Summer = clockwise Winter = counter-clockwise
When a room is hot it is better to have the ceiling fan turned counter clockwise. This forces the air to blow down. In the winter the fan should turn clockwise to keep the warm air higher.
The ceiling fan was invented in the 1860s by American inventor Philip Diehl. He adapted the design of the popular mechanical fan to be mounted on the ceiling, providing a more efficient way to circulate air in a room.
An electric ceiling fan was invented by the man who had engineered the electric motor used in the first Singer sewing machines, Philip Diehl. In 1882 he adapted that motor for use in a ceiling-mounted fan.
In a hot room, you want heat to be pulled up to the ceiling, then distributed as cooler air around the room. You would set your ceiling fan to rotate clockwise to do this.
In order to cool a room with a ceiling fan, the fan blades should rotate counterclockwise to create a downdraft of cool air. This direction helps create a wind-chill effect, making you feel cooler without changing the room temperature.
An air conditioner cools the air faster than a ceiling fan. Air conditioners work by removing heat from the air, whereas ceiling fans only create a breeze that feels cool against the skin through the wind-chill effect.
To bring cool air from the 1st floor to the 2nd floor, you should set the ceiling fan to rotate counterclockwise when looking up at it. This helps push the cooler air upwards towards the 2nd floor.
With a typical fan, run the fan counter-clockwise in the summer, and in the winter, run the fan clockwise at a low speed. In the summer, blow the air down to directly cool you. If you have a large room, and you are on the outside of the room, you may want to run the fan in the opposite direction. In the winter, blow the air up on slow to pull the cool air up, mixing the cool air with the warm air at the ceiling, and pushing the air across the ceiling to the walls, then coming down the walls, and minimizing wind chill.
If your air and heating vents are blowing from the ceiling, your ceiling fan should blow air downward to help circulate the air in the room. This can help distribute the heated or cooled air more efficiently and create a more comfortable environment.
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Depends on how the blades are angled. In winter, you want it to blow the warm air off the ceiling, to the floor. In summer, you want it to pull the cool air upwards.
The connecting rod should be from eight to ten inches.
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A 36" fan should be adequate. Mount it at least a foot from the ceiling (18" is better) and run it reversed, to draw the cool air up from the floor and spread it around the room. That will also reduce drafts and dust.
Summer = clockwise Winter = counter-clockwise
A single ceiling fan cannot cool an entire large home. However there are whole home fans which can achieve this.