Beldray 2-in-1 Bladeless Fan Review: Bladeless on a Budget

It’s almost impossible to talk about the Beldray 2-in-1 Bladeless Fan & Heater without mentioning the Dyson AM09 Hot+Cool, so I won’t even try. We’ll be polite and describe the former as an homage to the latter, which includes the same basic functions with the same design, but for less than half the price.

Like the Dyson, it’s a dual-purpose fan and heater, working to cool you when the temperatures rise and warm you when we fall in the fall. And like the Dyson, it’s designed to be energy efficient and quiet. But is Beldray’s tax act worth buying, or a pale imitation of the real deal? I’ve been testing it for the past week on both jobs to find out.

Beldray 2-in-1 Bladeless Fan: What you get for the money

This is a fan and heater that combines oscillating, seamless cooling and a 2KW fan heater in the same device. Like Dyson’s classic design, the fan in the column draws in air through gaps in the base and passes it up to an oval ring that extends at the top, where it is pushed at speed through a series of small outlets. It also includes a glow ring at the bottom, which can be customized with a choice of six thicknesses and colors.

It’s a reasonably stylish unit, and while everything – including the silver ring – is plastic, it feels like thick and solid plastic rather than anything cheap and ugly. It stands at 84cm tall but measures 225 x 225mm, so it’s easy to fit into most rooms and easy to store when not in use.

The circular display in the center of the base gives you the current fan speed or temperature, while the eight sensitive buttons arranged around it allow you to change the mode or speed – as well as adjust the target temperature, set the timer, or change the brightness and color of the LED ring. The buttons work for the first time without repeated movements, and the same functions are displayed on the integrated remote control. It’s well laid out and responsive when you try to use it, which (sadly) isn’t something you should take lightly.

What features and settings does it have?

Beyond the basic fan and heating functions you have a choice of nine speeds and two fan modes. In standard mode it runs at the selected speed until it is turned off, but you can also set it to Eco mode, where it changes the current speed according to the room temperature. The heater has four speed settings and you can change the target temperature from 5°C to 35°C. There is also an oscillation function, rotating the fan by 40° in any direction, and a timer to turn off the fan after a period of between one and eight hours, which can be adjusted in one-hour increments.

How well does it work?

It’s not the fan you should pick up if you want a lot of airflow. Even at its highest speed the airflow only reached a speed of 1.5 meters per second, which is less than the Dyson Pure Hot + Cool we tested back in 2019 (2.1m/sec) and the same Hotsnap Vortex I reviewed in 2023 (1.9m/sec). At low speed it is even softer. My anemometer recorded a speed of 1.2m/sec on the medium fan setting (five) and just 0.8m/sec on the single setting. At that point I had to move the anemometer closer to the fan just to make it spin.

That said, it can still blow some comforting air. You can still feel it even in a small area, and when you hit the fourth or fifth speed there is enough air flow to help you cool down. The 80° oscillation means that it can cover a good area, and, although there is no vertical oscillation, or tilting function, if you want to distribute the air up at all.

Turn on the heater, and it works fine. You can feel the hot air coming from a few meters away, and in half an hour it raised the temperature in my living room from a slightly chilly 18°C ​​to 20°C. Your only concern is power consumption. While heating, the heater holds 2kW and can be even higher for a short time when it first heats up. In the fan setting it is very economical, using 20W at its highest speed but 8.7W at medium. At its lowest setting it uses only 3W.

Is there anything we didn’t like?

Fans of this type should be near-silent, but the Beldray can get quite loud. At low speed it emits a relatively quiet 30.1dBA whir, but crank it up to five and you’re looking at 40dBA, or 48.9dBA at full blast.

That’s more than the Hotsnap Vortex and more than the range of the best tower fans we’ve looked at, including the EcoAir Halo and the Levoit 36in Tower Fan.

Should you buy the Beldray 2-in-1 Bladeless Fan?

It is possible. My biggest problem with the Beldray 2-in-1 is that, while it looks the part, it doesn’t work like a standard tower fan. It emits less airflow than the Levoit or EcoAir Halo, while also causing a lot of noise. There is enough air coming in to keep you cool on a hot day, and there is something nice about having a fan that won’t blow papers off the desk or a nearby table, but I’d still recommend a regular tower fan if you want airflow over a wide area from a space-saving design. In addition, Levoit can be found at a low price.

In fact, the best thing about the Beldray is that it can also act as a heater, and although it’s very hungry to provide cost-saving background heat, it’s still very useful for quickly warming up a cold room. As a fan, it can be, but it’s a solid 2-in-1 tool.