Step Needs Clarification
The wobble check works great when determining which blade(s) are suspect. Under Check Wobble would be nice if it recorded what the wobble is before adding weight clip. You have to watch the numbers and make an educated guess After testing each blade by installing the weight clip, the App asks for the distance from center of fan to tip of blade. The App then provides suspected blade number(s) and distance from tip of blade(s) towards center to install clip weights. My blade length is 29.25 inches. The App returned Blade #1, place clip weight 24.75 inches from tip back to center. This landed into the metal arm of the blade which has no surface to secure the clip or a permanent weight. I ended up testing wobble by moving the clip weight along various distances on blade #1. Final point to mount weights was 1/2 inch from blade #1 tip—the opposite end where the App called to place weight. I reduced the wobble from 13.55 to 1.73 Avg using three 3gram weights. Fan works great and knocking sound is gone.
Show more
Outstanding app
I’ve spent two hours trying to balance 24” down road ceiling fan, it was close but not perfect. I’ve started researching if there are any electronic devices that can help me, and found this app. All you need a sticky black dot and a measuring tape, it has balanced it perfectly on first try!!! Super impressive
Show more
Actually works
I install fans for a living and those eight bladed fans, balance, and saves a lot of time with this app. I just wish you can bump it up to like 10 blades homeowners are buying bigger and bigger fans lately with more blades on them I would pay for that update
Excellent!
Works exactly as advertised. Follow the instructions and it’ll tell you what to do. Very straightforward and precise! Thank you for this app!
Soooo damn good
Possibly the best 3 bucks you can spend…on anything.
Wow!!!
I won’t say it was easy… but I certainly wasn’t hard.
The results were astonishingly perfect!!!
You can do this.
The results were astonishingly perfect!!!
You can do this.
100% works
Went from 70 wobble to 0 with this app and a random 3 gram balance kit from Amazon - my eyes couldn’t believe it when I did the last step of placing the weights at the recommended distances, 0 wobble! Well worth the money
Focus on the blade with the lowest wobble.
Recommendations for our 5 blade fans were not effective.
I got them balanced by focusing on the blade that had the lowest initial score, gradually moving the weight inward, measuring wobble then moving again until I got a reading that increased and went back the other way.
I got them balanced by focusing on the blade that had the lowest initial score, gradually moving the weight inward, measuring wobble then moving again until I got a reading that increased and went back the other way.
Got to perfect
Our ceiling fan would make a clicking sound, from a slight wobble, at the highest setting. Followed the steps, put on the fan weights at where it recommended on two blades. It went to zero wobble!!! Best $2 I have spent in a while.
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!
Show more
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.
Show more
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!
Show more
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.
Show more
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.
Good except for one thing
It reduced wobble, but the app tells me to place weights that are so close to the center of the fan that the weights would have to be on the blade holders themselves which I cannot do. It would be great if I could specify the length of usable blade space where I can actually stick a weight on top of. Otherwise it’s very helpful
Show more
Way better than expected
I was a little skeptical of this, but was willing to accept a little wobble if I could improve it enough to not make noise. I went through the process twice and it is absolutely perfect. I ended up putting weights on multiple blades at various lengths. There is no way I would have gotten it that still through trial and error on my own. Saved me hours of work, a mental breakdown, and probably a still kinda wobbly fan.
Show more
Works great
Does exactly what it says it does.
Easy-Peasy
I installed a new ceiling fan this afternoon. It’s mounted on a vaulted ceiling and the fan blades only have around an inch of clearance. I should probably get a longer downrod, but the two previous fans were fine.
The new fan had the very slightest wobble. Not enough to really notice, but enough that the fan blades were tapping the ceiling.
I tried balancing it manually and spent too much time with no better results. Then I read about this app on Reddit.
It took around ten minutes using the app and got the exact best place to add weights on two blades. Now the fan is completely wobble free at all speeds.
Truly a great tool.
The new fan had the very slightest wobble. Not enough to really notice, but enough that the fan blades were tapping the ceiling.
I tried balancing it manually and spent too much time with no better results. Then I read about this app on Reddit.
It took around ten minutes using the app and got the exact best place to add weights on two blades. Now the fan is completely wobble free at all speeds.
Truly a great tool.
Show more
Works as Advertised
I was somewhat skeptical that it would work, but it was only CAD$3.99, so why not?
It worked perfectly. I placed the weights exactly where the program said, and the wobble disappeared completely. However, I did need 2 clips for testing, so I ordered a set from Amazon.
It worked perfectly. I placed the weights exactly where the program said, and the wobble disappeared completely. However, I did need 2 clips for testing, so I ordered a set from Amazon.
Now I want to balance all my fans!!
This app is the tool I needed to balance my wobbly fan that squeaked. It helped me find which blade needed the weight and where to place it. I like its objective measurement. I started with a wobble score of 30 and ended with 2.5. To my eye, it’s perfectly still at full speed. A few tips, put the camera on a step ladder for consistency. I used small paper binder clips from my office. I numbered the tops of my fan blades with a magic marker.
Show more
