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A Ceiling Fan draws about 70W, so a 150Ah 12V tubular battery runs one of them for roughly 9 hours on its own. That comes from 630Wh usable energy divided by 70W. A standard 1200mm induction-motor ceiling fan at medium-to-high speed.
A standard 1200mm induction-motor ceiling fan at medium-to-high speed. The 70W figure used across this page is a typical mid-range Indian retail unit — check the nameplate on yours and put the real number into the calculator, because a 10W difference on an appliance you run for six hours is 60Wh out of a budget of only a few hundred.
Category: Cooling. People search for this as fan, ceiling fan watts, pankha — all the same question, and all answered by the same arithmetic.
Usable energy is Ah x 12V x 0.7 efficiency x 0.5 depth of discharge. Divide that by the appliance draw and you have the runtime with nothing else connected.
| Battery | Usable energy | Runtime with one unit | Runtime with two |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100Ah | 420Wh | 6 hours | 3 hours |
| 120Ah | 504Wh | 7 hours 12 minutes | 3 hours 36 minutes |
| 135Ah | 567Wh | 8 hours 6 minutes | 4 hours 3 minutes |
| 150Ah | 630Wh | 9 hours | 4 hours 30 minutes |
| 165Ah | 693Wh | 9 hours 54 minutes | 4 hours 57 minutes |
| 180Ah | 756Wh | 10 hours 48 minutes | 5 hours 24 minutes |
| 200Ah | 840Wh | 12 hours | 6 hours |
| 220Ah | 924Wh | 13 hours 12 minutes | 6 hours 36 minutes |
| 250Ah | 1050Wh | 15 hours | 7 hours 30 minutes |
Nothing stops you connecting more units — the limit is runtime, not the inverter, until you hit the surge ceiling below.
| Quantity | Continuous draw | Runtime | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 70W | 9 hours | Low load |
| 2 | 140W | 4 hours 30 minutes | Moderate |
| 3 | 210W | 3 hours | Moderate |
| 4 | 280W | 2 hours 15 minutes | Moderate |
| 5 | 350W | 1 hour 48 minutes | High load |
| 6 | 420W | 1 hour 30 minutes | High load |
Very few appliances run flat out for a full hour. A fridge compressor cycles, a mixer runs in bursts, a pump fills a tank and stops. Battery Buddy asks for minutes run per hour and multiplies the wattage by that fraction — which is why its answers are usually longer, and more honest, than a calculator that assumes continuous draw.
| Minutes run per hour | Average hourly draw | Runtime on a 150Ah battery |
|---|---|---|
| 15 min | 17.5W | 36 hours |
| 30 min | 35W | 18 hours |
| 40 min | 46.7W | 13 hours 30 minutes |
| 45 min | 52.5W | 12 hours |
| 60 min | 70W | 9 hours |
This is a surge-sensitive appliance. Battery Buddy applies a 1.5x start-up multiplier to a Ceiling Fan, so one unit spikes to about 105W for a second or two at switch-on. Your inverter has to survive everything else already running plus that spike — not just the average load.
Peak demand = total continuous load + the single largest start-up surge. The sizing advisor runs that check automatically for whatever mix you enter.
These are complete household and shop profiles we model, each with its own worked page.
| Profile | Average draw | Backup on a 150Ah battery |
|---|---|---|
| 2 ceiling fans + 3 LED bulbs | 167W | 3 hours 46 minutes |
| 1 ceiling fan + 2 LED bulbs | 88W | 7 hours 10 minutes |
| 3 ceiling fans + 5 LED bulbs | 255W | 2 hours 28 minutes |
| 2 fans + 4 lights + TV + WiFi router | 246W | 2 hours 34 minutes |
| Refrigerator + 2 fans + 4 LED bulbs | 276W | 2 hours 17 minutes |
| Laptop + WiFi router + 1 fan + 2 lights | 163W | 3 hours 52 minutes |
| 2 fans + 6 lights + TV + refrigerator + WiFi | 404W | 1 hour 34 minutes |
| 4 tube lights + 2 fans + billing computer | 420W | 1 hour 30 minutes |
| 1 fan + 2 lights + 2 mobile chargers | 98W | 6 hours 26 minutes |
| TV + set-top box + 2 fans + 3 lights | 242W | 2 hours 36 minutes |
About 70W while running. A standard 1200mm induction-motor ceiling fan at medium-to-high speed. Always confirm against the nameplate rating on your own unit before sizing a battery around it.
Roughly 9 hours with nothing else connected: 630Wh usable divided by 70W. Add anything else to the inverter and that time drops proportionally.
Battery Buddy applies a 1.5x multiplier, so a single unit peaks near 105W at switch-on before settling to 70W. That spike, not the running load, is what trips undersized inverters.
Yes — one unit runs about 6 hours on a 100Ah 12V battery at 70% efficiency. Whether that is enough depends on how long your outages actually last and what else shares the inverter.
The figures assume 70% system efficiency. An older battery, low electrolyte, corroded terminals or thin cabling all reduce the effective factor. Measure yours with the efficiency estimator and re-run the numbers — it takes one discharge test.
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