Dumb Ineffective Design
I bought this to improve cool airflow to a distant upstairs bedroom. First off, the 140 CFM rating is questionable, seems a lot lower than that to me (i.e., is weak). Secondly, if installed as intended, the airflow direction points downward whereas you want an upward airflow direction for cooling (seems it would have been simple enough to incorporate an up/down reverseable design, but they didn't do that - and yes, you can install it upside down to achieve the desired effect, but in an intelligent design that would not be necessary). Finally, as another said, there's no manual controls on the unit so you are SOL if you lose the remote or it breaks. I will probably send this back and look for a more powerful and more intelligently designed airflow booster. (And one more thing, the unit is way over priced.)
Update 7-1-12: I decided to intall this unit to test it out before (presumably) sending it back. Re my review above, put simply, I was wrong, the unit does work. In two...
Feel the difference!
We bought this booster for our bedroom as an alternative to a $400 air conditioner unit for slider/casement windows. We've tried cheaper boosters, and they just don't work. Two cheapos did not work as well as one of these bad boys. I can feel the breeze from across the room!
We can keep an eye on the temperature in the room with our baby monitor's temperature display. It stays about 4 degrees cooler than before in the hot part of the day; during the night it actually reaches the same temp as downstairs! The baby can now take good naps in his swaddle, and we don't have to freeze ourselves in the rest of the house just to keep him cool.
It has a nice relatively quiet hum, even on high. Our other boosters are much louder. I don't think you can get any quieter and still have two fans moving that much air.
The remote is great for ceilings and other hard-to-reach areas.
AirFlow Breeze Ultra Booster Fan
Below I address the 4 different issues: (1) set-up, (2) installation, (3) noise factor, (4) effectiveness... Now that I am past the set-up, I am quite pleased with the AirFlow Breeze Ultra. (1) The instructions for setting up the device were a bit confusing for me, so I contacted AirFlow Technologies and a really great guy named Bernie guided me through the process. After you turn the device ON, set the mode, select the speed, then for heat push the DOWN button until the fans turn ON, then push the UP button until the fans turn OFF... this is where the "set point" referred to in the instructions is actually the determined (not also at the step before as alluded to in the instructions). I finally went with Bernie's suggestion and put the set point at 70 (the circuitry actually adds 3 more degrees to the user-set set point). I have found though because of the short intervals between my furnace's ON cycles, due to the heat that remains in the ducts after the furnace blower shuts OFF, my...
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