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Post by Jean Lemieux on Oct 2, 2010 19:48:52 GMT -5
I bought from Budget Lighting 7 gold tassels by Westinghouse.  They arrived yesterday. Like there was a min order of 25$ I took the opportunity to try one of their 4-speed wall control. All the ones sold here in home centers are 3-speed. I already had a very bad experience with a NOS early 1990s ivory Leviton 4-speed fan control I bought a year ago. Some of you probably remember that when I post it in July 2009. It was that model with the touch buttons. The thing turned out it made the fan noisy like if it was on a solid state variable speed control and the speeds were horrible. There was no real low speed. All the speed were too fast and too similar to one another. I returned the control to the store that same day. It was that control:   Here's what I bought from Budget Lighting. The tassels are awesome. Not very thick but long and the color and fabric that its made of is just like the 1980s models. That 4-speed control turned to be a success. It does not add any sound to the fan. Very quiet! The 4th speed is an aesthetic low!!!!!! I did not had a single speed fan installed at the moment to try it on so I try it on the Moss WF Series, set the pull chain on high and speed 3 was actually the normal low speed I get with the pull chain which is about 55RPM and 4 is about 30RPM. Like a Casablanca Inteli Touch on speed 1.  AWESOME! That was on a 52'' fan. I'm excited to try it on a smaller fan like the 4 Seasons Seville 36''.  They also sell a rotative version of it but its the same price as the slider so I took the slider since I prefer those....they look fancier. Its was only 13$US compare to the Lutron 3-speed slider which was 30$. Westinghouse have an awesome choice of fan accessories! |
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Oct 2, 2010 20:49:40 GMT -5
Nice, let us know how that slider control works out for you I explained it in the desciption for a 52'' fan. |
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Post by Cole S. on Oct 2, 2010 22:13:28 GMT -5
Wow, it actually has a slower low speed?! Most controls like that maintain the low speed and have two steps of medium. I want to get one of those now, I've seen them in a few places in the past.
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Post by Rick M. on Oct 2, 2010 22:40:12 GMT -5
Good buys, Jean! The gold tassels are really cool.
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Post by Chris H. on Oct 3, 2010 12:02:49 GMT -5
NICE.
My parents rental property has a generic fan control knob on the wall in the master bedroom. It's a dial switch, and if I remember correctly, Off was dead center, and if you went counter clockwise, you'd hit the lower two speeds (with the lowest being agonizingly slow, ahahah), and if you went clockwise, you'd hit the higher two speeds (with high being deadly powerful). My parents used this control with the black Atlantic Air when we lived in the house. Where the fan is at now, it uses the damn pullchain (>.<). The fan at the rental property is a Hampton Bay Grayton I…it makes poor use of the control.
Oh…did I mention this control has a two-way light dimmer on it?
Now..I'm jealous you have a tassel. No matter WHERE I go, I never find one.
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Post by Cole S. on Oct 3, 2010 21:08:41 GMT -5
Now..I'm jealous you have a tassel. No matter WHERE I go, I never find one. 7+ to be precise. I've got a bunch, but most of them are in sets I don't want to separate or I'd send you one. |
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Oct 5, 2010 2:29:40 GMT -5
I actually ordered 8 but I guess they did not had that many so I got 7, it even took a while before it got charged on my credit card so I guess they did not had that many in stock. From the time it was charged it came really fast.
With the other tassels I got that originally came with their fans I think I now have 17 altogether. Mostly yellow ones that have various tones of yellow color. 2 orangeish and a brown one.
For those who still wonder where to buy gold tassels, Budget Lighting is the place.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Oct 5, 2010 2:38:13 GMT -5
Wow, it actually has a slower low speed?! Most controls like that maintain the low speed and have two steps of medium. I want to get one of those now, I've seen them in a few places in the past. So far I just try it with the Moss WF Series 52'' with the pull chain set on high but yes speed 3 was actually the low I get with the pull chain and 4 was a lot slower. I usually get theses quiet capacitive controls to use with single speed fans only, to be able to have slower speeds other than just high of course but when the fan have a speed pull chain I will just put it on a regular on/off wall switch. I still need to try the control on a single speed fan and especially a smaller fan. I was really surprised that it made a slower speed to the 3-speed Moss too, usually theses controls makes a aesthetic low with a single speed fan that is 48'' and larger only. |
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Oct 4, 2014 19:10:28 GMT -5
Last month I received theses two Montage facile ceiling fans mounting brackets from a lighting showroom that sells Banvil products. I changed the title of this thread from Westinghouse Accessories to Fan Accessories. I didn't wanted to create a thread just for that so I reused this thread from October 2010 and from now on I will use this same one for posting other accessories. There's quite a few other wall controls that I bought other than this four speed model seen at the beginning of this thread. These mounting brackets will be useful for me because I have a lot of 4 Saisons that would mount with this type of bracket but are missing them or that came with a light fixture mounting bracket. These brackets have gotten pretty hard to find. The actual 4 Saisons brackets are more narrow than these but these mount as flush as the actual ones so it does not interfere with the 4 Saisons canopies at all. Theses brackets are made exactly like the ones that came with my Moss WF Series and Guibb GE vent.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2014 19:15:06 GMT -5
So there are still fans that use these brackets being made? What fans?
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Oct 4, 2014 20:38:35 GMT -5
So there are still fans that use these brackets being made? What fans? It doesn't seem that there's any Banvil fans that uses this mounting and even in the 1980's I don't recall a fan that used this mounting but they still offer it for people that still have fans mounting this way and probably because it's easier to use than a J-hook for those who don't want to have to screw in a big hook in the wood beams. Though Banvil offers also the J-hook bracket adapted for electrical boxes. They are still a few fans from other companies that would mount this way. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2014 20:40:09 GMT -5
They are still a few fans from other companies that would mount this way. Such as? |
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Oct 4, 2014 21:39:14 GMT -5
A lot of companies such as Arge and Venti-Delta in Brasil and Barcala, Tiravento and Martin y Martin in Argentina still have fans that mounts in a way similar to this bracket. Here this piece would be used as an accommodation for people that don't like J-hooks or that still have older fans. Another reason for people to prefer this bracket over J-hook is that these brackets makes fans mount closer to the ceilings. J-hook trend to bring down fans a little too much. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2014 22:10:43 GMT -5
To my knowledge they are not available in the US, despite their benefits.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Oct 4, 2014 23:01:07 GMT -5
To my knowledge they are not available in the US, despite their benefits. Anyway, Argentina uses 220 volts - 50Hz. |
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They arrived yesterday. Like there was a min order of 25$ I took the opportunity to try one of their 4-speed wall control. All the ones sold here in home centers are 3-speed. I already had a very bad experience with a NOS early 1990s ivory Leviton 4-speed fan control I bought a year ago. Some of you probably remember that when I post it in July 2009. It was that model with the touch buttons. The thing turned out it made the fan noisy like if it was on a solid state variable speed control and the speeds were horrible. There was no real low speed. All the speed were too fast and too similar to one another. I returned the control to the store that same day. It was that control:
AWESOME! That was on a 52'' fan. I'm excited to try it on a smaller fan like the 4 Seasons Seville 36''.
