1/34 This started out as a much shorter thread about a related topic, but Something Happened and now it's a #LifeHack#instructional thread on keeping your house comfortable and saving #money and the #environment, through the magic of air movement. It's also timely, what with it being the start of the northern-hemisphere summer and southern-hemisphere winter.
11/34 Cheap / "traditional" ceiling fans also use an electric motor design known as a "shaded pole" motor. These are used because they're cheap to make, and simple (and therefore cheap) to speed-control, by just placing a capacitor of varying size in the circuit.