My weird experience with remote socket fan + LED light things...

Being an electric fan enthusiast since more than a decade ago, I'm recently interested by those of the popular remote socket fan + LED light things that are currently available nowadays, mostly on certain online marketplaces that are available overseas, including our country. Ranging from those of the ring light ones, until all the way to those ones that roughly resembled those of the average mini ceiling fans. Without further ado, let me share my own experience about those of my mini socket fan + LED light things (which I actually got 2 of them in my collection, for now).

Before I begin, you may recognize about how come if any of those mini socket fan + LED light things are now exist everywhere? Well, this kind of trend is actually existed since few decades ago, although those ones that were existed back in those good old days were the ones with just the fans themselves, albeit they were insanely rare to come by... However, somewhere in 2022, specifically in the US, this kind of trend went increasingly popular thanks to those predecessors of the socket fan + LED lights themselves that were existed there (for this case, it was that Bell + Howell/Emson brand), which they initially released them with their own first version (the ones with 4 straight blades with the light on the center part of it, and the color of it is white [but then they also released even more versions besides that one, such as the black version of it, and that one "ring light" version which also comes with it's own RGB light]). This also led to how any of those random cheap Chinese manufacturers also produced their own versions in WAY much higher quantity, which those are the ones that are now exists overseas. So, those versions of themselves are:

• Simple "ring light" with the fan on the center part of it (which comes with different variants per each of them [such as different colors and motifs of fan grill cages themselves, different wattages between each of themselves, and etc.),
• Those ones which roughly resembles those of the simple "ring light" ones, except with the weird mini "orbit fan" on the center part of it,
• 4 straight bladed version (33 cm/13"),
• 6 petal bladed versions (both 42 cm/~16" and 52 cm/~20" versions, including those with their own light sockets under themselves instead of their own built-in white LED lights which they originally come with them),
• 5 straight or petal bladed versions (62 cm/~24", or sometimes 42 cm/16" [?]),
• Those of the "drone" fans (which comes with either 3 or 4 fans),
• Those ones with retractable blades that resembled those of the actual full-size "Fanaway" ceiling fans, and
• Many more of the obscure designs of themselves...

As of those ones in my collection, I only own 2 of them so far, which both of those are:

• PPlus (simple "ring light" with white fan grill cages, 3 blade, 50 WATTS), and
• Kawachi (4 straight bladed version [33 cm/13"], white-blue version, 14 watts [7 watts for both fan and light themselves, respectively])

PPlus

Kawachi

Then, as of my own experience of me using either one of the two, there's not much else that I could particularly say about it apart from the fact they both seem to work just properly and blow reasonably good amount of air delivery as what I expected on their own (depending on where I installed them both, otherwise they would only generate less amount of air delivery compared to regular electric fans in general), although each of them both do have their own respective flaws while they're operating. So, those flaws are:

• They sometimes produce some constant sparks while it's operating (especially when I tried to install them on certain light sockets). They also doing so every single time right after I turn them on by simply flicking the light switch...... Oh, on the worst cases, they will outright shorting the MCB if they're out of control (which causing the MCB itself to be popped or broken). This exact problem usually occurs somewhat frequently, particularly on certain ones with ludicrously higher amount of wattage (precisely for those that consumes 50 WATTS or above).
• When both fan and LED light themselves are on, the LED lights themselves sometimes flickers slightly.
• They always produce weird high frequency sounds from their own DC motors every single time while it start-ups regardless of the speed that I'm choosing to. This doesn't apply to those of the "ring light" versions, although they also produce weird sounds from their own DC motors while they're operating, albeit with completely different way and much more quieter than those of the non "ring light" ones that I've mentioned just earlier.
• Certain ones with ludicrously higher amount of wattage may cause some weird interaction with certain electronic devices (for example, few of my own digital TV's stations that is broadcasting at the moment just gets stunned severely every single time I turn them on [which resulting them in "no signal" state], until I have to turn them off to fix them).
• Most models tend to have much heavier weight, especially for many of those that aren't simple "ring light" ones. Which means, in case if you want one of those, you must prepare at least one strong installation of your own ceiling light socket in order to prevent any of those obvious accidents while it's operating there.

Despite several of those flaws that they have, that still doesn't stop me to get even more of those, although I still don't have enough budget for purchasing another one of those soon. Anyway, if you have your own experience for using one of those remote socket fan + LED light things, feel free to share your own short stories in the comment section if you're able to. That's basically it for what I could particularly say about it, and as always, thanks for reading this particular article.

FAQs: my childhood YouTube stuffs...

Believe or not, I watched any kinds of YouTube videos particularly since 2012. Although the ones that I'm watching right now are basically just the ones that resembles to what I usually upload on both of my own YouTube channels that I have, but there were even more of YouTube videos of any kind that I ever watched particularly since then... Without further ado, let me answer them into this sort of frequently asked question essays, ranging from the common ones, until all the way to bunch of those specific ones that are related to both of my own YouTube channels. So, here are my essays particularly about them, right away.

Q : What was your very first YouTube videos that you ever watched in general?

A : My very first YouTube videos that I ever watched were various videos of drum band parades performed by various schools (mainly junior high schools and senior high schools) in Rantepao (North Toraja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia). Those videos were originally recorded specifically several days after our entire country's 62th independence day (August 17th, 2007)... Those were also my very first YouTube videos which I also downloaded them from the internet, and surprisingly I still keep most of them, although those were got deleted from YouTube later on since around a decade ago. 🥁

Q : Did you ever watch that legendary Jawed's "Me at the zoo" video that he uploaded back in 2005?

A : Unfortunately, no I didn't.

Q : How did you able to watch YouTube videos initially in those times specifically from then?

A : I used to watch them casually using a browser on my very first laptop, which I connected to the internet using a (some sort of) painfully slow USB modem that always didn't deliver it's own internet access very well... Even though I also used to have my very first smartphone, but that also wasn't really that reliable to do so, because I always opened the browser instead of the YouTube app itself.

Q : What was your very first YouTube gaming videos that you ever watched in general?

A : If I guessed that right, both of the original game trailers of Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies, respectively... That also applied to most of the retro gaming videos too, because the fact I used to play some of those NES or Famicom games on my old Famiclone that I used to own (which the one that I used to have was the one that shaped like original Playstation 1), and so for those of the bootleg Game Boy Advance multicarts that contained hundreds of NES or Famicom games that I also used to play them on my old original Game Boy Advance. 🎮

Q : What was your very first YouTube music videos that you ever watched or listened?

A : This might be a tricky question, but my very first YouTube music videos that I ever watched or listened were various of music covers from one of my favorite dangdut koplo bands in our whole country that were existed in those days (specifically from East Java province), though those videos were deleted due to the obvious copyright infringement... As for any foreign music tracks that I ever listened, those of the 009 Sound System songs were also the inclusions for this too, since I watched many of those electric fan videos, most of the people used to equip random songs from themselves in those days (which YouTube obviously demonetized them anyway, including most of mine as well).🎶

Q : What was your very first YouTube animation videos (of any kind) that you ever watched?

A : Those of the earliest Alan Becker's creations of his famous animated cartoon videos, followed by FunVideoTV's 3D fanmade animation videos of their own Angry Birds stuffs.

Q : What was your very first YouTube channel that you ever subscribed?

A : Rfm vs Games, because the fact I started enjoying Plants vs. Zombies franchise since then, I also decided to watch YouTube videos in it's days by subscribing him thanks to his entertaining contents that were relevant to the aforementioned franchise itself.🎮

Q : What was your very first YouTube electric fan video that you ever watched in general?

A : "World's Loudest Ceiling Fan".

Q : What was your very first YouTube electric fan videos by some collectors and enthusiasts that you ever watched in general?

A : There were plenty of those that I watched since then, especially that one ceiling fan collection video by a fan collector who used to live in a trailer park filled with themselves... However, certain people such as Vintage Fans & More (formerly known as Cole S.), Dan "Spiffy" Neuman, and Pankaat (that one fan collector from UAE) were the ones that I always recognized the most until today.

Q : What was your very first YouTube electric fan videos specifically from your country that wasn't from your own?

A : From what I remembered since then, those of TheeXtremeFanEnthusiast's first electric fan videos that he uploaded in the late of 2013. Not only just that, I also watched bunch of electric fan videos by a guy who lives in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia (unfortunately, his old channel got deleted later on in favor of his current one that exists since few years ago [though some of his friends were able to retrieve some of his old footages of themselves]).

Q : What was your very first YouTube smashing stuff video that you ever watched in general?

A : That one Beno's video of him smashing a desk fan and messing around with it's own 220v/50Hz AC motor that came with it, simple as that.🔨

Q : What was your very first YouTube smashing stuff channels that you ever subscribed?

A : Garret Claridge and Shawn K... For Garret Claridge's case, it's because it was my very first YouTube smashing stuff channel that I ever subscribed thanks to his unique contents of mainly blowing speakers and smashing random items (though most of them were vintage electronics though, so yeah)... Meanwhile, as for the Shawn K's case, I was impressed by the way how he and Matt smashed random electronic items in their own entertaining way which caused I sometimes laughed every single time I watched his destruction videos (though they both also ever destroyed certain random vintage electronic items, especially for that Macintosh Classic II that they both did in 2013, but it's okay I guess).🔨

Q : What was your very first YouTube toy review videos that you ever watched?

A : Probably the reviews of those of the Jazwares sets of the original Plants vs. Zombies mini figure sets (both blister packs and blind bags). Those were existed right when K'NEX mini figure sets of themselves still yet to be existed until roughly around a year later... Not sure for other franchises like Angry Birds though.

Q : What was your very first YouTube bootleg toy review videos that you ever watched?

A : Those reviews of the weird, cheap bootleg Plants vs. Zombies mini figure brick sets, including plenty of those that ripped off their packaging from K'NEX.

Q : What was your very first YouTube device review videos of any kind that you ever watched?

A : I believe it was that Ashens' video of reviewing that exact fake iPhone 4, called "Airphone 4", followed by most of his "Pop Station" mini LCD handheld games that he reviewed too... Bootleg devices aside, I couldn't remember my very first YouTube's official device review videos that I ever watched though (including those that are particularly available from our entire country too).

Q : Apart from electric fans, toys, gaming stuffs, music, marching or drum band stuffs, smashing stuffs, and hardware reviews...... What was your first random YouTube videos that weren't from those of the aforementioned categories that you ever watched?

A : Somewhere around a decade ago, I used to watch various random YouTube videos that weren't from those of the said categories; those were abandoned places videos, random compilation videos, random skit videos, random documentary videos, and so on.

Well then, there you have it for my frequently asked question essays particularly about my own childhood YouTube stuffs. If you have your own good old memories regarding to this particular article, feel free to share your own story in the comments section if you still recognized them though from your own perspective. That's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and cheers!

My mini ceiling fans that were once existed on my collection...

It's been a while since I made bunch of my YouTube fan videos of themselves, so it's time for explaining about those of my mini ceiling fans that were once existed on my collection. However, all of them had their own stories per each of those, which I ended up got rid each of them for good (except for one of them which it simply lost). Without further ado, let me list all of those aforementioned mini ceiling fans that I'm referring to, right away.

1. Another Elitesat FC-08-50 500mm

First off, you may recognize this exact blue Elitesat mini ceiling fan which I featured bunch of times on my YouTube channel already, but I actually used to have another identical Elitesat mini ceiling fan, and that one was my very first mini ceiling fan that I ever purchased in my life back in 2008, followed by this one. It worked similarly as this one, except it was slightly less wobbly compared to this one too... It initially used to mount in the living room of that house (and so for this one), but then I decided to move it in two different bedrooms of that house (and so for this one too). However, during the mini renovation of my childhood house where I used to born in there, I accidently forgot about where I temporarily saved both of these while both of them were dismantled from the ceiling (including this one), therefore I lost that one, which means this one was the only one that remained until one of it's own original blades broke off and lost. I had no clue about how come if I accidently lost that particular one, but I also feel sad for not keeping that with me.

2. Extend 700mm

After I purchased both of those Elitesat mini ceiling fans, I also purchased this one. It was also my very first mini ceiling fan that was larger than 500mm, although the color of it was roughly the same (albeit it was brighter). It worked perfectly fine, and it generated averagely the same amount of air delivery as both of those Elitesats were, except it was slightly less. Everything about it was okay until I decided to mount it in the kitchen of my childhood house, right after I used to mount it in the living room of that house first... Due to the intense heat of the kitchen itself, it caused all of it's own blades broke off so easily by itself. So that was basically it, I wasn't even able to glue it's own brittle blades probably due to they simply lost right when they broke per each of them while it was operating, which I also ended up trashing it later on.

3. Meet 500mm

Well, after roughly 5 years since I purchased both of those Elitesats and Extend, I finally purchased my very first mini ceiling fan that wasn't in blue color, which was this one. It did generate fairly good amount of air thanks to slightly steeper blade pitch that it had compared to those of my aforementioned blue mini ceiling fans that I purchased a while before, except for that one hiccupping problem while it was hanging in the living room of that house. This problem literally lasted until one of it's own blades broke off by itself. Due to the weird state of it, there was no way to fix it which I ended up trashing it later on, except for one of it's own blades which I used it on that remaining Elitesat there in those times.

4. Sivicom FC-08-50 (SV-500) 500mm

Not too long after I purchased that Meet, I also purchased this one simply because of how different it looked compared to the average mini ceiling fans that were available on sale in those times. Although this one was cheaper than that Meet, it worked perfectly fine without hiccupping problems, and it generated reasonably good amount of air with it's own original white blades (it's because this was the old version of it, meanwhile for the newer versions have turquoise blades)... During those times in my childhood house, it initially used to mount in the living room of that house. However, after I moved out from that house, it eventually moved into one of the bedrooms (which used to be my bedroom of that house), until I decided to pluck it with me and mount it in the kitchen of my previous house, and then one of the family's relative's replaced it with the Oshaky in that exact room of my childhood house.

During those times in my previous house, it managed to last for approximately 6 years before it stopped working suddenly by itself. Well, after it stopped working specifically like so, I let my dad to take it down, but for some reason he decided to do so by passing it's own motor to the top part of the wood travers of the asbestos roof above that house's back porch, which caused the it's own motor housing got dented severely. Although I was able to salvage it's own original blades, but I was once used it as a horizontal windmill by removing some parts of it's own synchronous motor, except I used Jiamei blades on it. It was all that fun until a random squirrel that came from nowhere accidently dropped it while it was hanging, which caused all of the Jiamei blades that I equipped on it got destroyed to bunch of small mosaic pieces, right when it got impacted to the concrete. Due to the state of it after that exact accident, I ended up trashing the motor itself later on.

5. Bright-G FC-08-50 (BG-500) 500mm

Some of you may recognize this exact Bright-G mini ceiling fan that I purchased specifically back in 2015, which I mounted it in the back porch of my previous house along with my other mini ceiling fans that I used to mount in there. Judging by the classic style of it, it was a new old stock fan according to one of the online fellow fan enthusiasts... As for the fan itself, it worked perfectly fine and generated fairly good amount of air. However, instead of keeping it with me like the rest of my mini ceiling fans that I'm currently own, I decided to give it away for free to my vocational high school in order to install it in the canteen of that school (don't ask me about how come if I did so). However, some of the senior students didn't able to connect it's own cable properly, which they ended up trashing it instead in that location, including about how come if they also destroyed those blades too. 🤦‍♂️

6. Bright-G FD-10-70E 700mm

Believe or not, this one was purchased initially by my dad in order to mount this in his main workplace first until it's own original blades broke off (which for that case, in order to replace one of the Jiamei mini clip fans in there)... After all of it's own blades broke off, he was able to find another nearly identical blade set that perfectly fit of it by simply glued all of them on it. Then, he asked me in order to bring it home from his personal workplace, and I decided to mount it in the kitchen of my previous house in 2021. It worked just alright, except it used to have all of that squeaking and grinding noises while it's operating until I was able to fix it by oiling it's own synchronous motor. Everything about it was okay until the time where I moved out from there in 2023, I had to take it down even with it's own daily beater condition that it particularly had (because my mom always turned it on while she used to cook in there). After I moved out from there, I was once attempted to remove it's own brittle blades out from it (and so for cleaning it), but I ended up breaking them instead due to the difficulty of me tried to do so with all of it's own blades that he glued into it. Due to the horrible state that it specifically had, unfortunately I decided to trash it away.

Before I wrap up this article, here are two random fans that were once existed but then I got rid of each of them later on, except I didn't purchase both of these in the first place (though one of them wasn't even from my collection anyway). So, both of those fans were:

• Unknown black-red oldie 500mm : This one was originally purchased by my cousin back in ~2005 (if I guessed that right), and it used to mount in one of the bedrooms of my childhood house before he and his parents moved into his current house (including this fan by installing it on his bedroom). It lasted for approximately 7 years before it broke off and replaced by that 500mm Shukaku SKU MF-50, however I was once able to pluck it from his current house and use it as a display of my mini ceiling fan collection in my previous house, even if all of it's own red blades were lost already. Due to the fact it was broken since then, I just got rid of it right when I moved out from my previous house.
• Jiamei JM-590 700mm : This one was originally purchased by one of my family's relative's from my mom's side in early of 2016 in order to mount it inside my grandma's bedroom of my childhood house. After she was deceased in 2017, my dad eventually used this fan in his main workplace, in order to replace his HTC industrial ceiling fan with it a year later. It lasted for few years before it stopped working by itself. I was able to salvage it's own blades, but unfortunately he decided to trash the motor itself later on.

Well then, there you have it for those mini ceiling fans that were once existed on my collection, but then I had to get rid each of them for good due to each of the reasons that I already mentioned above (except for one of them, which it was simply lost). If you have your own good old memories regarding to this particular topic, feel free to share your own story in the comments section if your memory serves it right. That's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and as always, thanks for reading this exact article.

Ceiling fans in closed down stores around my hometown...🏬🏪

Around my hometown where I do live since I was born, there were plenty of stores that used to have various ceiling fans inside each of them. However, each of those places had their own story about how come if each of them just closed down due to various issues per each of them, including several of them which are now gone (including those fans inside). Without further ado, here are my short lists about them, shall we?

• There was a bookstore that had bunch of old National orbit ceiling fans (the models of them were F-EQ403/F-EQ403-1 [❔], and F-EQ407, respectively), in addition of some KDK industrial exhaust fans in the back part of the place itself. Due to the store itself suddenly went out of business, it unfortunately got closed down and leased in around the last year. However, the store itself still left all of those fans inside, but I have no clue whether if they eventually get rid of them later on.

• A small vintage store that had 2 KDK WZ56Q industrial ceiling fans, which I already recorded my original video of them both briefly back in 2015. Judging by the interior of it, it possibly used to be a cassette store that was once existed back in somewhere in ~80s, then in the meantime I recorded my aforementioned video of them both, it also used to be a small buffet restaurant. The place itself was closed down and leased, but I'm pretty sure if they left both of them inside.

• A Soto restaurant that consisted of 2 Uchida Millennium industrial ceiling fans, which I already recorded my 🥔 video of them both briefly back in 2013. The place itself was closed down since a while ago, but I'm pretty sure if they still left both of them though.
• A small clothing store that had National F-EY149-2 (❔) industrial ceiling fan, which replaced one of the two Matsunichi (❔) orbit ceiling fans with ludicrously wacky orbital movement. The place itself was closed down since a long time ago, but the fan itself is still left inside (and possibly one of those Matsunichi [❔] orbit ceiling fans).
• A clothing store that had 3 Regency orbit ceiling fans and an Uchida Arctic decorative ceiling fan. The place itself was closed down since a while ago, but all of those fans themselves are still installed inside.
• A boutique store that had Panasonic F-560A1 industrial ceiling fan, which I already recorded my original 🥔 video of it back in 2014, then followed by remake of it back in 2015 and another remake video of it in 2019. The place itself suddenly closed down since sometime ago, but the fan itself is still installed inside.
• An old motorcycle store that had 48" DEMC industrial ceiling fan. It was closed down since more than a decade, but the fan itself is possibly still left inside.
• A jewelry store that used to have Diamond industrial ceiling fan, which was closed down since a long time ago. I have no clue whether if the fan itself got removed or not, since the place itself seems to be intact even if it's closed.
• Another jewelry store that had National F-EY149 industrial ceiling fan inside. The place itself was closed down since more than a decade ago, but the fan itself still left inside.
• A small clothing store that consisted of 48" 70s SMC K48 and National F-EY149 industrial ceiling fans, which I recorded briefly in 2014 using one of my old 🥔 Android devices that I used to own. The place itself is now closed down and vacant, but both of them are still installed inside.
• A boutique that consisted of 2 National F-560A1 industrial ceiling fans. The place itself is now closed down and vacant, but both of them are still installed inside.
• A vintage boutique store that used to have vintage National F-EQ408 (❔) orbit ceiling fan. The entire place itself was closed down including the aforementioned fan itself, and it recently got replaced by a cafe.
• An old cassette store that used to have National F-EY149-1 (❔) industrial ceiling fan. The place itself was closed down since more than roughly 2 decades ago, and recently they replaced it with a cafe without keeping it.
• There was a small drugstore nearest from my childhood house, used to have National F-560A1 industrial ceiling fan. It was removed several months before the time when the store itself closed down, yet the entire place itself is now replaced with a boutique store.
• A small variety store that used to have Panalux industrial ceiling fan with all of it's own blades were bent down, due to the way how they installed in in such cramped space. The place itself was closed down, and the fan itself also got removed.
• A (some sort of) electronic parts store used to have Greet (❔) industrial ceiling fan. The place itself is now long gone (and so for the aforementioned fan itself), and it got replaced by the bank's expansion.
• A 💈 shop that used to have 48" CMC industrial ceiling fans, painted in red color. The place itself was closed down and demolished, and it recently replaced by an expansion of the supermarket (which surprisingly has bunch of industrial ceiling fans inside).
• A variety store that used to have CMC Flashycom industrial ceiling fan, which I recorded my original video of it in 2014 and remake video of it in 2015. The place itself was closed down and the fan itself got removed, and it recently replaced it with a cafe.
• A 🛍 store that used to consist of 2 CMC Niko (❔) industrial ceiling fans. The place itself was closed down since a while ago, but I'm pretty sure if both of them were removed already.
• A fruit shop that used to have CMC and 48" Guang Dian (❔) industrial ceiling fans, which this place also used to have another CMC which got removed firstly. The place itself eventually went out of business yet they removed all of those fans, and then the entire place itself was replaced by a cafe.
• A small fried chicken restaurant that used to have 48" Uchida industrial ceiling fan. The place itself was closed down and the fan itself was removed, yet it recently replaced with a roasted bread eatery without it.
• An old cafe and karaoke place that was located in the corner of the intersection, used to have few black National F-EY141 industrial ceiling fans. The entire place itself was closed down since almost two decades ago, and all of those fans were removed already. FYI, this exact place also used to be another cafe that used to have some MT. EDMA ceiling fans inside, but then the place itself also got closed down right after almost a year later (I have no clue whether if they still left those fans though).
• A fried chicken restaurant that used to have 2 Sanyo industrial ceiling fans. The entire place itself was closed down since few years ago, and both of them were removed already.

• A bookstore that used to have 3 Sanyo industrial ceiling fans. The entire place itself was closed down since few years ago, and all of them were removed already... It recently got replaced with a Miniso store.
• An old clothing store that used to have 10 National F-EQ401 (❔) orbit ceiling fans, which I recorded my 🥔 video of it briefly back in 2014. Due to fatal administration issues that was occurred in that store, it got closed down and all of those fans were removed already.*

• An old shoe store that used to have a 48" Evernal (❔) industrial ceiling fan, installed in such low ceiling. The place itself was closed down yet the aforementioned fan itself also got removed, and it recently replaced by a cafe.
• Another clothing store that used to have of 4 Panasonic, 1 KDK and 1 Maspion orbit ceiling fans (which the KDK and Panasonics replaced all of those Maspions), which I already recorded my original video of it with all of those Maspions in 2015 and remake video featuring those of the aforementioned replacement fans in the late of 2017. FYI, before this place was initially existed, it used to be some sort of variety store that used to have 3 old 48" Matsunichi and 48" CMC industrial ceiling fans (which one of the Matsunichis got replaced by a 48" National F-EY129-2 [❔])... Due to fatal administration issues that was occurred in that store, it got closed down and all of those fans were removed already.*
• A fairly large supermarket and arcade game center that used to have certain old industrial ceiling fans (such as CMCs, Alaskas [PT. AMI], Diamond [which was just like a CMC], and National F-EY149-1s), and National F-EQ403-1 (?) orbit ceiling fan. That place also had other fans like Katsu and CKE industrial wall fans, unknown industrial exhaust fans, and some KDK industrial exhaust fans that replaced those of the unknown industrial exhaust fans. I already recorded my original 🥔 video of it briefly back in 2013, and then followed by my remake video of it 2 years later. Due to fatal administration issues that was occurred in that store, the entire place itself was moved into another location and all of those fans were removed already.*
• A clothing store that used to have 4 Uchida Millennium industrial ceiling fans. Due to fatal administration issues that was occurred in that store, it got closed down and all of those fans were removed already.*

* means not only the fact they were closed down, the entire government from my hometown also seized those places in order to reuse them as their own property. 

Well then, those are literally the ones that I recognized through all these years since I created my YouTube channel that is dedicated for them, so. If you have your own short stories regarding to this particular topic, feel free to share your own story in the comments section if your memory serves it right. That's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and as always, thanks for reading this exact article.

vintage ceiling fan sites...❔

Being an electric fan enthusiast, pretty sure if I already visited some sites that literally explained about vintage ceiling fans, right? Well, yes, but only two of them that are recognizable specifically in my own mind, since I literally visited both of those sites, but now only one of them that are still remains, even if most parts of the remaining entire site itself is now no longer accessible like one of them would for some reason. Without further ado, let me particularly explain two of those vintage ceiling fan sites, shall we?

Note: Even if I recognized both of these sites, I never log in to each of them both. Which means, I only visited both of them purely for viewing purposes only.

A. vintageceilingfans.com (Adam D.)

"vintageceilingfans.com"  main page

Started off with my most recognizable vintage ceiling fan sites that I ever visited, which is the "vintageceilingfans.com", owned by the legitimate owner himself who also owns his YouTube channel of the same name as the site that he made there... Believe or not, I visited bunch of his sites through 3 different sections of his entire site many times, ranging from visiting his own gallery of his own vintage ceiling fan acquisitions, until all the way to checking his entire Proboards forum of it, consists of discussing anything about it (and certain other things such as vintage portable fans) from various fan enthusiast members around the world through many of those forum threads since more than two decades ago, which majority of them are from the US and Canada (with few exception such as that one fan collector from UAE and certain others).

Even though this particular website still exists after all these years, I already encountered some flaws while I'm visiting some of his own sites in general. Those are:

• Majority of the fan enthusiasts and collectors who posted in his entire Proboards forum of it, hosted their own pictures using Photobucket. Because Photobucket recently doing their own mega pay-to-win features, they decided to delete them later on. Some of those pictures that are still remains in there do have their obvious Photobucket watermark on each of them.
• His separate member galleries site is now no longer accessible since a while ago. I tried to access it (as of nowadays), and it leads to a 503 error code.
• I tried to visit each of the member's personal forum threads in his entire Proboards forum site of it in order to check their own threads, it didn't allow me to do so if I didn't log in to there yet.

B. DT Vintage Fans (Zachary Yarnes)

DT Vintage Fans main page

Another vintage ceiling fan site that used to exist alongside with that "vintageceilingfans.com" site that I mentioned just earlier, which was DT Vintage Fans, owned by a YouTuber nicknamed Zachary Yarnes. It had roughly similar fashion just like that "vintageceilingfans.com" site as a whole, but with some differences between this and that one, those are:

• Unlike "vintageceilingfans.com" which had 3 sections of the site itself (such as main site, separate member galleries site, and forum site), this one simply had 2 sections, which only consisted of just main site + galleries combo and forum site (which he also used Proboards too), respectively.
• Unlike "vintageceilingfans.com" which prominently featured almost all of the fan brands around the entire world in that separate member galleries section of that site, this one only featured various fan brands that were available exclusively in the US and Canada in his own member galleries of the main site itself, including certain overseas brands that were made their way to both of those aforementioned countries too (for example: SMC, Matsushita brands [KDK, National or Panasonic], Sanyo, Mistral, Hitachi, etc.).

For some reason, the entire site itself just suddenly vanished from the internet. Simple as that, and I really had no clue about what was wrong with the entire site itself. Before it occurred, I used to visit the main site itself casually, specifically checking for various galleries of themselves through their respective brands in general without any issues. I also remembered right after the entire site went vanished, it literally redirected into a random site that had nothing to do with the URL link itself (specifically about how the "www" on the address bar just immediately changed into "ww7" for unbelievably odd reason). Not too long after I visited that particular random site that used this exact URL link, all I got from that URL link is now blank site............ although you could able to see the remnants of all of that stuffs from it using Wayback Machine.

Well then, there you have it for my short story of those two vintage ceiling fan sites that I recognized the most, although only one of them that still remains until today. If you have your own memories of visiting both of those sites online, feel free to share your own story particularly about it in the comments section if you're able to. Anyway, that's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and as always, thanks for reading this article.

Dealing with electric fans with ball bearings...

Pretty sure if majority of electric fans (mainly for ceiling fans) do have ball bearings on each of their own motors, right? Well, there are two obvious answers for this, "yes" for ceiling fans and "no" for certain fans besides ceiling fans. The word "yes", it's clearly because almost every single ceiling fans always came equipped with ball bearings on them no matter what. On the other hand though, the word "no" also literally means not all of the portable fans do equip with ball bearings on their own motor though, with some exception of those industrial fans (which they usually equipped with ball bearings on each of them). Unfortunately though, I made a blunder on one of my portable fans that I own recently in my current house, and it was the only one that came equipped with ball bearing inside it's own motor, instead of the run-of-the-mill bushing ones. So, without further ado, let me explain about how come if I made the aforementioned mistake that I did to it.

my KDK box fan

There's not much else that I could particularly say about how come if I made the said blunder itself, it's because I was once cleaned the aforementioned fan itself (for this case, my KDK box fan). Everything about it was silly when it comes to how I cleaned it in general, albeit it was somewhat trickier than my previous fan of the exact same type that I used to own just before. Until I decided to lubricate it with a lubrication oil (instead of grease like what my fellow fan enthusiasts would strongly advise to me, just because), then I decided to test it by rotating the shaft itself with my bare fingers, it eventually made the bearing noise from it's own motor every single time. It also made the matters worse upon I powered it up, the noise from the bearing itself suddenly went louder, even if I put it's own blades on it. Simple as that, after that exact blunder that I made particularly with it, it's still makes it's own bearing noise until today, although it still runs smooth though (unlike my previous fan of the exact same type [except for different brand], which it had damaged bushings and shaft that caused it ran so stiff). Yes, it originally had bit of bearing noise since I newly acquired it from more than a year ago, except it was much less louder compared to how it sounds nowadays.

As for how one of my fellow fan enthusiasts commented on that YouTube Shorts video that I made specifically about it, here's how he briefly explained particularly about the problem itself:

"yep, bearings cannot lubricated with oil, they only can be lubricated with grease. the only way to fix it is replace both bearings to the new ones. because the grease inside must be turned liquid already due to the oil, and therefore a friction occurs to the balls. so they couldn't be fixed anymore (although you trying to add more grease to the bearings)."-immafacts

Well then, pay attention when it comes to how you treat your own electric fans with ball bearings on them, especially when you lubricate them. Lesson learned: never lubricate them with any lubrication matters besides grease, because there is no absolute way to reduce the noise itself apart from the fact you must replace it with the brand new ones for sure (results may vary per each types of the electric fans)... If you have your own experience when it comes to treating your own electric fans with ball bearings equipped on their own motors, let me know particularly about it in the comments section if you're able to. That's it for what I could specifically say to this, and as always, thanks for reading this article.

Experience with old Windows Movie Maker...🎞🎬

Note: You must be extremely careful when it comes to searching and downloading this particular old video editing software from various random sites out there. I'm not guarantee if most of them might offer some sort of fake file installers of themselves that contains any kinds of malware that may harm your computer's or laptop's entire operating system instead.

This ain't my filler article that explains about my previous article that explains about the update of the video editing software that I ever used on my current laptop that I'm using these days in general. However, I recently tried yet another video editing software that is pure free (but not trial), and it is literally the previous iteration of that particular free Windows 10 video editor that is now gone, thanks to how they decided to get rid of it in the latest version of the Photos app, unless I'd love to use the Microsoft Clipchamp instead, which I also clearly stated it briefly in the same update article of those video editors that I ever used in my current laptop... Okay, of course you probably mentioned this particular iteration of the said Windows's official free video editor before, the old Windows Movie Maker. Even though I recently use it for a bit for basic video editing (which basically just it), but I already found some of my short results when it comes to how I'm recently using it. So, without further ado, let me explain particularly about my experience with this particular old Windows video editor, right away. 🎞

There's nothing else that I could particularly say to it though, apart from the fact how Microsoft no longer supporting this particular video editing software back in January of 2017. Well, that doesn't stop it by how I was able to search it online by simply downloading the software itself until I found the installer file itself in particular, called "Windows Essentials 2012" (wlsetup.exe). With the old .NET Framework 3.5 that was already installed on my current laptop's Windows 10 operating system by default since I acquired from then (or I did it somehow by downloading and installing it particularly from one of those monthly updates from Windows Update, oh boy), it's not really a big deal for installing it either way (unless if it wouldn't present yet, I must download and install it anyway, otherwise it wouldn't work at all)... There were certain options for installing certain programs that was bundled with the "Windows Essentials 2012", such as Messenger, Mail, Writer, and most importantly, Photo Gallery and Movie Maker. Of course I obviously just chose Photo Gallery and Movie Maker only, because why not. 🎞

Upon I successfully installed and decided to open it, there's nothing else that I could particularly say to it as it works just fairly okay, until I decided to have some fun by importing some of my own photo and video files on the project file. While it literally has limited features unlike majority of the other kinds of video editors that I mentioned in those two of my article that explained about my experience of me using them, it does it's basic job as what I expected for (ranging from all kinds of basic editing that I can deliver on it, until how I'm able to export my edited video footages from it just fine), albeit the UI of it looks so different compared to the beloved classic version that used to exist in everybody's computers or laptops with Windows XP/Vista installed back in those days. Even then, this particular video editor is somewhat better compared to that free Windows 10 video editor that used to exist, thanks to how it obviously has certain features that didn't present in that free Windows 10 video editor, being one of them is the transitions between two photos or videos (albeit you can only set it between from 0.5 seconds to 2 seconds though)... Again, it does it's own basic job when it comes to editing my own videos in general, but it does have certain flaws while I'm editing any of my own video footages on it. Those are:

1. It takes a while to import certain video files with higher resolution and larger file sizes.
2. The edited video footage sometimes drop some frame rates while I'm tried to play it through the preview pane, unless I have to "fix" it specifically using two options from the settings of this whole video editor (can you guess about what are those two options that I'm talking about, although if I somehow "fix" it through both of those said options, it eventually leads into another problem where the whole software itself just performs partially unstable).
3. While I put some music tracks or sound effects on the project, it's so awkward while I tried to move those bars around it no matter what.
4. No option for adding shadow effects on the texts.
5. No "Picture-in-Picture" option, and so for how it doesn't have an option to remove black bars on the pictures that I added them on the project.
6. No option for turning the main editing pane from both storyboard and timeline modes, which used to exist in the classic Windows XP/Vista versions of it.
7. While I'm applying certain hefty stuffs to the project that consists of (mostly) certain edited video footages, it sometimes causing the whole program itself to freeze and crash. It also makes the matters worse once it crashed, it sometimes refused to open until I must restart my whole laptop's operating system in order to make it work.

Well, there you have it for my experience of me using this old Windows Movie Maker in general. After that actual riddance of that free Windows 10 video editor, I don't think if I'm able to find yet another free (but not trial) video editing software that may work just decently on my current laptop with it's own modern day 🥔 specifications, just clearly stated as what I already explained in my previous articles about themselves... If you have plenty of good memories when it comes to editing your own video footages using one of these, feel free to say your experience with it in the comments section if your memory still serves them right in your own mind. That's it for what I could say to this, and as always, thanks for reading this particular article. 🎞

Update on video editors for my YouTube channel of fans...

After I made my original article entitled "Video editors for my YouTube channel of fans" from a while ago, so it's time for the major update about how's going on with the current state of certain video editors that I ever used, specifically on my current laptop that I'm using right now. Even if the video editing software programs are almost similar to what I also explained in my aforementioned titular article about them, they did have some major changes from one way to another, ranging from how it performs in general until all the way to certain tasks that I must do in order to make them survive. There are also some of the brand new ones that I ever used, which I also explain them particularly in here too. Without further ado, here is my latest update about how's going on with those video editing programs that I ever used, particularly dedicated for my YouTube channel of fans (and so for my other channel that I own too, if I needed to):

A. Stock Windows 10 video editor

First off, remember the time I edited majority of my electric fan videos using this particular basic video editor that comes freely with my laptop's current version of Windows 10 since I newly acquired my laptop that I'm particularly using right now? Well, those were the days yet I occasionally use it these days, even if it lacks certain things that video editors usually do have as what I clearly stated in my original article particularly about it... However, every single time I open the app itself recently (which is obviously bundled with the Photos app), it will soon-to-be defunct due to the fact it won't be included soon, even if it's still clearly available at the moment. Instead, they recommended me to install Microsoft Clipchamp once it disappears soon, which I will explain particularly about it later.

B. Capcut

Believe or not, Capcut has it's own PC port particularly about it since last year, because I sometimes edit my own videos literally using the mobile version of it in my current phone. So, I took the opportunity to download it from the official Capcut website, because somebody said it was a perfect video editor dedicated for certain computers or laptops with mostly potato specifications (including my current laptop). I logged in using my own account that was integrated with Tiktok, then I edited bunch of my own electric fan videos using it. The results about how I edited them using it felt 11:12 to that one of Adobe Premiere Pro, albeit with vastly different user interface, which was their obvious ByteDance's pride. It was really a great experience of me using it thanks to how fairly great the results that it delivered on all of my video footages that I edited and exported particularly with it, until I encountered certain amount of problems while I'm specifically editing them with it on my laptop that I'm currently using right now.

You would think if Capcut will work smoothly in my current laptop with it's own specifications that I'm currently using right now? I would say both yes and no. The word "yes", it had plenty of cool features just exactly like the mobile version of it, so I would edit them with it easier, unlike how I had to struggle myself all the time with my fingers particularly on my own phone... On the other hand though, the word "no" literally states about how it performs specifically on my laptop with it's own specifications that it has. It may worked just okay as what I expected, but sometimes it would drop frame rates while I'm playing my own edited videos on it. Well, that's the tip of the iceberg about how it performs then, because it also made the matters WORSE once I updated it to the latest version. It lagged, stuttered, and dropped frame rates frequently than before, which made me nearly impossible to do so. Even the mouse's cursor also partially lagged and stuttered during I tried to edit everything on it too... Which means, the results about how it performed particularly on my current laptop did perform partially similar to how my ancient short lived 13" Dell laptop that I stupidly bought it online in 2020 with Adobe Premiere Pro 2015 that was installed on it, or I tried to run VSDC on my old Samsung laptop right before this one with it's own older potato specifications that it had.

C. Microsoft Clipchamp

Well, this is literally the prime reason about how come if that particular stock Windows 10 video editor that was bundled with it's own Photos app will soon-to-be defunct. Even if I didn't export anything from this particular video editor yet, I ever tried to edit my own video footages briefly in here, and it didn't seem to work that well on my current laptop that I'm using right now, almost exactly in similar fashion to what I did with the Capcut. It also lagged, stuttered and dropped framerates if I put too much pressure into it. Which means, I don't think if I'm able to edit anything on this particular video editor anyway. It also made the matters worse, there are no specific options in order to make it less lagging or stuttering while I'm editing on it at all.

D. Microsoft PowerPoint (2019 version)

(i just made my short animation using it)

Yes, you aren't kidding. Microsoft PowerPoint does have a feature to export any kinds of presentation slides to video files. This particular feature actually existed since the 2013 version of the said program itself (according to the research particularly about it somewhere else). As for my own experience of me using it, I made certain of my presentations in there, both basic presentations, minimalist animations, and enhanced picture slideshows, respectively. In order to make the perfect video out from series of themselves, I must set certain animation timings in all-out full-auto (for example: transitions between two slides, object animations, play audio or video files in specific amount of delay that they have, etc.). Yes, it did export presentation slides just reasonably okay, but it had minor flaws specifically about how I put some music tracks or sound effects on it (minor cut-outs with any kinds of music tracks that I put in there, and minor lags with any kinds of sound effects that I put in there too).

E. VideoPad Video Editor (current version), but...

After I left the older version of it due to the fact I rarely editing my own videos using it from several years ago (despite it would work decently on my current laptop, thanks to how I checked the minimum specifications about the whole video editor itself on it's own official NCH website particularly about it), I decided to revisit it by downloading the current version of it officially from the official NCH website itself, and I took the opportunity to test it by editing my own videos on it in particular. While it performed just fairly okay on my current laptop, and it exports my edited videos just fairly good considered how pretty much on-point this particular basic video editor was, it had one major problem: I actually downloaded the unlicensed trial demo version of the whole video editor itself! Which literally means, I MUST enter a registration code in order to unlock it (or imagine if I'm wealthy, I would buy their full licensed version of the said video editor itself), otherwise I wouldn't even able to use it anyway once the trial expires. That's basically it; there's NO absolute way to use it at all unless if I would able to search the fully unlocked version of the said video editor itself online, or even those pirated registration codes that commonly available everywhere online to casually unlock it, which still didn't keep it anyway once I close it then I re-open it again. F***

Well then, there you have it for my latest update of the video editors that I ever used, dedicated for my YouTube channel of fans (and so for my other YouTube channel that I own too, albeit if I don't have any contents to upload yet at the moment). I don't think if most of them would work properly, specifically for my current's laptop's specification that it has. Not only just those, I also dealt with one of them that was literally unusable in the first place, it's because in order to make it fully usable, I MUST f****** do their own certain pay-to-win feature to do so in their official way. Right now, with all of the flaws that almost all of the video editors that I already tried specifically on my own laptop that I'm particularly using right now, I'm looking for another lightweight video editor that will work just okay on my own laptop with it's own "modern day potato" specifications that it literally has. Anyway, if you already know about the perfect video editors that may work decently on my laptop that I'm using right now, please let me know particularly about it in the comments, unless if you still didn't take a look at the specification of my laptop that I'm currently using it in one of my older articles that I made from roughly 2 years ago... Thanks for reading this update article that literally explained about them, and hope you can pay full attention when it comes to dealing with one or few of those out there with your corresponding computer's or laptop's specifications that do you own, unless if you already purchased certain ones with excellent specifications, which I guarantee if most of them will work just great on your own.

Archive: Me vs. electric fan enthusiasts... Sort of (2015)

Even though I do post tons of my own electric fans in my dedicated YouTube channel of themselves since I made my own channel of themselves since almost a decade ago, I actually had one of my worst experience with them in my good old days with them, being the one that I'm talking about here was the worst one that I ever experienced, yet it would be the great way to terminate my own YouTube channel by that one loyal fan enthusiasts that wasn't from the same country where I do live, due to the fact I was doing something wrong with that one special enthusiast which causing he literally noticed me in order not to do it further, or else he will ended up terminating my own channel if I would doing so recklessly... Well, it's time to reveal my short story about how come if I ended up having the aforementioned problem which caused he almost decided to do the said serious action to my own channel.

As usual, I watched all kinds of electric fan videos on YouTube in those times around the whole world, ranging from the local ones from our country, until all the way to the ones that aren't from our country... However, I always bothered by that one special fan enthusiast from Malaysia with all of his nonsense comments (which turned out if he IS actually that special, judging by how he is still existed until today with his current YouTube channel that he has), which caused me decided to reply him with my own "bully" comments to him in order to stop it, many times in a row. Until he replied to various comments who commented on vast majority of vintage ceiling fan videos by one of the loyal fan enthusiasts from the United States, I kept "bullying" on him in order not to do it repeatedly. Of course HE noticed me instead of him with HIS obvious reason about why, because I kept harshly "bullied" to him out of control which caused HE disrespected me by simply terminating my own channel if I would recklessly do it even more.

With by how that particular fan enthusiast from United States took me HIS said serious action for NOT doing it further, I finally regretted it for not doing so at all costs in order to save my own channel for being terminated by HIM. This was also my turning point for me to finally stop "bullying" that one special enthusiast from Malaysia, even if he still exists since then until today. I had to shut up for a moment by how that particular fan enthusiast from United States TOTALLY warned to me with all of HIS warning sentences from HIM, which I ended up learned the lesson for NOT "bullying" him even further through one of my posts that I posted on Google+ that was once existed. Well, even though this particular story literally ended up there, but in the meantime HE learned me the lesson particularly like so, I almost s****** myself due to how I proven guilty to them both with all of those problems going on from one way to another specifically like so... Yep, after all of that occurred initially by myself to him, I finally learned the lesson for NOT absurdly doing so all over again since HE TOTALLY warned me, because I also realized if that one special fan enthusiast from Malaysia has an obvious disability by how he obviously can't hear anything apart from all of his own special gestures that he showed in his older videos of him in his old YouTube channel, before it got terminated several months ago by all of the sudden... 

Anyway, for the bonus for this article, something that is off-topic related to this particular article, because there was a random woman who constantly commented something with some sort of conflicts going on, yet she repeatedly doing those to the same enthusiast from the United States who learned me the lesson for NOT "bullying" that special fan enthusiast from Malaysia... I obviously didn't have a clue about what was going on with her, it's because I occasionally checked his Instagram account of him, her comments were almost everywhere on most of his own vintage ceiling fan acquisition pictures taken by him with all of her certain provoked words and sentences. Some people who commented on his pictures were unbearable to him, so he probably took a serious action by terminating her account (even though I didn't have a clue about what was going on with her after all of that occurred anyway).

Well then, pay an obvious attention when it comes to this, because no matter how much hate that you will do it to certain people that you simply don't like, sometimes there are certain people who just disrespects to you if you keep doing it out of control to themselves from their sides, even if they aren't knowing about what are you specifically doing so to themselves in the first place... Anyway, that's it for what I could say to this archived article of this. Be kind, respect, and support each other even with all of their own respective weaknesses from every aspects that they have, even if I obviously have a lot of weaknesses on every aspects that I particularly own for sure... For those two aforementioned fan enthusiasts that I mentioned there, I apologize for what I made a grave mistake specifically like those, even it was occurred from around 8 years ago. It was all my fault for doing all of that; it's because I didn't mean to make both of you went insane to myself during that occurred, it's due to I originally meant to learn a lesson from one of them in order to make him smarter than he used to, albeit I did it in such a wrong way to do so either way.