Excellent Air Cooler
I live in the Bay Area and just received my air cooler earlier this week. Just in time too! We had temperatures that hit 85+ degrees and this air cooler worked perfectly. Following the directions, I added 2/3 water and 1/3 ice in the water tank and added ice on top. Turning on the cool air function, my bedroom was 7-10 degrees cooler and it actually got pretty cold sitting in front of the air cooler. This is a great product that is quiet, energy efficient and does exactly what it was intended to do. THIS IS NOT AN A/C UNIT. Please be realistic with your expectations.
I Really wanted to like this item
I really wanted to like this item. I live in hot dry west Texas, it's near 100 today and humidity is single digit; not unusual for this time of year, but damned uncomfortable. I did a lot of research and mostly saw that people were using portable swamp coolers where the humidity is too high for them. But the humidity is not high here, so I was really looking forward to plugging mine in and filling it up and having a little cool spot. :( I am very sad and disappointed to report that it's been running for a couple of hours now, and it's not very cool at all. OK, maybe it's a little better than nothing, but it's not cool, and I should probably save electricity by turning it off and leaving the house! The instructions say to use as much ice as possible and sit as close as possible, ha ha!! When I set the machine up, the room was 94 degrees, it's still 94. Save your money, go to an air conditioned space, save up to buy a proper swamp cooler, or just live in the swimming pool.
I give...
Humidifier anyone?
After searching high and low for a replacement for an old finally kaput Sears Kenmore "roto-belt" humidifier (which I've found was a favorite of everyone who had them), I thought hey! What about the swamp coolers we used to cobble together 50 years ago in hot old South Texas? Wouldn't that make a great humidifier which did't require so many crappy, expensive replacement filters/wicks.
I've used this two days so far and am impressed by the quiet white noise and the humidity output (should be run at high speed). I'm planning to drill larger holes in the top ice tray to make an easier fill-up location. Will report more later; so far I'm quite pleased.
(Why the rotary belt humidifier was abandoned, I don't quite understand. Maybe there was a mold problem or maybe they simply wanted the money to be made from selling replacement innards. I used to get years out of one belt on the Sears and it put out consistent humidity, plus the mold, if any was quite tolerable and...
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