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Post by Jean Lemieux on Feb 27, 2009 21:37:20 GMT -5
It's Gulf Coast, made by Synlix. Chris Held could tell you more. I found a white one in Minneapolis once but didnt buy it. Thanks for finally replying but I don't need to know what it is. I know its a Four Seasons Venair that looks a lot like a Commander/Synlix just like all other Four Seasons. Those are good quality? I can't try it for the moment I don't have the hanger bracket. I might just turn it into ball and socket and put the original canopy over the ball and socket hardware. Do you have any suggestions for the paint? ( what should I do, how to do it and what is possible.)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2009 17:19:18 GMT -5
Others might care what it is, even if you decide to be rude.
I would try Goof Off to remove the old paint, VERY carefully.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Feb 28, 2009 20:00:14 GMT -5
Anyway I decided to keep the fan pink because it would be too long and too hard to removed completely the paint without damaging the brown one under it. (I tried on the top of the motor and on the brackets). But the blades will be repainted in white. I already sand them. Anyway the pink will matches the room where it will be installed.
I bought the missing screws for the blades and a rotary 3-speed quiet wall control. But does those spinners can take a variable speed control? I could not find any hanger brackets at my local Reno Depot neither any ball mounting thing so I'm gonna have to use the one of my Craftmade or something. Its weird my Encon use a different kind of ball mounting bracket. Its the ones that you screw through the side of the canopy.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2009 23:41:55 GMT -5
You should have tried the Goof Off on the blades before sanding.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 1, 2009 0:05:47 GMT -5
You should have tried the Goof Off on the blades before sanding. I tried but it was just damaging too much the finish under it. Do you know about the variable speed control for those?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2009 0:56:08 GMT -5
You have to be gentle.
This would have came with a 5 speed control.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 1, 2009 19:37:14 GMT -5
Yeah I know they should have come with 5-speed wall controls but they ''disappeared'' when the fans were uninstall in 2005. They were really cool controls, I just wondered if those could accept a variable speed control. But just to be sue I bought a quiet 3-speed one. Before painting the blades I would like to try the fan, I don't wants to restore something that does not works well. (just in case) Even if I know that all of his fans where all functional. This fan have not run since early 2005. Is it bad for a ceiling fan to not have run for a couple of years like that? Here more pics. Last time I post them I forgot to show the bottom of the fan with the blades install. Like its only 36'' its easier to carry it with the blades all mounted to it and imagine what it would looks like on a ceiling. But still its pretty heavy for a 36'' fan. The blades are sanded on all of the pics except for the first one. And notice I took off the paint from the nut to show the brass. I also have all screws for the brackets. (the silver ones) The bad news it that the ball mounting of my Craftmade does not fit really well on the downarod of this fan, it fits too tight and the holes for the grounded green wire and the one to put the pin are not correct to have them both at the same time. And I could not find any ball socket mounting sold separately at my local Reno-Depot. Neither anything that looks like a double claw bracket. I'm gonna try some other stores. I really wish I could mount this fan in the downstairs office. It would fit really well there. Its the only other bedroom that have a ceiling fixture but the ceiling fixture is installed close of the walls and its also the smallest bedroom of the house. I cannot install anything larger than 36'' there so this one would be perfect there.
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Post by thefanman84 "Elder Moss" on Mar 2, 2009 22:30:34 GMT -5
does it go really fast?
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 3, 2009 2:21:33 GMT -5
Well if you would have read what I rote you would know that I can't install it yet. But those little spinners usually goes really fast. The motor is pretty wide and thick for a 36'' fan.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 4, 2009 15:51:54 GMT -5
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Post by Cole S. on Mar 4, 2009 16:51:15 GMT -5
Did the control have the little insert with installation instructions? Even if not, I've dealt with these controls before. It sounds like a strange wireing system, as opposed to what I'm used to. I usually deal with a main black, white and ground, and a black, white and ground from the ceiling box. With this type of wireing, you connect the two grounds with the control ground, the two whites together(there's no white on the control as you mentioned), and a black goes to either black wire from the main and ceiling connections.
If you only have the three wires in the wall box, I don't know what you would do.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 4, 2009 17:15:38 GMT -5
Did the control have the little insert with installation instructions? Even if not, I've dealt with these controls before. It sounds like a strange wiring system, as opposed to what I'm used to. I usually deal with a main black, white and ground, and a black, white and ground from the ceiling box. With this type of wiring, you connect the two grounds with the control ground, the two whites together(there's no white on the control as you mentioned), and a black goes to either black wire from the main and ceiling connections. If you only have the three wires in the wall box, I don't know what you would do. Yes thats the problem, I only have a white, a black and a ground in the switch box. Yes the control comes with instructions that show two ways to install but none of these two ways matches my switch box. I don't have two different wires coming in this box only one that goes up to the ceiling. That's means the wire that brings the power to the ceiling fixture come in the ceiling box and not in the wall box. In the ceiling fixture there 3 wires that comes in. ( by 3 wires I mean 3 wires all each including a black, a white and a ground.)
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Post by Cole S. on Mar 4, 2009 21:54:15 GMT -5
Hmm, I've never seen a wire system work that way.
Anyone able to help here?
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Post by Ben C. on Mar 4, 2009 23:13:16 GMT -5
Are you sure it's not a three-way dimmer? If there's two black wires from the switch, it's probably a three-way. My uncle's dining room has a three way switch, a normal toggle on one side, and a dimmer on the other. The dimmer has two blacks, a white, and a ground. Because he used CFLs in it (you can't tell, the bulbs aren't visible), I had to change the dimmer to a normal 3 way toggle switch.
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Post by Cole S. on Mar 5, 2009 16:55:32 GMT -5
Jean's doesn't have a white, and I have regular quiet fan speed controls just like the one he described. I'm not sure if it is compatable with Jean's type of wiring.
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