Customer Reviews for Vornado - Flippi V10 Personal Fan - Graphite gray
Customer Rating
3
It seems malfunction of speed selector.
on September 15, 2014
Posted by: Bamboo
from Irvine, CA
I doubt the qulity of this product. The speed selection is hard to work. It seems miscontact of speed selector. I must try to adjust the different sites several times to be lucky to turn on the circulator.
This is our fourth Vornado fan. This is the first time I was not impressed with the quality. The low speed does not work so we basically have a one speed fan. However; I chose not to deal with the hassle of returning it so we just kept it and ran it on the higher speed. The higher speed is still quiet enough for sleeping so all in all it is OK . It is a cute little fan bummer the low speed did not work.
Love this fan, love its look and performance, I do agree turning the speed dial is not as smooth, I do have to use two hands. Also, since I dont have outlets all over my home and I love using this fan so much, a battery operated function would be absolutely perfect.
Already own 2 of these uniquely styled fans. The 2 bothersome features as already stated are the dial to turn on and select speed. You need 2 hands and dial can be stiff. But the negative feature that blows my mind is that you cannot clean it!! Come on Vornado---make the grill design reliable but easily removable--couple of screws perhaps or snap-in function? Everybody knows you need to clean fans. On the plus side, good output of air for our kitchen, sleek look, and we like the oscillating feature as we move around the kitchen. Please do something soon about easy access to clean this fan and only then would I recommend this product.
Love the fan BUT how do we clean it ? Please tell us Vornado or let me know it can't be cleaned ?? Sounds fair to me. I mean it may be a fine fan but if it can't be cleaned then is it really a good fan ?? This may sound trivial but after a year or so it needs cleaning inside - period !!! So I give it a thumbs down for that otherwise it is a very nice fan ... -Disappointed in Los Angeles
My wife and I are great fans of Vornado. We have just about every style in our home. We have been buying Vornados for twenty five to thirty years. The only fan we have been diappointed in is this model. It is difficult to turn on and off. It is impossible to clean. Getting the grill off is a major production. We could find no cleaning instruction or instruction on how to take the grill off to clean it and the fan blade. We use two of them in our bathroom and they get dust and powder in them freqquently. We would be excited to see a better model of this size fan become available.
I am considering returning the "personal circulator", since I thought it was more like a fan. I wanted it for my bathroom since my cheap fan broke; the old fan produced more air flow. Agree that control is awkward. Also, I was disappointed in the black cord on a white fan. Kind of makes the fan more obvious in the room. I may try a Vornado FAN instead.
This fan has many cons, and too few pros to be recommended. It looks nice, but does not work nearly as good as any of the other vornado fans I own. The choice for the rocker switch is dumb, as you have to secure unit with one hand to change speeds. The motor is really annoying, with pulsing and doesn't move much air for it's trouble. Also it is not designed to be easy to clean like every other vornado i have. Seems like a knock off with a Vornado emblem on it. If the new towers use these type of fans, you can count me out.