Hunter Original Question and a few others

[volsboy1]

I have a ton of ceiling fans.I have three Hunter Originals two of them are that Taiwan made junk one hums really bad and

the other just does not have any power at all.In the kitchen I have a Casablanca Panama which has a ton of power

it starts in low and then goes up higher in speed.I ordered another Casablanca and it sucks bad and I mean bad and it was not a

cheap fan it has that motor that most ceiling fans have where my old one the motor comes out on top.I have one more Hunter

that is a 1993 model and it is like a hurricane on high and medium is really fast also but low the blades barley move.I was wondering

if I can use a rheostat switch with that old Hunter the motor coils  surround the flywheel on it.We have a 3 blade Casablanca

fan at the farm and need another one.They have one but it's nothing like the Le'Grand 62 we have which I have found a pic of.The one

they have now was a Hunter cause that motor is there Air-max motor.Has Casablanca sold out to Hunter?

http://www.casablancafanco.com/Products/Ceiling_Fans/Tribeca_-_59501/

 

[mattl]

I have a Hunter original from the late 70's, built like a tank.  You do have to refill the oil reservoir maybe every decade.  It is on a full range speed control and works fine.  At this point I have no idea where to find a full range control. all I see are three speed versions.  From looking at the box of a new Hunter Original it seems to be very energy efficient, if I recall it uses 8 watts on low speed.

 

Mine is unidirectional, and for a time Hunter offered reversible irons.  Instead of reversing the motor rotation you changed the tilt of the blades.  Didn't buy them back when, called Hunter looking for them and was laughed at.   Mine usually runs 24/7 most of the winter to circulate the heat that rises in my family room with a cathedral ceiling.

 

[hydralique]

I've been renovating a house for my parents. The previous owner had installed a Hunter fan in one of the bedrooms. What a POS! Each revolution it made came with a nasty grinding noise, but the worst was the control system: no matter what chain you pulled the fan kept going, it had no provision to use the light without the fan. I assumed it was a cheap knock-off but when I finally took it down and hauled it to the trash was surprised it was a real Hunter. Needless to say none of the new fans that will be installed throughout the house will be Hunters. I've also rewired the wall switches in rooms with fans so that there will be separate switches for the light and fan functions and thus no need to meddle with chains for normal operation.

 

[cfz2882]

"old skool"hunter fan

I have a hunter fan from 1985 that I am going to install soon-made by robbins@meyers in usa,it's motor is brass plated cast iron and it is very heavy!motor is "shaded pole"design so can only run one direction-it has reversable blade irons like those mentioned upthread.

 

[volsboy1]

Hunter Original fans run forever 24/7 and never have a problem.There is four on our front porch at the farm and my Grandad

put those up in the 50s and they were always on and never a problem and still work.When they stopped making the Original

here and went to Taiwan they shrunk the motor bad and even the cast iron does not fit up right.The fan all though they call it

the most powerful fan you can get is not true.They kept the Oil-bath part but the motor is a Pan-cake motor without clothes

so you could see the stator part.When I bought the first one and it hummed. I called Hunter and they sent me a new one no

questions asked.It is not even close to the power of the old one and wobbles even after I balanced it.It has ran 24-7 for about two

years when it started to slow down I touched it and it was very hot.There is oil in it so that is not it.I put up the ugly white old one

that has been collecting dust and put it up and turned it on and they don't make them like that no more.This thing does not even

wobble or anything and medium is high when you compare the old to new.The motor on the old uses 2+ Amps and the energy star

is a 1 Amp motor.High is way to fast and so is medium and low is for looks cause it don't move air.