How much thrust does a ceiling fan produce?
Added 2024-11-23 20:48:53 +0000 UTCHello! It's time for another video made with minimal effort on my part and with much more from my friend Dan.
Some of you may remember I floated this idea several years ago. Well, only now has it come to fruition. This is a really silly video which has barely a point at all but, I mean, it is November.
Captions are gonna happen soonly, and I'll be releasing this tomorrow.
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Its been done. See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055152/mediaviewer/rm4166840833/ Master of the World (1961) Vincent Price
Brett Duane
2024-12-08 03:21:55 +0000 UTCGood eye!
Dan ''Spiffy'' Neuman
2024-12-03 08:43:23 +0000 UTCMrHammond likes the B-3 on your T-shirt 😉 Have fun with your fan-club!
MrHammond
2024-11-30 20:22:59 +0000 UTCThere is building code for the roughs that they can be installed to. In commercial buildings, you can be reasonably sure they're installed correctly, lest the building owner be sued for a lot.
RavageTalon
2024-11-29 15:36:32 +0000 UTCThis is the most random no effort November video. I love it
Tdub23
2024-11-25 20:42:47 +0000 UTCGlad I could help!
Dan ''Spiffy'' Neuman
2024-11-25 19:40:25 +0000 UTCCeiling fans are extremely rare in the UK (I've seen maybe 2 in my life), but on holidays in the US I've sat under many of them with some level of, probably irrational, fear... How do you yanks trust that they are installed correctly??? Some of them wobble about in their mount very noticeably, and spin so fast with that whooshing noise. I'm constantly in a state of anxiety when sitting under one that I'm about to be beheaded. True terror is attempting to turn on the light at night, only to somehow active a ceiling fan at full speed, this unseen force blasting you with air and threatening to cut you to pieces at any moment. Nightmare fuel.
James B
2024-11-25 00:16:46 +0000 UTCI came here hoping for an onlyfans video, and I wasn't disappointed
Gary Bleads
2024-11-24 22:33:34 +0000 UTCDan`s great, when I bought my house I had to remove a fan for them to scape the ceiling and I reached out to him and he quickly helped me with the removal of it. It was a unique mounting I had never seen.
Shanester366
2024-11-24 14:56:39 +0000 UTCLove this channel but please please give us some metric numbers. We have no idea what a pound per school shooting is
Harrison Leake
2024-11-24 14:31:23 +0000 UTCI'm pretty sure that the forces caused by plugging and unplugging a plug put more stress on the electrical box the socket is mounted to than a ceiling fan will on its box. Apart from the weight of the fan of course. It's not uncommon to see a socket pulled out from the wall. At least with European Schuko sockets. I don't know how tight American plugs are in their sockets.
Juho K
2024-11-24 10:45:43 +0000 UTCNever thought about this concept-but now I KNOW!! The rope getting spun up cracked me up! Thanks for another fun video!
Markintosh
2024-11-24 10:06:22 +0000 UTCThanks! Now I'm off to make a helicopter out of ceiling fans!
J Ruonti
2024-11-24 07:45:14 +0000 UTCI'm sad you didn't attach some kind of long pipe to the mounting hardware of the fan, attach the pipe horizontally to some rolly thing so the fan is acting as a propeller, hook it up with a long extension cord and let it run to see if it moves the rolly thing :D
Jason Wellband
2024-11-24 04:27:43 +0000 UTCThank you for that; I was trying to figure out if there was some kind of technicality which meant that there was somehow a high scalar effect with a minimal planar one.
Matt Deres
2024-11-24 02:12:33 +0000 UTCHow cool of you to wear one of Dan's shirts for this video! 2:40 bears a strong resemblance to the completely safe and not-at-all sketchy rig we used to reach the warehouse Heat Fans for additional work after the scissor lift was returned.
Andre Wehrle
2024-11-23 23:54:47 +0000 UTCEven in the midst of his "break" month, Mr. Watson still delivers. Gerry-rigged OSHA nightmare of a weighing rig or not, this is still technically a collaboration with multiple diverse variants of hardware, some dating back decades. It even comes with a potential teaser for a future video. Or maybe more – who knows what wacky “energy saving” gimmicks spun out of the aforementioned energy crisis? Or… just in general? I don’t know about the road to hell, but the road to failed eco products surely is paved with good intentions.
Michael Negranol
2024-11-23 23:17:26 +0000 UTCI both loved and hated the rope connection on that last fan test, If its stupid and it works it's stupid and it works :P
Michael Willis
2024-11-23 23:05:37 +0000 UTCKinda defeats no effort November though.
Ken Klein
2024-11-23 22:50:23 +0000 UTCI love how much money Alec must make talking about things 99% of people don’t care about 😂😂😂
Bobby Forsee
2024-11-23 22:15:26 +0000 UTCI'm loving Slightly Unhinged November
Aging Wheels
2024-11-23 22:01:24 +0000 UTCPerfect! I screwed up my one and only fact check.
Technology Connections
2024-11-23 21:39:13 +0000 UTCTorque and wobbling effects can be minimized by mounting the fan to a suitable board like a 2x4 and then attaching the scale to the board. The end of the board is kept from rotating by threading through the ladder rungs. You can attach the scale at different points along the board to get amplification or attenuation of the thrust. Even set it up as a lever with the scale at the opposite end of the board. We test combinations of RC airplane motors and propellers this way.
Tim Skloss
2024-11-23 21:25:56 +0000 UTCSomehow, these NEN videos punch above their weight when considering the ratio of effort expended (expressed by the term ALEC/Hrs) to the amount of fun perceived (expressed in LOLS/Min). This one I estimate at 1.5 A/h to 7.5 L/m.😃 Speaking of punching above your weight, beside the fact that airplane propellers and helicopter rotors spin much faster and are much larger in diameter than ceiling fans, another factor that gives them more thrust is that their blades are wings/airfoils rather than the flat paddles attached to ceiling fans.
Mark Hesse
2024-11-23 21:20:47 +0000 UTCNice vid! Small nitpick at 9:16 - HVLS fans are High *Volume* Low Speed, not High Velocity Low Speed (which... would be an oxymoron I think?)
Joey Foo
2024-11-23 21:15:33 +0000 UTCThis video was on point for the theme of the month and I loved it.
KlueBat
2024-11-23 21:15:31 +0000 UTCSomehow I thought you did a collab with Louis Rossmann when you made the announcement of this on discord.
RavageTalon
2024-11-23 21:06:17 +0000 UTCAsking the important questions
Josh
2024-11-23 20:57:45 +0000 UTCOnly Alec could make a ~12 minute video about ceiling fans, of all things. Please keep doing odd little topics like this!
Sean Hearrell
2024-11-23 20:52:33 +0000 UTCI'm your biggest fan
Justin Carr
2024-11-23 20:51:59 +0000 UTCThat's not the best ceiling fan I've ever seen but it's up there.
MustangsbyMatt
2024-11-23 20:51:35 +0000 UTC
