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Instructions for “F95B” portable rechargeable fan

This fan can be sold in different configurations, and doesn’t usually come with an instruction book. We experimented with two different items from separate sellers, both marked “F95B”:

The fans otherwise looked identical, but the particulars of their operation were different. I don’t know if one manufacturer sells it in different configurations or if others have copied the product.

Very similar-looking fans are sold as “HY96A” and as “Taidea UF-TDF01”. We have not tried these but we suspect they are the same.

F95B operation

Short-pressing the right-hand (green) button:

Long-pressing the right-hand (green) button:

Short-pressing the left-hand (red) button:

Long-pressing the left-hand (red) button:

Charge light:

Lights up red when it’s charging; changes colour when charged:

ZS fan

In 2019 we bought (online) a third fan, marked “ZS”, which appears to be a derivative of the F95B. In this version the controls are reduced to one unlabelled button, which cycles through slow-medium-fast-torch-off, and the battery is held in a vertical grasp-handle rather than being horizontally mounted below the fan. The unit can still be stood on a table by easing open a clip at the top front of the handle which then allows the handle to flip around to the back of the blades. Again no instructions were provided.

I suspect the ZS uses a version of the two-button F95B’s circuit and they simply haven’t connected the red-button input. It was sold without battery, and in that state its “fast” speed was reduced to “medium-slow” to run on external power, but we had a spare 18650 we could fit to restore normal operation.

We still don’t know who made it. It came in a box claiming (among other things) the fan is safe for babies, whereas a label on the fan itself said it isn’t, so it seems to have been irresponsibly repackaged. A search for the exact words of that box (which had 24 English mistakes) found a lady in Guangdong promising to ship 20,000 per day but not stating their source; a search for the fan’s own label found only resellers.

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