what uses more electricity, a cieling fan or a fan that goes on a table and turns?(the one with the lo-med-hi?

Answer 1

as far as I know they are both the same. If you turn off the ceiling fan when it's not in use then that saves electricity, just the same as unplugging your table fan. Just the same as unplugging all your appliances when not in use.

Answer 2

The usage of electricity in this case is determined by :
The size of the motor used in each fan.
The speed setting for each fan
The length of time the fan is running.

So if both motors are the same size and run at the same speed for the same period of time. Then both will consume an equal amount of electricity for this period.

Reduce any one of these variables and you reduce the cost to operate that particular fan. The fact that one is in the window and the other is on the ceiling makes no difference on how much electricity that fan will use.
You could just as well mount it inside a heat duct on a hot-air heating system and call it a blower and it will still consume the same amount of electricity for the same speed, and operating time as if it were mounted to the ceiling.

The size is not the physical size here, it is the electrical size, which is to say ' How much electricity is required to operate this fan'
One motor can appear smaller but actually be the larger of the two if it consumes more electricity to operate at a given speed for a defined period of time.

Answer 3

I'm an electrician. I would say the ceiling fan since it has a larger motor that would draw more amps. But in this case size matters, a small ceiling fan and a large oscillating fan might be pretty close. But at the end of the month on your electric bill, you're probably not going to notice much of a difference, we're talkin a dollar difference, and the ceiling fan is much more efficient

Answer 4

The ceiling fan will use more electricity due to having a larger motor than a table fan.

Answer 5

the ceiling fan