On Fri, 25 May 2018 09:05:22 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 5/25/2018 8:11 AM, Gary wrote:
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>> Why can you turn on your ceiling fan but not the light
>> accidently?
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>It would certainly **** off my wife if she was sleeping.

A ceiling fan in a bedroom would **** me off too... actually a fan in
any room blowing on me would **** me off. The only way a ceiling fan
wouldn't annoy me is if it operated in reverse rotation.
In our first house we didn't have A/C but we installed a large attic
fan in the hallway, it operated on exhaust mode only, cooled off the
entire house in the evening quickly but created no draft blowing on
us. Before we had the attic fan we had two window fans that also
operated on exhaust, no draft. Now with central air the only fans we
have is the exhaust fan over the stove and an oscilating pedestil fan
in the basement. We don't air condition the basement so in warm
weather it becomes humid so we have a dehumidifier, On very humid
days we turn on that fan to help the dehumidifier operate more
efficiently.
Often when people buy central air they allow the installer to talk
them into an over sized unit, a big mistake. The installer makes more
money because the larger unit costs more but then it doesn't run long
enough to remove the humidity... the house cools down quickly, then
the house is cool but dank. The more important job of any air
conditioner, even a window unit, is humidity removal, next is air
filtration, last is cooling rate.