Ceiling Fan Testing Facility Guidance Manual

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Ceiling Fan Testing Facility Guidance Manual

• Rebecca Miller
• ICF Consulting
• ENERGY STAR for Ceiling Fans
• rmiller_at_icfconsulting.com

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Reasons for the Manual

• Protects integrity of the test procedure
• Help interested parties build a testing facility
  (if necessary)
• Hunter Fan, ITS, and UL provided guidance and
  contents of manual
• Fluid document new versions as specifications
  change
• Possible accreditation for lab and/or test?

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Contents of Manual

• Chapters
• One Introduction
• Two List of equipment vendors
• Three Air delivery Room Construction and
  Preparation
• Four Equipment Set-Up and Test Procedure
• Five Calibration Approval and Reporting Test
  Results
• Lab pictures and blueprints
• Program documents and required reporting forms

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Comments and Timeline

• Draft 1 available for download at
  www.energystar.gov/library
• Deadline to comment is July 26, 2002
• Send comments to
• Rebecca Miller, ICF Consulting
• rmiller_at_icfconsulting.com
• Timeline for Version 1.0
• Draft 1 released June 24, 2002
• Comment period June 24-July 26, 2002
• Final Fall 2002