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10 Years and still going.

I have owned a couple of these over the years. I keep buying them as they run quiet on low and moderate on medium and high. They have a generous cord. I am guessing it's 8' I really have never needed to measure it. It moves a fair amount of air too. When used for work, I use it to ventilate work areas. This one was purchased thru amazon as its cold weather outside (9*), and no one has a fan. This fan is being used to help circulate the warm air in a home at present.Mainly though this stays in my truck and goes into my hotel room each night, I am a road warrior and travel about 40 weeks a year. I need something that can handle bumps and bangs in the truck and keep on running. I have used it to circulate the air in the hotel room, giving me a more uniform heating or cooling. I have used it to dry wet clothing before work the next day. Boots are a little harder, but it can be accomplished. You'll likely never be able to achieve that with just hanging your clothing or boots over the hotel ac unit, well not very thorough anyway. For an added bonus, you can easily direct the airflow to push the warm or cool air to your liking.I have suffered from tinnitus 24/7 all my life, so I get added benefit of the almost quiet running. It's just loud enough if you will, to drown out the ringing in my ears. That allows me to sleep easier in the evenings. If I am having a bad night or a hard time sleeping, I just turn it up. A lot of people will ask how you can sleep with it on. It's not that hard, and the constant repetitive sound makes it reasonably easy to sleep.Having owned way more than 4 of these (Lasko brand but blue in color, yellow is the Stanley brand color scheme), I have no doubt this unit which is waiting on me at home will function as all the others have. I used 2 of my previous fans until my young kids got hold of them, and I honestly don't know what they did to them. But they stopped working after meeting 2, 8-year-olds. I have never had one of these go bad. Anything is possible; it's electronic, after all.

I'm very happy with this fan. It moves air efficiently and quietly. It emits the air in a beam-like pattern, which is excellent for some uses (see examples below.)While "carpet drying" might be the typical use for fans of this design, I thankfully don't have to do much of that. I have two main uses for this fan.(1) To blow air across a small group of people while sitting/dining on the porch. Owing to the nice beam of air this fan emits, I can set the fan up 10-20 feet away, and still keep enough air flow so that the mosquitoes don't find us.(2) On the top floor of my house, which gets very warm in the summer. It's great at blowing the hot air out through one window. This is useful if there are other windows on the same (high, hot) floor in through which cooler air can be drawn. The beam-like air output is especially good at setting up the fan several feet away from the window, blowing a beam of air straight out.Noise: The best I've ever used in a residential setting. I hear no meaningful motor noise. The fast movement of air through the fan's geometry gives rise to "white noise" (it's inevitable.) But because the air comes out as a beam, I can get good air flow when the fan is set up 10-15 feet away. At this distance, the air movement-to-noise ratio is nice!It's also easy to pivot the central mechanism to blow air out at a good variety of angles. It rotates around from the outlet being at the bottom blowing parallel to the floor, to blowing air horizontally along the top of the body as in the picture. It also goes past that point to blow downward from the top.Great design. I'm totally sold on this form of fan for a variety of home uses!Edit: 2017-05-21I hooked this up to my kill-a-watt, which gives a good measure of power consumed. This draws 71, 81, and 97 watts respectively at low, medium and high settings. (From standard US electrical outlet.)

I live in the American Southwest without central-air. Everyone has encouraged to get evaporative cooling which I hate. Not only is it totally ineffective during our monsoon season, it requires constant on-the-roof maintenance, a higher water bill where we all should be conserving water, and makes way too much noise. So, in the meantime, until I can get my photovoltaic energy system up and running, I live with opening the windows to allow the evening breezes to cut across my house to cool it down by morning and until it starts heating up again after 10AM AND (2) of these babies focusing air at me and the dog when we are sitting still and relocated to shoot towards each other across the house when we are not. Air movement in the heat can sometimes be more effective than cool sitting air. So that is the current strategy until the solar system starts powering up our zoned cooling.I am a designer and hate the color of these units, but because they are a prosumer product ( a step above the average consumer, but not totally industrial/commercial or professional grade) I excuse them because they are small, can be moved easily and pack a wallop for focused distribution of air recirculation. There simply is nothing better than something that gets the job done at a reasonable price. That's why the big boys buy these for their construction projects to keep air flowing while they are working or removal of off-gasing on small-area toxic products before they close the job up to come at it again the next morning.I just love 'em and plan to buy a third one. I have 1800-sf and like to triangulate fans with me in the middle. With the configuration of my home, I can easily do that with these babies at night when "Mum Nature" is providing me with cooler air. We just need help in moving it around inside the house. Thanks Mom.