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I purchased this for my pewter Huxley fan (Fanimation FP5620PW Huxley Ceiling Fan, Pewter Finish, 5 Cherry/Walnut Blades).
The good: Looks nice, goes with the Huxley look, the 180W lighting is pretty sufficient for a medium-size room, and the finial nut matches the glass well.
The bad: Apparently there are two designs for the Huxley fan speed pull chain, which gets threaded through this bowl. On my fan, the chain comes out horizontally from the the side of the switch cup housing. On the box it came in, one picture shows the chain coming out diagonally halfway down the switch cup housing. See the picture on Fanimation FP5620OB Huxley Ceiling Fan, Oil Rubbed Bronze Finish, 5 Cherry/Walnut Blades.
The light kit's hole for the fan speed pull chain is an un-grommeted hole in the glass right next to the finial nut. Once I threaded my fan's pull chain through it, it put it at a very awkward angle. Pulling on the chain makes it scrape at a sharp angle to the glass, and pulls it more than 20 degrees inward from vertical. The balls get stuck on both the upper guiding nut and the glass bowl hole edges. Yuck. It seems the alternate pull chain location would have worked much better it would place the chain much closer to the bowl's hole, without all the weird angles.
If you're going to be using the fan speed pull chain, check its location on the switch cup housing before buying this light kit!
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