This is Meaco’s latest fan, the sef-tee, and I’m fairly sure it’s a replacement for their popular 1056 fan. It’s big, it’s bold and it’s been fantastic to use.
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Out of the box, it’s quite a sizeable fan and will take up a fair amount of real estate around your home, depending on where you position it. This is the tabletop version but Meaco also do a pedestal version, which is obviously higher and can be put on the floor in the corner of your room. It looks smart and modern, it feels well built and in my opinion, looks a whole look better than the 1056 model. It comes in one colour scheme of white and black.
It has a sturdy base with rubber feet, meaning it stays in position on your table, and then the rest of it rotates or tilts depending on which mode you’re in. There is a display on the front and some buttons to control it, plus a remote control is provided for ease of use too. The display shows the temperature of the space around the fan.
In terms of features, it’s a fan, it sucks air in from the rear and pushes it out the front, simulating a cooling effect for you. Internally it’s got these boat propeller-like blades, able to deliver 19m cube of air per minute, from its 1450rpm brushless motor. As for rotation, horizontally you’ve got 30, 75 and 120-degree movement, while vertically it’s 20, 30 and 65 degrees. The price is set at £119 for this model, and £179 for the pedestal version.
There are three modes available, normal, night and eco. Normal mode, where you can select a fan speed between 1 and 12, 12 being as fast as it can go. Night mode means the display will turn off unless in use and the sounds will stop, with no beeping. The fan will also reduce its speed by 1 every half an hour until it gets to 1 and then retain that speed until turned off. This has been great at nighttime when it gets cooler through the night and early morning when you don’t need the fan running at its max.
Eco mode means the fan speed will automatically adjust itself depending on the temperature of the room you’re in. Therefore, the warmer the space, the higher the fan speed, with an aim to keep you cool as the room gets hotter. The manual states any temperature 19 or lower, will be speed 1 and then as you go up in increments of 1 degree, the fan speed will follow. 20 degrees, fan speed 2, 21 degrees, fan speed 3 and so on up until 30 degrees or higher, which is fan speed 12.
You’ve then got some further options via the built-in controls or the remote. Increase or decrease fan speed. Vertical oscillation, so the fan tilts up and down. Three settings, narrow (20deg), medium (30deg) or wide (65deg), wide being nearly a full tilt so the fan is pointing to the ceiling. There is also horizontal oscillation, so the fan swivels left to right. Again, three settings, narrow, medium and wide, 30, 75 and 120 degrees in that order. You can have either just horizontal, or vertical oscillation, or combine the two. You can have both horizontal and vertical on setting 3, so it’s providing a widespread, left and right, up and down, doing its best to distribute the air as much as possible, or just have one or the other. Maybe you want a smaller swivel and a higher tilt. Being able to mix and match gives really good flexibility to adapt to the environment you’re in. Also, if you’ve found the perfect angle, you can press either vertical or horizontal button to pause the fan in that position and it will stay there.
Moving over to the remote, that does all the stuff I’ve just been through, plus a couple of other bits. A timer, to either turn the fan on, or off. Now there is no built-in clock as such so it works on hours, 1 to 12, so if the fan is off and you go out for a bit, you can set a timer to tell the fan to turn on in say 3 hours time, so when you come back, it’s already on. You can also do the opposite of this, so of a night, you can use this feature to turn the fan off. Turn it on, set it up how you want and then set the timer to say 4 hours and in four hours, it will turn off. So you don’t need to have the fan going all night, when you may not need to because the outside temperature at 2am is much cooler than say 6pm.
Two other buttons on the remote too, light, which just turns the display off if that is a nuisance during the night and mute, so when a button is pressed, it won’t beep. Now, the remote is small and you could quite easily lose it but it is actually magnetic and there is a cutout circle at the centre of the fan, where the logo is, which is also magnetic, so you can store the remote on that section of the fan, which is very handy. For the unknown, you wouldn’t know the remote was there.
If you’ve had a fan before, you’ll know dust and even fluff will start to build up on the blades. Fear not though, the Sef tee can be cleaned. You take the front grille off by twisting it and then remove the blades too if needed, but that’s handy, being able to get to the blades and wipe them clean if needed.
Let’s talk about efficiency, as Meaco do market this as being very efficient, and it is. Maximum power consumption is 26 watts but can be less. So if we assume the worst, 26 watts, running for 24 hours, that’s 0.62kWh and that equates to about 16p in running costs, based upon a unit cost of 25p, which is my current tariff with Octopus. So say you had it on for 12 hours each night, I’d love 12 hours of sleep any night but that would cost you about 8p. That’s cheap, to stay cool and get a good night’s sleep.
Overall, I’m really impressed with how well the fan performs. It can really pump out some air if needed, yet if you need something more subtle and quiet, it can do that too. Distribution is very good, with plenty of flexibility. It’s very well built and a quality piece of tech, that I’m sure will last for many summers to come. I’m going to keep using this over the summer, as long as it’s warm enough, and I think I’m going to love it even more.
For more info and to purchase, head over to the official Meaco Sefte webpage.
