I would have never imagined this video would ever get almost 2 million views! This video was taken during a trip to an island in my country back when I was 13 years old, using an old Sony handycam (tape storage, mind you!). The noise caught my attention, and I thought I'd make a quick video of it to share with the world. I have never been to that island since, so I do not know if this particular fan has survived since then, but we still do have our fair share of this model still in service. I love the fact that a lot of you mentioned that this sound is extremely nostalgic, as the memories are very dear to me as well. For all the comments I may not be able to reply to, just know that I appreciate every single one! 😊 I use this account primarily these days. However, you might still see an occasional random upload to my old channel from time to time.

Imagine being in a dark room trying to turn on the light, but you flip that switch instead. That would be so scary

Meanwhile... Some plane mechanic: "Who the hell keeps stealing my propellers?!!"

The neighbors: Why there's always sound of airplane every night?

1:07 20,000 horsepower jet engine initiated 🔥

This is the most nostalgic sound I remember. This used to be one of my favorite videos of all time. It still is up there. I don’t know what that sound is, however, I will never forget it.

Me: attempts to go to sleep My brother: 𝚃𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚗 Me: O͞H͞ N͞O͞!!

i watched this

0:32 now activating ultra-turbo-break-your-ears-mode

Nobody: The ceiling fan: BBBRRRRRRRRRRUURIRIRIRIRIRRRURURUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRURURURURUURURURURRRRRRRRRR

*sleeping peacefully with the cool air blowing gently on my body*

I’m honestly surprised on how it’s perfectly balanced.

Pilot: this engine is too slow 0:12 co-pilot: (increases the speed) 0:30 Pilot: woah thats cool

I was once stuck in the tropics with a noisy fan. The choice was stark: lie sweating in almost 95 degree heat with high humidity or use the fan. All through the night I cycled between both option. Lie sweating in the dark until I could stand it no longer. Turn on fan. Cool down with an horrendous noise until I could stand it no longer. Turn off the fan. Repeat. A night from hell.

That thing is scary. I couldn't sleep at night with that running!

The reason for this, is the fan was wired incorrectly with a PWM TRIAC in line as seen as a dimmer knob near the switch. It operates however shortens the lifespan of the motor. The reason is the waveform of PWM does not resonate in the motors iron core properly and also makes its power factor junk so the stator actually is under increased thermal stress, Either utilise the motors allocated windings for a fractional speed adjustment or install a variac into the wall if you really want to.

90% of fans in the Maldives have variable speed controls. Normally, fans similar to this one are really quiet running on 220v. This one was simply loud:P

That fan is a flipping Decepticon. I would be HORRIFIED to hear that in a dark room when I want to turn on the lights!

Love the sound of old electric motors.

I weirdly wanna experience sleeping there for a night. Sounds nostalgic

As a fan collector that is the loudest fan I've ever heard!!!

NO ONE : FAN : I want to be a jet engine when i grow up....

This was my very first ceiling fan video that I watched from other users like this before I started loving electric fans and such...

That thing goes like crazy though. The motor noise, the wind rushing through the blades.

Imagine that thing falling off the ceiling in the middle of the night but it still has an electrical connection 😳

This kinda sounds like my furnace in the hallway but trust me. If I had a fan like this NO WAY I can’t sleep

When you turn it on fully it sounds like a Lamborghini revving up

I love ceiling fans but when I was little I had nightmares of being in rooms like these

0:19 sounds like a cello being played staccato Like this could be a sound in a masterpiece

warning! never sleep with this fan

Sounds like somebody trying to play a cello for the first time.

Dude... Is it just me or does it sound like a Sword you know one of those play swords?

Bro I watched this video when I was 5 years old and now im watching this video again after 3 years.

Imagine turning on that fan one day at home, in the dark with that sound as if it were connected to an inverter at 50 hz, the scare that one gets hahaha

I watched this video when I was only 1 and here I am 13 years later. Love this video and can't stop watching it lol.

I still remember I heard this noise before my stand fan slowly dies... I think mine has... (Out Of Grease)

Sounds like a prop-jet airliner starting-up! I've flown on many of them in years past.

Somehow this video brought me back late 2000s and early 2010s feelings. I remember, before 2010, my house is old like what this video showed. We have old ceiling fans like this, but not as loud as this.

When its 3am and a honda civic come 00:30 turbo hit

That’s my favorite noise when I sleep, it makes my sleep paralysis seem more real

I wasn't even born yet when this video was uploaded!

idk why but i love the way this fan sounds!

Imagine watching this 11 years later from your recommended list

very gloomly lit room. I wouldn't wanna sleep there, especially with the loud fan adding to the effect.

This sounds like you're firing up a death-ray!

I love this sound of old electronic motors but another time it sounded normal and thats nice coolest fan ever I seen too

It sounds like starting a big industrial motor, rated for literally hundreds of times more horsepower than this. Either the rotor isn't magnetically centered around the stator, or the bearings have had it. Time for a new Hunter, or Hampton Bay fan!

11 years later, KZfaq wants you to watch this. Sounds like a jet turbine spooling up

0:45 The fan goes fast

0:24 it sounds like a cello playing a low g pitch very fast to slow.

I like how this is the scariest fan ever that will wake you up in the middle of the night.

Ooop... I've somehow stumbled upon the 'old' early days of KZfaq video caves. Hand me a flashlight so I can find my way back out of here before I end up spending another 3 hours here.

Sounds like a Detroit diesel

Sounds like a guitar amp a little. It sounds cool starting up. But I believe that variable speed control is on its way out and its making the fan loud like that. I don't think there is anything wrong with the ceiling fan itself.

When I first watched this, I had no idea what I was doing. I didn’t pay attention to the title, then I literally jumped and ran. Imagine trying to sleep under this thing!

i had a old ceilling fan that had a rough yet fast startup

I love it. Reminds me of a big industrial motor startup.

That is so cool! I have an Indian-made industrial fan that is a pretty close match for this on 110V!

Brings memories from my childhood

When I was young, this was one of my favourite videos.

nice 50hz startup.

Honey it's kind of warm, would you mind turning the fan on? "Sure" *Click WUBWUBWUBWOOOSHWTFBOOM

This video is so nostalgic, I remember always watching it 9 years ago

Childhood memories...

I could just see myself in a room like that. If I was there I would probably be screaming. At the first like 10 seconds sounds like a Star Wars sword.

yes, 5-speed controllers used to be common, but these have taken over now (especially in the larger cities)

Sounds awesome. It also sounds like me when I am slowly running up to top speed.

11 years for recommended thx again KZfaq appreciate

It sounds like a plane taking off

Or a washing machine is the same sound !

Gezzz that would drive me nuts. You could save a lot of money on plane travel just turn that upside down and hang on haha.

I have watched this video a long time ago. Here I am again. Weird and cool fan noise

Sounds like an alien ship is about to take from your house

I had a 2000s era fan with 5 wooden blades that just was too loud and powerful. Eventually it got terminated for it's impracticality.

One of my half brothers is a fan collector, and he has fans spread out everywhere in his house, and one of the industrials sounds just like that, and my boyfriend is afraid to go to his house because of that sound and all of the other fans my half brother has

That ceiling fan feels powerful, just imagine the sounds

I’ve never seen fan blades spin so fast before, my goodness that’s so dangerous.

It will be eerie if the room is too quiet. It's a compliment!

Imagine if you try to turn on your light, but you flip that switch of the fan instead. That would be so scary

This house looks like it was built in the 90s in a small country, but that ceiling fan is cool

I used to HATE this sound especially in my dreams as a kid. It gave me this kind of fear like a weird feeling that it is otherworldly and it may cause harm. Run away and hide from it

0:03 - 0:23 sounds like a music

The sound seems to come from outer space🌌.

This fan’s noise reminds me of my childhood when I used to go in the weekends at my grandma‘s for staying at my grandma‘s house

Wonder if that fan is still loud 14 years later.

I remember watching this when I was like 5, scared the hell outta me.

Probably needs some screws retightened. Mine had a hum similar like that and it turned out that the hub that houses the magnets was loose.

I love ceiling fans. This brings memories childhood.

Thanks! Its not that loud inside the room, and the sound doesn't really bother me that much:P

*Reminds me of a mosquito flying around me at night.*

Absolutely impressive :0

This reminds me of half life when you start the rotors

That sounds like ur time traveling or going into hyper space

I wouldnt not want that above me spinning that fast while im sleeping.

You didn't mount a ceiling fan, you mounted a helicopter!

Your outside and suddenly this sound plays and a light from far away getting brighter and brighte-

Wow!! it is very loud ceiling fan sounds!

if i had that ceiling fan on (fan), i would never sleep

"Mom its too hot i cant sleep in here!" "Go to the fan room" "💀" *ons fan* Neighbor:ZZZ Z- WAT DA FU- IS THAT?!?! *opens window* Neighbor:HEY!!!! Keep whatever that thing is off! "💀" *Maxes up to 5th speed* Neighbor: my ears bUrNnNNn 🔥 "Troll succes"

Wonderful. I think the noise is because it is on a dimmer, dimmers work by cutting off the AC at a certain point in each half wave, so there is a sharp spike to 0 which makes the motor coils vibrate. It would be noisiest at 50% and quietest at low and full, since the spikes are small or nonexistant then. The reason for the cool "phasing" slowing down around 0:25 is that it's an asynchronous motor and the rotor is catching up to the speed of the magnetic fields. They get away from it again at 0:30 when he turns it up. There are better ways to control such a motor, but they don't sound as good. Edit: It occured to me at 3am last night that that last bit I said makes no sense, the magnetic fields would move at the same speed regardless of dimmer position, they just wouldn't be as strong on lower settings so the fan would settle into more slip. Maybe the noise is actually the rotor approaching some division of the field speed and it'll only sound like that at fixed divisions of the field speed. See, I can put as much as I want here, becuase nobody will ever read it.