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Specifications:
- Model: F-560A1
- Production year: 2001
- Color/finish: White bone (but it has been yellowed)
- Blade diameter: 56" (140cm)
- Power rating: 70-75 watts
- Voltage: 220-230 V
- Frequency: 50 Hz
Manufactured for Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd
Made in China.
My 2nd National ceiling fan! I got this for Rp 250.000 (around 18 USD) from an online shop. Actually, the first purpose I bought this fan is to take the blades and the motor covers for my Panasonic which was installed in the family room (yes, I have another F-560A1), because the aforementioned parts on that fan were in quite a bad shape (previously, but now they've been fully restored). But since the parts I am going to take from this fan are turned out to be in much worse condition, I refused my plan to swap these parts out. I previously had no idea what I am going to do with this fan judging by its beaten-up condition, it didn't even come with the speed regulator as well. I even thought of selling it away because I already have a F-560A1, but that'll don't give all of my money back that I have spent for this fan. After a lot of thoughts residing in my brain for around a day, I realized if it'll be interesting if I had a fan installed in the outdoor area of my house. And this fan is one of the best options to be used in an outdoor area compared to all of my other ceiling fans, judging by its current physical condition (as I have mentioned before), so I decided to install it here by myself. And that's how this fan ended up in my collection.
Some of you may be wondering, why didn't you fix the bent blade? why did you keep the yellowing look? why didn't you replace these worn-out bearings? Yes, I know these questions are required things to do as a fan collector/lover. But I want to give this fan a "clean-beaten-up/beater" concept 🙃 (I know it may sound weird or disgusting), even this fan is installed in an outdoor area where an extreme temperature could be abusing the surface area of this fan. That's why I don't want to balance the blades, replace the "rock-bearings", or even give it a new paint job. As I have mentioned in the 4th paragraph line 7-8, this fan didn't come with the speed regulator when I achieve it (the seller said that the original speed regulator had rusted up on the switch, so it doesn't work anymore). I coincidentally had 3 KDK WZ48/56-2 speed regulators sitting in a box, so I took one of them to be used for this fan. Despite the beaten-up physical and the worn-out bearings issues it has, it's still quite fast and generates a lot of air. Although it has a bad physical look, unbalanced blades, and noisy bearings, I still love it a lot, considering it's a childhood fan of mine too! And this was the exact same fan I used to see every day in my former kindergarten & pre-school (with 2 F-EY149s), but of course, the fan I used to see very often back then has much better condition than this fan does.
For your information, this fan was not officially sold in Indonesia. It doesn't even show up on National/Panasonic's website and catalog back then. But why do a lot of Indonesian citizens can have this fan?? They were sold like hotcakes, and it's even one of the most common fans back then, they are all over the place. Well, this fan is a black-market product back then. They were illegally imported to Indonesia, spreading them to Indonesian markets, and finally, people bought them for their own needs. Andd, it was made in China. Yes, CHINA. I believe a lot of you thought that this fan was originally made in Japan (I thought the same thing before), but after I did some research, I found out that it was made in China. And that also tells why the manufacturer says "MFD for Matsushita bla bla bla", not "MFD nor Manufactured by". But don't worry, although it was made in China, its build quality is not as bad as what you may have thought regarding Chinese products. This fan definitely has a good and best quality compared to all other Chinese-made fans we've seen nowadays, it even utilized copper windings inside. I would say it's very similar to the National/Panasonic/KDK made by PT. National Gobel, or even the ones directly made by Matsushita. They even have the same reliability as the non-China-made ones, even the airflow it generates is also strong as the original version of Matsushita fans!
Taken on April 23, 2022.
Happy fasting to those who did it!
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