PowerTRC LED Programmable Message Fan - USB Powered Green LED Fan with Soft Blades, Customizable Text, and Custom Software for Personalized Messages and Creative Displays

Great fun for a few bucks. The construction does not inspired great confidence. It uses 2 small springs touching a copper swipe contact to pass the 5 volts from the USB to the spinning propeller head, and those will wear out pretty quickly. But, as long as you know that and accept that, it's a great little toy that can even cool you down in a small room.

Received today. Although the fan appears to be mechanically working fine, has bright LEDs and decent airflow... it does not appear as a connected device on any of my computers. The device manager shows no new devices connecting to/disconnecting from the computer when you plug it in or unplug it, and the included software (after some work to get it to display in English) says the fan is not connected. The instructions included were also of no help, as they are entirely in Chinese; and attempting to use google translate to translate them to English yielded no help. Upon contacting the manufacturer, I was informed that it was "not their product" as all of theirs ship with English instructions; and upon further inspection, the included driver CD appeared to be a store-bought writable CD, which appears to support that assertion. I am disappointed, however, that this item was fulfilled by Amazon; as I would expect some sort of quality control to weed out fakes, as the reviews for these products appear to not differentiate which seller you bought the item from, and if this is indeed as good of a product as people state it is, then I'd hate to lower the review score. All the same, though, I received a non-working fake and will be returning the product.

I purchased this to use on my YouTube shows as an intro. I loaded the software which is quit good and has a lot of options for your messages. I then connected the fan to my PC. PC did not see a see USB device. I tried another computer with a different version of Windows, still no new device. I tried plugging and un-plugging several times with no luck. I sent an email to the maker (about 30 minutes ago). I read the questions and reviews and saw that several other people had this problem so I figured it was a defect. WRONG! In my case it was an operator error. As I was putting everything back in the packaging I notice a USB cable, did not know what this was for since the fan already has a USB on it. There was no mention of using this extra cable (I thought). Just as I was about to stuff everything back in the shipping box, I noticed a picture on the box of this cable connected to the SIDE of the fan. I took everything back out of the box and connected it up with the small USB and BOOM it worked. AND there is a step in the instructions to connect this extra cable (my bad). With the "programming" cable connect it was very easy to program the messages with all kinds of options on how the messages will be displayed. The fan worked as advertised. However, the flexible cable is too flexible and will not hold the fan up very long (seconds). You can find positions that it will stay up but not as shown in the ad. You will need to prop it up and make sure you do not strain your USB port. The fan does not push a lot of air around but I did not purchase it for the fan but for the display. Conclusion: Read the instructions carefully. That being said it makes a great display and after you program it it can be moved to any device to display the messages. I am using a little USB charger to power it so I don't even have to use up a USB port on my computer. Update: Seller contacted me with a few hours of my email with the answer.

Gave this as a gift and it was perfect! The connection between the fan and USB port on the actual device is attached by adjustable metal so you don't have to worry about the wires eventually stripping. The messages that you can program into the fan can clearly be read and the software that let's you change the messages is simple and easy to understand. Instructions come with the product which are easy to understand as well. It has a little on/off button on the fan so you can toggle usage. Overall, well built and gets what I want it to do.

Fans works as advertised, and with it just 1 to 2 feet away from your face, you do feel a sufficient volume of air on you. After a few hours of use, however, the LED begins to get erratic. The LED will go blank and restart midway through the sequence of messages. Sometimes it will reset halfway through the first message. After leaving the fan off for some period of time, it starts working normally again. This problem only seems to happen sooner the more the fan is used. I can only presume that the housing around the circuit board is causing the circuit board to over heat. I expect the LED to eventually fail completely in a relatively short amount of time (a week or two?) as has been described in other reviews.

Neat little fan. Fun to create messages. Moves just enough air. Update, 14 days later. LED no longer displays. Fan still turns. Seller contacted me via e-mail with this statement "Our goal is for you to be completely satisfied with this transaction. If this is not the case, we would appreciate it if you would give us a chance to address your concerns before leaving feedback" So I replied to the e-mail that the LED was no longer displaying. Here is their response "I'm sorry to hear that the led part of the fan is starting to fail. Unfortunately there is no warranty on the LED fan but I can issue you a partial refund of $3 for the inconvenience and hope that you can still use the fan as is. Let me know if this will work for you and I will issue the partial refund". So buyer beware, these are very neat little fans. but they do not last and THERE IS NO WARRANTY.

The software didn't run on my Win 7 ..but I think its due to being 64 bit. Other systems running 32 was fine. The light show is a gang of fun at the pub!! My local bar have USB ports for charging phones and it worked well there. Anyway, programming messages was easy, There is no option for static display, all messages have to appear, leave or rotate, then repeat. You can't leave a single message on without it having to appear and disappear. The worse part of this device is the shaft (ha..shaft!) its limp as hell. IT doesn't stand on its own. It flops over...even worse when its running due to vibrations. I re-laced it with paper clips for rigidity, but now it looks like hell.Its still running on day 4!

This fan is AWESOME! It is quiet and efficient for cooling me off in the car, and most of all, entertaining!!! I I had pre-programmed 8 messages on this device before heading out on a road trip with four other passengers. To their delight, they were in awe of the cute messages I had for each of them. It was so easy to do in my work computer before I headed out. It was such a HIT! In daylight or night time, you can read the messages. The lettering is in a neon blue. I loved this product so much, I am going to purchase many more for friends and family as gifts!

This just quit working! I have only used it about 5 time for about 5 hours each time. I would think it should last longer than that