
Which Neck Fan / Personal Air Conditioner Brand Wins?
In our test we compared 12 neck fan / personal air conditioner options head to head. Torras came out on top. See the measured results, the runner-up, the budget pick, and a link to the full test video.

Torras
Price shown in test: $280
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ChillGo
Price shown in test: $27
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The quick take
The short version of why each pick lands where it does, built straight from the measured results.
“I compiled all the performance data and then took the average finish and the average subjective rating to come up with a score. And the Torras came out on top with an average finish or average ranking of 2.7, which is pretty impressive.”
Best in 2 of 7 measurements, including Vibration and Cooling performance subjective rating.
Best in 2 of 7 measurements, including Cousin Eddie air speed test, right ear/mustache pt1/mustache pt2/left ear/back of neck and Max air speed, highest setting.
The measured results
Every number below is read straight from the test. Products are listed in the order they finished.
Noise low/med/high (dB)
- 1Torras53.6 / 62.92nd
/ 68.2; 2nd quietest overall on low (behind Jisulife 50.1), 3rd quietest on high (behind Jisulife 64.6 and Scurry 65.8)
- 2ChillGo affordable neck fan (updated design)59.9 / 66.4
/ 68.8
- 3Jisulife50.1 / 60
/ 64.6, quietest of all 12 units on both low and high fan speed
- 4Amacool59.7 / 68.1
/ 74.6, tied for loudest on high speed with FrSara
- 5FrSara54.9 / 65.83rd
/ 74.6, loudest yet at the point it was tested, tied for loudest on high with Amacool; tied for 3rd quietest on low with Comlife
- 6Sweetful57.8 / 63.1
/ 69.3
- 7Scurry sports hanging neck fan56.3 / 61.12nd
/ 65.8, 2nd quietest of all 12 units on high fan speed behind Jisulife
- 8Dattoy64.2 / 68.92nd
/ 75, 2nd loudest yet on high at the point it was tested (behind AJGJF's 76)
- 9Civpower60.8 / 68.5
/ 74, noisiest yet at the point it was tested
- 10OLV Turbo59.9 / 64.1
/ 72.5
- 11AJGJF neck fan and air conditioner66.6 / 69.6
/ 76, loudest of all 12 units on both low and high fan speed at the point it was tested
- 12Comlife portable air conditioner54.9 / 63.23rd
/ 68.7, tied for 3rd quietest on low with FrSara; 'actually pretty good' on high
Max air speed, highest setting (fpm)
- 1Torras1,0583rd
best of the 4 air-conditioning units, 3rd overall behind ChillGo (1,789) and Amacool (1,077)
- 2ChillGo affordable neck fan (updated design)1,7891st
1st place overall by a wide margin, 'almost twice the air speed as the competition'
- 3Jisulife822
trailing Scurry and Sweetful at the point it was tested
- 4Amacool1,0772nd
2nd place overall behind ChillGo
- 5FrSara9263rd
moved into 3rd place at the time it was tested
- 6Sweetful847
just behind Scurry
- 7Scurry sports hanging neck fan902
led the field at the point it was tested before Civpower and ChillGo surpassed it
- 8Dattoy808
better than AJGJF/Alphabet Soup
- 9Civpower971
took the lead from Scurry at the point it was tested
- 10OLV Turbo753
'experiencing a little turbo lag'
- 11AJGJF neck fan and air conditioner375
weakest of the 4 air-conditioning units
- 12Comlife portable air conditioner487
slower than Dattoy
Vibration
- 1Torras
too low to measure, best (lowest) of all 12 units
- 2ChillGo affordable neck fan (updated design)0.55 mm/s
described as good considering its high air speed output
- 3Jisulife0.38 mm/s
3rd-least of all 12 units
- 4Amacool0.62 mm/s
described as performing well given the amount of air it moves
- 5FrSara0.4 mm/s
average, described as very little
- 6Sweetfulabout1.3 mm/s
described as vibrating a lot more than the Scurry
- 7Scurry sports hanging neck fan
used as an implicit baseline (roughly half a millimeter per second) against which Sweetful's 1.3 mm/s was compared; no separate explicit figure given for Scurry itself
- 8Dattoy0.45 mm/s
described as performing well
- 9Civpower0.79 mm/s
described as vibrating quite a bit in addition to being noisy
- 10OLV Turbo
well over 2 mm/s, the most (worst) of all 12 units, 'very noticeable'
- 11AJGJF neck fan and air conditioneraround1 mm/s
described as vibrating quite a bit despite not moving much air
- 12Comlife portable air conditioner0.36 mm/s
least of all 12 units at the point tested (Torras later measured too low to register at all)
Runtime, highest setting
- 1Torras2 hours 15 minutes9th
4th to die of 12; narrator flags this as a weakness: 'it did finish in ninth place for overall run time'
- 2ChillGo affordable neck fan (updated design)2 hours 47 minutes
5th to die of 12
- 3Jisulife4 hours 52 minutes
longest of all 12 units, 'lasted more than twice as long as some of the other brands'
- 4Amacool3 hours 42 minutes
9th to die of 12
- 5FrSara4 hours 5 minutes
10th to die of 12, 'a pretty impressive run time for a neck fan'
- 6Sweetful4 hours 9 minutes
11th to die of 12
- 7Scurry sports hanging neck fan2 hours 7 minutes
2nd to die of 12
- 8Dattoy2 hours 8 minutes
3rd to die of 12
- 9Civpower3 hours 28 minutes
7th to die of 12
- 10OLV Turboabout3 hours 28 minutes
powered down a few seconds after Civpower, 8th to die of 12
- 11AJGJF neck fan and air conditionerjust over3 hours
last of the 4 cooling-plate units to die, 6th to die of 12 overall
- 12Comlife portable air conditionerjust under2 hours
first of all 12 units to die
Cousin Eddie air speed test, right ear/mustache/left ear/back of neck (fpm)
- 3Jisulife597 / 0
(no air speed at mustache) / 489 / 279 (best neck reading at the time it was tested)
- 4Amacool854 / 0
(no detectable movement at mustache) / 719 / 157 (a little low)
- 5FrSara663
/ too low to measure at mustache / 552 / 155 (a little low)
- 6Sweetful7873rd
/ too little to measure at mustache / 960 (pretty impressive) / 240 (pretty good); cumulative 5-area score 1,987, 3rd place overall behind ChillGo (2,518) and Torras (2,070)
- 9Civpower464 / 0
(no air speed at mustache) / 568 / 128 (not much air movement)
- 11AJGJF neck fan and air conditioner273 / 0
(no detectable movement) / 402 (pretty low) / 0 (no detectable movement)
- 12Comlife portable air conditioner298
(struggled) / 0 (no detectable movement) / 367 (well below average) / 0 (no detectable movement)
- 1Torrasnot tested
- 2ChillGo affordable neck fan (updated design)not tested
- 7Scurry sports hanging neck fannot tested
- 8Dattoynot tested
- 10OLV Turbonot tested
Cousin Eddie air speed test, right ear/mustache pt1/mustache pt2/left ear/back of neck (fpm)
- 1Torras719 / 02nd
(no detectable movement at mustache) / 638 / 713 (2nd best neck reading); cumulative 5-area score 2,070, 2nd place overall behind ChillGo (2,518)
- 2ChillGo affordable neck fan (updated design)746 / 1211st
/ 152 / 664 / 835 (by far the best neck reading); cumulative 5-area score 2,518, 1st place overall
- 7Scurry sports hanging neck fan412 / 353
/ 739 / 357 / 0 (no air movement across the back of the neck); narrator notes he adjusted the unit's angle to give it the best chance in this test
- 8Dattoy512 / 142
/ 172 / 620 (pretty good) / 256 (good)
- 10OLV Turbo472 / 139
/ 140 / 545 / 161
- 3Jisulifenot tested
- 4Amacoolnot tested
- 5FrSaranot tested
- 6Sweetfulnot tested
- 9Civpowernot tested
- 11AJGJF neck fan and air conditionernot tested
- 12Comlife portable air conditionernot tested
Cooling plate temperature range
- 1Torras
largest cooling plate of the 4 AC units at about 14 inches total, temperature range 64-70F
- 8Dattoy
triangle-shaped cooling plate, about 2.75in wide, warmest area around 72F, coldest area around 65F
- 11AJGJF neck fan and air conditioner
cooling plate about 2.75in wide, center around 55F (coldest single reading of any of the 4 AC units), warmest area 62F
- 12Comlife portable air conditioner
cooling plates total 9 inches in length, wrap around most of the neck (unlike the other 3 AC units which only cool the back of the neck); temperature range 63-69F
- 2ChillGo affordable neck fan (updated design)not tested
- 3Jisulifenot tested
- 4Amacoolnot tested
- 5FrSaranot tested
- 6Sweetfulnot tested
- 7Scurry sports hanging neck fannot tested
- 9Civpowernot tested
- 10OLV Turbonot tested
Max charging speed (40W charger)
- 1Torras12.8 watts
fastest of all 12 units
- 2ChillGo affordable neck fan (updated design)8.66 watts3rd
3rd fastest behind Torras (12.8W) and AJGJF (8.77W)
- 11AJGJF neck fan and air conditioner8.77 watts2nd
2nd fastest behind Torras (12.8W)
- 3Jisulifenot tested
- 4Amacoolnot tested
- 5FrSaranot tested
- 6Sweetfulnot tested
- 7Scurry sports hanging neck fannot tested
- 8Dattoynot tested
- 9Civpowernot tested
- 10OLV Turbonot tested
- 12Comlife portable air conditionernot tested
All measurements (3 more)+
Cooling performance subjective rating
- 1Torras
best possible rating of 1, top of all units
- 2ChillGo affordable neck fan (updated design)2nd place
behind only Torras
- 3Jisulifenot tested
- 4Amacoolnot tested
- 5FrSaranot tested
- 6Sweetfulnot tested
- 7Scurry sports hanging neck fannot tested
- 8Dattoynot tested
- 9Civpowernot tested
- 10OLV Turbonot tested
- 11AJGJF neck fan and air conditionernot tested
- 12Comlife portable air conditionernot tested
Hair-safety rating
- 2ChillGo affordable neck fan (updated design)
best possible rating of 1 (tied with Comlife); 'nearly impossible to have hair coming in contact with the fan'
- 12Comlife portable air conditioner
best possible rating of 1 (tied with ChillGo)
- 1Torrasnot tested
- 3Jisulifenot tested
- 4Amacoolnot tested
- 5FrSaranot tested
- 6Sweetfulnot tested
- 7Scurry sports hanging neck fannot tested
- 8Dattoynot tested
- 9Civpowernot tested
- 10OLV Turbonot tested
- 11AJGJF neck fan and air conditionernot tested
Hair-safety
- 7Scurry sports hanging neck fan
flagged as a strong risk of hair getting caught inside the fan, unlike brands with small-hole inlets
- 1Torrasnot tested
- 2ChillGo affordable neck fan (updated design)not tested
- 3Jisulifenot tested
- 4Amacoolnot tested
- 5FrSaranot tested
- 6Sweetfulnot tested
- 8Dattoynot tested
- 9Civpowernot tested
- 10OLV Turbonot tested
- 11AJGJF neck fan and air conditionernot tested
- 12Comlife portable air conditionernot tested
How it was tested
- noise level at low/medium/high fan speed (decibels)
- Cousin Eddie mannequin air speed test at 5 points (right ear, two mustache points, left ear, back of neck) at a fixed fan speed, plus cumulative 5-area score
- maximum air speed on highest fan setting, measured with a pitot-tube air speed meter
- net cooling plate temperature range for the 4 units that claim air-conditioning capability (AJGJF, Dattoy, Comlife, Torras)
- vibration level at highest fan speed (mm/s)
- subjective hair-entanglement safety rating
- subjective comfort rating
- subjective cooling performance rating
- total battery runtime on highest fan/cooling setting until fully drained
- maximum charging speed using a 40W charger (none of the units included their own charger)
“I compiled all the performance data and then took the average finish and the average subjective rating to come up with a score. And the Torras came out on top with an average finish or average ranking of 2.7, which is pretty impressive.”


