Arctic Air Pure Chill 2.0 Evaporative Air Cooler by Ontel - Powerful, Quiet, Lightweight and Portable Space Cooler with Hydro-Chill Technology For Bedroom, Office, Living Room & More,Blue

If you're deciding to buy or not like I was, here are few points. This is not an A/C. Don't expect it to cool of room or make ski slope snow. It is personal desk fan. Once you accept that, you can decide if you want it. I like it and I'm not disappointed.First let say that evaporative cooling is a myth. It does exist in theory, but in real life is totally inefficient.What you get is a mini humidifier and desk fan with the added benefit of vapor mist. The vapor mist is the part to experiment with. Freezing the filter did not show any help. Keeping it wet is just fine. The reason is that in hot room ice melts right before your eyes. That also applies to water in the reservoir. Standing water warms up rather quick in a hot room and defeats the cooling idea. So the solution that seem to help is filling the reservoir with just enough water to keep it from running dry. Maybe quarter of the tank or less, and keep adding ice instead of water. Seating in front of fan in hot weather feels good, and keeping the water cold makes cooler breeze. You can also put little bottle cap with scent inside the unit and have room freshener. My favorite is peppermint oil. I run it at low since the fan is noisy on high setting and I want just a breeze, not a tornado.When it becomes really hot I turn on A/C, but for spring weather that fluctuates from hot to cold this thing is just fine.

I bought this to aid in cooling down an extremely small bedroom - cannot fit more than a queen sized bed and two nightstands in it, only to shimmy yourself around to get to the bathroom - because the summer heat in Arizona is cray cray. Loved that it would be delivered same day (Metropolitan area for the win!). Had this little baby in 2 hours or less - and immediately opened it to set it up in said bedroom. Instructions suggest cartridge to be frozen. Well, that was a bummer; looks like I had to wait (story of my life). I soaked the cartridge, according to directions, and placed into freezer. Everything was ready for prompt usage in the am.Next morning, I woke up, did my shimmy shimmy around the bottom of the bed, and in a blink of an eye, fed the cats and made my coffee. I took the cartridge out of the freezer and inserted it into my new Artic Air Godsend. Turned it on, and waited for the cool blast that would signal the end of hell itself....and waited....and waited......nothing. Sure, it was cool, sure there was a faint trickle of air escaping the vents, but nothing like advertised; I think I breathe harder walking to the front door. I thought, maybe it's just in the wrong place...after all, isn't it all about location location location? I placed the Artic Air so the air flow would be directed across the bed. And waited again (I think you can see a pattern emerging here). Still nothing. Then I remembered...Good Things Come To Those Who Wait.....I left the room, watched an episode of Enterprise (worse theme song ever! I WILL fight you on that) and returned with renewed hope. Nothing changed. I could see condensation forming on the vents so knew it had some temperature change but it definitely did not change the temperature in the room. I even thought it may have just needed a little help, after all, we get by with a little help from our friends, right? I placed a fan next to it, to give it a little more umphh, and STILL NOTHING!!!!! My heart sank, for the devil himself would be hard pressed to remain in this room during the day. In conclusion, this is not a buy I would recommend - save yourself the grief and buy a window AC unit. I know I am.

So I was super excited to use these bought one for my room and another for my son’s room. Worked out great in the beginning. Got these beginning of April. It’s July now and they are both leaking and barely cool the room down. I put them on top of a tall bookshelf in my son’s room so he couldn’t get them. They never moved but I went to turn it on and noticed the towel underneath it was soaking wet. I turned it on and sure enough it leaked out water. On the highest setting it seemed to take a while to cool down my son’s room. I only used distilled water as that is what you are supposed to use for humidifiers not regular tap water. I’m a nurse this is the info to me by a well known pediatrician. I feel like these were a huge let down. I only ran them at bedtime. Also the lights are very bright in no way are they nightlights. I went back to using just a regular circulating fan in my son’s room as well as mine. Very disappointed. Not worth the money. Wish I could return them.

It has a very weak fan, and is less an evaporative cooler and more just a fancy mister. The effects can only be felt within a few inches of the device. A sneezing monkey would cool you off better.