It turns out the little button on the back does adjust speed and I may have just been having a bpd rage moment 
🫤 still think it feels very cheaply made and that connectivity is stupid and a security risk, not so much with police, but the data farming and sketchy people looking to rob a grow
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Searching bluetooth and wifi. I have nothing listed for ac infinity…
2 controller 69pro powered on and running.
These Noctua fans get such good ratings I want to try a DIY with them, get half a dozen and raid an old computer for the power supply, pretty sure I have an old ThermalTake one sitting around I saved for this kind of thing. I’ll just need a PWM controller which should be $10 or so and some 4" aluminum dryer duct to make 12" positionable elbows to duct the airflow wherever I want it. Either on a pole adapter or as two air banks beside or over the canopy I guess? I gotta start sketching. If I can find cheap computer fans to experiment with I’ll do that first but at $15 a pop those cheaper Noctua are pretty okay, four would make a good test build that I could expand to six or eight if needed but I’m imagining one fan and duct for each plant in my 4x4. Maybe another two for circulation?
The spec I care about most with these is how good the bearings are compared to anything else, mean time to failure is rated in excess of 150,000 hours. That’s seventeen years of continuous use in clean/dusty conditions. I think if I used the better of the two I posted, the waterproof industrial one, that’s probably ten years in a grow tent and I don’t know of another fan that comes close while delivering 65-70 CFM like one of these will.
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Bed Bath and Beyond has a holiday coupon for 25% off your whole cart with email signup, they only have one Lil Blizzard left in stock but these are looking awfully interesting, nice and easy to clean and maintain and sturdy, with that gimbal already built in to bolt right onto a pole mount, hmm… I might just try a pair of these, shipped for like $55 total that’s not bad at all. Though I do think ultimately the smart move for me would be to get out of consumer electronics and into commercial/industrial components like those higher end Noctua fans that are also $25 but probably move more air with less electricity and will last longer.
I haven’t tried AC’s oscillating fan yet…
But I like all of the other products I have tried from them.
In my experience I have shitty luck with the small clip on fans no matter what brand they are.
If I get 6 months out of a fan I am lucky in my opinion.
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I’ve had a 6" hurricane running 24-7 for 8 months now. Fingers crossed 
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13 months on 2 Hurricane 6" clip-ons. 10 months on 2 Walmart 6 inch clip ons. Better airflow and a much worse clip/mount design. noisier after time. ventilation fan drowns out.
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I have had the Hurricane fans before, I liked them but they still burned out faster then I would have thought.
The trick with these clip on fans is to never turn them off. 
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Line up a few and hang on the sides of tents looks like a good space saver, just don’t use one of these THD2048HT, bionic blade fan, Round-200mm, 70mm Width, PWM, 48 VDC, 8A, 384 Watts, 7400 RPM, axial, ball bearing, 4 lead wires, aluminum frame, dc fan, delta
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Jesus what a beast of a fan 384 watts