2007-07-18 13:46:18 · 16 answers · asked by ? 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
i thought clockwise..but everyone seems to be sure it's counter clockwise
2007-07-18 13:49:51 · answer #1 · answered by [insomniac] 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the Northern Hemisphere it is counter clockwise to balance the coriolis effect.
Actually, fans come with a forward and a reverse setting. When you click it to 'forward', the fan blows the air down. Standing under the fan, you will feel a breeze. This is the SUMMER (down) setting to create a wind-chill effect as the air moves against your skin and cools you.
When you click it to 'reverse', the fan reverses rotation and blows the air up. Now, when you stand under the fan, you won't feel a breeze. This is the WINTER (up) setting. Hot air rises and a ceiling fan, running in reverse, gently mixes the air.
If it is clockwise or counter clockwise depends upon the design of the cutting edge of the blade. That is, is the end of the blade set like this "/" or "\". Direction of rotation must also be stated relative to the floor or ceiling -- hard to get it communicated correctly. Just set the fan with the correct UP/DOWN air flow and you will have it right.
2007-07-18 13:50:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
interior the iciness, Set the fan to run counterclockwise (opposite). this could redirect the warmth air from the ceiling and down the partitions and into the residing area the place the folk definitely are. In a house, you may run the fan at a low velocity so as which you do no longer definitely cool the warmth air which you're shifting downward. in case you have a severe ceiling, you will desire to to extend 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 folk below. interior the summertime, in rooms of favourite top (8 - 10 ft), you may perform your fan so as that it turns clockwise, inflicting a extra directed downdraft, particularly with the fan working fairly swifter. This motives a wind-chill result because of the fact the floor evaporates reasonable quantities of water from the sweat glands and thereby aspects cooling in the process the floor's floor. although, the air is barely moved yet no longer cooled! .
2016-12-10 16:13:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, my cielin fan is turning counter clockwise, at the moment...
2007-07-19 11:31:15 · answer #4 · answered by chris j 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
counter clockwise but some fans may spin clockwise. My friend Jared has a fan that spins clockwise.
2007-07-18 13:50:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a floor fan will spin clockwise. (i just checked)
a ceiling fan will spin counter clockwise in summer and if you flip the button, clockwise in winter.
2007-07-18 14:13:54 · answer #6 · answered by frostbite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Counter in sumer clockwise in winter.
2007-07-18 13:53:18 · answer #7 · answered by canivieu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
counter clockwise
2007-07-18 13:48:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
counter clockwise
2007-07-18 13:48:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on which way you are looking at it from in front or from behind, and for celing fans if you are looking up at it during the summer it should be going counter clock and winter clock, but if you looking at it from the ceilings point of veiw during the summer its going clock wise, and durring the winter its going counter clockwise
2007-07-18 13:53:25 · answer #10 · answered by eclipsefreak 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋