STANLEY 655704 High Velocity Blower Fan

I'm very happy with this fan. It moves air efficiently and quietly. It emits the air in a beam-like pattern, which is excellent for some uses (see examples below.)While "carpet drying" might be the typical use for fans of this design, I thankfully don't have to do much of that. I have two main uses for this fan.(1) To blow air across a small group of people while sitting/dining on the porch. Owing to the nice beam of air this fan emits, I can set the fan up 10-20 feet away, and still keep enough air flow so that the mosquitoes don't find us.(2) On the top floor of my house, which gets very warm in the summer. It's great at blowing the hot air out through one window. This is useful if there are other windows on the same (high, hot) floor in through which cooler air can be drawn. The beam-like air output is especially good at setting up the fan several feet away from the window, blowing a beam of air straight out.Noise: The best I've ever used in a residential setting. I hear no meaningful motor noise. The fast movement of air through the fan's geometry gives rise to "white noise" (it's inevitable.) But because the air comes out as a beam, I can get good air flow when the fan is set up 10-15 feet away. At this distance, the air movement-to-noise ratio is nice!It's also easy to pivot the central mechanism to blow air out at a good variety of angles. It rotates around from the outlet being at the bottom blowing parallel to the floor, to blowing air horizontally along the top of the body as in the picture. It also goes past that point to blow downward from the top.Great design. I'm totally sold on this form of fan for a variety of home uses!Edit: 2017-05-21I hooked this up to my kill-a-watt, which gives a good measure of power consumed. This draws 71, 81, and 97 watts respectively at low, medium and high settings. (From standard US electrical outlet.)