What is the difference when a fan goes clockwise or counter clockwise? What does each direction do?

Question

Which direction does what?

Answer 1

Want to cool the house down? Open the windows and make the fan pull air up and the cool air will start to come in as you turn it on and you will fell the difference fast. Cheep fix to get old smells out of the house or as my wife says" those stinker smells" good luck...

Answer 2

I have my fan move counter-clockwise in the summer when I use my air conditioner. The fan cools the room. In the winter I sometimes change the direction to clockwise when my central heat is on. There the fan warms the room. You want different air temps to move different directions (up / down). Check it out yourself.

Answer 3

interior the wintry climate, Set the fan to run counterclockwise (opposite). this might redirect the warmth air from the ceiling and down the partitions and into the residing area the place the human beings actual are. In a house, you may run the fan at a low velocity so as which you do no longer actual cool the warmth air which you're moving downward. in case you have a intense ceiling, it is recommended to boost the fan velocity so as that the warmth air will attain the residing area as long because of the fact the fan velocity does not create an undesirable downdraft on the human beings under. interior the summertime, in rooms of favourite height (8 - 10 feet), you will desire to function your fan so as that it turns clockwise, inflicting a extra directed downdraft, rather with the fan working rather quicker. This reasons a wind-relax result because of the fact the floor evaporates easy quantities of water from the sweat glands and thereby provides cooling for the duration of the floor's floor. in spite of the undeniable fact that, the air is in simple terms moved yet no longer cooled! .

Answer 4

Generally you run your ceiling fan clockwise in summer to blow air down at you to help cool you. In the winter, you run the fan counter clockwise to blow the air up and bring the hot air at the ceiling level back down into the room without the direct draft on you.

Answer 5

It depends on the direction that the leading edge of the blade is facing.

With the leading edge of the blade on the top - this pushes air downward and creates a cooling effect when you are under the fan. The correct way to run the fan in Spring, Summer and Fall or the hotter months.

With the leading edge of the blade on the bottom - this pushes air up towards ceiling and outwards to the walls, pushing the warmer air down the perimeter walls and to floor helping maintain a warmer room temperature. Mainly used during the Winter or colder months.

This is my version of Ceiling Fan 101. Hope this helped you.

Answer 6

Depends on the way the blades are set. Most are conventional... study them carefully. When under the fan, one way (turning at a fast speed) you will feel the fan pressing air down onto you, this is the 'summer' setting. Direct air cools you by drying the sweat molecules from you and your exposed skin. The opposite direction at a high rate of speed will offer very little percievable air flow at all. This is drawing air up into the fan and away from the centre of the room. Since heat rises, the heat (near roof level) is forced from underneath by cold air drawn into the fan in the centre of the room to flow down the walls and curl around the walls. This is indirect forced airflow that pushes heat near the ceiling out to the edges and down the walls and eventually comes from below. Cold air is drawn up and heated while displacing the warmer air. One way makes you happy in the summer, one way in the winter. Simple.

Answer 7

If this is a ceiling fan.... if it goes clockwise it blows the air down if you change it and make it go the opposite direction it is supposedly pulling the air up.

Answer 8

One direction pushes air, the other pulls it out.
For instance an attic fan pulls air from the house out the attic vent.
A floor fan pushes air toward you.
both fans move air, but installed incorrectly ( as in an exhaust,) the fan works improperly.
Once had an exhaust fan motor go bad. replaced it with identically numbered motors from Sears, three times, and all 3 motors turned the wrong way. They could be mounted only one way.! had to buy new exhaust unit ( from someone else, not Sears)

Answer 9

When it is turning in one direction, it is pushing the air down. You should use this setting during the fall and winter, because you want to force the warm air down from the ceiling (because warm air rises). It the spring and summer, you want the fan drawing the cool air up from the floor (because cool air sinks). Even though it feels good to have the air blow on you during the summer, it will actually make the room cooler to have the fan drawing up the cool air.

Answer 10

One pulls the air up and the other pushes the air down.