Hinode 48” Ceiling Fan

Filmed & description written on March 14th 2023, the very first ceiling fan video filmed in my new workshop. This is a bit of an odd acquisition. I don’t normally buy cheap modern knockoff fans like this Hinode 4804A WH unless I’m gonna modify the heck out of them. I won’t by the way, and here’s why. I’ve been lending my MT. Edma Tornado ceiling fan to my parent’s store for more than a year now. I don’t really want it back as the plastics are deteriorated & the blades are unevenly yellowed. What I want to do with it is install it somewhere else which is currently using a Sekai 56” ceiling fan. I personally installed that Sekai 2 years ago I believe, and it’s recieved daily use on full blast ever since. The bearings on it are slowly seizing up & I don’t want the motor to cause any problems for that building. So when I swap out that Sekai with the MT. Edma, I plan on installing this odd thing in my parent’s store just because I don’t have any ceiling fans in my collection that I’m willing to lend. As for where I got this fan from. Well I bought it used from a fellow fan enthusiast who works in the ceiling fan business. It was priced at what this fan’s actually worth in my opinion, so I didn’t hesitate to get it. This fan arrived with a known issue that the fellow enthusiast has spoken of a couple times; a weak run capacitor. It used a 1.7uF capacitor which is surprisingly low, so I replaced it with a 1.8uF capacitor pulled out from a National industrial ceiling fan. The motor in this thing is very small & the windings look like they’re made with copper coated alumunium wires. That said, its full speed RPM is comparable to 90’s Nationals, and the airflow is also surprisingly good. The motor did get rather hot during my usual full speed full day test, but because the motor is of skeletal design, I’m not worried of any heat collecting inside the motor. Plus this fan will most likely be used on low all the time anyway. #CeilingFan