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Protec DynaFilter Humidifier Cartridge, Air Cleaning, 3 filters Rite Aid Pharmacy Vaporizing Steam, 4 fl oz (118 ml)There is no better way to keep a yourself cool than a fan. Air conditioners have their place, but they are loud and they suck down power at a frightening rate. Fans, on the other hand, work with our body’s built-in cooling mechanisms, can be nearly silent, and gently sip power, barely affecting our energy bills. So, whether you have air conditioning or not, you want to own a good desk fan. If you are in the market for a room or desktop fan you’ve surely noticed that there is a wide range of models available. As far as desk fans go (the best option for most people) you can get a reasonably OK fan for about $15, you can get a really nice model for $75, or you can get a Dyson for $300. That’s obviously a huge delta and spending 20x more money on a product that does the same thing as its entry-level competition is going to be a non-starter for most people regardless of its attributes.

Even so, I’ve spent years with a cheap Honeywell fan ($15), last year I splurged and bought myself a Vornado 6303 ($70), and lately I’ve been testing out new Dyson AM06 fan ($300). I used the Honeywell TurboForce fan for years — it’s compact, reliable, and, above all, affordable. It has enough power to get the job done, but it’s loud throughout its range. I bought the Vornado 6303 because its lowest setting is nearly silent, which was important for me because during the warmer months I use it during phones calls and will leave it on while I sleep (at night, not during the calls). If you’re researching, you’ll notice that the 6303 is the Bed Bath and Beyond model, and that it’s essentially a better looking version of the Vornado 630 Mid-Size Circulator as well as Target’s 630B. The fans look different but their attributes are similar enough that we’ll group them together here. If you’re familiar with Dyson’s “air multipliers” then you’ll know that they are half technological marvels and half air-movers.

They have a number of features that make them desirable cooling tools, but their price means the math just doesn’t make sense if you solely need a fan. Rather, the Dyson is for doctor’s offices, executive suites, and other places where air flow is nice to have, but design is paramount. The Dyson is functional art that has taken fan design to another aesthetic level. After using Honeywell fans for years and the Vornado for some time now, the release of the Dyson AM06 was interesting to me. I’ve been curious about how the three fans stacked up to one another, if my Vornado was worth the extra money, and how much performance was behind the Dyson’s beautiful plastic shell. In order to get a better understanding of just what those extra dollars were doing for buyers I’ve tested out the three fans and graphed my findings below. I’m not going to come out and say that any fan is the winner — I’m confident that one of them is the best for you and that you’ll be able to decide if you want air-moving art or if nothing beats a $15 fan.

Before we get going with the data, one quick note: The Dyson AM06 has ten fan speeds but the Vornado and Honeywell only have three. As a result, the charts for those two fans have straight-line data between Low (1) and Medium (5) and Medium and High (10). Using my trusty anemometer I was able to measure the air speed coming out of each fan. I used a speed based on feet per minute at a distance of three feet, which is about as close as you’d get to a desktop fan. Here we can see that the Vornado delivered the most air speed, followed by the Dyson and then the smallest of the three, the Honeywell. (Size isn’t as much a factor here as it is for CFM, which we’ll get to soon.) The most important finding at this point is the low levels of air speed the Dyson is capable of putting out. That 28 ft/min data point should probably be thrown out because I now believe my anemometer isn’t capable of measuring an air speed that low and that the real point would be around 120 ft/min.

Even so, the more important point is that the Dyson is capable of delivering a very light breeze while producing almost no noise, something that the other two fans can’t do and that’s relatively rare in the market. If what you care about is cubic feet per minute (CFM) — which factors in the size of the fan — then the Vornado is the winner here. Its blade and cowl are both the largest of the group, followed closely by the Dyson’s unconventional design. The Honeywell is the smallest, which severely limits the total amount of air being moved. Volume is crucial to this comparison as it speaks to the design of each fan, as well as if the fan can be used while you are sleeping or in an office. It’s also important because many city dwellers are faced with the option of their loud window air conditioning unit versus a fan, so the fan better be a lot quieter to compensate for the lack of cool air. Here we can see that the Dyson keeps quiet throughout its range, while the Honeywell has to increase its RPMs, and thus its volume, to compensate for its size.

Just to full illustrate the volume/airflow tradeoff, here is a chart of feet/minute per dB. You can use the trend line here to get a better idea of what’s happening and to partially account for the Dyson’s lower-than-expected rating at speed 1. Basically, the Dyson and Vornado compete quite well with one another when it comes to delivering air flow without too much volume. The main difference is that the low settings on the Vornado are very, very quiet. Earlier on we talked about how fans are quite reasonable with their power consumption, but they actually use more than you might think. This is the main downside of the larger Vornado fan — it’s cranking at about 60W while at full tilt. The Dyson is moving 85% of the air at 33% of the power consumption, while the Honeywell is moving about 75% of the air at 50%. Finally we have CFM per watt, which give us an idea of air moved relative to power consumption. After excusing the Dyson’s wonky 1 rating we see that it offers up a lot of air moved for the watts consumed, with the efficiency dropping as the small impeller inside the body speeds up to a very high rate and loses efficiency.

The two conventional fans stay quite flat, not gaining or losing much efficiency as the CFMs increase. Fans might not seem like appliances that are worth a lot of research, but there were some revealing findings here. The most interesting fact was that there is clearly something to the Dyson’s unique design. The price might turn you off and you might find the features to be inconsequential, but there is more to the air multiplier than a bit of fancy plastic. In the Vornado we see what a larger fan with a better motor can do. Its low setting is very quiet and the high setting move a lot of air. This fan offers a great range and is a practical choice if you are demanding about your cooling equipment. The humble Honeywell does well enough, but doesn’t take the lead in any test. That noted, the obvious fact that we came into this article with — that a $15 fan is tough to beat — certainly rings true. This data probably won’t convince anyone to buy a Dyson AM06, but it might help you understand why people do.