AF410A AirFlow Breeze, Quiet Register Booster Fan, Almond Color 4" x 10" opening
by Lux Products Corporation
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of AF410A AirFlow Breeze, Quiet Register Booster Fan, Almond Color 4" x 10" opening
Customer Review: Excellent Improvement
Summary: 5 Stars
I installed these in my up stairs rooms that were poorly heated/ac and it made a big difference. It also helps to close off or reduce air volume on other vents where you have rooms you don't use as much.Customer Review: Not perfect but does exactly what I expected it to do
Summary: 4 Stars
We have two bedrooms in the house that are always 2-4 F colder than the rest of the house. That is especially noticeable on cold windy days.
We bought one of these things to try it out in the room used as an office. We ordered straight from Airflow Products, and not Amazon. The way it is listed on Amazon is somewhat counterintuitive -- from the manufacturer you can order a specific kit that matches your register; from Amazon you have to order the fan and the adapter separately. Now I know how to size them so I will probably get it from Amazon next time.
The installation was trivial. For a more permanent installation you have to drill two holes for the screws. If you use an adapter you have no choice but to drill two holes.
Once installed it is relatively easy to set up and get going. It appears to turn on regardless of the thermostat setting when the warm air is blowing through the register. It is also louder than I'd like for a product like this. That is why I am giving it a 4 instead of a 5.
The loudness issue is important. The fans appear to be low-voltage units much like the ones used in computer power supplies. You can get near-silent fans from computer parts suppliers and it is not clear why Airflow Products chose to save on the fans. On the low fan speed setting it is decent.
Aside from noise, it does exactly what it claims it will do. It pulls air from warmer parts of the house into the room. We only have one register in the office so it really is pulling the air from other parts of the house. That makes me think that it may make the room next door to the office colder -- but that happens to be the other room where we want the booster fan.
We will see how it behaves in the office and we will order another one for the bedroom soon.
Customer Review: Noisy but effective
Summary: 4 Stars
I got two of these (direct from manufacturer) for upstairs bedrooms on the West side of the house....despite double insulated window treatments, they stay at least four degrees hotter than the thermostat setting. These boosters keep that temperature lower than what they'd be without them. They really are noisy, though. Even set on "low fan", they're noisier than my "white noise" machine but I'm managing to sleep OK....if you're used to sleeping in dead quiet, these may take some getting used to. I just wish the vents were adjustable....I want my air blowing away from the walls, not perpendicular to them.Customer Review: Reasonable device
Summary: 4 Stars
My house has a 12'X12' bedroom that's always about 10 degrees F hotter or colder than the rest of the house on days when AC or heat is required. I wasted a lot of time trying to balance this by closing other registers in other rooms. Even adding another vent to the room didn't help. This device has been able to cut the temperature difference to about 4 degrees F. I don't know if the thermostat switch really works as I just turn it on or off manually. It's also noisy: sounds like a large portable electric fan on medium or high despite its small size.Customer Review: Mildly Effective
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this hoping to equalize the temperature in the room farthest from the furnace. It's pretty loud, but the tone is low enough to be somewhat soothing. I had every intention of ripping out the fans and replacing them with quiet CPU fans but my daughter doesn't mind. It's made a slight improvment, but not worth the price. I actually considered returning it, but the company was going to only issue a credit and they don't make anything else I need.