Product review (1 stars): Inexcusable poor design
The fan is pretty useless due to a major design flaw which affects its getting the job done i.e. venting cooking aromas, steam, grease particles out of the kitchen. The exhaust vents are set too far back in the unit to effectively draw from the front burners of a stove's cook top--from my experience, even on the high setting. My electric LG smooth top stove has two large burners at the front of the cook top which I use often for sauteing and for boiling water in a large pot for cooking pasta. Even with the fan set on high, easily 3/4 of the cooking process byproducts curl around the unit's front and sides and head toward the ceiling to gunk it up which is precisely what I wanted to avoid. I also wanted it to cut down on the humidity from boiling water. That's not happening.
That plus on its high setting (5 sones claimed i.e. 5X as loud as the 1 sone low setting) the fan is excessively loud to have a normal conversation in the kitchen with it on. I find the low setting to be quiet enough but ineffective in drawing power.
So why award it even one star? The lights brightly light up the cook top and then some, but avoid getting halogen bulbs for they really throw out heat and are costly to operate. I primarily wanted an effective exhaust fan, not lighting. Now I'm stuck with this feckless wonder in my newly remodeled kitchen. Bummer!