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Post by b70002 on Aug 20, 2007 23:25:00 GMT -5
In picture #10, the green painted 5 blade outdoor builder fan, is that in the area near the Tiki Room and the Pirates of the Caribbean?
I remember there being a small mall/bathroom area that had the original 1971 Originals when I went through there a few years ago.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Aug 20, 2007 23:27:18 GMT -5
But what kind of motor the Today's Originals uses??
Also does anyone know when Hunter introduced the Sea Air?
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Post by Andrew G. on Aug 20, 2007 23:45:42 GMT -5
Here's a close-up of a new original with the spinner motor.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Aug 21, 2007 1:32:33 GMT -5
Sorry but this does not appear to be a Real direct drive motor, its have a silver steel ring in the housing like the older ones. The flywheel appear to be made of iron or heavy steel. And there a big hole in the middle under the switch housing cup.
A Real direct Drive motor is just a thiny black flat thing completely close.
Nice fan you got there, do you own it of if not where did you took the pic?
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Post by Ben C. on Aug 21, 2007 7:16:24 GMT -5
Those are awesome fan shots Andrew! I wonder what they did the older Originals. Did they just throw them out? I like the Fasco with the red blades. Jean- How does it not appear to be a direct drive motor. Do you see windings like this?: ^not mine, JW's
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Post by Andrew G. on Aug 21, 2007 9:55:37 GMT -5
What they do with the old fans is something I've been wanting to figure out for some time now.
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Post by Ben C. on Aug 21, 2007 10:18:26 GMT -5
Ha ha, massive bonfire!
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Aug 21, 2007 10:56:36 GMT -5
Yes I do and I have Never seen a direct drive ceiling fan with all that in the housing(I am talking about the silver ring, hole in the middle and a iron flywheel)
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Post by Andrew G. on Aug 21, 2007 11:30:17 GMT -5
The silver thing is the stator, or the windings themselves. The black ring around it is the rotor.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Aug 21, 2007 12:19:34 GMT -5
But direct drive ceiling fans are not builtd like that.
Does anyone know when Hunter introduced the Sea Air? It will help to know from when they started to put somes of them in the park. I would say about late 90s or early 2000s.
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Post by Andrew G. on Aug 21, 2007 12:26:34 GMT -5
Some spinner, or direct drive, motors were skeletal. Lasko is a perfect example, many of their fans made in the 80s up until 1999 used skeletal spinner motors.
I'm not sure exactly when the sea air was introduced, but I'm guessing sometime around 1991. BTW, it was originally known as the sea island.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Aug 21, 2007 12:34:52 GMT -5
1991??? That's early that's my birth year. They looks contemporary to me. I really tough more of 1997 or even 2000. Oh, skeletal motor, its different to me they looks completly different. A Real direct drive motor has to be a little black thiny thing to me. There also the Archives Original that I wonder when Hunter introduced it?
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Post by Andrew G. on Aug 21, 2007 13:08:13 GMT -5
Hunter and casablanca both introduced a number of contemporary designs between the very late 80s and the early 90s. The sea air was one of them, along with the innova, infiniti (1992), the orion, and a few other fans.
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Post by jeremy on Aug 21, 2007 13:28:18 GMT -5
Hunter and casablanca both introduced a number of contemporary designs between the very late 80s and the early 90s. The sea air was one of them, along with the innova, infiniti (1992), the orion, and a few other fans. the infiniti was made in 1992?!?! i thought it was made in 1996/1997(i bought mine in the year 1997)..
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Post by Andrew G. on Aug 21, 2007 13:58:35 GMT -5
Hunter and casablanca both introduced a number of contemporary designs between the very late 80s and the early 90s. The sea air was one of them, along with the innova, infiniti (1992), the orion, and a few other fans. the infiniti was made in 1992?!?! i thought it was made in 1996/1997(i bought mine in the year 1997).. Yes, the infiniti was introduced in 1992, and it was also available in gun metal during that model year. The coastal breeze was also introduced in 1992. I figured that out when I acquired a brass 44" coastal breeze dated 3/92 and had a serial number of #000204.
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