Will this drive me nuts??

[83trekker]

I have a bank of fluorescents running along the middle of my roof, in between to of the banks I have a box set up for a ceiling fan so I can keep my heat down to the ground. With the fan going I am going to have a shadow flickering below. Anybody else have something like this set up? Does it drive you crazy or is it not noticeable? I also read somewhere you shouldn’t have a fan below fluorescent lights for some humming reason or something, anybody heard of this?

Thanks

 

[Rusty32]

I have one right under a 4 bulb fluresant light and i dont notice any flicker or humming

 

[boiler7904]

Don't know about the humming but the strobing effect of a fan under a light drives me nuts. I'd do what I could to change the layout.

 

[83trekker]

I thought so just not sure how to do it especially how everythings already wired and drywalled in.

 

[logical]

If you have a good layout of lights, no given area of the shop or floor is hit by just one light alone. You shouldn't see much if any of a strobe effect unless your grid of lights is spread out way too much. I see shadows of mine on the upper walls and other stuff up high but not on the floor when all the lights are on. I have 12.5' ceilings with lights flush mounted and a few fans at about 10" height.

 

[i12flytoday]

For what it's worth... I didn't think mine would bother me at all... but it did. It drove me nuts to much that I tried about 5 different locations and different ways to do it. Then my neighbor made me feel like an idiot when he brought me two 24" downtubes. This lowered the fans enough that the shadow / flickering became non-existent, and this is with two fans at 60" each.

I also relocated two of my lights and added two more so that they would be more to the sides of the fans without losing light. This meant that I always had light from one of two lights on all sides of the fan blades so that as the blade passed beneath the light, the shadow was washed out by the other lights.

4' shoplights are cheap now, I think $7-8 at Home Cheapo. Might be worth giving it a try.

$.02

Wade

 

[Franz©]

According to LN it depends only on the distance between you and nuts. Sha claims I'm a short putt, 9 iron shot at best if she had to drive into the wind.
Your situation may be different.

 

[russlaferrera]

I have a bank of fluorescents running along the middle of my roof, in between to of the banks I have a box set up for a ceiling fan so I can keep my heat down to the ground. With the fan going I am going to have a shadow flickering below. Anybody else have something like this set up? Does it drive you crazy or is it not noticeable? I also read somewhere you shouldn’t have a fan below fluorescent lights for some humming reason or something, anybody heard of this?

Thanks

I understand the question. I do not understand the light layout. One bank is in the middle of the roof... OK... In between to (or two) of the banks, I have a fan. Lost me there. Are there more lights?

 

[83trekker]

Can you post pics straight off of the computer?Be better to show how my set up is.

 

[Yotaforce]

Turn the fan on high.

 

[Coach James]

Do you mean the lights are in the middle of the ceiling?

 

[83trekker]

http://www.4wheeler.ca/index.php?showtopic=35354
heres a pic to help show how its setup.

 

[rickairmedic]

Trecker cant get to that link unless your a member there just copy it back to your computer them post it here .

Rick

 

[Vicegrip]

install clear blades.

 

[83trekker]

Trecker cant get to that link unless your a member there just copy it back to your computer them post it here .

Rick

how? im not sure how to do i.

 

[rickairmedic]

Ok go to your link and right click on the picture and click save as Take note as to where the picture is going in your computer if its one I want to send back out I usually save it to my desk top. Ok from there come back here and at the bottom left of this thread will be the option to reply click on that then write something in the box below the reply box you will see a box marked additional options inside that box will be a button MANAGE ATTACHMENTS click on that it will open another screen with several boxes with browse buttons next to them click on one of the browse buttons it will open your computer then find the pick pretty much point and click from there follow directions once you have the pic saved click upload back in the popup box where you hit browse once it is loaded scroll down the main page slightly and you will see a second submit reply buttton click on that and your picture should be in your post .

Rick

 

[83trekker]

I cannot believe i didnt see that down there! Doh!

Heres my setup but everything is drywalled and insualted now.

 

[i12flytoday]

I cannot believe i didnt see that down there! Doh!

Heres my setup but everything is drywalled and insualted now.

I don't see why you would have a problem installing the fans if they are installed between the banks of lights.

Wade

 

[83trekker]

Thats what I was trying to confirm with somebody if its gonna make a flickering or not, since its not in front of just one light but a 1/4 of each light.

 

[JRGSPE73]

So a pirate walks into a bar, and he's got a steering wheel attached to the front of his pants. The bartender looks at him and says "Hey, why in the hell do you have a steering wheel on your crotch?" The pirate looks back at him and says "Gaaaaaarrrr...it's drivin' me nuts!"

Sorry...saw the title of this thread and just couldn't resist. I'm easily amused, what can i say? Thanks to me, you're all now just a little bit dumber. Continue on with your lives

 

[TNToy]

Install the fan without any downtubes, so that it's tight to the ceiling.

Or else do like already suggested, and hang it down low enough to get rid of the flicker that way.

 

[russlaferrera]

Install the fan without any downtubes, so that it's tight to the ceiling.

Or else do like already suggested, and hang it down low enough to get rid of the flicker that way.

1. You should have enough of light to eliminate any flickering.

2. From your pictures it looks like you smoke, or there is paranormal activity.

 

[83trekker]

1. You should have enough of light to eliminate any flickering.

2. From your pictures it looks like you smoke, or there is paranormal activity.

I did smoke bought quit 3 months agao

thats funny about the "paranormal activity" second person to say that.


I dont know if i can mount it tight to the roof as my roof slopes wach way with the trusses.

 

[mt_spiffy]

Any time you have fan blades near light fixtures, you will have a "strobe effect" but in this case I'm pretty sure it will be insignificant.

First of all, with 8' and longer fluorescent fixtures, they distribute light very well so the effect is not nearly as noticable as, say, a recessed fixture. Second of all, as someone already mentioned, as long as the fan has a downrod of significant length the blades will be far enough away from the fixtures. Lastly, you have a ton of light. You're good.