Ceiling Fan Balancer

This way works unbelievably well if you pay close attention to the instructions. In my case, my fan had a dark round thumbscrew that held the light on. By just turning the light on to a low light setting the phone was able to accurately track the center of the wobbling fan and acquire accurate readouts. The computed results were spot on -well done!

I picked up an older Hunter ceiling fan from my local Re-store. It had a pretty bad wobble due to the restore mishandling it. It’s very important to follow the preparation steps as this identified that one of the blade irons was not only bent but twisted causing the pitch and blade height to be off. After fixing that, I ran the routine in the app which got the wobble out completely on the first try.

New ceiling fan had a shimmy-shake thing going on after install. Before breaking out the food scale, disassembling the blades and measuring each one, thought I’d try this optical balancing app out. It worked perfectly! Went from 20.7 units out of balance to zero/one (barely visible wobble). Aces!

I read the poor reviews and purchased anyway and am extremely happy with the results. Instructions are detailed and I needed to follow them precisely. The app DOES work with sloped ceilings - when it says blades should be the same distance from the ceiling and your ceiling is sloped or uneven simply spin each blade to the same spot before measuring distance from ceiling. Buy a balancing kit that includes 3 gram weights not 5 gram for better precision. If the bottom center of the fan spins along with the blades then your “black dot on neutral color painters tape “ must be exactly in the center so it doesn’t move when slowly spinning the fan. Be sure to use the 3gram clips with the 3gram weights or the 5gram clips with the 5gram weights. Do all this and the app works beautifully.

It reduced wobble, but the app tells me to place weights that are so close to the center of the fan that the weights would have to be on the blade holders themselves which I cannot do. It would be great if I could specify the length of usable blade space where I can actually stick a weight on top of. Otherwise it’s very helpful

I was a little skeptical of this, but was willing to accept a little wobble if I could improve it enough to not make noise. I went through the process twice and it is absolutely perfect. I ended up putting weights on multiple blades at various lengths. There is no way I would have gotten it that still through trial and error on my own. Saved me hours of work, a mental breakdown, and probably a still kinda wobbly fan.

Does exactly what it says it does.

I installed a new ceiling fan this afternoon. It’s mounted on a vaulted ceiling and the fan blades only have around an inch of clearance. I should probably get a longer downrod, but the two previous fans were fine. The new fan had the very slightest wobble. Not enough to really notice, but enough that the fan blades were tapping the ceiling. I tried balancing it manually and spent too much time with no better results. Then I read about this app on Reddit. It took around ten minutes using the app and got the exact best place to add weights on two blades. Now the fan is completely wobble free at all speeds. Truly a great tool.

This app is the tool I needed to balance my wobbly fan that squeaked. It helped me find which blade needed the weight and where to place it. I like its objective measurement. I started with a wobble score of 30 and ended with 2.5. To my eye, it’s perfectly still at full speed. A few tips, put the camera on a step ladder for consistency. I used small paper binder clips from my office. I numbered the tops of my fan blades with a magic marker.

The app was never able to detect the blade movement. I believe it is because my ceiling has vaulted areas. Does not work. I want my money back.

The app could never identify the dot on the bottom of the fan. I tried different color tape, making the dot bigger, and making the dot darker. The app was never able to locate the dot and balance the fan

Fiddled with the fan for 2 hours, then bought the app. In 20 minutes it had it better than I could get it. Not perfect, but worth $3 Also props for not asking for my personal info or wanting a monthly subscription.