Works great
This way works unbelievably well if you pay close attention to the instructions. In my case, my fan had a dark round thumbscrew that held the light on. By just turning the light on to a low light setting the phone was able to accurately track the center of the wobbling fan and acquire accurate readouts. The computed results were spot on -well done!
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Fixed my vintage Hunter
I picked up an older Hunter ceiling fan from my local Re-store. It had a pretty bad wobble due to the restore mishandling it. It’s very important to follow the preparation steps as this identified that one of the blade irons was not only bent but twisted causing the pitch and blade height to be off. After fixing that, I ran the routine in the app which got the wobble out completely on the first try.
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Time Saver
New ceiling fan had a shimmy-shake thing going on after install. Before breaking out the food scale, disassembling the blades and measuring each one, thought I’d try this optical balancing app out. It worked perfectly! Went from 20.7 units out of balance to zero/one (barely visible wobble). Aces!
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Tedious but worthwhile
I read the poor reviews and purchased anyway and am extremely happy with the results.
Instructions are detailed and I needed to follow them precisely. The app DOES work with sloped ceilings - when it says blades should be the same distance from the ceiling and your ceiling is sloped or uneven simply spin each blade to the same spot before measuring distance from ceiling.
Buy a balancing kit that includes 3 gram weights not 5 gram for better precision.
If the bottom center of the fan spins along with the blades then your “black dot on neutral color painters tape “ must be exactly in the center so it doesn’t move when slowly spinning the fan.
Be sure to use the 3gram clips with the 3gram weights or the 5gram clips with the 5gram weights.
Do all this and the app works beautifully.
Instructions are detailed and I needed to follow them precisely. The app DOES work with sloped ceilings - when it says blades should be the same distance from the ceiling and your ceiling is sloped or uneven simply spin each blade to the same spot before measuring distance from ceiling.
Buy a balancing kit that includes 3 gram weights not 5 gram for better precision.
If the bottom center of the fan spins along with the blades then your “black dot on neutral color painters tape “ must be exactly in the center so it doesn’t move when slowly spinning the fan.
Be sure to use the 3gram clips with the 3gram weights or the 5gram clips with the 5gram weights.
Do all this and the app works beautifully.
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Works as advertised.
I need to get another set of weights as I only had two, but, I got rid of even a hint of wobble all the way up to full speed with my test set. Worth the cost. Follow the instructions exactly and don’t screw around and it works.
