Fan Man Casablanca Inteli•Touch Conversion

[@isaac24]

That's so cool! Nice to know that there are still companies who care about vintage and discontinued products.

[@jasonstevens1998]

Amazing video, Cole! We first developed this conversion in 2014 when we learned Hunter was no longer supporting their high end fan components. We love keeping the old Legacy fans running!

[@vintagefancollector1436]

Customers have enjoyed this, even with 3 less speeds.

[@scooby0068]

Awesome video! Thank you for your professionalism and presentation!

[@QuamellsFanChannel]

Great video, Cole!

[@josephmay4937]

I love your videos hope your doing well stay safe my friend

[@dons1643]

Great video, I'm just replacing all the old fans in my house that are cheap builder grade fans, and am quickly seeing that Casablanca puts this remote control unit in the fan housing and not as a add on that goes above the fan in the hanging bracket. or should I say Squeezing that unit above the fan in the hanging bracket. That makes fan installation much easier I am thinking.... Fitting the remote control unit in the fan vs. in the small space above the fan is Genius... IMO this is a lightbulb moment in fan design and operation and installation. JUST wondering if Casablanca is the only fan company doing this. Don't know if this is the place to ask - do all Casablanca fans have this setup - with the remote control receiver (don't know if that's what is is called) in the fan housing vs. outside like all other manfacturers?

[@vfandm]

Casablanca was not the only manufacturer to put their boards in the motor housing; they also did not exclusively put them in the motor housing. The shown fan uses what collectors refer to as a "stack motor". Due to increasing regulations regarding motor performance and energy-efficiency, most manufacturers using stack motors have been forced to phase them out in favor of higher efficiency AC "spinner" motors, or DC motors which offer better performance at significantly lower energy usage. Most DC ceiling fan motors are also what we call the "spinner" format, where the entire motor casing rotates around the stator. Your builder fans probably use a spinner motor, but like anything, there are lots of quality tiers and factors that make some better than others. Whether AC or DC, that rotating motor shell often means there's no physical place to mount a receiver or motor control in the motor housing. Also, considering the slimmer designs popular today, there is also just generally no room in a lot of cases. Many blades just mount directly to the motor these days with no other housing at all. Some fans mount it below the motor in the switch housing if the design has one, others put it above the motor by using a taller housing design. To achieve a specific design, most are left with no place other than inside the canopy/mounting bracket. I agree they can be quite cumbersome and really aren't fun to install, but if it works it works, especially when a lot of said fans are pushing performance, speed range, blade span, and design to places never imagined before. To be clear, most new Casablanca fans for sale today have retired the shown motor setup and also use a receiver in the canopy. But Casablanca and their parent company Hunter use canopies and brackets with tons of space to accommodate them, still some of the easiest fans to install in my opinion. Fanimation and Modern Forms have been among the more difficult I've worked with in terms of new products with canopy receivers. There are also very few companies who adhere to one receiver style or location placement. Modern Forms and their parent company WAC are the only ones I can think of that are probably 98% canopy placement across products in both brands, but they also only offer DC motor models which makes a difference in keeping the setup consistent. Matthews Fan Company and their subsidiary Atlas typically place them above the motor inside of a taller housing for their paddle fan designs, but those models only make up maybe 50% of the product line since they also do rotational and directional ceiling and wall mount products. Due to that taller housing though, many of their downrod-mount designs are rather impractical for lower ceiling applications. Easier installation, but application is limited. Tradeoffs no matter what. Pretty much all other major brands are much more scattered, offering a variety of motor and control options across models, making it difficult to buy based on receiver/control location preference unless you really know the product line and how each system works inside and out.

[@vintagefancollector1436]

I have worked with these, as Partsimple (the company who has you send your dead board and rebuild it) was not as reliable with rebuilding things as we wanted. My only dislike is the reverse module isn’t as easy to replace.

[@jasonstevens1998]

We offer a two year warranty on this conversion kit. We also have replacement parts available for individual sale, including reverse modules.

[@thevultrantransituniverse1487]

Very interesting...

[@CeilingFanVideosOnYT]

Would this be a good idea to do it on Casablanca with Samsung motor? Also I can see it has XLP-2000 motor and a pre-PermaLock downrod.

[@vfandm]

No idea if there's any particular guidance on that, I'm not prepared to give any. This XLP came from my first IT brass Zephyr, it'd been warrantied at some point. I put the K55 from this one in the Zephyr. I'm trying to remember now why I did that, there was some greater logic at the time.

[@origtex]

I have Casablanca 55069 Panama fan. Purchased new last year. Remote/receiver is buggy. I want to remove the receiver and go to a standard wall switch. Can I simply remove the receiver (looks like part Hunter Fan Company 99199 ) and wire directly to the ceiling fan? Then use a fan wall switch?

[@vfandm]

That should work, you just won't have the reverse feature. I seem to recall some reports of fans occasionally reversing themselves due to power supply fluctuations or potential stray signals. Could be a pain to get going back the direction you need in that regard, just something to keep in mind. If it really gives you problems, swapping the harness for one without a reverse module is a possibility.

[@origtex]

@@vfandm Thanks for the comment. I suspect reverse will not be an option. The more I read about the receivers, the more I dislike them.

[@nathancho3612]

@@vfandm I am also trying to replace the intelli switch, but with a. Lutron caseta smart fan switch with 4-speeds. Should this work? When I connected it, the smart switch itself lights up and down but the fan does not move at all...when I plug the old intelli switch back in, it works again. trying to figure out if this new switch configuration is supposed to work or if I just did something wrong... Could you help? Thank you!

[@vfandm]

Sorry for the late reply, these reply comments sometimes get buried in my queue. Inteli•Touch wall controls and the computer boards in the fans work together as a system; you cannot simply put another control in place. If you're relatively handy, you can entirely rewire the fan and eliminate the Inteli•Touch system to use the Caseta control, this video shows you how: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJeqd3-urJesZrM

[@sounakdas9565]

Nice👍👏😊