ckeilah wrote:It's Homer Simpson slamming his head into his hand in despair. doh!

Which is what I've been doing for 26hrs at shirt.woot.com. :-(

thank you... someone sees what it is.
even though i cant take credit for drawing it, i just found it on yahoo answers

VGF wrote:Are these fans any good? I've had a need for one in my dorm room, but if its not worthwhile, I'd rather spend more on a good one.

I have one in my dorm, and it is amazing.

I have the Vornado fan model with variable speed control that is One size larger than this one I bought over 15 years ago. I run it 24/7 year around to circulate the air in my condo that only has windows on one side on the unit. I paid $100. for it and it was worth every cent with a lifetime warranty when they still made them in the USA. I have seen this one for $60.-$65. in BB& Beyond so even with their 20% off coupons this is still a hell of a deal. I bought one and if I had the extra cash right now I would buy a bunch of these for Christmas gifts knowing there isn't a person alive who wouldn't use this thanking me year round! Energy costs going up at least 20% starting in Jan 2010!! a great product and even better customer service if you need them. ps. They all speak English and answer the phone with a Hello!!

I love my Vornado! I bought this last year from woot with the stand, and it's amazing. Loudest setting can get fairly loud, but compared to a lot of the other fans I've dealt with, it's a much more pleasant, purring type of loud. I've noticed however, after several months, a bit of a vibrating noise occurs when the fan is tilted more level than upwards. Not that big a worry to make me stop using it constantly, but after watching all the Final Destinations.. well..

I bought the last Vornado fan that was on Woot. It was a two speed. Well only one speed worked for like a week and then the fan just died altogether so no more for me thanks.

Just a word of caution: I bought two from Woot last time at $18 each. They were the old model. When I received them, they looked refurbished when they should have been new. At that time, I had the exact model that I bought directly from Vornado and it was significantly more powerful and quieter than the ones from Woot.

Maybe the higher price for this woot means this batch is actually brand new.

Two points:

This is the exact fan I use in my office, it made a stuffy old room very comfortable. It is amazing how much air this can move.

Also, this is half price of BB&B even after a coupon. If you need a fan this is an AMAZING deal.

In for 3. My mom just bought a house, and every single summer I've lived in Seattle, we have a heat wave and there are no fans to be found in the stores. I'm thinking ahead this time! Plus, at half the price of Fred Meyers (and EVERYBODY ELSE), I can't say no.

lincolnsgold wrote:I bought the 2-speed clip one from awhile back, and I love it. On the low setting it's really quiet and moves air really well, and on the high settings its quite loud and excellent for blowing over sheets of paper across the room.

This was my experience as well. The major problem with the clip-on was that there as no in-between speed which balances noise level and power. This 3-speed model should do it.

BTW, I looked at the specs and this larger 3-speed model actually uses less electricity than the smaller clip-on -- yet moves air further. I thought that there might have been a typo so I contacted Vornado. One of their engineers (!) emailed back within hours and confirmed the specs. The larger blades (and deeper pitch?) of the 3-speed is apparently more efficient, so it moves more air while using less electricity.

Although I already have 3 of the clip-ons, and 6 other fans (AND 5 more handheld fans!), I'm still gonna get 3 of these. They'll help move warm air in the Winter so I'm giving 2 as Xmas gifts.

Awesome, this is just what I needed. My office is the only room in the house that gets extremely warm. This should fix that.

Blows

wyattx17 wrote:This is perfect for California!!!

That's debatable. For the heat, yes. For containing the yearly wildfires, no! Wind apparently blow the fire further, causing them to spread.

JohnWooten wrote:Blows

Still thinking about the USB Pole Dancer Woot sells during most Wootoffs?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqzVwuNKPmc

mboverload wrote:

Maybe I'm paying waaaay too much attention to detail (blame it on Lost), but does the postage stamp on your sign say $00.00? How do you get free postage?

ckeilah wrote:It's Homer Simpson slamming his head into his hand in despair. doh!

It's not Homer!
http://images.google.com/images?q=picard+facepalm

The Lasko Wind Tunnel is so much better. My Vornado froze up on me.

Kizzbot wrote:Winter is just around the corner and you guys put up a fan? I am really losing interest in woot fast.

in the winter, you can put one of these on the floor and aim it straight up at low speed. you won't hear anything, but it'll move the hotter air from the top of the room and circulate it.

in my experience, it works well for this purpose in a corner of the room.

philet wrote:Just a word of caution: I bought two from Woot last time at $18 each. They were the old model. When I received them, they looked refurbished when they should have been new. At that time, I had the exact model that I bought directly from Vornado and it was significantly more powerful and quieter than the ones from Woot.

Maybe the higher price for this woot means this batch is actually brand new.

I don't think the ones you bought are the same as this model. The $18 fan, which I also bought, is the 2-speed clip on model, which is shown in the photo on the right.

As far as I know, Woot has never offered has 3-speed model before. And for what it's worth, none of the 2-speed fans I got form Woot looked refurbished or used.

sdc100 wrote:This was my experience as well. The major problem with the clip-on was that there as no in-between speed which balances noise level and power. This 3-speed model should do it.

BTW, I looked at the specs and this larger 3-speed model actually uses less electricity than the smaller clip-on -- yet moves air further. I thought that there might have been a typo so I contacted Vornado. One of their engineers (!) emailed back within hours and confirmed the specs. The larger blades (and deeper pitch?) of the 3-speed is apparently more efficient, so it moves more air while using less electricity.

Although I already have 3 of the clip-ons, and 6 other fans (AND 5 more handheld fans!), I'm still gonna get 3 of these. They'll help move warm air in the Winter so I'm giving 2 as Xmas gifts.

Wow, thats good customer service! Thanks for the extra info! In for 1. With two gaming desktops and a laptop running in our home office, its always pretty warm in there. Doesn't help we keep the door closed because of the cats. I hope this helps to cool off the room.

I've got one of these and it works great for a thing of it's size. It's the only thing keeping my windowless room livable.

I actually don't care if my comment is considered for a quality post...I've been there before...it's not all that.

Going back to "Tripping the Rift"

Then back to "The IT Crowd."

Guess again about how great it is to be married to me...or be me?

Leave it, Mod...please?

During the Woot-Off, the only thing I was disappointed in missing (besides the Random scaffolding of course) was the fan. Been waiting forever for a Vornado fan but I always manage to not check Woot the night they come up and it usually sells out by the time I remember.

Living in Los Angeles, where it has been triple digits the past 3 days, I hope these will come in handy. The guy I live with needs the air conditioning on all. the. freaking. time. There's a 90-lb weight difference between us and I end up freezing! In for 2 so hopefully I can take off this parka.

::hiccup::

Kizzbot wrote:Winter is just around the corner and you guys put up a fan? I am really losing interest in woot fast.

Er, Vornado designed these as "air circulators," not fans. A fan is generally used to blow air at a target. While you cann use these to blow air directly at you, it's designed to circulate air around the room. As such, the air flow is much more focused and the thrust is more powerful (it claims a 70 feet reach, which seems reasonable based on my experience). Because the beam is so narrow, it's not great when you want to directly blow air at more one person sitting far apart. An ordinary fan's wide dispersion is better. But for circulating air around the room, these can't be beat. Simply aim them at the ceiling so blow cooler air from the ground up high, and displace hotter air on top so that it comes down. Or aim them at at a doorway to blow air into a room that has no windows, i.e. a storage room.

Warm air (from the furnace) is lighter than cool air so it tends to rise to the ceiling. That doesn't help humans, whose bodies (aka head) tend not to rise 6' above the ground. Vornados help bring that wasted warm air down to human level, while at the same time move some of the cold air at the feet upward. Many people turn on a ceiling fan for the same reason.

Anyway ... these circulators have a use year-round. Several Wooters have said that theirs are on 24/7. And btw, they are also excellent blowing directly on you when you need a powerful blast of air.

I bought the last Vornado and ever since I've been told repeatedly by my roommates that they regret not buying that one... now I have two... A amazing fan and believe me you will find a need for it!!! PS perfect for phoenix AZ weather when your AC goes out... I literally think mine saved my life!!

I have 7 of the model grayed-out in the photo, and while this one has more power, that one could be clipped to a window cill, which is what I've done with mine.

Nonetheless, I whole-heartedly recommend these fans at any size (I also have a Vornado 3-speed floor fan). They DO blast a column of air an impressive distance (on the high setting), and they ARE very quiet (on the low setting). The noise on the high setting is notable, but is not intrusive like it is with cheaper fans. It's more like "white noise." Also, Vernado has VERY good customer care. One of my fans had a rattle when it arrived, and they sent me another one immediately, only requesting that I cut the cord to the bad fan.

If anyone would like to know what the hell I do with 7 little fans and one bigger fan, here's my system for cooling my top-floor, south-facing apartment that used to get hotter than 85° inside when it was 90° outside (and didn't cool down very well when the sun went down):

I have no A/C, and on hot days (for less than A/C would cost to buy and run), I use all these fans to channel air from the shaded (cool) side of my apartment to the sunny (hot) side, and the hot air out.

On the night before a hot day, I open all the windows and run all my fans full-blast (OK, yeah, that gets a little noisy) until I go to bed, so I can cool the apartment down as much as possible (I aim for 70°). Then close up all the windows.

Between pre-cooling the apartment with these powerful fans, and putting sheets of foamboard in my south-facing windows to block some of the direct sunlight (gap at the top still lets light in), on a 90° day, the apartment stays in the low 70s until at least mid-afternoon.

When it does get above 75° in the rooms on the hot side of the apartment, I daisy-chain 2 fans in the middle of the apartment to pull cool air from the shady side to the sunny side. If it's cool enough outside on the shady side (usually is by late afternoon), I open my 3 windows and turn on the 3 fans mounted in them, facing inward to bring in additional cool air.

On the hot side of the apartment, I run 2 fans pointed OUT the windows (cracked only to the width of the fan) to draw hot air out. (The last fan stays trained on my 18-bottle wine "cellar" which has no refrigerant so it only keeps the wine about 20° below ambient. To help the cellar keep the wine in the mid-50s, I channel cooler air toward it with one fan. Works like a charm.)

With this method, and variations thereon, depending on what the weather is doing, I've keep apartment — which used to get into the high-80s on a hot day — no warmer than 78° even when the weather is in the mid-to-high 90s.

Of course, you didn't need to know all that. But seeing as I'd bought these fans specifically with this system in mind, I thought it might be of some use to someone in a similar situation.

Much cheaper than buying and running a portable A/C for an apartment with windows that wouldn't accommodate the vents anyway.

PS: Where I live, late-September/early-October is by far the hottest time of the year, so I'm doing right now exactly what I described above.

sdc100 wrote:I don't think the ones you bought are the same as this model. The $18 fan, which I also bought, is the 2-speed clip on model, which is shown in the photo on the right.

As far as I know, Woot has never offered has 3-speed model before. And for what it's worth, none of the 2-speed fans I got form Woot looked refurbished or used.

Which is why I specifically said "old model". If you look at the thread concerning the $18 fan, you will see that quite a few people had problems with their fans.

robio wrote:If anyone would like to know what the hell I do with 7 little fans and one bigger fan, here's my system for cooling my top-floor, south-facing apartment...

Wow. Just, wow.

After reading that I'm too exhausted to order this.

I wonder how these half-dozen fan "systems" compare to having two window fans.

madaradio wrote:As soon as I plugged in the woot vornado I bought last time, I was kicking myself that I didn't buy 3. No hype. These are the best fans you can buy. You have my word on it.

Really?

I have a 45 year old patton that still looks and blows like it was brand spanking new.
where will your fan be in 45 years?

bridog6996 wrote:Maybe I'm paying waaaay too much attention to detail (blame it on Lost), but does the postage stamp on your sign say $00.00? How do you get free postage?

You noticed the stamp but didn't notice that "I love woot!" is not exactly a valid mailing address? Yes, you can set the postage meter to zero and make stamps all day at no cost.

Not a good woot at all...

philet wrote:Which is why I specifically said "old model". If you look at the thread concerning the $18 fan, you will see that quite a few people had problems with their fans.

Actually, the 3-speed being sold right now is an older model than the 2-speed clip-on that was $18. This was stated by the Vornado engineer who emailed me (see previous post).

doctorwill wrote:Not a good woot at all...

An excellent Woot at an excellent price...

LastApeMan wrote:Really?

I have a 45 year old patton that still looks and blows like it was brand spanking new.
where will your fan be in 45 years?

Used intermittently and protected from bumps and drops, the Vornados should last that long as well, and longer. Several Wooters have stated that their Vornados lasted more than 10 years running 24/7.

There are other factors to consider. Motors made 45 years ago were not energy efficient. If you compare fans made in the 60's with fans made now, there is a marked improvement in efficiency, i.e. amount of air moved for the energy used. This is especially true for older fans that used metal blades and heavy metal housings (and don't get me started about oscillating fans). The Vornados are even more efficient than most modern fans because of the computer-designed pitch.

Older motors also need maintenance, i.e. manual lubricating. The fact that your fan "looks and blows like it was brand spanking new" sounds like it gets minimal use. These Vornadoes are made for medium-to-heavy-use, albeit not for industrial use.

As someone who has over 15 fans, including a working metal one from the 50's, I'd go for the Vornado over a Patton anyday.

Tristan944 wrote:How does someone get a "Quality Post"?

Unfortunately, the Quality Post counter as well as the Total Woot and Total Posts counters have been disabled. That's too bad because I might have broken 1,000 total posts today! I think I was at about 980 Total Posts.

You can still see some stats, however. Go all the way to the top of the page, to the Right of the WOOT! logo, and left of the " * Today's Woot * Blog * Community * Write Us * What Is Woot?" menu.

You'll see a welcome note, which in my case is "Welcome sdc100." Next to your name is a color square. Putting your cursor over the square will give you some stats. It's missing my Total Posts, but it does say:

"Woots: 67
Quality Posts: 43
Joined: 5/7/2008"

I've got a smaller vornado and it works great. It's in my bedroom at high and works great as a white noise-esque machine. While I can't turn off my a/c (Dallas gets too hot for that), I'm able to set it higher, so my bills aren't so sad.
I'm getting another, because I'd like to have fans going in my bedroom and living room. It's disconcerting to wake up and move from a nicely cooled room to a warm room.

Anyone know how to use both the coupon codes from the bag o carrots lottery thingy on one item purchase? like one fan today?

spun4621 wrote:Wow, thats good customer service! Thanks for the extra info! In for 1. With two gaming desktops and a laptop running in our home office, its always pretty warm in there. Doesn't help we keep the door closed because of the cats. I hope this helps to cool off the room.

I have a room like that too and these fans definitely adds life to the dead air. The only issue that might concern you is that it'll blow dust around. Dust that would otherwise settle on the floor will be floating in the air, and possibly get sucked into your computer's vents. This would be especially true if you place the fan on the floor as many people do.

I need a new fan at work and for the price this seems like it's worth a try.

Thinkg about getting one to put in front of our fireplace in the winter, to circulate the warmer air into other rooms.