Monsoon Air Mover Blower by Summit Air 1HP 4000+ CFM Monster Floor Carpet Dryers

I purchased this to dry out my home after Sandy decided to pay me a visit. The motor is strong and it did the job I needed it to. I ran this for days without turning it off, and had no problems. I would recommend this work horse to anyone looking for a strong fan at a good price. Thank you Amazon for having these in stock when I couldn't find one within 100 miles of the Jersey Shore.

I purchased my first one and it worked and continues to work perfectly. The second one lasted less than a week before it started to shake apart and spark internally. I had to return that one and reorder a replacement. That one came destroyed in shipping, so I reordered another. It arrived intact, and lasted exactly 20 minutes before it began shaking violently. I'm about to return this one and probably replace it with a different, better built one.

As far as I can tell this is well built, but it is ridiculously powerful for my application, which is to dry out the carpet in a small room in my basement that got wet from a water heater that leaked. In a situation like I have, generally you just want to lift up a small section of the carpet and stick the blower under it and dry the carpet and tack it back down again. This monster is so powerful, even on the low setting, that it will uninstall all the carpet off your floor and blow the pictures off the walls in the process. I can imagine it as being of more use in a large industrial application, like a in a movie theater that got flooded, for instance.Here are the specs, by the way:Volts: 115V, 60HzCurrent: 11/12/13 AmpsMotor: 1.0 HPSpeeds: 3AirFlow 4030 CFMAir Direction: 3 positions 0/45/90 degreesWeight 36 lbsWarranty: 1 year Parts, 5 year housingCord Length: 25 FeetDimensions: 21W x 19.5L x 21H (inches)Notice that at 11/12/13 Amps there isn't much difference in the power level of the 3 different speeds. If they had configured this blower so that it could be switched at something like 4/8/13 Amps, it would have been a terrific product. In fact, I believe that the product description claiming "3 speeds" is misleading since there isn't much difference between any of the settings.My advice: Don't buy this monster unless you know exactly what you're doing. For normal residential applications, I would guess that you would probably want something with a switch setting of perhaps 2/4/8 Amps.*********** UPDATE - PROBLEM SOLVED ***********I cut a piece of 1/4" plywood, drilled 2 holes, and installed the plywood over the output vent of the blower so that about one-half of the hole is covered. This reduces the CFM to about what you would get from a blower obtained from your local equipment rental store. Then, if you ever happen to want full power, all you have to do is remove two screws and remove the plywood. As an option, incidentally, one could also turn the screw holes in the plywood into slots so that the cover would be adjustable. Or, you could, of course, simply drill some more mounting holes in the flange of the blower.Using a "Kill A Watt" meter (Amazon has some), I measured the electrical usage with the output vent half covered as follows:LOW SETTING: 4.6 Amps, 542 WattsMEDIUM SETTING: 5.5 Amps, 620 WattsHIGH SETTING: 8.0 Amps, 812 WattsDoes restricting the size of the output vent reduce the load life of the motor? I don't know. Does it increase the service life of the motor? To be honest, I don't have a clue. In any case, though, my plywood-cover solution definitely solves the problem and makes a pretty nifty blower out of this model and probably would permit adjustments anywhere from the original 13 amps down to about 2 or 3 amps, with an equivalent adjustment in CFM.

This thing is cheap.... I bought it as a blower for a party foam machine. It works, and I've ended up using it to dry floors and such, but the main problem is that it has a giant air impeller inside that they didn't bother to balance well at the factory (because it is cheap). As a result, you kind of have to set it against a wall or something heavy or otherwise it will slowly crawl all over the room, especially on wood or hard floors.

Only 4 stars because of noise. But GREAT FAN!

I have used my 2 Monsoon Air Mover 1hp Blowers for over 3 years 4 months and several hundred hours each. I wonder if people who had problems with reliability did not follow instructions and did not shut off the unit and wait till the blades had fully stopped before moving it to a new location. If you do not follow that instruction it is easy to see how this super powerful unit can send the blades slamming into the housing. Maybe I have been lucky but I know it is so compelling when you are drying out a wet flow to keep moving with the unit without shutting it down and waiting for the blades to fully STOP. I could not be happier with my 2 work horses.

I don't usually leave reviews but this product is so poor I feel it is my duty to warn the public. I purchased two of these units. The first failed after about 3 hours of use. The second exploded and sprayed pieces of fan blade everywhere after about 4 hours of use. Consider yourself warned!

Moves a ton of air but broke just sitting there running blades are very weak.