Things to beware when installing (its not that bad)
I can only blame myself but I am an engineer and cautious. I installed the fan to the minimum I could do and then tested it. This was a mistake. I did not install the blades and tried powering the device. Well evidently the blade weight /momentum appear to be critical in the operation of the fan. Without the blades the device stuttered and stopped. I got mad and returned the device. When the second behaved similarly, I knew it was my fault and double checked everything. Still no good until I went all in and installed the blades.
OK- one more BIG thing that also was perplexing. I am guessing this fan has a brushless controller, which is generally a very good thing, but hard to get right (from the design engineers side). The fan takes 5-10 seconds to respond to the remote and can even start in the wrong direction briefly during startup. It can also jitter during startup. Not being the most patient guy I mistook this as faulty operation on the devices until the blades were installed (And I found a post indicating this was odd - but normal).
If I would have just gone through the entire install instead of being cautious I think it would have taken an hour or less.
Remote - remote is clunky but works. Controlling with your phone and Alexa makes the remote irrelevant and both seem to work well. But if you are not interested in using those alternate methods I would really be unhappy with this fan as you cannot control it from your normal light switches and pull chain. Only including this last bit as a warning to people who do not use Alexa (or equivalent) - think of older parents.
Overall it seems to work pretty well with Alexa and would love to get many years out of it.
Things to beware when installing (its not that bad)
I can only blame myself but I am an engineer and cautious. I installed the fan to the minimum I could do and then tested it. This was a mistake. I did not install the blades and tried powering the device. Well evidently the blade weight /momentum appear to be critical in the operation of the fan. Without the blades the device stuttered and stopped. I got mad and returned the device. When the second behaved similarly, I knew it was my fault and double checked everything. Still no good until I went all in and installed the blades. OK- one more BIG thing that also was perplexing. I am guessing this fan has a brushless controller, which is generally a very good thing, but hard to get right (from the design engineers side). The fan takes 5-10 seconds to respond to the remote and can even start in the wrong direction briefly during startup. It can also jitter during startup. Not being the most patient guy I mistook this as faulty operation on the devices until the blades were installed (And I found a post indicating this was odd - but normal). If I would have just gone through the entire install instead of being cautious I think it would have taken an hour or less. Remote - remote is clunky but works. Controlling with your phone and Alexa makes the remote irrelevant and both seem to work well. But if you are not interested in using those alternate methods I would really be unhappy with this fan as you cannot control it from your normal light switches and pull chain. Only including this last bit as a warning to people who do not use Alexa (or equivalent) - think of older parents. Overall it seems to work pretty well with Alexa and would love to get many years out of it.