Westinghouse Lighting 7232800 Origami Indoor Ceiling Fan

3 reviews for Westinghouse Lighting 7232800 Origami Indoor Ceiling Fan

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Amazon Customer – February 20, 2023

   We needed this size fan because we have loft beds and regular size fans get too close to the beds and ladders.Pros: easy to install. I have never installed a ceiling fan and I made it through installing a lot of it by myself.Very quiet.Great output.Cons:The manual. There is no equipment list with the instructions so for some steps I was mainly consulting the pictures. The diagrams were good enough that I could do this, but it still would have been nice to have an equipment list. For instance, I assumed the sound dampening screws were in a separate bag and, in fact they were still screwed into the motor base. It was easy enough to figure out, but a lot of people like to inventory before they start and might think pieces are missing.*A note on wiring: if you are a novice like me, make sure that you make note of how things were connected. I got to the step about whether it was pull chain wired or wall controlled wired and that was confusing until I remembered that one of the wire nuts I took apart to remove the old fan had both a blue and black wire connected.The fan is perfect, doesn’t wobble, doesn’t make any noise whatsoever and is really nice looking. And I feel proud that we could get it done ourselves.
   
   

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   akbear – February 20, 2023

   I do question the wattage on this. The box and description says it’s 31 watts (not including whatever size light bulb is used), but the fan itself is marked 50 watts. If there is something they added to the fan to limit power consumption, I suppose it is a possibility as the instructions do indicate that there is an installed device that limits the total power consumption should too high of a wattage bulb be used or a surge is experienced, but that would just be a guess.As for would this fan be compatible with a remote, the instructions say in capital letters not to use a solid state speed control (had that have been indicated in the product description I wouldn’t have wasted $30 on one, besides, there is no room in the canopy for one). Also note, the instructions show this being mounted with a flush mount pan box. Unlike a carriage light, or most fixtures, there is no room for this either, the bracket that holds the fan is pretty much flush with the top of the canopy.I’d be apt to give it five stars, except for a few minor details I can live with. The glass dome is held on by pressure springs that snap into the groove at the top of the globe instead of being secured with screws, the light socket could have been mounted vertically to better utilise the space (instead of horizontally) which would have allowed for longer bulbs (there may not be room for some candelabra based cfl or lcd alternatives to the provided short globe incandescent bulb), the direction switch is mounted horizontally, which is not very intuitive (one must try the fan and see if it’s blowing in the desired direction, then wait for it to stop before restarting it in the other), and at least in my case, the fan wobbles rather much on high (at least one of the blades is out of line with the others, not a weight balancing issue), on medium and low it’s very minimal but still does affect the sound (yet it’s still a rather quiet fan compared to small desk or floor fan and circulates rather broadly rather than so directional).
   

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Alex V – February 20, 2023

   I haven’t installed this fan yet, but reading the instructions convinced me that I got the right one. The blades are dark on one side and light on the other, so you can choose which best matches your decor. The top-most piece is open on one side so you can wire it after it’s mounted to the ceiling – I can’t tell you how many fixtures I’ve held in place with string or whatever, while I wired them and then mounted them in place. This seems to be a trend lately: A few months ago I changed an outside light that came with a special plastic strip to hold the unit while I wired it and then slipped off, allowing it to be permanently mounted. (This is hard to explain, but if you are a DIY-er, you probably know what I mean!) Finally, the down-tube will hang at an angle, if necessary, so the fan blades are horizontal even if the ceiling is at an angle. (If it’s too much of an angle, you might need a longer one, available at their website.)Overall, I got the impression that this unit was designed to be installed by a competent homeowner. After twenty years in one home, I’ve added, changed and modified many ceiling fans and lighting fixtures. This is a good one – highly recommended.Post Installation Update: I am still very glad I got this fan. More to the point, my wife thinks it’s “beautiful!” (Hey, that’s what all this is about, right?)The bulb was dead on arrival, but I planned to replace it with an LED anyway. The black faces of the blades had very tiny nicks in two places. Not a problem since I wanted the lighter side facing downward anyway. Had I wanted the dark side down, I’d just touch those spots with a black felt tip – that’s how small a nick it is.My ceiling’s slope was a concern. It measures at about 15 degrees. (Yes, I’ve actually got such a tool.) The upper edge of the fan blades are just over five inches below the lower side of the ceiling. I was worried that I would get it mounted and the blades would hit the ceiling, requiring me to buy the long down tube. More importantly, I would have to take the whole thing apart, replace the tube and put it all back together again – and then mount it again. Not necessary in my case.I turned off the power and wired the black (fan) and blue (light) to the ceiling’s black wire, and then white to white. I closed it all up, flipped the wall switch ON and then controlled the light and fan speed (3-2-1-OFF in rotation, like most ceiling fans) until the air flow was down (slide switch on the ceiling cover) and at a nice speed. Now all we have to do is turn it on or off via the wall switch. And if the speed/light ever needs adjustment, there are two chains, one with a fan symbol on it and another with a light bulb on it.This is so cool that I wish I could claim some part of the design. If you’ve got a small (mine is 12×8) bedroom-turned-office, this is absolutely perfect!