Vornado
Vornado EV200
Two tanks instead of one, two wicks instead of one, and 2.4 gallons a day against a 580 sq ft claim - the closest match between a maker's number and the load calculation anywhere in this catalog, off by about two percent. Refilling means carrying two 0.75-gallon tanks rather than one heavy one, which sounds like a downgrade and is not: most people find two light trips easier than one awkward one, and you can run it on a single tank overnight. Fifteen hours at full output is the honest tank life, and Vornado does not pretend otherwise.
The room-size claim, reconciled
591 sq ft supported · box says 580 sq ft
The 580 sq ft on the box is what the winter load calculation supports for this output — one of 18 units here whose claim lands within 5% of its own published rate.
Holding 580 sq ft takes about 2.35 gal/day, which drains this 1.5-gallon tank in roughly 15 hr.
What a year costs
two wicks per unit; Vornado's two-pack is $14.99 and the interval is one to two months in season, so roughly six wicks a year. Electricity assumes the rated 30 W for 12 hours a day across a 150-day heating season at 16¢ per kilowatt-hour.
Specifications
A claim the maker makes
Vornado says the wicks carry an antimicrobial treatment to inhibit growth on the filter. We quote it rather than repeat it: this site has not tested it and neither has anyone independent.
Maintenance profile
- Top fill
- No — tank comes off and goes to the sink
- Replaceable media
- Wick, replaced through the season
Facts, not a score. Which of these matter depends entirely on whether the unit ends up somewhere you will actually clean it.
Features
- 2.4 gal/day published output against a 580 sq ft claim
- Two 0.75-gallon SimpleTanks
- Automatic humidity control
- Two wicks
- Evaporative - no white dust
- 5-year guarantee
Pros
- The single most accurate room-size claim in the catalog measured against the standard winter load calculation
- Two light tanks beat one heavy one at the sink, and one tank can carry an overnight run
- Automatic humidity control actually holds a target rather than just switching speeds
- Five years of warranty on a $100 evaporative, which is Vornado's standing offer across the line
- No white dust and no distilled-water habit
Cons
- Two wicks means double the consumable bill - about $45 a year at the stated interval
- Fifteen hours at full output means a daily fill in a genuinely dry house
- The fan is the loudest thing about it and there is no way around that in an evaporative
- No app, no timer, no display beyond the humidity setting
What owners say
No owner discussion collected for the Vornado EV200 yet. The pros and cons above come from owner reports and the maker's documentation, and this section will fill in when there is enough first-hand material to summarise honestly. We would rather leave it empty than invent it — how we compare explains why.
Vornado EV200, head to head
Looked at alongside it
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Vornado EVDC300 Energy Smart
A DC motor is the only interesting thing here and it is interesting enough to justify the model. On its Energy Smart setting the EVDC300 draws as little as a single watt, against the twenty to forty a comparable AC evaporative pulls, and it runs the whole winter for the price of a few coffees. Output is 2.3 gallons a day - within one percent of what its 560 sq ft claim actually needs - from a one-gallon tank, which is the catch: ten hours between fills if you run it hard. It is the fill interval, not the capability, that decides whether this or the two-tank EV200 is the right one.
567 sq ft supported · box says 560 sq ft
Vornado
Vornado EV100
Vornado is the only brand in this catalog whose published room size matches the physics. One gallon a day supports about 246 square feet by the standard winter calculation; Vornado prints 260 on the box. That is not a rounding coincidence - the same relationship holds across their whole line, which means somebody there is doing the load calculation instead of the marketing. The EV100 itself is a plain, small, well-built evaporative: one gallon, one wick, automatic humidity control, and a five-year guarantee that is unusually long for the money. It will not humidify an open-plan floor, and Vornado does not claim it will.
246 sq ft supported · box says 260 sq ft
Vornado
Vornado EVDC500 Energy Smart
The EVDC300's larger sibling: same DC motor and single-watt idle, two tanks instead of one, and enough output to matter in a real living room. At 3.5 gallons a day it is the most capable portable Vornado makes, and its 850 sq ft figure again sits within a few percent of the load calculation. Fourteen hours at full output, so still a daily job in a dry house - but two tanks make that a lighter job than one. The question it poses against the Evap40 console is whether you would rather carry water twice a day and keep the floor space, or once a day and give up a corner.
862 sq ft supported · box says 850 sq ft