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(More customer reviews)The fan has been installed in the vaulted ceiling of a 15' by 15' room for 12 months. I bought the fan for its nice size, beautiful styling and Hunter's reputation for quality. Installation in an 18" downrod was straightforward, as Hunter advertises.
I've been disappointed with this product in several respects.
Within 2 weeks the fan chain started breaking due to the pressure of it having to make a 135 degree turn coming out of the light fixture housing before angling back to the hole in the light shade. The extreme vertical pull that you must make on the chain to control the fan speed has broken the chain repeatedly. I replaced the the chain and connectors with stronger chain and connectors but that only bought me a little time. The breaking continued. When the stub of chain coming out of the housing was quite short, I finally put the fan in the off position and stopped trying to use the fan all together. When I called the Hunter customer service number, the agents I talked to on a few occasions about this problem would ony advise me to uninstall the fan and mail it to their service center. They would look at it there and determine whether to replace it. It was apparent to me I was being given a carefully orchestrated response to a known design flaw. An electrician neighbor looked at it and saw no way to modify the pull chain "design" to get around the design problem. He suggested installing a fan/light remote or getting a new (and different) fan.
The light unit uses small candelabra bulbs under a frosted glass "bowl." With an oversized fan and the likelihood that customers would be using it in bigger rooms, I would have expected Hunter to enable better light output. At best, you get what I would call "umber light"... like you have during a nearly full eclipse. Though we have other light in the room, we often use the fan light alone when we are watching TV and "umber light" is adequate.
Then, about two weeks ago, the light unit, when turned on, began pulsating on and off in an absolutely regular rhythm about every second. The electrician neighbor has looked at it briefly and has scheduled a time to come take the unit down and see if he can see what's happening. He owns a business and has been in business for 30 years and says he has not seen this exact failure before.
I am online now, shopping for a replacement fan/light product. I am very disappointed with Hunter and will not forget the poor quality of this product and their failure to acknowledge the problem when I called them.
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