Product Description

High Velocity 18" Multi-Room Air Circulator from Patton

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17972 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Patton
• Model: U2-1803-UC
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.70" h x 21.50" w x 21.50" l, 16.80 pounds

Features

• 360 degree Tilt adjustment for focused cooling
• 3 speed comfort control
• All metal construction
• Whole-House cooling power
• Dimensions 8.7 long, 21.5 wide, 21.5 high, weighs 16.8 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Patton used to be worth buying
Over the last 15-20 years I have owned three 18" Patton fans. My old one was Model# U2-1887 and it was made by Patton before Patton got bought out by the Holmes Group. I have owned a couple Holmes fans and I see them all the time in the stores. Holmes has specialized in the production of crappy plastic fans for years and when I heard they had bought out Patton I expected the worst and sure as shootin' this fan is crappy.

The 1803 is a lightweight version of the 1887. The grill is made of thinner steel. The stand which used to be one solid piece is now two crappy pieces that fit together poorly and leave the fan a little wobbly. The fan blade is poorly balanced so the fan has a decided bounce to it and tends to be noisy. The motor which previously was made in the USA and had a very industrial look about it has been replaced with a cheap Chinese motor with a much smaller shaft. Everything about the fan says: "Is there anything we can do to make this fan cheaper?"

Patton fans used to be pretty rugged. They weren't perfect. The blades had a tendency to crack and the collar that secured them to the motor shaft had a habit of working loose from the blades. I got around that by purchasing an 18" fan blade from an industrial supply house along with a 1/2" shaft collar. This last one, the motor seized up though. After I realized how crappy this new one was, I tried to repair the old one. What I discovered was that the motor on the 1887 can be lubricated. There is a little lip on the back of the motor that allows you to oil the bearing housing. There is a second one on the front of the motor, but you have to disassemble the unit some to get to that one. In my case, the motor apparently burned up when it seized, but if yours is still trying to turn but can't get going, turn it off and try a few drops of WD40 in the rear bearing housing. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. If you have to buy a new fan, I don't know who is making good fans, but I can tell you that Patton sure isn't.

A Powerful Fan for Hot, Humid Days!
This fan must have two pages, because I know I reviewed it last week; and at the time, it wasn't being offered by Amazon with free shipping. If it had been, I probably would have gotten a second one. I bought one last year from an online hardware store. It is a super powerful fan that works well on super hot, humid days. I've never felt a more powerful fan, except in places that use huge commercial type fans. It is loud, but I like loud fans. And metal fans do work better than plastic ones, in my opinion. I recently got a 14 inch Patton high velocity floor fan with a plastic CVT blade, which is no where near as powerful as this fan. It's designed better, and is safer around children and pets, but even in the highest setting, it seems to me to be less powerful than this Patton on the lowest setting.

This Patton is not as heavy, and the metal not as thick, as fans I have bought in the past like it. But that is not a bad thing; the heavier fans I had always eventually collapsed on their stands, making them unsafe around children and pets. They also only lasted 2-3 years. Hopefully, this one will last longer. Because, believe me, if you live in a a place with HOT summers, you miss these powerful metal floor fans when they die!

Bottom line--if you need fans to survive the summer, and don't mind loud ones: Go with the biggest metal floor fan--with the biggest blades and most powerful motor--that you can afford!

A Powerful Fan!
I bought one of these last years from Tru-Value. It is a POWERFUL fan! It's a floor one, but I have it on a dresser, because I don't trust these large metal fans with small pets, like ferrets! Nothing cools down a room like these fans, however. I'm in a area where the temps and humidity are constantly both in the 90's during the summer, and I don't use AC...so, I know a good fan when I see one. It is loud, but that's how I like my fans.

A word of caution, however, about these type of fans...I've owned two in the past made by another brand, I believe, that both simply collapsed on the stand one day. I still used them, with the help of bicycle straps, no less, but that is a concern with kids and pets. This brand is a lighter metal. so I hope to have no such problems, as with the heavier models...that may very well no longer be sold anywhere.