Sirocco 12-24VDC Gimbal Fan 7" Three Speed Black

I bought 5 or 6 of these and installed one in my camper, and the rest were intended to go in my boat.I have to hand it to the French for designing a built in timer that shuts this off after a period of time--2, 4, or 6 hours. This is perfect for the Carbibbean where nights start hot and get cooler.It is on a gimballed mount--this is where it fails. Using it pointed it one direction causes damage to the contacts inside the housing, or perhaps the wires break at this point--I did not take it apart to see which of these is the case.So after a while you have to point it away from where you want it pointed to work. At some point I expect it will fail completely.After only minimal use, it would not spin the fan blade in certain poitions. At first I could give it a ... MoreI bought 5 or 6 of these and installed one in my camper, and the rest were intended to go in my boat.I have to hand it to the French for designing a built in timer that shuts this off after a period of time--2, 4, or 6 hours. This is perfect for the Carbibbean where nights start hot and get cooler.It is on a gimballed mount--this is where it fails. Using it pointed it one direction causes damage to the contacts inside the housing, or perhaps the wires break at this point--I did not take it apart to see which of these is the case.So after a while you have to point it away from where you want it pointed to work. At some point I expect it will fail completely.After only minimal use, it would not spin the fan blade in certain poitions. At first I could give it a little push to get started, then today, it will not spin at all umless I point it 90 degree from where I want the breeze. So those contacts have either worn out, shorted, or arced and built up carbon deposits. Clearly the weak point is the lack of conductivity on the contacts inside the housing. Or else if wires are used, these cannot tolerate the fan being adjusted and the wires are breaking.The fan I am using now failed in 3 months of use, neaarly all of it on the lowest setting. This setting is quiet and still moves a lot of air. Since it automatically shuts itself off after 2 hours, the number of hours is minimal. I rarely set it to operate more than two hours at a time.The photo's show, it has power because the little blue light is on, but will no longer push any air unless you fiddle with the adjustyments for direction.If someone knows of a reliable fan that will last for years please let me know.I will be returning all of them, including the others which are unboxed because I don't want them to be out of warranty from sitting in a box waiting to be installed.The attached photos show it energised and spinning and also not working with a slight change in angle. The range in angles were it does not work is fairly wide. The opivot point at the top and bottom of the fan is the problem area.

Used in saloon and also in Master Cabin of 40' Sloop.LOVE the design and features. Great air flow and multi positions. The auto selectable timer is brilliant.These units BOTH failed due to poor quality of manufacture.When I buy something I expect it to outlast the warranty 10:1. These didn't!I am ordering NEW ones because I understand the quality has been ramped up and because I don't wish to alter the "footprint".Trust is a wonderful thing. DON'T LET ME DOWN you good things!

These fans in my opinion could be the best on the market...they have everything going for them EXCEPT they just don't last. I thought we would have had problems with the articulating bracket but that has turned out to be well designed it seems. We have had 6 of these fans and everyone of them WITHOUT exception and in less than 1 year has had problems with the on/off and or the timer/delay switches. THey either won't turn on or won't turn off and or the 2/4/6 hr timer switches stop working. The good news is they have all been replaced under warranty but I am tired of the work involved in swapping them out with new ones..I have done it 6 times so far and until I hear that they have fixed this problem... will not do it again.