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Ceiling Fan Direction Winter vs Summer
A fool proof way to know ceiling fan direction for use during the winter months, versus warm weather usage.
Most people understand the difference between clockwise and counter-clockwise, but when looking up at a ceiling fan and from a side view angle, sometimes the two directions get confused. This is because our minds are used to looking downward at our watches, or from viewing a wall-clock at a vertical angle, and this causes an optical illusion to some when viewing a ceiling fan's rotation. This illusion goes away if we get directly under the fan and look straight upward at the blade rotation.
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Most people understand the difference between clockwise and counter-clockwise, but when looking up at a ceiling fan and from a side view angle, sometimes the two directions get confused. This is because our minds are used to looking downward at our watches, or from viewing a wall-clock at a vertical angle, and this causes an optical illusion to some when viewing a ceiling fan's rotation. This illusion goes away if we get directly under the fan and look straight upward at the blade rotation.
To get more information visit www.modernfanoutlet.com
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what if your in your basement with furness heat from ceiling? what direction should it be?
I would just visualize the fan put into clock position & get it. But now I can explain it to someone who doesn’t know the way you did & have it all simplified even more thanks
confusing video
The example you give of laying on the floor and looking up helps the most as it is hard to tell what direction the fan is actually moving. Thank yoy great video!
Not silly - we humans are silly🤪 Thank you 😊
Why don't they just put on the switch "cool/warm?" It would be a lot easier to figure out.
Your thumbail is wrong, counter clockwise spin = summer not winter
At 3:15-3:17 you say the opposite of what’s correct! You said counterclockwise=winter, clockwise=summer but it’s just the opposite-clockwise=winter
You’re smart, because you figured out that it was a mistake and opposite of what it should have been. WTG!
Thank you!! This helped so much!
Been watching my fan and clock for hours. My digital clock will never figure this clock and counter clockwise thing out!!!😢
Video is confusing. It is good to determine the direction of rotation by looking up at the fan. But you say it different after at the end of the video when you talk about customers coming into your store. So which is it, summer = ccw or Summer = cw?
counter clockwise for summer.
Perfect example! I'm a visual person, so this was perfect for me. I'm going to label my switch S for Summer and W for winter. TFS!
Great explanation. Well said. Thank you.
Awesome Video!
Talk to much without saying anything
Great video thank you! We have a vaulted ceiling where the height is 24’. The fan is in the centre. Should this still be clockwise for winter?
Honestly, with a ceiling the height of yours, and depending upon the fan you have, you may have to do a little trial and error. How high your fan is off floor level can also make a difference. If it's still 15 feet or so from the floor I would try forward (counter clockwise) and on the lowest speed. Many of our new fans at www.modernfanoutlet.com use DC motors and have 6 speeds or more. This will mean the lowest speed is much slower than a normal fan. With one of these DC motor fans, and having a fan that is still high form the floor level, I don't think there would be enough breeze felt below to produce a wind-chill factor. This would mean leaving it going in the forward direction will keep heat from rising to the ceiling more efficiently than the typical reverse setting would do. That said, if you try that and still feel wind chill below the fan in winter, then most definitely reverse the fan direction to winter mode (clockwise). From there, because of your ceiling height, you may need to experiment with the fan to see if the low or a medium speed ends up doing the best to most efficiently bring the heat back down to the living level. Hope this helps.
Just tell me click up or down.....the fan will do the rest.........
Your explanation of how to tell which direction the fan is really rotating by lying on your back underneath it was outstanding.
Thank you. We do our best at ModernFanOutlet.com to help make it easier to understand.
It's not confusing if you explain it by saying that the fan is moving in the direction of the downward angle in the summer and moving in the direction of the upward angle in the winter
This was the most helpful description I have seen regarding the direction of the fan! Thank you this great video!
Not silly at all it's been the most totally confusing description and I was even laying on my back while watching your video so then when you got down on your back and did the description it made sense. Thank you for clarifying
Hey, if it helps, even if embarrassing... hahaha... I'm always happy to do so. I made this video for www.modernfanoutlet.com years ago and never really expected so many views. TH-cam needs to pay me now... 😂
at 2:49 You said Counter for Summer. then at 3:16 You said Counter's for Winter. Counter's for Summer, yes?
Good afternoon in the beginning you said that the correct one for the summer was different than what you said later on so please let me know which way is correct for the summer clockwise or counter clockwise please watch your video so you will understand
Thank you for the information but you said in the beginning clockwise was for the summer and then counterclockwise was for the summer so please let me know which one is correct thank you
🙁 this is doing my head in. I swear I cant figure it out and I'm lying on the floor. The blades go right but when I use my hand they're going counter, my brain cant make this make sense. All I know is I feel nothing and I'm f%*king hot! 🥵
My question is should I change it at night? My bedroom is a closed loft and very hot in the summer So should I make it winter mode at night? To pull the cold air up?
Your video was great. However at 3:13-3:15 you contradict yourself saying COUNTERCLOCKWISE FOR WINTER. At 2:47-2:49 you state COUNTERCLOCKWISE MODE WHICH WILL BE FOR SUMMERTIME. At 1:16-1:18 you state for SUMMERTIME USE IT IS GOING COUNTERCLOCKWISE. IT REALLY SHOULD BE CORRECTED.
Nope. The key operative: ALWAYS have fan blowing DOWN, all seasons. For some fans this is CW, others CCW. But DOWN does the trick. Winter warm air with the fan blowing UP won't mix into the occupied area of the room because the entry side of the fan operates at a relatively low velocity, and low velocity does not penetrate very far.
Would depend upon the fan and the ceiling height. Most of our fans at ModernFanOutlet.com blow a lot more airflow than the typical low end fans found at the home improvement stores. I have a 96" TroposAir Liberator fan in a 22' by 38' space whith a 12' ceiling. Trust me, you do not want that thing blowing forward during the winter, not even on speed 1 of 6. However, in the winter, I have the airflow pattern going up, which pushes the heat out to and down the walls, ultimately getting back down to the floor level where the room is cozy. So, in some cases you are correct. In others, test after test shows reverse works best.
@@ModernFanOutletcom The typical consumer 36~48" ceiling fan doesn't produce enough air flow (in the "typical" room) to overcome the thermocline separation of cold and warm air. The upthrust air hits the ceiling, moves to the sides of the room, and then moves down, but with such diffused velocity that it does not penetrate vertically in the room, instead heading back to the inlet of the fan. Because the inlet of the fan is essentially zero velocity (measured at the thermocline) the only motive force remaining is temperature, which then dictates upward force. Remember too that the objection to downward winter flow is discomfort (due to evaporative skin effect), and by the time you generate enough air flow to force circulation down to the floor level, you have the velocity condition you didn't want in the first place. Another factor: most people in the winter are wearing long sleeves, and this reduces skin evaporative cooling so that downward flow isn't quite the problem one might think. But most people would just be better off leaving the fan off in the winter.
@@petem6503 Not trying to argue with you, but you began this with a flawed statement by wrongly assuming the typical fan size being so small. If you look at ceiling fan sizes, 36” to 48” fan sizes are in the minority. We sell way more 60” ceiling fans and larger, and rarely sell fans below 50”. That is why if you shop all fans you’re going to find way more selections in the larger sizes than that of those under 50 inches. Smaller fans just aren’t big sellers nationwide. Maybe they are in your area, but overall larger fans take up 90% of the market share these days. Anyway, you have lots of good scientific thoughts, but in reality does that mean all ceiling fan manufacturer’s are completely incorrect on why they have all added a reverse setting for winter? Possibly. I’ll forward this to some of them and maybe they’ll rethink it if testing shows they’ve been wrong all along. Thanks for your input and careful thought process. From all of us here at www.modernfanoutlet.com.
@@ModernFanOutletcom Arguing is the best way to arrive at practicality! :-) Looking at HD and Lowes, 52" seems more the average for residential. But the real performance of a room fan should fall back to 1/2 cfm/sq ft @ low speed. Why? Below 1/2 csf people complain about "stuffy"; this is their best interpretation of insufficient air velocity across the skin. [Regional differences: Southwest prefers higher csf; Europe has lots of building with NO venting] Low speed so you can't hear it, and it's pretty good for energy. I looked at one of your 54", and it's rated 6800 cfm. I'm not sure where your 6-speed RPM breaks are....maybe lowest is 1/3 RPM, or 2200 cfm? My biggest room is about 500 SF, so less is fine, and most people (residential app) would find the same. I think I used 48's in the bedrooms and a 60" in the LR. I pretty much run them at low. The fan genre I'm waiting for is the office modular ceiling drop-in that has a VAV terminal built in. Commercial design factors (reduced loads due to better glass, LED lighting, lower computer loads) are driving air flows below the 1/2 csf critical point. I think ceiling fans will be the Big New Thing, creating primary/secondary air distribution inexpensively. I saw one building (decade ago) that tried this, but used evaporative cooling [and BAFans] which is difficult to control. Oh, and your installation dimensions A-B-C for that fan don't look consistent.
Great video! I’ve watch quite a few TH-cam videos and yours was One of the best, explanations and demonstrations to understanding how to tell the difference between clockwise and counterclockwise. Thank you for your expertise on this subject.
No this was the best help and I can see it now. Thanks
At 1:21 you say summer is counter clockwise, then at 2:40 you say winter is clockwise. Then at 3:17 you say winter is counter clockwise, and 3:18 summer is clockwise. Wtf? You started out great but then totally contradicted yourself. Am I imagining this?
Probably not, but goodness, you seemed to have analyzed it a lot. Wish I would've had you help film this so the mistake would have been caught 4 years ago, when the video was made... LOL. I look like such goober in the video too. And the NC accent... whew! Only thing worse than that is Boston, New York, and New Jersey accents.
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You are so wrong. A ceiling fan moves the warm air down and the cooler air from the floor up in both directions. Don’t think so? When the air moves into the other location where does the air that is there go? In either case, unless your ceiling is quite high (12ft and up) you are more than likely just mixing the air into the total room being 1 or possibly 2 degrees, difference. I think places that sell fans just try to make them into something more than they are.
This has helped me. Thanks.
Clockwise= spinning to the right Counter clockwise= spinning to the left.
After my observations it's simple. Air should blow down onto you in the summer and towards the ceiling in the winter. DONE!
NO WAY!!! Im going home after work to check this out! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you ! Yeah, every year I need to check because I get confused. This and if moving the clock forward or backwards one hour every year are the two things that somehow I think I know but I better check 😂
Screw this 100 degree Cali heat
This guy is great
Que cool
How is this even being questioned? Why are people asking about the direction? Can't they see by the angle of the blades if it's going to blow down or up? Or if even that is confusing for some reason, just stand under it and see if the air is blowing down on you or not! This video is like an explanation for infants.
clockwise vs counter is not the best explanation for most. The clearest and most simple is in the summer the high side of the blade should be moving forward; in winter the low side.
What button are you pushing to change direction. My doesn't change.
Very best demonstration of how to visually see the direction clearly. THANK YOU!!! It is confusion when seen at an angle.
Can't you just look at the angle of the blades and see if it's going to blow up or down?
Location I should say.
Does fan position have anything to do with it? There are two ceiling fans in the house, but one needs to be replaced.
So why is it that it actually feels cooler in the entire house when the fan is spinning in the so called winter position? The only thing I notice is my napkins blowing all over the place. The dining room table is directly below the fan. And my ceilings are angled just like yours, however not as much of an angle
You can also stand under the fan with a lit candle. In summer the flame should blow down and in the winter the flame should stand straight.