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How much thrust does a ceiling fan produce?

Hello! It's time for another video made with minimal effort on my part and with much more from my friend Dan.

https://youtu.be/6Ea6jf-9Czo

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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How much thrust does a ceiling fan produce?

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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

Good eye!

Dan ''Spiffy'' Neuman

MrHammond likes the B-3 on your T-shirt 😉 Have fun with your fan-club!

MrHammond

There 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

This is the most random no effort November video. I love it

Tdub23

Glad I could help!

Dan ''Spiffy'' Neuman

Ceiling 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

I came here hoping for an onlyfans video, and I wasn't disappointed

Gary Bleads

Dan`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

Love this channel but please please give us some metric numbers. We have no idea what a pound per school shooting is

Harrison Leake

I'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

Never thought about this concept-but now I KNOW!! The rope getting spun up cracked me up! Thanks for another fun video!

Markintosh

Thanks! Now I'm off to make a helicopter out of ceiling fans!

J Ruonti

I'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

Thank 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

How 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

Even 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

I 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

Kinda defeats no effort November though.

Ken Klein

I love how much money Alec must make talking about things 99% of people don’t care about 😂😂😂

Bobby Forsee

I'm loving Slightly Unhinged November

Aging Wheels

Perfect! I screwed up my one and only fact check.

Technology Connections

Torque 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

Somehow, 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

Nice 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

This video was on point for the theme of the month and I loved it.

KlueBat

Somehow I thought you did a collab with Louis Rossmann when you made the announcement of this on discord.

RavageTalon

Asking the important questions

Josh

Only Alec could make a ~12 minute video about ceiling fans, of all things. Please keep doing odd little topics like this!

Sean Hearrell

I'm your biggest fan

Justin Carr

That's not the best ceiling fan I've ever seen but it's up there.

MustangsbyMatt


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