Vornado 633DC Energy Smart Medium Air Circulator Fan with Variable Speed Control

We have gone through a bunch of fans over time. All different makes and styles. Expensive and cheap. They have all seized up. We run fans all the time just to move the air a bit more. The motors just fail.We have one Vornado fan on our 36ft sailboat. It is still running fine after years. So when the fan in the bedroom of our travel trailer failed after less than a year. I looked at the Vornado fans. These were more $$ because they are DC, not AC. Bought one. What a great fan. They are smaller but really move the air well. And they are extremely quiet! At the half-power setting, you really cannot hear it running. But it is moving the air really well. At full power, they really move the air. Love these fans. We purchased another one. Now we have one in the bedroom of the camper and one in the galley of the camper. Moving the air really nice. The one in the galley (26 ft camper) you can feel the air moving all the way to the other end where the bedroom is down a hallway. It is really nice having the variable speed control instead of just three speeds pre-set. Infinite speed control. And no sound. The base has 5 legs. I removed one to allow the fan to be placed closer to the wall. Still very stable this way. (picture)Just a perfect fan. And 80% more efficient, That will save us some electrical use.The extra cost is totally worth it. When the time comes for another fan in the house we will be buying one of these for sure.

I like that there is a speed control knob that controls the fan from very slight to very strong and all the variations in between. Tilting the head is easy, too. I also like that it is energy efficient and I can just pick it up and put it on any other part of the house easily because it's lightweight.But the best thing that I like about this is it is pretty quiet at the lower speeds, which helps me focus on whatever I need to focus on!There were very few times though that I wake up in the night that I hear slight clicking noises from this fan, when I had the speed up to a quarter. Switched the fan off for a bit and the noise was gone after that. Most of the time it doesn't have it, though. Maybe I just got a weird one. Taking one star off because of this. No issues apart from that.

I have only ever purchased cheap hardware store fans and box fans. So to spend $65 on a fan seemed a bit crazy, $100...out of the question. But I decided to try it out. I got a Vornado 630 and LOVED it. It is really great at directing air from my one window (a porch door) up into my loft. I loved it so much I decided to return it and get this.I use a fan CONSTANTLY. So I decided to do the math and figure out if the 633DC would be a worthy investment compared to the 630 and other cheap fans. It is.I pay $0.24/kWh. If I use the fan 1/3 of all hours in a year, it will pay for itself in 3.2 years. Less than that if I use the fan on lower settings or if I use the fan for more time out of a year. Even if I only use it 1000hours a year, it will pay for itself easily over 10 years (the length of the warranty). With that said, cheap box fans and utility fans move WAY more air. So if you need to throw a lot of air around (garage, gym, etc) and noise isn't a concern, those might be better options. But they will be more expensive over the long-term.So I bought the Vornado 633DC. I love it. It is a bit more powerful on the highest setting than the 630. It also has a slightly different sound (not really sure which is better). The lower settings on the 633DC are pretty unusable, in my opinion, they are just too low. But from 1/2 the dial and up, it can move a lot of air. 1/2 power on the 633DC seems to be about equal to the lowest setting on the 630.Personally, you are probably fine getting the 630 or the 633DC (any fan is WAY cheaper than turning on your A/C). They are both great. But I like the infinitely adjustable dial on the 633DC, I like that there isn't a power brick like the 610DC, I like the white color (dust is less visible), and it is SLIGHTLY more powerful on high than the 630. So even if it doesn't perfectly pay for itself, it is still better, imo, than the 630 and DEFINITELY cheaper than a box fan or utility fan in the long run. The 10 year warranty is an added bonus.Hope this helps you pick one!

I got the 633DC, this is a great fan,. It's a little bigger than I expected to be but that's a good thing,. it's pretty much silent at the low speeds and it does get a little bit noisy at the highest speed what is really not that bad. I made a video to actually show you guys exactly how quiet and how loud it gets,. even on the highest setting I really don't have to have my TV turned up too much louder than normal to be able to listen to my TV,. the motor is pretty much silent on this thing so you're really just hearing the blades pushing and cutting through the air as they spin so it's a little quieter than most fans,. any fan where the blades are spinning at a high speed will get a little bit noisy though I mean that's just going to happen so I don't know why some people are complaining. if you position this in your room correctly it'll move air around your room like you wouldn't believe and it'll circulate your air around the entire room as advertised. if you don't position it in your room correctlt it's not going to work as good as it could so positioning is very very important, Get it right and you'll be amazed at how much cooler your room feels with this around half power maybe 60% power, at those speeds it pushes the air around a great and it's not even that noisy, around 50 or 60% it just feels like some nice background noise which will block out a lot of The unwanted noise from things happening outside or other people in your house,. I can still have my TV at a pretty low listening volume until I get around 70% or higher on this van and at that point I might need to turn the TV up just a little bit but not too much.but I would say this is about 15 or 20% bigger than the other medium air circulators I've had in the past,. I had a older vornado and unfortunately it took a pretty bad full one day and something happened to the motor when it hit the ground and we had to get rid of it,. it was great until that happened, after that I I bought this lasko air circulator fan that look just like a vornado design because it was dirt cheap on sale and I figure it must be just as good ,. It's always vibrated and rattled and the motor shaft it's still had a lot of play in it which was I think the reason that rattled and made so much noise and vibrated all the time it was a very noisy fan even on the lowest setting because of those things but I used it for a good six maybe seven years, it cooled the room okay but nowhere near as good as this thing or the old vornado. I noticed it was really getting worse on the rattling and shaking and vibrating so I said you know it's time to get something else so I got this and so far I am extremely happybottom line though this fan is a beast and it's so nice to have this variable speed control or you can set the set the power exactly where you want it you don't have high medium and low you have you know 5% or 10% or 12% or 20% or 90% power or wherever you want to set it exactly to where you would like it.As long as this thing ends up being reliable in last many years I know it's a little bit of expensive but man it's totally going to be worth it,. Is this thing last 10 plus years I think I'll be pretty happy with that, it's amazing that these things have a 10 year warranty,.my understanding is the DC motor that this band has is a really really high end loader manufactured by a really grapes motor making company I guess you would say, I guess this company makes fans forserver power supply and server power supply will run 24 hours a day for years and years and years never being turned off so I'm going to assume this must be a really reliable motor in this thing. I can actually remember the name of the company that is supposedly making these motors but I know it's a very good motor making company.and supposedly this thing saves 80% more electricity over a regular fan which is very nice and I know a lot of these DC models had a external power supply which a lot of people didn't like what this particular model of the power supply is built into the fan itself.all I can say is awesome things I hope you guys enjoy the long review sorry it's a little bit long but I'm very happy and impressed with this thing.

While we have central AC, we dont usually use AC in our house. I wanted a small fan that we can use overnight (quiet at low speed) and powerful enough for a hot day. I have a Kool Operator Junior fan (3 speed) and this Vornado is as powerful (if not more at max speed). I love that speed is continously adjustable. The low and medium speeds can be pretty quiet where the Kool Operator junior is still pretty loud at low speed. The tilt is also smooth so i can tilt it at any angle i want instead of fixed 3-4 angles.The feet are just about 1.5inch too wide to fit freely on the windowsill so i raised it with a small box resting it on the window frame (see picture).It's also very energy efficient. I plugged it in a smart plug and I use it overnight (apprx 12-14 hours) and it uses only around 0.4 kWh total per day.