Ceiling Fan Balancer

Description

No guessing. No trial and error. Fix the wobble quickly and easily! Dynamically balance your ceiling fan using your phone. This app determines which blades and where to place weights to offset the wobble. Preparation: •Clean fan. •Tighten all screws. Instructions: •Draw a dot on masking tape and place it on the fan. •Number the blades. •Hold phone under the fan and record the wobble. Check Wobble: •Simply point the camera at the dot to get the wobble strength in realtime. Balance Fan: •Place a clip on each blade. Record the wobble of each blade. The best position to place counterweights is calculated.

Recent Reviews

• ★★★★★late_apex

  Focus on the blade with the lowest wobble.

  Recommendations for our 5 blade fans were not effective. I got them balanced by focusing on the blade that had the lowest initial score, gradually moving the weight inward, measuring wobble then moving again until I got a reading that increased and went back the other way.

• ★★★★★Srauhala

  Got to perfect

  Our ceiling fan would make a clicking sound, from a slight wobble, at the highest setting. Followed the steps, put on the fan weights at where it recommended on two blades. It went to zero wobble!!! Best $2 I have spent in a while.

• ★★★★★Chas2054

  Works great

  This way works unbelievably well if you pay close attention to the instructions. In my case, my fan had a dark round thumbscrew that held the light on. By just turning the light on to a low light setting the phone was able to accurately track the center of the wobbling fan and acquire accurate readouts. The computed results were spot on -well done!

• ★★★★★Yatekeeper

  Fixed my vintage Hunter

  I picked up an older Hunter ceiling fan from my local Re-store. It had a pretty bad wobble due to the restore mishandling it. It’s very important to follow the preparation steps as this identified that one of the blade irons was not only bent but twisted causing the pitch and blade height to be off. After fixing that, I ran the routine in the app which got the wobble out completely on the first try.

• ★★★★★Hg-pilot

  Time Saver

  New ceiling fan had a shimmy-shake thing going on after install. Before breaking out the food scale, disassembling the blades and measuring each one, thought I’d try this optical balancing app out. It worked perfectly! Went from 20.7 units out of balance to zero/one (barely visible wobble). Aces!

• ★★★★★LeeLep821

  Tedious but worthwhile

  I read the poor reviews and purchased anyway and am extremely happy with the results. Instructions are detailed and I needed to follow them precisely. The app DOES work with sloped ceilings - when it says blades should be the same distance from the ceiling and your ceiling is sloped or uneven simply spin each blade to the same spot before measuring distance from ceiling. Buy a balancing kit that includes 3 gram weights not 5 gram for better precision. If the bottom center of the fan spins along with the blades then your “black dot on neutral color painters tape “ must be exactly in the center so it doesn’t move when slowly spinning the fan. Be sure to use the 3gram clips with the 3gram weights or the 5gram clips with the 5gram weights. Do all this and the app works beautifully.

• ★★★★★John Ceiling Fan

  Good except for one thing

  It reduced wobble, but the app tells me to place weights that are so close to the center of the fan that the weights would have to be on the blade holders themselves which I cannot do. It would be great if I could specify the length of usable blade space where I can actually stick a weight on top of. Otherwise it’s very helpful

• ★★★★★Skxbdhsi

  Way better than expected

  I was a little skeptical of this, but was willing to accept a little wobble if I could improve it enough to not make noise. I went through the process twice and it is absolutely perfect. I ended up putting weights on multiple blades at various lengths. There is no way I would have gotten it that still through trial and error on my own. Saved me hours of work, a mental breakdown, and probably a still kinda wobbly fan.

• ★★★★★CGamesPlay

  Works great

  Does exactly what it says it does.

• ★★★★★tanbam

  Easy-Peasy

  I installed a new ceiling fan this afternoon. It’s mounted on a vaulted ceiling and the fan blades only have around an inch of clearance. I should probably get a longer downrod, but the two previous fans were fine. The new fan had the very slightest wobble. Not enough to really notice, but enough that the fan blades were tapping the ceiling. I tried balancing it manually and spent too much time with no better results. Then I read about this app on Reddit. It took around ten minutes using the app and got the exact best place to add weights on two blades. Now the fan is completely wobble free at all speeds. Truly a great tool.