Customer Reviews

Bionaire BTF40RC Tower Fan with Remote Control

5 star:		(15)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(11)

 

 

This fan offers great air circulation and takes up very little floor space! It keeps the room quite comfortable for sleeping ( & breathing!). I use it in my bedroom to make it more comfortable when it is stuffy but not warm enough for the A/C, when it is the warmer season. When it is cool or cold outdoors I find I use it quite often, to keep the air circulating and more comfortable to counteract the drying gas heat. The remote control is great! I do not have to get out of bed to adjust the fan to my comfort. This is the second fan of this exact type I have purchased. I have the second one in the other bedroom. I also have the model without the remote control in my foyer, it keeps the bathroom (where there is no window) delightful! You cannot go wrong with this fan, for sure.

I bought two of these fans from a major electronics/appliance retailer. I liked the look and I liked the features of this model. For months I was very pleased with these fans. Then after six months of faultless operation they both died within two weeks of each other. It was like they had a "death chip" in their controller or something. After reading the reports of similar sudden fan extinction from other owners of this fan I can say that I will never trust this manufacturer with my hard earned cash again.

This is my second tower fan. The first fan i bought was from [another vendor], it seems to be the same fan, except the [other] fan has a built-in compartment for the remote... What a deal! We use this fan to help distribute the cool air from the A/C. The fan is quiet and with its tower design it doesn't get in the way. We had a regular fan and it was loud and always got in the way. The 3 speeds is satisfactory as is the oscillation feature. We rarely use the timer mode or the the breeze mode. The remote control is a nice feature too, but now i have 5 remotes on my table! It was easy to put together with a screwdriver. Everyone that sees this fan wants one... I would definitely recommend this product!

Unit is fairly easy to assemble and provides quick cooling with many useful settings. The first of the three speeds is relatively quiet and provides very good cooling power. The other two settings do give off a noticable sound, but in the form of "white noise" and won't likely keep you up at night. The timer is handy and the breeze function provides cooling at random speeds. This latter feature is more a novelty than really useful. Since only the lowest speed can be classified as quiet, setting the unit on "breeze" creates a constantly fluctuating noise level -- which is more distracting than setting the unit to one speed and quickly getting used to the steady sound. The remote is a nice extra and features simple, easy-to-use buttons.

This is one of those products that makes you wonder why someone else has not thought of it. Tall and sleek, this tower fan boasts a quiet but powerful motor. At high speed, you better not have any loose papers lying around. The oscillating feature works well and quietly, although the end to end angle is not as wide as most table top fans. The remote control works easily 20 feet away. It does require some assembly, but I could not recommend this fan any higher.

I would give it 0 stars, but that was not a provided choice.

Well, after reading these recent reviews it no longer comes as a surprise that my Bionaire fan also died. Not even 6 months old and I left my apt with the fan running on the lowest setting and upon my return I noticed it was unusually quiet, (as this fan made enough noise to hear it throughout my apt). I tried turning it off/on but there was no response, it just up & died on me. I see it is now selling at a lower price than I purchased mine for, and rightfully so, since the product has a very, very short lifespan. Unfortunately, when I purchased my first, (and last) Bionaire product, I did not have all of these reviews to consider, there were only the first 2 or 3, from others who had not had the fan long enough to know better. Additionally, like other's have noted I also found the warranty to be just more trouble than the fan was worth. So instead of putting more money & time into this poor quality product, (shipping, schlepping and fee), I just simply purchased a very similar fan (costing less) and it seems to be doing just fine. Now, had I taken the hastle of schlepping & shipping this hunk-o-junk fan back in accordance with it's ridiculous warranty, just what was I supposed to do about the heat in my apartment while they wake my dead Bionaire fan??? Does Bionaire even consider that the consumer has actually purchased their product for a distinct reason, (cooling, air-circulation etc..). Given that and the fan just died which now forces me to "deal" with the heat and/or lack of air circulation - but as if that's not enough of an inconvenience, Bionaire now expects me to take the time,effort & $$$ to pack, schlep & ship their dead fan all the while paying the addtional associated costs...Come on this is outrageous and a total rip-off. They are ripping us off and they know it. Buy this product at your own risk and if it dies, well, you're aware of the warranty and all this will be of no surprise.

I bought a Bionaire BT40RC Tower Fan with Remote Control through Amazon.com on April 16, 2002. I wanted to have a reliable fan in our bedroom. This device, shoddily constructed in China, has made all kinds of unusual and disturbing noises that began within two months of purchase. It is a bulky, unwieldy device and last night the fan blades just stopped working even though the noisy motor was grinding away and rotating the device. I called the manufacturer and the so-called 5 year warranty is a joke--one has to send at one's own expense the bulky device back to them along with a check for $10. Since they don't repair these devices, it is junked and a new one is sent out. By the time I waste my time, repackage this device and get it to the post office and send it to a place plus paying for the postage of a replacement unit, I will have wasted more time and money than it is worth doing. Had I know that this device was shoddily made, noisy, unreliable and the company itself has so little confidence in the workmanship that they no longer even try to repair them when they break, I would never have bought one of these things. I urge future buyers to LOOK ELSEWHERE for a remote control fan!

I purchased three of these fans, and two made annoying clicking sounds right out of the box. Somewhere inside, the blades were contacting another piece of plastic. The third one I bought was fine for a few months before it too started making the same clicking sound, and worse, the motor would buzz for a few seconds every once in a while.
If you use this fan in a noisy environment or have poor hearing, then get this fan. If you plan on using this in a bedroom or some other quiet spot, AVOID!... Or at least purchase it somewhere you can return it without having to ship it back.
Poor quality control.

1 Star!...

...and only 2 are still working. The other 2 simply died; one met its end rather suddenly and the other endured slow, ever-more creaking demise. Now I know nothing is perfect, but the "service" I received from Bionaire was so cavalier that I did not return the dead fans (they wanted me to jump through too many hoops) and simply decided to buy from them no more. Live and learn.

This fan is great...as long as it doesn't break down. I bought this fan for my dorm room, and since I was on the top bunk, I loved the fans remote control. The fan was also fairly quiet and powerful. However, after about 6 months of fairly heavy usage the fan started making distracting noises. It sounded like the fan blades were maybe unbalanced causing a noise that was too distracting to sleep through. I have not had it fixed yet, but luckily the warranty lasts for 5 years so the problem should be easily fixed. Other than that, its a great fan, although I wouldn't buy it for the breeze function either (it was more annoying than "natural").