Low Energy 48” 122cm Ceiling Fan Pepeo Raja White with dimmable LED Light Fixture and Remote Control

The fan and LED lightening design, functionality and quality are all very good. The fan is effective and totally silent at lower speeds and the light, with three variations in colour tone and variable intensity, is extremely flexible. The remote control is simple and intuitive too. However, the fittings are designed for a German style concrete ceiling. In a UK bedroom with timber joists the hanging bracket can be screwed into a joist with four large screws, but this is not possible in a conservatory, which is where my fan was going. The central aluminium ridge beam in the conservatory does have flat aluminium bracket but the bolt holes in the Raja hanging bracket are spaced too far apart for the conservatory bracket. As a result I had to separately source a length of 50mm x 3mm steel bar and drill no less than 11 holes into it! Four holes are needed for bolts to fix it to the Raja hanging bracket, a large central hole for the power supply cable, and I decided on no less than six stainless steel self tapping screws to attach the entire assembly to the conservatory ridge beam bracket!In theory hanging the fan and connecting the wiring terminals should be straightforward but the height of the average conservatory ridge beam from the floor makes that a difficult task for one person balancing on a step ladder since there's insufficient space to get fingers behind the fan shroud and grip both terminals to connect them when the fan is resting in it's hanging bracket. In the end I managed it only to find that neither the fan nor the light worked! On inspection I discovered that the wiring terminals for the remote signal were disconnected. When you can't see what you're doing it's easy to miss one of the three separate wiring connectors which need pushing together under the fan shroud. Like many others on here, I too cut off the 'safety' cable as it couldn't be used and was causing unnecessary clutter in the very limited space under the shroud.In summary, it is a very good fan/light combination for the price, but although the maker is German this fan is (like just about everything else these days) made in China! The instructions are not great and do not always describe components of the Raja fan (e.g. the description of blade fitting - what 'central ridge' in the blade?). And be prepared to use a little ingenuity when fitting it because if you don't have a concrete or similar solid ceiling none of the fixings will be of any use. If you're thinking of a conservatory application do ensure you have a suitable horizontal location to accept four nuts and bolts and carry 8kgs of rapidly rotating weight!

After 5 weeks the remote failed to stop/start fan or light. Knowing Amazon would want to replace the entire unit not just the remote, I contacted Pepeo direct to see if they would be able to send out just a replacement remote controller. After helping me confirm it was just the remote at fault, their attitude to this customer was abysmal, and they would only offer to sell me a replacement. They lectured me via email how you cannot buy a car from Audi and request replacement wheels from Porsche. I was just approaching the manufacturer direct to help save a customer have to take down and return the entire fan unit.However good their products may turn out to be (bearing in mind my remote failed after 5 weeks).Amazon, on the other hand have been very good albeit the entire fan and remote have to be returned). Their approach to me was faultless.It looked great online and it IS great once installed but the installation instructions are very poor and unhelpful - even to the very experienced electrician who came to fit mine.It only relates to concrete ceilings with the fixtures provided yet with some simple additions it could be made helpful for those of us with wooden joists.The three locking pieces to protect the shaft in transit work very well but the instructions that came with mine never expressly showed where they were and it was through trial and error my electrician located them.Having said all that, once operating, the fan is smooth and very quiet and the remote operates very well (even if the remote pictured in the instructions has a very different layout to the one that came 'in the box').

This fan is so good that I am buying more of them. Fitting is so easy compared to other fans I have fitted. It comes in 3 parts so hardly anything to do once you have fitted the ceiling bracket. It comes with a metal safety chain which I cut off to give more room in the canopy. I have used 4 x 4" screws into the ceiling joist so it's not going aywhere.One problem some people have is that is wobbles after being fitted, I think this could be because they have not fitted the silver metal plates to the fan blades. I made this mistake and the fan wobbled, when I realised that the metal plates needed fitting then the fan stopped wobbling (see picture above) - the instructions are not very clear about this. (Also make sure that when you lift the fan into the bracket that you turn the top round until the slot engages with the bracket.)There is no noise at all - very smooth. Fan speed 1 is also nice and slow so great to just leave this on most of the time. You have a variety of light colours and it does dim and of course you can reverse the fan via the remote; it also has a sleep function on the remote.Your main wiring connects to the ceiling bracket and then you simply plug a cable into the ceiling bracket. You then connect an earth and then connect the light section - so there are very few connections. It does not have one of those fiddly stupid receivers that you put in the top of the bracket, but instead has the receiver built into the canopy - this is great and makes everything a lot easier.The blades are a nice size as well, not too big and not too small.It's difficult to fault the fan: maybe the instructions could be clearer and maybe the light could dim all the way down to practically going out but don't let that put you off.