Lasko High Velocity Floor Fan with Wall mount Option, 3 Powerful Speeds, Pivoting Fan Head for Home, Garage, Attic, 20, Black, 2264QM

Ok, got my new fan today. Good news, its mostly metal (I sincerely hate plastic) and lot more stable and adjustable than box fan it replaced. Face it box fans are really designed to be in a window. Also not sure what others were expecting, its about same noise level as one of the cheap box fans. Reading other reviews, would have thought it was up there with a jet engine putting out tornadic velocity winds. Bad news it really doesnt move anymore air than one of the cheap box fans in good condition. Best I can tell, just slightly bigger motor than the cheap box fan. This is nowhere near as powerful as the all metal box fans back in the 1960s and 1970s. They had much bigger motor and blades angled to move more air. But on other hand if its motor ever quits, instead of spending another sixty bucks, Ill just adapt motor and plastic fan blade from a new cheap box fan to it. Like say its lot more adjustable and stable than box fan and wire grill lot easier to clean than plastic egg crate grill. Nothing really to do with this fan, but while I was waiting on shipment and delivery of this fan, I got to looking at my old box fan that seemed destined to twirl no more. What was strange was that it was completely dead, motor didnt hum, nothing, like a fuse was burned out.... Well little googling and found fans for last decade all fans have had thermal fuses put in windings of the motor so if motor slightly overheats, fuse pops and everything stops. I guess this was answer to some class action law suit. These fuses are not meant to be replaced, you are supposed to just replace the fan. Good for Lasko, not so good for consumer. Anyway, this is interesting so I took whole motor apart. There she blows matey. Fuse looks like a funny white colored resistor and housed in little fabric like tube thing, tied down to the windings with two plastic strap. I will also mention this is an extremely delicate and fiddly thing to mess with. It wasnt meant to be replaced. I cut the straps and removed the fuse, and tried replacing fuse with bit of wire soldered into place. For life of me couldnt get it strapped down again so it didnt interfere with other stuff. Grrr... But lucky me had another one of these cheap box fans that had quit and somehow hadnt gotten put out with trash. This time I had a clue. I left the burned out fuse strapped in place, looked for the wire in the harness going into the motor to the fuse and the wire going from the fuse to a terminal on the starting capacitor. I spliced a jumper wire from fuse input wire to the capacitor external to the motor housing. Lot simpler and nowhere near as fiddly. Anyway I first tested motor out of fan, worked fine. Gave fan a good cleaning and put everything back together. Wow is all I can say, acted and moved air like a new one. Good cleaning helped a lot. Sure its not quite as safe as it would be with new fuse, but people had fans for lot years without a thermal fuse and I suspect darn few of them burned their house down. One of these motors ever shorts out, should trip circuit breaker for outlet its plugged into. I did look and you can get like 100 of the thermal fuses on ebay for $4 on slow boat from china if you feel need for the extra safety. I still would leave existing fuse strapped in place and just find new place to mount new fuse on windings. Its a thermal fuse so has to be where the heat is, inside the motor housing.

I have had this fan for around 2 years and I use it in my bedroom. All the settings are really strong and loud but it works perfectly as white noise to help me sleep and my puppy also likes the fan. It is a little heavier and annoying to move around, but it has not had any more complications for me. Im sure it will last for many more years.

As I write this review Im being cooled and blown away by this powerful fan. Even on the lowest of the 3 speeds this fan moves a lot of air. Solidly built and well designed, Ive purchased 2 of these fans and will probably purchase more.

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Just got this fan due to the heat wave in the Pacific NW. I have an older Utilitech FE50 I got from Lowes years ago but needed another one for downstairs, so I directly compared the 2. (Lowes no longer has this model but a newer version that looks a lot like the Lasko in construction.) The Lasko is lighter, at 12 lbs vs 18 for the FE50. Both move a ton of air, the Lasko rated at 3460 and the FE50 at 5000. Both are loud with the Lasko having a higher pitch whine to it while the FE50 has a lower frequency rumble. I measured them with a Radioshack SPL meter at 5 feet with the following results: Lasko Power level 1- 58 db, 2 - 61 db, 3 - 66 db. FE50 Power level 1 - 62 db , 2 - 66 db, 3 - 69 db. Thats about hair dryer or air conditioner level of noise, so if you want quiet, these 20 inch work shop fans are not the way to go. Still, we use the FE50 in the bedroom as my wife prefers the lower frequency hum and we sleep fine. Cant comment on longevity yet since I just got it, but seems reasonably well constructed. Overall I would definitely buy again, but if you are sensitive to noise levels this will probably not work for you.

This fan is powerful. It’s more than a fan. I was really happy the day I got it, because it would be serving as both white noise and circulation for my 400 sq ft room. The circulation is amazing. Like a soft breeze keeping me cool. It’s a quality fan, and it’s not small. The white noise aspect is what turned me off. I thought I heard some humming on the lower setting, but I was fine to be patient with that, maybe it needed to shift into place after being in the mail. And that wasn’t what got me. Last night (3 night into owning the fan), it was too loud in the lowest setting. I think my 25 year old self would have loved the noise level, but at almost 40, it felt like the fan was screaming at me, and it woke me up. It has a loudness that kind of exceeds white noise levels, is the only way I can explain it. I think this is better suited for actual circulation purposes and not white noise for sleeping. I’m getting a tower fan and a white noise machine instead. My days of 2-for-1 are over, I guess

Replaced a damaged fan with a like fan. Havent used it yet. So well see.

Great air output; however every few minutes or so it sounds like a vacuum is running or a plane about to take off. This is at the lowest setting and just escalated at higher setting. I’m considering returning. The noise is very annoying

Great so far

The fan is not nearly powerful enough for my garage.