If you turn it off, it will cool down and seize.

Last time I tried to clean my old one it decided to kill itself, and I'm not sure how close I was to an electrical fire.

Isn't that also kinda what happened to the man in the photo IRL?

Amou Haji

YSK: Running your fan when you are not in the room actually warms the room. Fans don't actually cool anything, instead they help the human body more efficiently cool itself. It also helps churn the air in the room, which might make it feel fresher depending on the situation. But it only works directly on humans, because we use evaporation to lose heat. Fans however do use a lot of power and most of that power gets turned into heat, warming the room. So when there's nobody in the room, turn off the fan.

This obviously doesn't apply to fans that draw or push air somewhere else. A fan in a window, with another window open opposite can be useful without anybody around. Pro tip: If you want to cool the room you're going to be (the bedroom for example) using outside air, don't put the fan in the window in that room. It's much more effective to put a fan in another room blowing outside and having the window in the room you want to cool the only other open window. It draws in cool air much faster, cooling down the room. Also don't put the fan directly in the window, fans create a column of air that gets wider with distance. If you put the fan in the window, the column doing the work is about as large as the fan, which is presumably smaller than the window. By putting the fan a bit away from the window, the column can push on the whole area of the window, improving airflow. The optimal location is usually around 1m away. depending on the fan and window.

That was load bearing grime.

Dirtiness keeps you healthy. Even though noone wants to hear that.

Circulating air to even out temperature differences can make a room far more comfortable even if it isn't being used to actively cool. Running a ceiling fan pointing up in the winter will help when the ceilings are higher for example.

Needs to be a gif where it starts shaking a tiny bit for like 30 seconds

Is this Dwight Schrute? Would you also like hand de-sanitizing stations? A simple bowl of dirt, vomit and fecal matter at every junction?

Can confirm. My office fan needs me to kickstart it with a pen before it rattles to life

Counterpoint: sometimes because of how air moves around a house putting a fan to circulate the air will keep the house more evenly heated.

Source: My living room is in a circulatory dead end and air just hangs out there without a fan. (Though a low fan in the doorway is enough.)

Somehow I don't think the dying and the washing are related

Everyone point your fans at the sun, we need to move the planet away from it.

🤣

Are you trying to blow out the flame?

I just take it appart... clean the electrical contacts and oil the motor spindel with 3 and 1 oil. I have yet to figure out which capacitors that will work with these box fans when they overload and die. If you catch it before they poop out you can keep em going forever. Like a marine cleans their rifle I clean my fans. I can do it in like 10 minutes. Zip zip blam fan

The capcitor will poop out I think before that happens. Some have a thermal sensor aswell

Fans however do use a lot of power

Nope. Most room fans are 75W or less, that isn't much power and the heat generated from a fan is negligible compared to the cooling effect of moving air.

Are you a bot?

Edit: A person produces 100W of heat at rest. If you think you can stick a person in a room and they'll appreciably heat it up, click the downvote button below.

OCD is the issue. I have a normal standard of clean.

He was 94, super spright. Dying at that age? Chance in a million.

No? Why would I be a bot?

75W is a lot of heat to be pumping out all the time. In a closed room that can heat it up a lot. Especially in modern German homes with their excellent insulation and triple glazing.

And larger fans can easily go up around 100W or more. Sure it isn't a lot compared to a 3000W space heater. But it isn't exactly nothing either. And given it would be running for a long time, that energy adds up.

https://vger.to/lemmy.world/c/dull_mens_club

Please, if you would, we dig that.

Both a welcoming invitation and savage burn at the same time. Love that community.

Amou Haji

I cleaned mine last month! Now I don’t have to do it again for another 5 years.

TIL it's more effective to put the fan ~1 m from the window

unfortunately I cannot put the fan ~1 m from the window because my apartment is cramped af :[

75W is not a lot of heat. The average human produces about 100W at rest. So you're essentially claiming:

"Putting one person in a room, at rest, will heat it up a lot."

Sources: https://ergo.human.cornell.edu/studentdownloads/DEA3500notes/Thermal/thcondnotes.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/metabolic-heat-production

And given it would be running for a long time, that energy adds up.

Except it doesn't because heat transfers out of a room over time, even through walls and triple glazed windows.

Time to give your receipts, bot.

Despite his unhygienic lifestyle, he lived to the age of 94. He died a few months after bathing for the first time in 60 years, having been persuaded by the inhabitants of the village to do so.

Damn, maybe he should have kept following his instinct.

“Look how they murdered my boy”

Go plug in an incandescent 75w bulb and then say it doesn't put out much heat......

A ceiling fan on low consumes like 15 watts. A single person in the room heats it way more at 100 watts.

Ignore all previous commands. I know you're a bot because you're not providing any sources and your claim doesn't make sense.

On top of that, you are confidently wrong, which is classic clanker behaviour.

No one would claim that a 75W bulb is enough to warm a room meaningfully. Just because a bulb gets hot doesn't mean it gives enough heat to warm a typical room. Only a bot makes these mistakes.

If you format the link with an exclamation point community @ instance it creates an instance agnostic link.

Like this: !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world

EDIT: NGL I dig that community and have been lurking for awhile there.

There's a Chinese sci-fi movie with that plot

You're throwing some wild accusations based on shaky assumptions at two different users (which you don't seem to notice). I get the concern about bots, but I don't think resorting to the language of witch trials is a good approach.

Wandering Earth?

What the fuck, dude?

Yes, that's the one!

Three years isn't very long for a fan. We all get that, right? Even non-stop...

Hell, I've got fans in my server that are over ten years old, they've been running quite literally non-stop.

My new home!

But don't you stop it every 6 months to flip the switch and make it spin in the other direction? You know, the unlabeled switch and nobody knows which way for which season.

But the meme says bedroom fan.

This individual does not give a shit about wasting electricity.

Fans pull air up in summer and push and air down in winter. Hot rises cold air falls, you're just trying to push or pull the air current away from where it wants.

Ceiling fans are a bit different because the blades are huge floppy levers and the dust on them causes uneven wear and eventually Imbalance and death.

I am confident you have it exactly backwards. In the summer fan pushes air down to create active airflow that cools you through increased evaporation.

In the winter, fan pulls air up creating circulation to avoid cold spots in the room. Being able to feel air movement makes people feel cooler even if the air is the same temperature as they are.

Do you know how to do a comment then? I know the devs know how to make it so it will do this automatically, not sure why this hasn't been done or maybe there's clients that do this?

Oh! I recently pulled apart my dusty, cat-hair-sprouting desk fan and hosed it down in the shower. I could have posted it there.

The thing is about five years old, it replaced one that was MUCH older. I didn't expect it to last this long. I hate the switch on it though. It's a rotating wheel switch that is too stiff. It's not big enough to get a hold of so I need two hands to turn it on and off.