If you use air conditioning to cool your home, a ceiling fan will allow you to raise the thermostat setting about 4°F with no reduction in comfort.” ( DOE on ceiling fan use in summer) In temperate climates, or during moderately hot weather, ceiling fans may allow you to avoid using your air conditioner altogether.” (DOE)

Flip the direction switch on the ceiling fan itself. You will usually find it on the side of the motor housing. The indoor air will feel warmer and you can even lower the temperature on your thermostat without losing the warmth. Running a ceiling fan also adds to the electricity bill. However, running a 20W-50W ceiling fan vs. a 500W-1,200W window air conditioner, for example, is a big difference. No one enjoys working in a stuffy office with no windows on a hot summer’s day. When the temperature reaches anything above 20° it becomes a bit unbearable. Using a remote control for the ceiling fan. Some remote controls will even have the ‘Summer’ and ‘Winter’ fan directions labeled on the controller.The metal blades sit safely behind a mesh guard to protect fingers from the fan. Brilliantly durable the blades are high quality so they will continue to work effectively even with every day use, the base is sturdy enough to stand securely on any surface. This fan has great functionality with three different speeds, so you can adjust effortlessly to get the perfect temperature. Of course, it always makes sense to set the ceiling fan rotation for summer when using an air conditioner. To adequately calculate how much less you will pay for electricity as a result of that, we need to take into account two factors: Example: If you set the thermostat to 68°F in the summer, with the correct summer ceiling fan direction, you can now set it to 72°F. You will feel that the temperature in the room doesn’t change due to the evaporation cooling effect from your skin. By adequately setting ceiling fan rotation direction in the summer, you can save up to 30% on your cooling costs (we’ll explain why, and calculate US dollar AC savings further on). In the winter, you can save up to 15% on heating costs if you know which fan spin direction to choose. The column on air increases the evaporation from our skin and stimulates the body’s natural cooling mechanism. That’s why DOE, according to their experimentation, determined that you can set the air conditioner setting 4°F higher in the summer.

Due to the 30% AC requirement, the 12,000 BTU AC unit will have to run not on 1,000W, but on 700W. We need to add 50W for running the ceiling fan in the summer as well. Three speed settings– Set the speed of the fan to suit your needs with the variable 3 speed setting. Compact - Measuring 26l x 12w x 31h cm, the fan is the perfect size to fit neatly at one side of your desk to keep you refreshed at work. Correct ceiling fan direction with air conditioning will help us reduce the air conditioning costs. Just by choosing the correct ceiling fan direction for cooling, you can save up to 30% on your AC costs. How much exactly? Let’s calculate a bit: How Much Does Correct Ceiling Fan Direction With Air Conditioning Save? Essentially, running a ceiling fan spends about 20 times less electricity than running an air conditioner. With that very small amount of electricity for a fan, however, we can effectively reduce the electricity bill for air conditioning up to 30%.We all know that hot air rises. According to Wikipedia at 59°F, the air density is 1.2250 kg/m3. At 77°F, the air density is 1.1839 kg/m3. This 3.5% in air density is the reason why we find cold air at the floor level and hot air at the ceiling level. That’s in theory. It can be quite difficult to tell which way the blades on a ceiling fan are actually spinning.

With this summer fan + air condition setting, we can effectively reduce our cooling costs by as much as 25%. Increase in electricity costs because we have to power the ceiling fan. This increases the electricity bill less significantly. Of course, if you don’t correctly use the ceiling fan direction switch when the seasons change, you will not benefit from these savings. Even worse, you will likely increase the cooling and heating costs significantly only because the ceiling fan reverse switch was not turned on/off.