dc powered ceiling fan

If you think about the basic electric motor design, the shaft is in motion while the windings are stationary. The trick with light kits below the paddles of a ceiling fan motor is to pass the wire through the shaft but if its spinning it will wear down the wire insalation and short out. Apparently the more conventional VAC ceiling fans with light kits below the paddles have motors where, the windings are stationary on the shaft while, in effect, the case becomes the spinning "shaft."
I don't know which type RCH incorperates into their VDC ceiling fans.

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