E27 Ceiling Fan Light 30W, 2-in-1 LED Fan Lamp with Hanging Kit, White

The short version

It screws into an ordinary E27 light socket and gives you a 30 W LED light and a 6 inch fan in the same fitting. One switch on the lead cycles it: light on its own, fan on its own, then both together. There is nothing to wire in and nothing to bolt to the ceiling.

If the room you want it in has no ceiling socket, use the lead that comes with it. The unit screws into the holder on the end of the lead, the hook holds it up, and the switch sits on the cord where you can reach it. That is the whole installation, and it takes about a minute.

What you get

The unit is white throughout, with a flat translucent ring around the underside, so the output spreads sideways across the room instead of firing straight down in a single column. At 30 W it is bright enough to be the only light in a bedroom, a small kitchen or a study. You are not adding a lamp in the corner to make up for it.

The fan sits inside that ring. Five blades, 6 inches across, drawing 4.5 W. It pulls air through the top and pushes it down over whatever is directly below, which is why it works over a bed or a desk and less well as a room fan. If you are trying to cool a whole lounge, a pedestal fan is the better buy, and this is not pretending otherwise.

Running both at once draws about 34.5 W in total. That is about what one old filament bulb used to draw by itself, and here you get moving air as well.

The whole unit measures 25.8 cm across and 12 cm deep. It sits close to the ceiling and reads as a light fitting, not as a fan that has been bolted up there. In a room with a low ceiling that matters, because there is nothing hanging down into head height.

Because the fan and the light share one fitting, a room with a single ceiling socket can now have both. That is most useful in the rooms where you were never going to run new wiring: a rented flat, a back room, a converted garage, a cottage on the property.

Worth knowing

The three settings run in a fixed order off the switch. Press once for light, again for fan, again for both, again for off. There is no remote and no timer with this one, so everything happens at the switch. If you want to change it from the bed, put the switch somewhere you can reach from the bed.

The fan speed is fixed. There is one speed, and it is on or off. If you need to dial airflow up and down through the night, this is not the fitting for that.

The light is one fixed colour. It does not switch between warm and cool white the way some fan lights do, so if that matters to you, check before you buy.

The hanging lead comes fitted with a two pin plug, so check it suits the socket you plan to use it on.

It runs on anything from 85 V to 265 V, so voltage is not something you need to check before ordering. The body is PP and ABS plastic and the LED is rated at 30 000 hours, which at four hours a night is years before you think about it again.

Use it indoors. It has no weather rating, so a covered stoep that still catches driving rain is not the place for it.

Wipe the ring and the vents with a dry cloth every few months. Dust on the blades is what makes a small fan noisy, so it is worth doing before you decide the fan has a fault.

Specifications

• Fitting: E27 screw base
• Light: 30 W LED
• Fan: 6 inch, five blades, 4.5 W
• Combined draw: about 34.5 W
• Diameter: 25.8 cm
• Height: 12 cm
• Voltage: AC 85 V to 265 V
• Control: in-line switch on the lead, three settings
• Plug: two pin
• Colour: White
• Body: PP and ABS
• Rated life: 30 000 hours
• For indoor use

In the box

• One fan light unit
• One E27 lamp holder on a lead
• One hanging hook
• In-line switch, fitted to the lead