Lasko 3520 20-Inch Cyclone Pivot Fan

The Lasco 20-inch fan moves a lot of air! Don't plan to place it anywhere near loose papers. I purchased it to help cool my garage in the evening, so I don't care if the fan is noisy. I only care that it moves cool outside air into the garage and blows out the hot stuff. I already had two fans working out there, and hoped a third would help me get ahead of the accumulated heat. The Lasco fan does the job all on its own so I've retired the original two. I have a large 3-car garage with a 15' ceiling -- there is a lot of air to move. The fan has 3 speeds: high is very powerful, medium is powerful, and low still moves more air than the average fan. Because it is very powerful, there is definitely a fan 'hum' which to me is the comforting sound of a fan doing its job. If you are looking for a fan that will do the job quickly, though not silently, you cannot do better than this.

Had the fan for about three weeks. It has run constantly to equalize temperature between rooms during hot summer months. These fans move a much larger volume of air than the vertical "stick" fans and are far more efficient. However, there are two drawbacks. 1) They take up more space than the vertical fans and 2) they are louder, especially when comparing highest settings.

I first bought two of these fans about 10 years ago. We run them overnight to help w/ sleep all year long. The first one died last year.


When I saw them on Amazon for a substantially better price than the big box stores offer them, I picked up 3 more of them...


These fans are very functional and reliable... they are also very powerful. They use about 70, 90, and 130 watts respectively to their speed settings. I recently checked an old fan that we had around, it was probably 25+ years old... and it was sucking down 350W on the highest setting, I promptly put it in the scrap pile. So if you're replacing an old fan, this will pay for itself via electricity costs in short order.

I couldn't be happier with this purchase.