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My guess is no due to the rotational forces of the fan, but it's just a guess. That aladdin lift has 2 plates that make contact when the light is raised.

A lift for a fan seems like a good idea, though.
 
j_erickson said:
My guess is no due to the rotational forces of the fan, but it's just a guess. That aladdin lift has 2 plates that make contact when the light is raised.

A lift for a fan seems like a good idea, though.
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I agree. The fan would basically be hanging from the cable and would not be steady.
 
But it is always desired to get a near perfect gyro action with the fans rotationing. Assuming the fan is balanced.

But that’s only after it would try to reach out by the sweep of the fan blades. These fan blades is will not act like a pushing fashion (that one would expect) But would pull itself up like a helicopter, it will try to reach the widest point per it blade area and pitch. And depending on all the blades properties the undesired rotation would reach out to points in space and not supply a airflow proportional to the area of the blade and the pitch of the blade. Thats why there built to be stationary.

Frankly there's a lot of dynamic's IE physic's...

Thus with the motor rotation and the sweeping of a blade, it will try to fly at first and settle into a moderate circular spin about itself, as long as your paddle portioned force is less than the weight of the motor driving it.

And they do make ten foot paddle fans.

Most pole supported fans have a rotation component built in.

I really hate to say no, but no it would not work, but it found fly a little...
 
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Called Alladdin and the tech guy said he has been working on one for over ten years with no luck
 
stickboy1375 said:
That would be cool if the fan would just fly around the room on a cable... ;) :grin:
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When I was a kid, an old-time appliance store in the town I grew up in had a bunch of really old paddle fans in their showroom. Leather belt drive, and the way they were belted up, it looked like there was probably one motor in the back room to drive all of them.
 
mdshunk said:
When I was a kid, an old-time appliance store in the town I grew up in had a bunch of really old paddle fans in their showroom. Leather belt drive, and the way they were belted up, it looked like there was probably one motor in the back room to drive all of them.
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I've worked on a couple of them. Yes, they use a single motor, often with a worm-drive gear reduction. I know of a cafe with a home-made system where a guy used car axle/hub bearings and brake drums for his rotating parts.

They're not terribly different from old machine shops that had a single large motor driving shafts, pulleys, and leather drive belts. Years ago, I went to a school that had a machine shop set up that way, very old place.

The movies Toy Soldiers and Major Payne were both filmed at this school, The Miller School of Albemarle, in Charlottesville, Va. It was ROTC when I went there. (My parents thought military school would be good for me. :roll:)
 
LarryFine said:
They're not terribly different from old machine shops that had a single large motor driving shafts, pulleys, and leather drive belts.
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My Dad told me stories that his Dad told him about how dangerous those leather belt drive systems used to be. I guess it was easy to lose an arm if you weren't careful.
 
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