Lasko Air Director Window Fan, 14 Inches, 2135
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Product Details
Manufacturer: LaskoBrand: Lasko
Edition: Kitchen
Model: 2135
Color: White
Publisher: Lasko
Studio: Lasko
Music Label: Lasko
Product features:
- Powerful pivoting fan works great in windows or on floors
- Reverses for exhaust air intake
- Fits windows 18 inches high and larger
- Comes fully assembled
- ETL/cETL listed
Tools and Hardware Reviews of Lasko Air Director Window Fan, 14 Inches, 2135
Customer Review: FAN FAN QUALIFIED FAN OF THIS FAN
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm afraid that my appreciation of this fan is colored by my fondness for, and recent demise of, my twenty-five-year old Sanyo floor fan, surely the best one I ever owned. Unfortunately, small, window-sized fans that can move a lot of air, are durable and relatively quiet (no metal boxes, please) are hard to come by these days; Sanyo no longer makes fans of any kind, so I was forced to hunt about and settled on the Lasko Air Director as the best of a mediocre-to-bad lot.
The Lasko's virtues are as follows;
* It moves a lot of air through its five well-pitched blades (some fans' blades are pitched too flat; this renders them quiet, but rather inefficient at creating the comfortable breeze one buys them for)
* It's light
* Its plastic casing and blades can take a lot of abuse
* Its ability to pivot upward at an angle is quite useful in directing air flow (well, it's an "Air Director," isn't it?) when employed as a floor fan
The Lasko's faults are:
* There's not much range between the "high" setting and the "low": the "low" actually blows much too strongly, as powerful as some fans' "medium" or "high" settings, and sometimes one actually wants a gentle airflow. You won't get that with this fan
* The above renders the fan somewhat noisy
* The pivoting feature, so useful when its used as a floor fan, is a moderate liability when the fan is placed in a window
* The fan is made of white, translucent plastic, which admits a lot of outside light (my old Sanyo fan was made of dark, largely opaque plastic). It also means that dirt, which inevitably accumulates on, and inside, all frequently-used fans, becomes apparent sooner
* Whoever decided that the switch should be ordered "off-high-medium-low," instead of the logical "off-low-medium-high," should be flayed and boiled in oil (with no fan allowed to cool his or her burning flesh). Because of this switch's idiotic order of settings, one must first blast oneself with hurricane-force winds to reach the lowest setting. My Sanyo had push-buttons for each setting, allowing random-access to all air speeds; the switches -- probably more expensive than the Lasko's single switch -- were very easy to use and, in a quarter-century, never failed)
* The soft plastic that's a virtue in the body and blades of the fan is a liability when used as the switch knob, as the knob inevitably loosens from the switch-mechanism's stem over time, making it difficult or impossible to turn the fan on or off (the knob socket in the first Air Director I bought several years ago eventually cracked, necessitating its removal and repair). It's a terrible design, PERIOD; more boiling oil for the designers is indicated
* The fan doesn't have the rotating front louver that my Sanyo did, which allowed the Sanyo to function as an oscillating fan to cool a whole room; locked in place, it allowed fine control of where the air stream was delivered. Quite a brilliant design by Sanyo, really
As I said, I bought the Lasko Air Director because it was the best of a mediocre-to-bad lot, and needed something that could fit in my bedroom window on warm summer nights. That said, if anyone out there has one of the old Sanyo fans of which I wrote, I'll happily trade you ANY fan currently on the market for it, pay for the shipping AND mutter my thanks to you on every one of those summer nights
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