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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful.
Very quiet, including a very quiet timer
By Todd V. Leone
This fan is whisper quiet, even at the most eminent speed. The tilt function is utile — it tilts at a 45-degree angle, so it’s necessary to reposition the entire fan as to direction once you have it tilted to intent it where you want the air to go.
The rotating grille, at first, looks symmetrical. On closer inspection, each successive louver changes angle as they move around the circle of the grille. Thus, when you turn the grille rotation feature on, the air sweeps in a wide conical pattern as it moves away from the fan. If you want the air to go in a queer direction, you may leave the grille rotation switch in the off position and rotate the grille by hand until the air is blowing in the direction you want.
I actually use the two-hour timer feature a lot. The exhaust fan in my bathroom is ineffective, so when I shower, I leave the door open and have a fan blowing into the bathroom so that moisture doesn’t cling to the walls and cause mildew. After the shower, I keep the fan on for two hours to make sure the entire bathroom dries out. My tile stays mildew-free a lot longer when I do this. I may leave for work with the fan running.
During a heat wave, when it cools off at night as it does here, I set the fan in my window, up versus the screen, to fetch cool air inside. At bedtime, if it’s still a few degrees too warm, I keep the fan on and use the 2-hour timer so it doesn’t stay on all night.
This is the quietest fan I’ve ever owned, though not the most powerful. It’s great for littler rooms, peculiarly the bedroom at night when it’s warm. The timer is perfectly quiet. (If you occur to get one that ticks loudly as another reviewer did, it’s faulty and you must interchange it for another one.)
One other nice thing is that you may mount this fan on a wall or on a door jamb, high up and out of the way. There are a couple of key-hole shaped screw holes in the bottom of the feet to receive mounting screws. Very utile if you have a circumstance where you need the fan in a permanent place and you want it out of the way — I’m going to mount it on the wall just outside my bathroom for just this reason and buy a second one for the living room, to use on the window sill.
18 of 18 persons found the following review helpful.
A fantasti fan!
By G. Vessels
I’m very puzzeled by another poster’s remarks in regards to the “ticking timer”. With the timer dial turned completely counter-clockwise (marked ‘ON’, meaning ceaseless running/no timer), the spring in the mechanical timer runs out of steam after possibly 15 minutes and the fan is one of the quietest I’ve ever had.
I in the first place purchased this fan because of the wall-mounting feature, which I necessitated to equalize the air conditioning in my home. I planned to mount it in a doorway. Before I had time to hang it, I stuck it on top of the TV at the foot of my bed and it hasn’t moved since!!! The rotating grill gives a nice, gentle, cool breeze each 30-45 seconds. Love it!
I could do without all the plastic, but this fan did hard time last summer and hasn’t let me down this season. It needs a severe vacuuming, frankly.
Other fans from this manufacturer appear kinda cheezy, but the FTY-25 is a winner.
20 of 21 humans found the following review helpful.
Bought a couple of these
By Evan
Lets get the apparent out of the way, this is a genuinely nice looking little fan. Especially for the price. It likewise may be used as a speech piece since galore people haven’t seen the oscillating fans like this one that don’t genuinely move, except for the inner circle.
So far so good. The timer works, but I’ve only employed it one time, principally to see if it works.
Now for galore bad news. I purchased a total of 3 of these. One for a bedroom, one for my office and one for our kitchen.
I purchased these all around 12-14 months ago. As of right now, 1 still works, the other two won’t even turn on. For more bad news, the inner circle that oscillates may and will become noisy after awhile. It is kind of a rattling/loose piece sound.
Another discouraging and hindering part with regards to the design is that the on/off switch is on the right side. I have the one that works besides my bed, which is on the left side of the fan, and there is no way I may reverse the bed just to work with the fan.
Whatever happened to putting the power switch on the front of the fan in the middle?
When these fans work, they are very nice for the price. Even on the low setting, there is a great deal of air being produced. Just be forewarned that you may be buying new ones once a year, as they do not seem to hold up very well. I didn’t even use them in a way that could lead to damage. One is on a nightstand, one was on a kitchen counter and one was on a desk in my office. Never moved them, once in place.
I still give it a 3 because I think it is mutual these days for fans to tear up around a year after buying them. I’m not more than willing to buy the more costly ones to see if it is a case of, “You get what you salaried for”. I’m sitting on the fence on whether to commend this fan.
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