MDinana...don't know how to post pictures...Coleman has a small tent fan (Campmor.com #85229)that has a small plastic blade, and powered by a single D cell... it is held in place on the tent with a magnetic base...the tent is sandwiched between the magnet and a metal plate on the exterior...I had purchased one of these to provide a little air movement for power outages, primarily for hurricane season... after 04, I obtained a larger 9v fan, and the small one was relegated to a back up...I've had a slow moving ceiling fan over my bed for a lot of years, and in the back of my mind have been wondering how to get more air moving when the power is out...the thought occurred to me to use the small tent fan as a thrust engine to turn the larger fan blades (eg. airplane propeller)...optimally you would want to mount the thrust at a right angle to the plane of the moving ceiling fan blade ...I'll probably make a metal bracket I can clamp on the blade, but with my preliminary trial, it provides enough thrust even at a non 90degree angle to move the fan blade (a slight upward angle, provides a little oscillating breeze when it rotates)...my initial trial mount was a piece of nylon webbing looped over one blade, and the end sandwiched between the magnet and the metal base plate... added a counter weight to the opposite blade to balance the fan blade..
thought I would pass this on to others that might have a similar ceiling fan... if you market it, send me a little royalty...
Edited by LesSnyder (07/12/12 03:18 AM)