Hunter Fan Company 59301 Aker Indoor with LED Light, Pull Chain Control, 36 Inch, White

I bought 6 of these during a recent price drop and have installed 4 so far. Very happy with them. "Cute fan" is the first thing people say when seeing these small and compact fans installed.I had none of the negative issues I've seen mentioned in many other reviews.Assembly instructions suggested hanging the motor first, then installing the fan blades and light housing to the hanging motor. That looked awkward to me, so I fully assembled the fans on a table before hanging. Super easy. A magnetic philips screwdriver helps to hold the screws while guiding them through the box of wires when fastening the light housing to motor housing. Small fan with only three blades, so these fans are super easy to hang fully assembled.One time while removing the tape holding the pull chain to housing's exterior, the chain slipped back into its hole and required several minutes to fish it back through the hole.Each fan replaced an older fan in my 60 year old house, and each with different mounting issues. The provided bracket worked great each time. I did have to find some machine screws and nuts for attaching one bracket to a ceiling fan junction box but everything lined up nicely.The glass light globes are very solid and heavy, and securely screw into the metal light housing. Their weight holds them in place and prevents them from unscrewing themselves as some reviews suggested could happen. But definitely be careful when unscrewing the glass globe in order to access the fan reversing switch inside since globe's shape isn't easy to handle. And make sure globe is screwed in all the way so it drops back down into its secure position.The glass globes are very thick and somewhat milky white, so they do seem to block some of the light from the bulbs inside, but not too much. The provided LED bulbs are very bright, normal sized bulbs, and 3000K, not too yellow but still a nice warm color. Little light is directed upward to wash the ceiling, so this does create some glare in a dark room with no other light sources.The pull chains work nicely and don't rock the hanging fan too much, or enough to cause me concern that the glass globe might come loose.The assembly instructions confused me at first because of the many different installation options shown, but after the first fan, the other 3 went together fast. Actually, I kept thinking that these things were designed very well to be both very nice looking and easy to assemble and install, depite what I've read in other reviews.All of the fans wobble a tiny bit, but not enough to be terribly noticable. I reduced one's wobble a bit with the simple easy to use balancing kit.Three speeds. Very fast high that pushes lots of air in our 13 x 13 bedrooms. Medium seems too slow and could be a bit faster. And low is very very low.

This is perfect in our small bathroom. The light is bright and blows hard enough for me to get dressed without sweating haha.

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The packaging and instructions were great and easy to follow! You definitely need 2 people to install this unless you've got a secret extra arm... Shut off the breaker to the room you're installing the fan so make sure you have set up another source of light first so you can see what you're doing. Have a good ladder and, ideally 2 ladders so your helper can be up there with you.The fan is nice in many ways. First, the blades have a light wood pattern on one side and plain white on the other. It was nice to have the option to choose the look we wanted. Second, there are two different sizes down poles so you can choose how low you want the fan to hang. We have a low ceiling where our fan is so we used the shorter one so it's closer to the ceiling. Third, the fan comes with the 2 bulbs intended to be used which is just a nice touch. They're bright LED bulbs. We don't have a remote and that wasn't important to us. The pull chains actually have an icon to identify which is the fan and which is the light. How many times did I pull the wrong one on other fans? Such a simple design and it really is a nice touch!The fan makes a little noise when on a high speed but no more than most others we've heard. It's not an issue. Don't use a dimmer switch to turn on the power for the fan, use a regular on/off no dimmer. Especially if you're wiring in an old house like we did. The dimmer switch even when all the way up interfered with the operation of the whole thing. Once installed this is a really sweet little fan that cools the whole room. It also makes the air conditioning more efficient so that's a money saver right there. Great fan, a very nice look to it, two blade color options that you can choose, and really good installation instructions. We are really pleased with this purchase!

*Update* The fan and the dimmer didn't function properly even with the new dimmer switch. We put in on a regular light switch and it is now working perfectly. However, now we are unable to use the dimmer functionality. This isnt a big deal to us so we still like the fan. This may cause some issues for some buyers that aren't very electric savy.****I purchased this ceiling fan for my husband's small home office. He set it up in about an hour and said it was the easiest fan to set up. We liked the modern and compact look and it functions just as well. The light is bright and the fan is very quiet but powerful. We did need to upgrade our dimmer switch to be compatible with the ceiling fan. We also like more of an amber glow so we used our own bulbs. Overall, a great update for our office.