1993 SMC Laguna Deluxe 90 cm

[Jean Lemieux]

Here's an SMC Laguna 90 cm I saved from being thrown away last February. It was originally installed in a friend's house and he wanted to get rid of it.

As a child, this is the ceiling fan I wanted the most! This is the Deluxe variant with the included mushroom light kit seen here with it's original globe with the two gold lines and the brass fitter. Being from 1993 this one has the conventional ball and socket mounting. Later around 1995, the style of the canopy and the mounting system on this model was changed and the globe lost it's two gold lines. It remained like this till the very end when Sears last sold it in 2004. This early 1990's variant could be considered the second last variant of the Laguna. This model was sold mainly at Canadian Tire and Sears.

Other than the included light kit it's visually the same as my 1989 model. Performance wise it's quiet different though. This one is a lot more powerful, moves more air and is quieter than the 1989 one I have. It's speed range is comparable to the SMC Promo Deluxe from the same period doing about 120-185-310 RPMS! Very powerful!









Enjoy!

[Tais]

nice SMC! i sometimes wish we had lagunas here!

some early 90s SMC motors outperform the late 80s motors with its extra speed and slightly similar torque

[Jean Lemieux]

Aug 29, 2022 3:00:32 GMT -5 Tais said:

nice SMC! i sometimes wish we had lagunas here!

some early 90s SMC motors outperform the late 80s motors with its extra speed and slightly similar torque

You can find 230V 50 Hz variations of SMC Laguna notably in Australia and the United Kingdom.

That's suprising for the motors considering that many SMC's motors were significantly downgraded after 1988.

[vladpryde]

Man this brings back memories! My mother cleaned houses and apartments to put food on the table when I was a child in the early 1990s. We lived in San Jose CA at the time, and we had friends who were moving out of an apartment that she cleaned and they gave her an SMC spinner fan just like this, except maybe slightly larger (42"?). I was so excited. My mother had it installed in the dining room and she used it all the time. It was white with the same gold trim. If I remember correctly, it had a bullet-shaped (or similar-shaped) canopy over the spinner on the down-rod. And if I remember correctly, the handyman installed a white four-bulb movable light kit on it instead of the globe. It didn't come with a light kit, and the movable light kit was a VERY 80s and 90s style.

I miss that fan. It had one blade bracket that was bent slightly upwards with made the fan wobble slightly, but it still moved a ton of air. The house we lived in is still standing, and I wonder if it's still hanging there today.

[Tais]

Aug 31, 2022 21:27:51 GMT -5 Jean Lemieux said:

Aug 29, 2022 3:00:32 GMT -5 Tais said:

nice SMC! i sometimes wish we had lagunas here!

some early 90s SMC motors outperform the late 80s motors with its extra speed and slightly similar torque

You can find 230V 50 Hz variations of SMC Laguna notably in Australia and the United Kingdom.

That's suprising for the motors considering that many SMC's motors were significantly downgraded after 1988.

From my observation, the smcs K series with worst air delivery and weakest motors were manufactured between june 1986 and august 1987.. even a 2022 smc kn56 would deliver better air! i dont know what came into that design in that period, in september 1987, they were reverted back to the 1983-1986 design with slightly thinner stator before changing motor again in around 1989-1990 to the smaller version months or a year after shifting to china