PELONIS Fan, Quiet DC Motor Oscillating Standing Pedestal Fan with Powerful 26 Speed, 5 Silent Modes, 12h On/Off Timer, Adjustable Height and Tilt, Remote Control, 16-Inch, White

Just got the new 2019 26-speed black model. It replaces a similar DC motor fan, the Amazon Basics dual blade model, which was quickly returned. Unlike the Amazon fan, the Pelonis is packaged professionally, and the blade is near-clear light gray and looks a bit more substantial than Amazon's extremely cheap-looking plastic blades. The base is significantly heavier and the pole & display are much better looking, especially in black, and everything fits together very precisely & tightly. Quality craftsmanship.The manual, though, is atrocious. Pages out of order & repeated or blank, and definitely not written by an English speaker. Sentences like, "The fan goes off so that man can drop asleep", and "People like the idle, naturally for the nature feeling." Hard to figure out the various operational functions with twisted phrases like that. There are no specifics whatsoever, such as what the preset speed variations are; if you're like me and want to understand these things, you'll have to figure it all out on your own.The difference in the "Natural Breeze" modes between the Amazon & Pelonis is interesting. The Amazon fan randomly changes between all speeds, including "off" briefly. Fine during the day, but I didn't like that at night; it changes speeds too fast, too randomly, and the noise of the wildly changing speeds was distracting while trying to sleep (the extra small fan blade provides a little bit of extra wind power, but at the cost of noisier operation at higher speeds.) The Pelonis is different; it changes speeds according to a preset cycle, and is limited to just a few very low speeds, I'd guess from 1-5 (it never approaches any higher speeds, though thankfully never turns off completely as part of the changes.) I guess you could say that's more like a natural outdoor breeze - there's no noisy distraction factor - but without the randomness and with so few speed variations, it's predictable and boring, and more importantly, you're not gonna use that mode on a hot, sweaty night; it's too gentle. The Sleep mode is even weaker; it starts off at a low speed and gradually lowers until it allegedly shuts off ("so that man can drop asleep.") Again, way too gentle for a hot night - and mine didn't shut off, it was still going when I awoke. If it does eventually shut off in Sleep mode, it must take over 8 hours then! The other option, "Comfort Mode", is kind of a gimmicky auto-cool feature added so they can say their fan has something special the others don't, but it's seemingly useless to me. It starts on a medium low speed and isn't going to change unless for some bizarre reason you have major temp changes in your household very frequently. This mode is like the others: at no time does it even approach any high speeds. I can't see myself ever using this mode.They really needed to program the modes so the user can have options to have higher speeds involved. When you turn on these modes, the display reads "00", indicating perhaps you have a few options to go up to powerwise, but you don't. This was extremely disappointing to me since I figured with the new model they'd upgrade these modes to be more useful in hotter weather. I question the concept of making every changing-speed mode so weak, leaving the only high speed options as user-selected, constant settings with no mode association. The Amazon fan, while being too noisy in that mode, at least had some serious blowing going on at times. If I had to choose one or the other for Natural Breeze, I'd go with the Amazon - despite the problems with it I mentioned earlier.A nice surprise is that there really are as many speeds as advertised, or close to it. I went through the speeds one by one and could hear/feel the changes. (The Amazon fan advertises 24 but really only has 11; more than half of the speeds are duplicates, which is incredible false advertising.) As for the power, Pelonis says it's 2200 CFM at the highest speed, which is fairly decent. If you're looking for serious cooling power at the highest speed, you'll have to go with an 18" or 20" fan - but the thing about those is, they're not as quiet or energy efficient, and usually lack modes or more than 3 speeds. I never expect much power out of 16" DC motor fans, since their main selling points are quiet operation and energy efficiency. As far as I know, the Pelonis is about as powerful as it gets for this type & size of fan.I docked a star for the mode disappointments and the lousy remote, which has very poor range and must be pointed at the fan in an exact way or it doesn't work. A jog dial is a bad enough idea, but each 'click' usually goes up or down 2 speeds, so you have to basically use a surgeon's skilled hand (thumb in this case) to go in-between clicks to go up or down 1 speed setting. Terrible concept; precision is lost. Fortunately, I don't often mess around with the speeds to an obsessive degree. But to someone who does, this overly sensitive rotating dial could be maddening. Another minor irritation: on the remote you turn the fan on/off via the button in the center of the rotating dial... but that same button on the fan itself controls mode-switching; it uses a different button for on/off. This has already messed me up several times when simply trying to turn it on. Whoever thought this stuff out needed to use a bit more common sense.On the other hand, this fan has its benefits. It's a great looking, well-made, and acceptably functional fan. The oscillation is well-balanced, no wobbling. The display is large and keeps your settings in memory every time you turn it on, unlike the Amazon fan which always starts at speed 18 and forgets all your previous settings - wow, that was a pain to deal with, so I really love that feature on the Pelonis.The bottom line is that there probably isn't a better DC motor fan out there than this one right now, and they're all pretty much the same: Amazon Basics, Avalon, you name it, they look and function nearly the same with small differences in the modes. So even though this Pelonis has some disappointing design faults, and a manual that a 2-year-old child could've written better, it still seems to be the best DC motor fan out there right now, and it does have pretty good air power while running very quiet. Hard to find a DC motor fan in black, which means less frequent cleaning vs. white, and it looks fabulous. In cooler weather, like now, the gentle modes do serve a productive purpose.UPDATE: Months later, still using it every day since I got it. Weather's been screamingly hot lately, so I usually just set it on the highest speed & let it oscillate around the living room. Turns out it's not nearly powerful enough to get the job done in my bedroom on 90 degree nights, so I have to use my 18" fan for that, which blows a strong wind rather than the gentle breeze of the Pelonis. As I said in my original review, this is just not a good fan for hot weather. But for the living room, the Pelonis has been wonderful. I do have to add this though, which is concerning me lately: the fan has started to suddenly shut off, usually after it's been running all day. It never did that before even after 3 months of constant usage. It's not a big problem; I simply turn it back on immediately, and it runs fine again after that. I don't know if it's an overheating issue or what, but I don't like that it *suddenly* started doing that.

Let’s be serious folks. You and I are probably fairly similar in some ways. Like a very important subject ..... fans! No seriously.For my entire life, a fan was just a fan. The cheaper they were, the more I could buy. Heck if the Dollar Store sold fans, I would have bought them there. How many of you still use box fans? Yeah you!But as you get older (no I wont tell you) you realize that spending a bit more money on something of quality is worth every single penny. This doesn’t just apply to parachutes and trampolines though.......... um where was I ..... oh yeah ...... fans!This fan is top notch. It delivered to me in the retail box but they packaged this fan for some delivery truck roughness. Everything was neatly packed, wrapped and it didn’t have any styrofoam or a gazillion twisty ties, I think they gave this packaging some thought. Anyway putting this thing together was a “breeze”. You’ll need a Phillips head screw driver for only two screws. Other than that the rest you can do by hand. Just be careful. Metal screws going into plastic can do damage if you over tighten. So just twist them in firmly.So my house has AC, a whole house fan in the floor of the attic and I have 5 ceiling fans. I still had the same issues everyone has. Too cold down stairs, too hot upstairs. I know because there are countless articles, videos and gimmicky contraptions to fix this. Come on! How many of you built the styrofoam cooler/ice fan? Just me? Darn.Anyway, I use my two downstairs fans, in reverse, to suck the cold air in my living room and kitchen up into the ceiling. This works by keep that hot air from building higher up which basically acts like an electric blanket inside your house. Now I just needed a fan to force that cold air down the hallway of my second floor into the bedrooms.Did this work? Oh yeah. Don’t get me wrong, I knew it would. I tried a box fan. Seriously that was joke. A box fan is basically just to put in your window to blow cold air into your house as long as its cold outside already.. It was a joke to push cold air down the hallway of death. I also tried the Blizzard Vortex fans. These little buggers can move some air but the inside of your house will sound like 747. Use two of these and you will never hear your spouse/partner/kids ever again! Yeah that could be a good thing.But if you want a nice quite, strong, powerful, stylish fan. This is the one. The quiet modes (I believe 1-5) are so quiet. Of course I tried this at level 26 and it started cooling my bedrooms in about 10 minutes. I’m not talking about, it was cool when standing in front of it, I’m saying the overall temperature was dropping. Level 26 is powerful and louder of course, but you will be pleasantly surprised at the noise level. Especially considering how much air it pushes.So anyway I saved money not having to install one of those Mr Slims upstairs (5K) and was able to utilize the AC air more efficiently. In winter, I can reverse this by having the upstairs warm air push downstairs. Let’s just say this was an awesome purchase.

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