The amazing laughing ceiling fan

[Trevor]

Hey guys,

After spending a lovely Saturday removing the old P.O.S. chili pepper ceiling fan from my room, I made a run to Meeks for a fan brace and started to work installing the 36" Hunter Original. This took the majority of the day and the fan was finally finished in the evening. I started in the afternoon so it wasnt too bad. Anyway, all connections are made and the fan's together. As it got to speed, it started laughing at me! It made a heh heh heh heh heh sound. Now I thought this was funny because all other fans in the house either moan or groan; especially the SMC hugger in my living room. The reason the fan laughs is because I put some cheap non-rubber washers on the blades cuz the original ones were cracked. I guess the fan thinks its funny that I swiped the washers from the chili pepper fan and put those on It'll stop laughin when I get some good washers for it. The fan looks gorgeous and really puts out the air! Why did Hunter stop makin these? Oh well Glad to know I got one!;D

[John]

Trevor said:

Hey guys,

After spending a lovely Saturday removing the old P.O.S. chili pepper ceiling fan from my room, I made a run to Meeks for a fan brace and started to work installing the 36" Hunter Original. This took the majority of the day and the fan was finally finished in the evening. I started in the afternoon so it wasnt too bad. Anyway, all connections are made and the fan's together. As it got to speed, it started laughing at me! It made a heh heh heh heh heh sound. Now I thought this was funny because all other fans in the house either moan or groan; especially the SMC hugger in my living room. The reason the fan laughs is because I put some cheap non-rubber washers on the blades cuz the original ones were cracked. I guess the fan thinks its funny that I swiped the washers from the chili pepper fan and put those on It'll stop laughin when I get some good washers for it. The fan looks gorgeous and really puts out the air! Why did Hunter stop makin these? Oh well Glad to know I got one!;D

[John]

Trevor said:

Hey guys,

After spending a lovely Saturday removing the old P.O.S. chili pepper ceiling fan from my room, I made a run to Meeks for a fan brace and started to work installing the 36" Hunter Original. This took the majority of the day and the fan was finally finished in the evening. I started in the afternoon so it wasnt too bad. Anyway, all connections are made and the fan's together. As it got to speed, it started laughing at me! It made a heh heh heh heh heh sound. Now I thought this was funny because all other fans in the house either moan or groan; especially the SMC hugger in my living room. The reason the fan laughs is because I put some cheap non-rubber washers on the blades cuz the original ones were cracked. I guess the fan thinks its funny that I swiped the washers from the chili pepper fan and put those on It'll stop laughin when I get some good washers for it. The fan looks gorgeous and really puts out the air! Why did Hunter stop makin these? Oh well Glad to know I got one!;D

I used to have an SMC hugger, but it sparked whenever I would rev it up with the pull chain. In 1998 it got replaced by a 52" Hunter

[Farah]

Wow it did! I wish my ceiling fans would do that and that was pretty funny though, LOL !

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1. The laughing fan: sounds like something is loose, perhaps the screws on the blades. The only noise you would expect to (possibly) hear for forsaking the rubber washers on the blades with equal-sized metal ones is perhaps a bussing or vibrating from the blades.

2. The groaning fans: the most common cause of a fan humming is when the motor is not properly isolated from the mount and the building structure, the vibrations from the motor are passed on to the ceiling joist and carried throughout the room. Make sure all the rubber in the mount is intact, and perhaps add additional rubber washers. With certain offending fans I replace the mount with more effective mounts.

3. The sparking fan: sounds like the capacitor discharge is being transfered to the pullchain. This happens sometimes with older pullchains. Replacing the pullchain with a newer one can usually fix this, otherwise tie a resistor across the 2 and 3 taps pf the pullchain (medium and low) of around 20k or so, this should eat the discharge.