Does a ceiling fan use a lot of electricity?
Question:More than an ac?
Answers:
NO! Absolutely not.
A ceiling fan uses btween 15-90 watts.
36"=55watts on high/48"=75 watts on high/52"=90 watts on high.
If you have window a/c units, they use 500-1400 watts.
A room sized AC uses about 1400 watts, central systems use
aprox. 5000 watts and a large ceiling fan requires about 50 watts on high speed.
Ceiling fans are extremely efficient and can cost as little as 2 or 3 cents per hour to operate. Compare this to about 50 cents per hour for central air and you can see there is a lot of money to be saved by using ceiling fans. Of course these numbers will vary depending on your location, but it puts the proportonal cost of running air conditioning versus ceiling fans into perspective.
Certainly you will save the most money if you do not run your central air at all, and instead run a ceiling fan in the rooms in which you spend your time. However, this is not always a practical solution since ceiling fans do not actually reduce the temperature in your home, they only give you a wind chill effect if you are in their close proximity. So in very warm climates, using just your ceiling fans may not give you the comfort level you are used to with air conditioning. If you don't have air conditioning, ceiling fans will at least give you a good level of relief...particularly if you open some windows in your house to allow for maximum air circulation.
The ideal solution for saving energy with ceiling fans while maintaining your maximum comfort level, is to operate your central air and ceiling fans at the same time. The trick is to raise your central air thermostat by 10 degrees. What you will find is that your comfort level remains the same, but your air conditioner runs up to half as much...which is where you will pick up a substantial savings on your cooling bills.
However, before you go running off to by ceiling fans for every room in your house, it is important to know that there are vast differences between ceiling fans...they are not all created alike and some will perform better than others!
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