Bed Fan

by TOMPKINS RESEARCH INC

• The dual fans are quiet and discrete
• Features a small, handheld control
• The fan speed is infinitely adjustable
• Easy to install and virtually invisible

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 20 x 12 inches ; 7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds
• ASIN: B001Z0OZGE
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #215,782 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen)

Product Description

Bed Fan. The Bed Fan delivers a cool breeze between the sheets--without AC costs, and without disturbing your partner. The fan attaches to the foot of the bed and quietly blows fresh, cool air between your top and bottom sheets, instantly dispersing built-up body heat trapped under the covers and moving up to 100 cubic feet of air every minute. It's more effective than traditional cooling methods, which only affect the air outside the bed! Perfect for individuals who sleep warm or experience hot flashes, and for couples with different temperature preferences. With the Bed Fan, you can raise the thermostat by several degrees and still sleep more comfortably than you did before. It's easy to install, hardly visible once it's in place, and the dual fans are quiet. The small, handheld control sits on your bedside table or under your pillow--and the fan speed is infinitely adjustable. Save on energy costs and sleep at a cool, comfortable temperature, without disturbing your partner. Order the Bed Fan today!.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

63 of 65 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars First good night's sleep in a long time May 3, 2009

By P. Apple

Amazon Verified Purchase

Up until now, hot flashes from menopause have been disrupting my sleep for weeks. My only way to cope has been to crank the thermostat down to 70 degrees at night (wasting energy to cool the entire house), and set up a fan next to the bed to blow directly on me. Even so, I'd wake up several times a night, fling off the covers, cool off, then get too cold, and pull the covers back over my head. The annoyance and sleep deprivation made me desperate enough to spend $80 on a solution, and I'm glad I did.

The Bed Fan took me about 5 minutes to set up, and worked great from the very start. I started out with the unit turned to a medium-intensity setting, and soon discovered that I could turn it down to a very low setting and stay plenty cool. The fan is blissfully quiet compared to the room fan I'd been using, and I appreciate not having to supercool the bedroom. There's enough clearance under the top sheet (where the fan frame holds up the sheet at the foot of the bed) to allow me to turn over, move around, get in and out of bed without the sheet coming undone. The only reason I'm giving it 4 stars instead of 5 is that it does seem rather overpriced, especially given the less-than-substantial feel of the plastic.

62 of 67 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars good concept, not so good execution October 15, 2008

By Carlos O. Rodriguez

While the idea behind this product is a very good one (get air moving under the sheets for hot sleepers), they didn't quite nail it down.
For starters in order for this to work as advertised you have lay still while you sleep, in my case I'm a very active sleeper, this sometimes causes the sheets to come undone near where the bedfan sits, blowing the sheets off my lower body and at this point might as well just use a ceiling fan, however to prevent this we used a comforter but then that caused a different problem because of the heavier nature of comforters it held down the sheets to the point that no air was moving to my upper body and my feet would get very cold, making me turn off the bedfan.
Also the unit I received had very loud fans, made of mostly ABS plastics and velcro, for the price I'm sure they could've found some better fans, with better CFM and less DCB.
I'd be willing to give this product another try if they ever have a redesigned version.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars So Far So Maybe **Update** June 8, 2011

By Gina Lollobrigida

Amazon Verified Purchase

This is just a tentative review as I just received the Bed Fan today. Setup is super easy, it's as simple as plugging it in and adjusting the height of bar that directs airflow. The fan is really quiet until you get close to having it on full-blast. So far it works just as described, however, I have a rather heavy down comforter and I'm not sure the airflow is strong enough to circulate air underneath it. After trying it a night or two I'll write an update. Let's hope it does work because it could be ice cold in my bedroom and I'd still wake up soaked with sweat in the middle of the night!

**Update**
A couple of frustrations have cropped up as I have used The bed fan for a couple of weeks now. First and foremost, it is way too light to remain stable, even with the sheets tucked around it as per the instructions. Pulling the covers up toward my shoulders pulls the fan forward with them and makes the base slide away from the bed. Any further movement from the covers at this point causes the fan to clank against the wooden platform base of my bed. Very annoying! What I plan to do is tape the fan to the bed with some clear box tape. Oh yeah and the little Velcro thing doesn't work on my particular platform bed.
The next annoyance is the noise. Usually the sound of a fan is actually quite soothing to me, even a roaring attic fan somehow lulls me, but the sound of The Bed Fan is quite irritating. The box fan I use in my room is much louder and I find it very pleasant, so the problem is not decibel level of The Bed Fan, it's the sound quality. The only way I can make the comparison is to say that The Bed Fan creates an unpleasant droning hum as opposed to the rushing, white-noise sound of a typical fan. Perhaps I sound picky-unish but in the middle of the night the gravity of these minor annoyances is greatly magnified.