Some heroes

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • honesthenery@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • Vathsade@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      vger.to/lemmy.world/c/dull_mens_club

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Thorry@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.)

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  • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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 :[

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It can be beneficial when combined with some other (thermostat controlled) heating or cooling.

    The fan circulates air in the room, making the temperature of the air in the room more uniform, and giving the heating/cooling device’s thermostat a better sense of the room’s actual temperature.

    In a room with an air conditioner and a poorly placed thermostat, a fan could be helping the room stay cooler.

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    • Thorry@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Running an air conditioner when nobody is in the room? Sounds like a true American tradition

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  • Shrubbery@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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?

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    • Thorry@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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 isolation 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.

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  • OrganicMustard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you trying to blow out the flame?

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think in the grand scheme of things this would only work by slowly stripping the atmosphere but I thought the plan was to use the combined reaction force part of an action-reaction pair to slowly push Earth farther away from the son.

      Sort of a decentralized propeller engine idea.

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  • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • 1Malayali@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wandering Earth?

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  • honesthenery@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    🤣

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• Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • danekrae@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was load bearing grime.

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    • Mucki@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • honesthenery@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love taking peoples box fans and cleaning them. It’s not even hard, people just don’t do it and let it suffer.

  I meant to say “taking apart”, but I’m leaving it that way because it’s funnier.

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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • quadrant5835@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But the meme says bedroom fan.

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Amou Haji

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  • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Look how they murdered my boy”

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• MsPenguinette@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This individual does not give a shit about wasting electricity.

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The fan that the builder installed in my parents living room when the house was built nearly 45 years ago is still running, and is nearly silent even at full speed.
      It has been running for the majority of its life and spends all but 3 months of the year at full speed.

      Ceiling fans wear out only because fan manufacturers realized that they were never going to stay in business if they didn’t make them fail.

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