subject: Ceiling Fans are Cost-effective for Home Use [print this page] Temperatures on ordinary days are turning up hotter than usual. Relying on air conditioning units, however, can cost homeowners a lot of money in their electricity bills. Hence, many homeowners nowadays are finding cheaper alternatives in order to cut back on their home expenses. They are now switching to other cooling units in the form of ceiling fans.
Ceiling fans are indeed more cost-effective to use than air conditioning systems. Though they can't lower the ambient temperature of the room, they compensate by helping circulate the air all over the place. There is the so called wind effect that these fans produce. What happens is that the air coming in contact with your skin absorbs the heat from your body and carries it away thereby making you feel a lot better and cooler.
A clever mechanism has also been employed in the making of these fans. They can operate in reversing motions. During summer, the fans can be circulating in a counter-clockwise motion to bring the breeze downwards towards the user or the people in the room. When the body is drenched in perspiration, the fans can help speed up evaporation and allow it to cool off more efficiently. As mentioned earlier, the fans don't work to lower the ambient temperature. They rather work in direct contact with the body. It is, therefore, worthwhile to remember than if there is no person in the room, the fans should be turned off to save power.
During winter time, the ambient temperature is already cold. We don't need the ceiling fans blowing hard upon our bodies. By allowing the fans to rotate in a clockwise fashion, they can draw up the cold air upwards and the warmer air on the ceiling can be displaced to its location. This can help promote evening out of the temperature in the room and the thermostat can be lowered helping homeowners curb down their electric consumption.
