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4.5
This is a beautiful fan, and a great price.Like other reviewers have mentioned, getting the remote receiver to fit under the canopy is a real P.I.T.A. Yes, the canopy should be a bit bigger to make it easier to install the receiver.I wasn't surprised the fan speeds are "reversed" (1 being highest, 3 being lowest) as I have other things in the house made in China that are the same way.My landlord installed the fan for me, and although he followed the instructions to a "T", neither the fan nor light worked after he was finished. I called a neighbor who is an electrician over to take a look, and he immediately spotted what was wrong; as a previous reviewer mentioned, the instructions state the DIP switches on both the remote and the receiver must be set the same way. Since all the DIP switches on both the remote and receiver were already set to "0" upon receipt, we left them that way (all set to "0" on both means both are THE SAME). The electrician explained that at least one DIP switch on each MUST be set to "1", and it must be the same DIP switch on both set to "1".Once he flipped the first DIP switch to "1" on both the remote and receiver, the fan and light worked perfectly.The reason for the DIP switches is so that if you have more than one fan installed in the house (in different rooms), you can set the DIP switches for each fan and remote differently so that if you change the speed/lighting on the fan in the living room, for example, it won't change the speed/lighting of the fan in an adjacent room at the same time!Yes, I think this should have been explained in more detail in the manual, but I don't think it's a big enough issue to score down the fan, which works perfectly and looks lovely.The other thing I really like about the fan is the design is such that dust will not be as great an issue as with my old fan. The fan this one replaced was a three-light, five blade fan with pull chains for the fan speeds and lights. I use a manual wheelchair and so am not able to clean a fan myself, but even when I had someone clean it for me the chains, light shades, and blades would become covered with dust within just a couple of weeks. Everything that can be enclosed on this fan IS enclosed, which means fewer places for dust to attach. I suspect keeping this fan looking clean is going to be much easier to do!
