Is Chillwell Portable AC a Scam? (Yes, Here’s Why) - Krazy Ken’s Tech Talk
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It's summer again (in this hemisphere) and the scammy AC ads are spreading! Today, Krazy Ken debunks a new one and it is AWFUL!
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00:00 Introduction
00:37 Video Ads Overview
03:00 Video Ads Breakdown
08:28 Web Presence
11:30 Purchase Process
12:38 Physical Product Overview
16:01 How Do These Products Work?
17:27 Testing the Scam With Science!
18:53 Testing the One, True Claim…?
19:50 Legit Chillwell Alternatives
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UPDATE: I ran the Keystone AC energy test again and it read 1,278 watts-more than shown in the episode (716 watts). I'm not sure if the meter was freaking out earlier, or if the Energy Saver button on the AC did that.
If you had put ice in the ChillWell, would it had worked better?!.
Asians like to use the term "Aircon" instead of "AC" or "Air Conditioner".
If the ad says "air con", you should think the product is from unreliable company of China.
Most of asian countries are learning British style English.
Reliable companies in Asia choose proper and familiar words for your country.
So...... beware of that.
They have another one of these scam ads saying it was created by a NASA engineer
I smell SHITEEEEE😂😂😂😂 I MADE A Aircon out of copper tubes a jug of water and some peltie plates and a water pump and bottle
NICE AWES0ME 🎉✨🎉✨🎉🎉🎎🎭🎎🎭🎎🎭🎗🎗🎗🎗🎗🎗🎗🎑🎑🎑🎑🎑🎑🎑✨🎆
While making the Chillwell they forgot the most important part.
Making it chill well.
Ba dum tiss!
This may be the greatest comment I've ever seen.
Chillsorta™
@@pauldavison5382 Good written description of a rim shot.😀
They forgot the punctuation marks. Chill? Well....
It's amazing how this young genius invented a SWAMP COOLER lol
And a bad one at that. I wonder how it is supposed to extract heat energy from a room while sitting in the same damn room. Do these people even basic physics bruh?
@@friddevonfrankenstein Yep. It can actually only heat the room, and increase humidity. Brilliant.
@@friddevonfrankenstein they are relying on folks like my mother in law, hints why I'm staring at one now lol
@@friddevonfrankenstein Some people have zero concept of physics or energy. I once told a friend my PC had excellent cooling, but my room got way too hot while the machine was under load. "But if your PC has good cooling, shouldn't your room be cool?" ...... Guess they think heat energy just kind of disappears into a black hole or something.
@@Gruntsworth It's the magical heat dissipation void, never heard of it? :D
I’m SO GLAD someone is finally exposing this! I really don’t know how it is that they’ve been able to legally describe an evap-cooler as “air conditioning.”
Chinese companies don't follow laws
simple, the FTC is the worst government agency EVER and needs to be shut down, period. They are useless.
If the ad for the thing youre selling is using stock footage and an AI voice, legality has never been considered. At that point youre just trying to as shamelessly scam people as possible.
They don't advertise them as air conditioners, they advertise them as air coolers. Slick, and unfortunate that they both have the same letters that can be represented as AC. Except air conditioning is usually shown as A/C, and these are advertised as AC.
Maybe they are illegal. Someone has to actually get the site blocked or payments to them blocked, or their web host held liable. It's not magic.
As an HVAC Technician I thank you for this video. I've seen so many of these different companies trying to sell their tiny evap coolers as portable AC solutions and it's wild how many people buy into it. Swamp or evaporative coolers are a great solution for dry climates as adding humidity is actually beneficial for comfort (50% humidity is ideal for comfort cooling), although good ones use much larger fans for more air circulation and BTU removal from the air. Hopefully more people will see this and realize that these little coolers are not a good solution for cooling, they're better off getting desk fans than this.
Tbh they're even somewhat useful in humid environments too (up to a limit)
I use them in the UK in the summer until it gets too humid and then the evaporative coolers do nothing (ditto for any fans)
But I'm aware that these simply can't be air conditioners, especially when they don't condition the air and they actively act as humidifiers.
I have something similar to this on my desk but because it was actually advertised as an evaporative air cooler, it cost just £20
As someone who takes care of and old woman with internet access, I want to rip apart all these scammers and every platform that plays their ads.
Same,,, my grandpa keeps on asking me about these stupid weight loss gummies and I want to tear my hair out whenever he says anything about them.
Show her these videos!
get a pihole or another network-wide ad blocker, that's what they were built for
@@vgamesx1 or adguard home as it is a little easier to use
adblock
The saga with these air coolers never ends, they just CANT stop coming back!
Presumably that's the "perpetual" part they were advertising.
fr they needa chill 😭
ha get it
For a while though the drama seemed to have.... cooled off....
@@ids1024 Chillwell Swamp Perpetual "Officially Certified" Cooler
Good accurate presentation. Scammers have been trying to peddle their garbage (like the mini swamp cooler) for decades...
what does blowing a plastic bag tell besides that it blows?🤣🤣🤣
The ad I saw on FB had the inventor as a retired NASA engineer from Houston caring for his sick mother
Yep, bought 2 for $14 identical to these a while back on ebay and it was just a LOUD computer fan blowing air across a wet sponge. The LED lights were cooler than the air.
_"The LED lights were cooler"_
Good that it had some redeeming value.
That's what a swamp cooler is! They do work in conditions that aren't humid. The problem is dumb people not doing any research into what they are buying and then buying something that won't work for them and then they shit on it.
I bought 3. What an idiot.
Only work in low humidity. Works great in Nevada desert in summer paid 20 dollars at big 5 for money home Depot wanted 40
I find those in a trash pile in some peoples homes that figured they were going to cheap out on buying something that blows actual air. One company was selling those for a price higher than the three gallon one they used to have at home depot which now on ebay seems to be up for bids as they phased out that model. It even had a place to join a water hose to it if you didnt feel like refilling the tank.
When I came to places with cooling issues they were often fixed via placing something made out of a material that got cold and not plastic as my pa would say that cold air was heavier and would be near ground level where people would often mistake my blower fans as air conditioners..
One place didnt allow personal acs and came cross one of those only to say "you know we dont allow acs" when they found out that the fans i got were not acs they went about trying to find ways to regulate them lol Most of the ones I buy have that hamster wheel instake system made out of metal which was also in that $59 cp35 I had with isolating louvers.
The biggest thing with evaporative/swamp coolers is that their efficiency is inversely related to humidity. In the dry desert of "Phenix", it is an effective cooling system that can save a lot of money over Air Conditioning, plus it adds enough humidity to the air that it isn't absolutely dry. BUT if you were in any place with humidity (or the rainy season in Phoenix), its effectiveness drops to that of a standard fan.
Not to mention that you can find better portable swamp coolers (if you are in those dry conditions) at many stores for much less than these "revolutionary" ones online.
I had a memorable experience with a window mounted water cooler in an Arizona motel room five decades ago. It was summer and the outside temperature was around 90 degrees. At first the coolness was refreshing. However, within an hour or so the humidity in the room was oppressive and any cooling effect was swamped by the muggy air. Also I remember reading about the problem of bacteria and mold building up in the "drip pad" unless it was cleaned regularly. No telling what was blowing into that cheap motel room along with the moist air.
Yeah, I live in Washington State, one of the most humid places in the US. These swamp coolers don't do much up here in my experience. I have one of those portable air conditioners that hooks up to a window with a hose now. CZcams loves to tell me how crappy and inefficient these are, but it works for me, lol.
Exactly. I picked mine up at my local grocery store for about 10 bucks. Comes with RGB LED lights and all and it works reqally well as long as its standing just next to you blowing you right in the face but cooing an entire room with one of these? Not a chance.
I genuinely didnt know about swap coolers till i visited my brother when he was in colorado. We lived in connecticut which has very humid (when hot) summers meaning adding humidity is unimaginable. Its still kinda weird to me but it works there so im not gonna question results
The issue with swamp coolers is, they don't work in a closed space.
I must say, that I truly appreciate and enjoy your videos. You in-list humor and common sense into each of your videos while proving whether or not they are legit, that make me want to watch you more. You are truly a breath of fresh air.
The irony of the animation used for the "revolutionary cooling system" being a generic compressor animation is the most hilarious part of the whole thing.
I really hate all these small swamp coolers, when searching online for a portable A/C for my garage or car, 90% of what came up was these scam coolers. hiding the results i actually wanted.
What brand did you find that was an actual AC?
@@cleverwink8262 I gave up looking online and just went to walmart and bought a midea 5000btu unit, not really powerfull enough for my garage but should be fine for inside my van
@@cleverwink8262should be pretty obvious once you know.
Portable have have a decent size air hose to exhaust to the outdoors. And will say things about a compressor and such. Look nothing like a swamp cooler, and none of them are this small
@@jjjacer You probably need double that, minimum. I use 12K units since they still work on 120.
@@toriless yeah the 5k unit just slows the heating of the garage and removes humidity, eventually ill get my garage insulated and go with a 120v mini split. i really got the 5k unit for my cargo van as its the cheapest way to cool something like that, just got to drill a 6in hole in the body lol
I had a weird aunt who wanted to "go green" so she bought a bunch of these dumb swamp coolers from Walmart and put them around her house and refused to use her central AC system. She swore up and down that they were more efficient and effective than AC, but anybody else who went into her house would roast from the heat. It had to have been a case of the placebo effect.
Still less energy usage than ac, no?
@@mattBLACKpunk I can cool your house with the power of thought for $5 a month. Far less energy usage than even these coolers :)
Probably, with some of this goofy crap you never know...
90% savings electric savings by being 99% more sweaty, feeling %95 hotter, and having a %90 more chance of messing up the drywall/sheetrock most homes have...
Unless you live in a super low humidity, high temperature environment and have it blow right at you
Swamp coolers are absolutely more efficient than AC when it comes to cooling hot dry places.
Bruh I hope she know about off grid solar system soon, that could be more efficient in long range while still allow her to use anything like normal
Nice video. I'm glad you were able to watch the ad to completion & kept your sanity, as I was only able to get through the first few seconds. You're a brave soul.
Irony... this scam air cooler does a better job of humidfying a room than the scam humidifier I bought.
With all these coolers you're ready to become a real life Mr Freeze supervillain. Well except instead of freezing gotham you'll just produce a slight breeze but hey it's a start.
Mr. Breeze has a nice ring to it...
I turned one of those into a real AC. I put a TEC with heatsink on it and a hose connected to the hot side exhausting out. It's only good for a Tent camping at night, but that's what it was made for.
TEC is great when you need it to be small and cheep, but they use a LOT of energy to create that cold compared to compressor refrigeration. Also that heat need to be dumped somewhere, I have been thinking running water would be a great way to cool a tec easily and effectively (here water comes from a river so no water is wasted if you let it run).
Thank you for showing people this! You do good work.
The irony is that swamp coolers do not work near swamps. Some of the better ones actually work rather well in the desert though. If you are in an extremely dry place (and in the shade) evaporating water to cool is very effective. That's why good canteens are covered with thick cloth. Even if it's over 100 degrees outside, if you keep it went and hanging in the shade, you can get the water in the canteen fairly close to freezing. But here in Mississippi, with high humidity, you can only get a drop of a few degrees.
Freeze a plastic bottle filled with water and place it in a small metal bowl (to collect the moisture accumulating on the surface). Place a normal electric fan behind it and you'll probably get similar results, except for a much cheaper price. The room temperature will unlikely drop but you can get a cool breeze out of it if you sit in front of it.
Freeze your bottles in friend's hplace or you only increse the heat load inside your house.
Except that when you froze it, the freezer dumped the same heat + some more in the house that the bottle will absorb.
@@XtreeM_FaiL Except that the hot air from the freezer dissipates into the house evenly (not noticeable), but the blowing cool air on you feels good.
This miracle portable aircon scam has been in action since at least the '70s.
God only knows why but my mum bought one of them back then. We even point blank told her it was a rip off before she bought it, but none-the-less buy it she did. She even convinced herself that it was effective. One twist on the variation she bought was that the instructions said to put a few ice cubes in the water to help with cooling. It didn't even have an evaporation pad, water just dripped down in front of the fan and every 15 mins or so the bottom tray had to be emptied into the top again.
Haha, they have ice in this one too. Some things never change.
That sounds like the first Chillwell, shown at 9:55, which has a tank at the top!
If you don't remove the heat from inside your house and get it to the outside you're wasting your time and money. These things cannot work. If you put ice in it and blow air across the ice it will be cold air because it's removing the heat as the heat is absorbed into the water of the melted ice but the heat in your house is now in the water. You'd have to continuously throw the water outside and refill it with ice over and over.
i try to tell people ice isn't going to cool a room the amount of ice you would need would be obscene i would then point to a glass of a ice water and ask them how much its going to cool the room by the time all the ice melts and they just call me stupid
Old news for sure. 😅😅
The larger portable evaporative coolers work pretty well if you freeze blocks of ice and stick them in the bottom tank and run it for 2 hours and then run the AC for 20 minutes to dry the air and repeat every 2 hours, it doesnt cool down a whole house but it works great in a living room space in Southern Arizona.
In college, in the late 80's, the dorm I worked in had no AC, and the very first scene with the bottles and the fan was what I saw in every room I had to go into during the summer.
Thank you for saving me from this scam!
The thing that’s killing me is I’m a truck driver, and I’m told AC is a “Luxury.”
Feels like an excuse to not fix our tractors AC. I need something to help cool me down in that hot box. Especially with the heat of summer coming in soon.
"The thing that’s killing me is I’m a truck driver, and I’m told AC is a 'Luxury.'" - It will probably remain a "luxury" until the point where heat exhaustion literally causes a driver to fall asleep and crash a truck, causing hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in damages and potential lawsuits.
That's insane. Where do you drive. I couldn't drive for an hour where I live without AC. It's been 98-100°F for weeks and it's essentially always 100% humidity here so all that sweat does is make you more miserable.
Once when I drove OTR I was near Death Valley CA and it was ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX DEGREES FAHRENHEIT, and guess what - my AC went out. I called my company for them to send me to a shop and they told me I would have to wait. I asked them where they wanted me to leave the their rig as I was going to take a train home. They sent me to a shop.
When I drove a truck, the truck stops with the hook up AC units were a GOD SEND. Wish it was more widespread.
@@lucianaromulus1408 The yellow round things in the ground you ran a clothes dryer outlet style expanding tube for ac and it also had cable tv and phone hookups?
@hideousruin7222 they weren't in the ground, they were suspended from this elevated metal beam structure that ran throughout various truck parking spots. I think it was called Idle Air (its been a few years).
The problem with the energy measurement metric is that you'd have to add the energy used to freeze the "filter", too.
Not a factor as most people have a freezer anyways that runs 24/7
@@DiggingDeepVlog It still takes a little more energy.
@@AnonymousFreakYT It take 0% more energy to freeze the filter since the freezer is running at all times anyway. Unless the person trying to freeze the filter only turns on the freezer to cool the filter then it's not an energy increase.
@@AnonymousFreakYT I mean true you’d need to add in the energy expenditure for the fridge/freezer but what we’re saying is people already use those appliances anyways so it’s not really a factor
Actually, the freezer pack will cause a net increase in heat in the house, because you are using a true refrigeration system to freeze the ice pack. The refrigerator will put out more heat freezing the ice pack then the ice pack can absorb.
This is a pretty fun and informative video. Never seen this guy or anything from this channel before, definitely going to check out more videos.
😄👍
Hillarious expose all! P. T. Barnum would be proud of these guys! A toy swamp cooler with no real transfer medium heat exchange (of course that is why you have to freeze the "filter"). Perhaps it would work kinda in a Barbie house.
Did anyone else notice the video wasn't sponsored by Linode?
By the process of dumb-limination that must mean that Linode are the ones who made the fake AC products, so they refused to sponsor this video.
Also, if he found out a way to recycle coal that is generated by air conditioners that would be two amazing inventions.
Only a British-made air conditioner would run on coal...But if it's possible to reclaim and recycle the coal it uses for cooling, perhaps we could send it to our railway industry so they can then put it inside the „new“ steam trains the Dept. for Transport has just promised us? 🙃
@@dieseldragon6756 Will those British coal-powered steam trains be riding on the new railroad we're building in the US to cross the Pacific and Indian Oceans? 🤪
I'm guessing they meant to say charcoal, as to imply that it had an activated charcoal filter in it and toss another buzzwordy lie onto the pile. But given that these garbage ads are probably written by ChatGPT and assembled completely by AI algorithms, there was likely no actual human intervention to check the glaring errors in them.
@@dashcamandy2242 It'd be nice to think they would, but I doubt they will... 🚂🇬🇧😉
The simple fact is: We British are _entirely incapable_ of driving _anything_ on the correct side of the road... ⬅🇬🇧🚘😉
@@dashcamandy2242 i doubt the existence of a ocean train will work the way its intended
Before getting into it, as others have said, I feel confident it's a swamp / evaporative cooler. When I lived in NM they were great. Unless there was high humidity.
yup, they're swamp cooler/evaporative coolers, the one in the video operates more like a humidifier (due to using spray nozzles) more than a swamp cooler that's blowing air by a wet pad. yeah, they work when the humidity is low, but you cant run them for long as they increase the humidity in the room then it'll just be a hot muggy room. while these wont cool a room, they will cool a body part when they're sitting about a foot away blowing on said body part but keeping them on for too long it will increase the humidity to the point where they don't work.
This channel is nearly the style of technology connections. Love it.
I subscribed even before finishing this video. So interesting - got me laughing so much, and definitely taught me a ton. Thanks for this.
Thank you for this detailed breakdown! I sort of "knew" this thing would be bogus, but it's really nice to run the numbers and do the actual testing. BRAVO!
Yeah, a cheap $20 swamp cooler sold for an extra $100 each.
Never thought I’d live long enough to see Blaux get rebranded for the 10th time. 🤣
I mean, it could very well be the same people who were behind Blaux for all we know. These fly-by-night operations tend to just buy drop shipments from whatever Chinese factory is selling the cheapest that day, which is why these come usually unbranded and in a bunch of different styles, and when enough people finally catch on and report them for misleading the consumer about their junk, they just disincorporate and come back a month later under a new name which makes it really hard to stamp them out entirely.
Every summer I looked forward to my amazon shilling the same Blaux revolutionary space heater I mean AC all over my home page. They all look exactly the same and have some crazy story about how they changed the AC market forever.
@@NorthStarBlue1 I’m betting it is 😂
"Oh boy! This is BOUND to work this time!"
@@NorthStarBlue1 which gets us back to that age-old saw ... *CAVEAT EMPTOR*
Oh my gosh I’ve been clinically depressed for four years never once did I laugh or smile recently I started feeling better and I know I’m better because I can laugh because when the room went from 95 to 65 and two minutes and everything holy crap. I laughed out loud for the first time in many years I’m gonna watch all your videos. I’m subscribed you’re like my new favorite, CZcams guy.
Well done! You keep us entertained and educated!
In the energy usage comparison you actually gave this product too much credit. You should have accounted for the energy used to freeze the filter (and any ice if added) since that would be largely responsible for the cooling, and it was chilled by a freezer which operates via a heat pump, the same way as an ACTUAL AC. I suspect this would close the gap a bit.
Not like a heat pump, it’s a freezer, there’s no need to bring heat into the box. Heat pumps have a reversing valve that allows the switch from moving heat out to in.(direction the refrigerant flows) A freezer works like a freezer. (Or a regular A/C system if you really want a metaphor) Which is a vapor compressor pumping refrigerant through the system and the heat exchangers. (Evap and Condensing coils generally with a fan to live air across them.)
@@bertellijustin6376 Respectfully, nah mate. I don’t want to make enemies in the internet, but…
A freezer is by definition an insulated box with a heat pump to pump heat OUT OF the box. Just like an AC system consists of a heat pump to pump heat out of the room, and some heaters use the same tech to pump heat into a room.
As you said, you can have a central climate control system in your house with a reversing valve which would allow you to either cool or heat your house with the same system, but this reversing valve is not the defining characteristic of a heat pump. A heat pump is just the technology to move heat from one place to another consisting of a loop of two refrigerant-filled coils, a compressor, and a metering device between the coils (usually a capillary tube).
Freezers, ACs, and heaters of the sort that use heat pumps all work the same. Some peripherals may be added to suit certain applications, e.g. fans across both coils of an AC, a resistive heating element for automatic defrost on a freezer, or a reversing valve on a climate control system. But the underlying heat pumps are identical.
I think the confusion here is that the term “heat pump” is often used to refer to household heaters which use heat pump technology. Other applications for heat pumps have their own names based on what they do, e.g. freezer or AC, but since the word “heater” already describes many technologies, “heat pump” has become shorthand for a heater which uses that tech.
Cheers mate.
Yeah, that's something a lot of people seem to forget and furthermore, the cooling effect of the swamp cooler can never make up for the heat the freezer spewed into the house (assuming the freezer is located inside with no external venting, which is the case for most households) while creating that block of ice, so the net effect is not cooling but actually heating.
@@MLennholm Great point! Electricity wasn’t the full cost of cooling the ice… you also pay in heat spewed by the freezer. I forgot about that!
@@bertellijustin6376its a heat pump, heat pumps dont need to be two way to be heat pumps.
Now, aircon systems that can pump heat two way are marketed as heatpumps yes, sure. But thats just because they sell better like that in cooler regions, not because a regular aircon wouldn't be a heat pump.
Cool video. It's really chilling how cold-blooded scammers will take advantage of people's misery.
Stop it sir.
@@perfection7722 You mean... I should freeze?
@@perfection7722 Also you need to be reminded that JAGIELSKI is PERFECTION. @UltimatePerfection. There's no higher form of PERFECTION than JAGIELSKI as JAGIELSKI is the Ultimate PERFECTION.
lmfao I get it.
@@UltimatePerfection I yield to the greater life form. I was just saying stop the puns it was way to many in one comment lol that's too much power Even for the flawless ones
I had one of these but they don't work in a humid climate. So I just used it as a desk fan for a long time.
When I moved up north, I used it for a humidifier! I called it my "destuffifer" for heated homes
I love that "Phoenix" is misspelled in the caption at the beginning of the ad.
I think Technology Connections covered this scam too, but the more people that bust it, the better.
He did, I remember seeing his video a while ago.
I spent this whole time thinking this was a re-upload or this guy really did a video about this
Another common backstory in these ads is how some engineers stood up against the "greed" of the corporation, who was selling products at a high cost when the actual production was so cheap, and then got fired when they confronted the "higher ups" about it. Then they proceed to open their own company and sell a similar product, of equal or better quality, at a fraction of the cost. I have to resist the urge to roll my eyes every time I hear a variation of this "story".
yep that one was the version they tried here in Sweden, where the Engineers suddenly where getting Swedish names as if we had some big AC industry (which would be very strange since close to no one have AC here).
As an engineer, I will 100% sell anything I invent to "big xxxxx" rather than start my own business....I'm not a businessman, im an engineer, and if I can get rich doing engineering I'm gonna do it.
Looks like I saw a different add, also for chillwell. Martin is a former NASA employee who worked on their cooling systems. One day his house had a power outage, and it was uncertain when the power will come back, and the temperatures kept rising, above 90 degrees. Out of concern for his elderly mother, he created a prototype of chillwell, and powered it with a USB cable from his car... Then I googled chillwell and found your video :)
Thank you for the video and exposing scams!
Even the cooler looked so surprised that someone would actually buy them
90€ for that thing? in germany you can buy similar coolers for less then 20€ from discounter store
I live in an area where a window AC unit can cost as low as $150 at Walmart. Pricing this at "$138" is hilarious to me. I also see people buying those little swamp coolers as well, but it's always humid in the summer where I live, so it never works.
I'm sitting here under the nice coolness of one of those cheap Walmart window ac right now and it don't even up my electric bill if I let it run non stop lol
@@F8...Which brand and model please?
.... got a small window air conditioned from sear for $99.00 30 years ago ... still going strong and cools 5,000 square foot bedroom ... good point about normal humid states ...
Of course it doesnt work, but if it did, it would be a significant savings here. Cheap AC has garbage SEER, and at 60c kwh electricity the difference in operating / purchase price between SEER units alone can be made up within a month. If it somehow cooled effectively and used 90%+ less power it would be a game changer.
We bought chillwells W 2 cartridges. Guess we r the stickers. We bought it June 8th. Didn't one pack 1 of them. The other sat in our kitchen. Finally we used it. No cooling down the area we had. I just looked up their policy for returns. 60 days. If they don't accept them, instead of looking at their time limit, how abt my warranty of merchantability. That's where if u buy a lawnmower, it must cut the lawn. In this case, if I purchase the air cooler, it needs to cool down the area, like they said. I'm not happy.
I had a swamp cooler on the roof of my RV in Oregon, it was as I remember made by Dometic, it worked so well I would get chills. It had a multi speed fan and "high" was really high and put a lot of air out.
All it was was a placetic shell and a louver inside the coach, inside the shell was a round filter media and in it's center a fan with a cone in it's center, the tip of the cone was submerged in the water and would draw water up and spray it all around onto the filter media and evaporated the water on it, the filter media was probably 5" tall and formed a circle about 10" diameter inside, so about 50 sq inches of surface area there which did the trick.
Really enjoying these scam busting episodes!
i love it too much when ken breaks the professional act and goes insane for a few seconds
Just subbed this guy is gonna help ppl save their 💰 and b more aware of the crap we buy👍🏿😎
just found the page and subbed cool channel and good to have debunkers on the Web these days with all the scams out there. (wish i would have found your channel before i bot the Brooklyn Bridge)
These things REALLY depend on local conditions. I use one for both early and late year cooling, when dew points are under 40°F. The rest of the year it's just too humid with dew points in the 70's and 80's. Simply another case of overselling a product. They can work very well if used properly.
Should add, for full home cooling you need a big one. These are great though for the hot but dry days where you just want a "cool" breeze while at the computer!
I don't know where you are, but I live in Michigan, and it seems like whenever it's hot enough to where I'd want air conditioning on, it's humid as well. So they'd pretty much be useless for me, I guess!
I'm from the UK so it's not hot long enough for air con in my flat, but I did invest in a good ceiling fan this has been a life saver. These scammers and the people involved need to go to jail.
Fans actually produce additional heat from the motor. It just feels cooler because the moving air
A long time ago a buddy of mine made a sort of air conditioner using an old blower motor, a cooler, couple pipes, and sacks of ice he'd take from his restaurant job after close. The machine would just refill the bin with fresh ice overnight so nobody knew or cared, and he would use this makeshift thing to cool his room in the summer. It was surprisingly effective from what he said. It made his room comfortable during the day, and then he worked nights. It was a tremendous amount of work but money was tight.
1 20" Lasko for $24 at Walmart is plenty for 1 person.
Southern England is the same place I first found myself craving the essential "luxury" of AC. I knew it existed - the family car had it - but like. Not buying your story that it isn't hot long enough. Avoided suffering for multiple years is surely worth the less than £1000 a window box would cost.
They had a shaver on tv my mom brought then threw in the trash on the same day that advertised that it doesnt need its blades maintained kinda tried to market it like those ginsu knives which often I get told that the blades get dull like those no stick pans that lose their non stick but yet an old fashion cast iron pan from long time ago seems to outlive them. When I need something that works I buy it based on the date it was released. Kinda like when I buy vhs cleaners that actually worked as the up to date ones seem to cause damage.
I found a similar swamp cooler really great in the office. The noise drove my colleague crazy. Mind you, it wasn't that loud - she was just halfway there already.
I made that exact same "product" with a $5 USB fan, a Amazon cardboard box, and a ice full of tupperware
What’s amazing is that a British guy called Martin also apparently did exactly the same! What an amazing coincidence!
I reported it to CZcams as a scam. I’m equally amazed that CZcams allow scam ads.
Note: may include some sarcasm…
You're only allowed to break the rules if you're paying YT for the ad space.
You know I thought there was going to be a recycle of the last ones you bought. And yet somehow you made the content feel fresh and original again!
Subscribed. Busting the scammers with humor and science.
Never thought about buying one of these small things glad I didn't. Will say I've been tempted by the Icybreeze though wonder if it works any better since its the size of an ice chest and thus has more thermal mass with all the water/ice.
So glad i found your channel!! I worked in marketting for around 20 years. Dealt with some major brands who wanted to test their latest and greatest products on an unsuspecting public. Because of this, I refuse to do business with 4 companies.
Your videos are well researched, well produced and so entertaining!! I've been binging your channel for several hours now!!😂
Was the CDC was of those “ company” or the FDA ..
@@davidingram1016 Hartz is one. The thousands of animals (dogs mostly) that they have killed and are still killing are of no consequence to this 'family' company. Don't take my word for it, Google 'Hartz dog deaths' but be prepared, it's heartbreaking.
Yum Inc. is another. They own several businesses including Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC. Their treatment of employees and policies on food safety are enough to give you nightmares.
Name and shame the companies!
I am so glad someone is debunking this scam. I got caught up in the followup ads, and bought an extra, so they got me good.
In the fine print, they say -"Works best when 6 to 8 inches from the human body." That about sums it up. This should be illegal.
Oh man I love this guy, subbed a few weeks ago,no regrets.
8:36 The ${region:capitalized}$ is just some code that was supposed to be replaced by their backend to some other name. But they screwed up and left it there.
A cheap version (no more than $20) of this type of device is a godsend in the winter here in Michigan where the air can get PAINFULLY dry at times.
You can make your own chill well
@@carlrodrigues6919 or better, get a 20" box fan and a wet hand towel.
I bought something similar real cheap for about $20 or so a few years ago knowing that it would suck for cooling a room.
However it works GREAT as a low cost water sprayer for my bird during the summer and she loves it.
Comes in real handy when there is a power outage and internal temps in our travel trailer really heats up since it has an integrated battery.
If they marketed them for that use, might sell more without lying.
Too late, for that. They are LIARS and are going to Hell.
Just found this channel .. LOVE it !
At this point it seems like the inconsistencies in these ads are almost on purpose to confuse
You forgot to calculate the energy required to freeze the filter in the unit. That was accomplished by your freezer (a separate HVAC unit) and not the Chillwell. At the end of the day, this thing likely consumes more energy than a traditional HVAC system per degree of temp drop when you factor everything in.
it's consuming electricity and probably warming the room up.
Just got a version of the ad you were responding to play on this video, except transposed to a university in the UK (where I'm watching this) and the product flipped from an air cooler to a heater (something for which there's a far more pressing need here)
Thank you, Great Delivery.
I love watching these commercials every time I’m served one. As someone who understands physics and how refrigeration works, it’s clearly a swamp cooler lol.
These same people would likely buy a window unit and sit it in their floor and not understand why it's not cooling their house.
Yup, you're not going to get an effective air cooling system without refrigerants.
I grew up with a swamp cooler on the llano estacado, we normally had about 15% humidity. It would keep the house 15-20 degrees cooler than the outside air on a dry day.
Cheers man, I install A/C's and service them so it was interesting.
Jump scare at the end, cheap thrills LOL.
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Peace.
Spot on man, i could have saved myself 21:24 because im using one now and no, it doeant work. That being said even with already knowing the outcome im glad i watxhed your video because it was both fun and informative. I live in Phoenix Arizona, I have 2 AC units but my gameroom gets very warm or dare I say hot in the summer and this little swamp cooler does absolutely nothing to cool the room. I'd love to get a real portable AC unit but sadly cannot because I cant put the exhaust port in my window.
if only they chilled well
I have a similar unit made by another manufacturer and I actually found a great use for these! No, they won't cool even a small half bathroom worth a crapola. But I found they make a great short distance humidifier in the winter when your house humidity goes really low. I put on of these by my bed and let it blow directly on my face after I fill it with water. I breath somewhat humidified air the whole night while I sleep, even though it doesn't generate enough humid air to humidify my entire room much. It does just great close up. I verified this by putting my Kestrel 5500 weather meter on humidity and put it right where my head would be when I sleep and turned on the "AC" unit, blowing on my pillow. The measured humidity went quit a bit higher up close, so then it is great to breath the air near the fake AC unit. But the entire room humidity was not even moved but a fraction, even after a long while. But yep, if you like to breath more humid air while you sleep, use one of these, especially in the winter!! In my test the humidity level in my bedroom was only about 18% but where the Kestrel meter was it went up to as much as 35%, which is much healthier to breath. My test was just as scientific as Krazy Ken's, since I had a Kestrel that is trusted by professionals. I'm a pilot so I use my Kestrel to measure both pressure and density altitude.
Do you hold your Kestrel out of the window while flying? ;-)
breathe not breath
Rather enjoyable, objective review I think. Funny. Subbed.
Thank you for saying what I have thought for a long time, coolers using water will add moisture to the room making it feel hotter when you are sweating as your sweat won't evaporate in a moister fill room.
"Do not remove filter during use" Scares the shi* out of me. Thanks Ken
I'm in the UK and don't have an actual air conditioner, but I did invest in a decent swamp cooler with a 7 litre tank after finding out what they were from your Blaux vids. I love it, it's already better than the oscillating tower fan I was using.
Awesome : D
too bad uk tends to be on the humid side if you lived somewhere dry they really shine there
It wasn't until recently I realized how uncommon air conditioning is outside the US. The heat doesn't bother me during the day, but I can't sleep comfortably for shit when its hot and often crank the AC lower at night, lol.
@@TWEAKLETEvaporative air coolers still work here up to a point tbh. I have an evaporative air cooler desk fan
I've also got got a tower air cooler which is useful too. Both can take ice / water. Both humidity the air too
Came here because my son wouldn't stop about this Chillwell, subscribed because we are now both binging the funnest tech videos on the web!!!
Old fashioned swamp coolers. My parents house in SoCal had two and neither one did anything but increase the humidity levels to uncomfortable levels. True, when water evaporates it does soak up a tiny bit of heat. But I prefer warm and dry air to muggy cold air.
Yeah, I used the swamp cooler years back when working overseas with deadly heat. The tech (I showed it to some American engineers) has existed for about 100 years all over the world before stable power was present for getting A/Cs. The one we had was plug-in and add water. Everyone liked the A/C better, so we left the swamp cooler outside just for the smokers (yeah... I was one then but now quit!).
Many government offices there had them all over their main corridors (but offices had a/c and kept their doors closed.) They are great if you stand in front but do not cool much outside of that.
But clearly I come from Big A/C, so you cannot trust me.
When in was in basic training in the Army, in the middle of summer in the south. Our barracks had these big industrial fans. When we would come into the barracks from busting our ass outside, we would be soaked in sweat and get in line to just take our shirts off and just get blasted by this fan. The evaporation of sweat by this industrial fan seriously made it feel like someone just dumped ice water on you, it was glorious.
A note to remember, basic AC, you do not cool anything, you can only remove heat or add heat. Traditional ac units capture heat through the tubing with refrigerant then cycles to the outside .
My AC is currently broken and this video reminds me that I got a swamp cooler at Bed Bath and Beyond for less than $20 last summer.
Evaporative air coolers are very popular in Australia, particularly in the South. the reason for that is the higher humidity in Northern latitudes. In Melbourne the air is relatively dry. They are placed in the roof above a large open room, and cool the air by about 3 to 4 C, depending on ambient humidity, and the increase in humidity is not so noticeable. When it is 40C the drop to 36C is appreciated. Very cheap to run. In the case of Melbourne the water is soft from catchments, and so does not have the mineral content that quickly clogs the filters.
In Quebec these are called humidifiers, and are used in houses with hot air furnaces, that result in very dry air.
Thanks for the thorough video. Enjoyed it immensely.
One detail that I find interesting, and makes me wonder how much the people selling these scam products even know what they're selling, is the bit about the coolant loop. A real air conditioning unit does use a loop to cycle the same refrigerant through hot and cold (or should I say coal) repeatedly. One of the big differences between a swamp cooler and an air conditioner is that a swamp cooler does not use a loop.
If you aren't removing the heat from inside your house and getting it to the outside, you're wasting your time and money. Shit like these things can't work. It would be like putting a window unit in your living room floor and expecting it to cool your house. But, I bet there are millions of people who buy these things.
When a hurricane knocked out my power for a couple weeks, I had one of those humidifier/mister usb fans--basically the same deal, but with only the mister--and it wasn't great, but it sure was HUGELY welcome that week. I'm in the worst environment for it too. Hot+damp.
Here in AZ evaporative coolers work very well until the humidity passes 25 to 30%. What was really funny is visiting family in Ft Myers and a large flea market there that decided misters would be a great idea. Adding more moisture to 80%+ humid air sure worked out great.(NOT!)
I bought an Arctos and it works pretty good as a small cooler fan. Its good for cooling 1small room. Makes it livible. Don't expect it to cool your house. You may need a few of them or more lol
I have 24000 BTU for less than 2000 SF. Thar works for my home since I have not too many southern windows.
What's interesting is that a GOOD evaporative/swamp cooler that was portable with a battery that lasts say 6+ hours would be quite a useful product, still not worth $150+, but deffo worth like $39.99, $59.99. I live in London in the UK and a good swamp cooler with a battery would be lovely on the hot tube during summer or at a picnic in the park, etc. At the moment it's so hot as to be uncomfortable and my house has actual AC so yeah I spend a lot of time at home, something actually good similar to this would be awesome!
It's always soggy in UK. why use this
@@peterpop-off Well, it isn’t, it hasn’t rained where i am for at least a week, AND most days have been mid to high 20s Celsius. Last year we had 40 degrees Celsius.
Are these things gonna be a yearly thing now?
Are we gonna get a new scam cooler every summer?
One can only hope
Great work! Keep it up!
My grandpa told me about when he was a kid, we're from texas and our family couldn't afford a real AC at the time so they used a water fan, our family, according to him "was still living like it was the great depression, 10 years later".
It's kind of amazing that they where able to re-invent my grandpa's great depression quality cooling solution, and even use it to revolutionize the $42069 billion dollar AirCon industry.
You never disappoint with these videos, unlike those scammers who never fail to disappoint.
2 seconds in and I'm already entertained, great job!
I got something very similar earlier this year as a desk fan. It cost me like $15. However, I live in the UK so I've only needed to use it for about a week.
Thanks for the review, you definitely saved me some money.
I bought one of these (not the Chillwell but a $15 desk cooler) when the AC stopped working at work. I keep it on my desk and it's surprisingly effective for the price, but it's nothing more than a fan that cools the air a bit. They're great if you just want a bit of cool air blown on you and you have $15 to spare.
Even for 15 bucks, that's too much
Effective in low humidity.