'd have to counterweight the motor and that leaves far too much space between that moving blade. Two blades are symmetrical but also have the problem of too much space in between the moving blades so unless your fan is capable of at least 300 RPM, it can be less effective; three blades is the optimal number of blades for air movement and efficiency. Old, globally run manufacturers of ceiling fans (GEC's international branch, Indian Electric Works, Marelli, etc) figured this out quickly and made three bladed fans for the international markets while Emerson and GE (USA) were giving us four-blade oil bath fans. However, there are scenarios in which less blades aren't always better. When there is ample power for more blades on a fan and less fan speed is required (like in a really souped-up residential ceiling fan; these are using DC motors a lot now and are extremely efficient while producing more torque than normal AC fans), five, six, maybe even eight blades can still allow for solid airflow; since there would be more blades, the airflow stream would be more consistent and less choppy with less wind noise (too much of a factor for Western markets in my opinion); more like a ton of air being pushed at you consistently versus a ton of air being hurled at you in there of wind. In HVLS (high volume, low speed) fans, you need more blades (at least 5, usually around 6-10) since there is so much space between each blade that some amounts of air would be passed through between blades before the next blade sweeps through a given location. Long reply (sorry lol) but welcome to the forum!
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