Fake Portable AC Scams: Blast Auxiliary, BreezeMaxx, Blaux - Krazy Ken's Tech Talk
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Enjoy the new episode! Stay tuned for the ProPods scam follow-up, and plenty of retro / rare tech goodness. Ding. 🔔
When should I expect the next ProPods episode?
can't wait for the pro pods follow up
Computer clan! I love ya vids
These scams *Blaux* my hats off
*I'd Like to DO Something about the SilVer SingLes, Dallas, Texas Scam!!!!*
Yeah, the legal department is probably more of just an empty threats department.
it's just one person in a dingy basement sending threat template emails XD
True, they know that if it comes to a court battle they will 100% loose, and have to shut down completely, not forgetting destroy all their stock.
They will also be blacklisted from owning a company ever again.
and everyone can view the court verdict in the public records
@@darknessblades honestly I just want some semi rich dude to mass sue all these companies
That has to be a brand new sentence.
He never said they threatened to take action. They were probably just informing him that he could not sue *them* because despite the 'AC' characters used in the advertisements, they never claimed it was an actual air conditioner.
My parents have one of those nice-looking 'O-ring' coolers that appear to be working by magic because it has no fan.
Surprise, the fan is hidden in the base. It also has a cooling element built in so if you sit in front of it, at close distance, you can enjoy the cool air.
But like I already mentioned in another reply, the room itself will not get any cooler because any electric device (or gas operated device) creates more heat than it can produce cool air. Air conditioners included, that is why they vent the hot air via a seperate channel to the outside. Or that is why actual air conditioner units are placed in the window or even outside of a building, ensuring it only blows its cool air into the room.
We sold these when I worked at Walmart and they got returned by the THOUSANDS, we had shopping carts full of them back in claims
i assume walmart punished them by blacklisting the company. the more the customers return, the more money walmart loses
@@mehregankbi Not sure about that, I know we plastic wrapped tons of them on pallets and shipped them off to be disposed of, I think they got sent to auction and sold in pallet lots to recoup some of the cost.
Walmart loses more than that to shoplifting in one day.
@@mehregankbi Nope, after 3 years our store still sells them in the "As Seen On TV" section, we sell very few of them but they are still there.
I honestly have it under my desk cooling my nuts 😂
As a general rule, I don’t trust any product that claims “this product is making the rest of the (blank) industry freaking out and is going to put them out of business”
Always a tell-tale sign for sure.
I remember Tesla Truck fanboys saying this...Oddly quiet as of late, especially since the delivery date has been pushed back a total of 2 years so far....
I hear the words ".....taking the world by storm...." and I tune it out.
I hear the words "dOnT kLiK aWaY!" And I click away...immediately.
The M1 chip.
fite me
FYI, just saw another RUclips ad for this device under the name Chill Breeze now. The backstory was invented by a college student named Martin who was an engineering prodigy and took matters into his own hands when the school refused to hit the A/C in the classrooms. Apparently, he was "expelled" because he didn't accept millions for his device.
I just got that add too but I couldn’t find anything behind it so I found this
I just seen it too. Led me to this. That Martin kid
@@TankDavisConquers isnt it going by the name chillwell now
Same, like, who gets expelled for turning down millions 😂.
I even had a german ad for a similar product once, where the student was supposedly exiled from Germany, because refused that deal. I swear, you can't make this shit up. These scams are hilarious... xD
THANK YOU!!! Finally - someone does an ACTUAL honest review, and not just a pretend review where its just a disguised add. Much appreciated! 👍
blaux sounds like the real greedy corp after your money to me selling you a fan that air conditions any space when real air conditioners have btu ratings not bs about cooling any size room
"I have a top secret tool that measures wind power."
"It's called a piece of paper."
A4 or Murican size?
I hope size A5....lol
I honestly thought, he was going to say anemometer!!!
@@peterharms3639 Me too 🙂
Around here we call it a cinder block on a chain.
One could say, these ACs being effective at cooling air is imBlauxible.
Genius
leave
@@poble it’s his channel.
But yeah he should leave for thinking that’s genius.
Sir I'm from the Joke Police. Do you have a license for that?
@@kendokaaa *throws joke license*
accept this one
its such an obvious attempt to clear a large amount of swamp cooler inventory they had lying around, good lord
And the stories they tell work.
@Deborah Ajao The "I used to work for [insert big industry here], till I found they were [hoarding cheaper, just as effective tech/ways to reverse damage], so I made the product they kept from us" is a very effective story. If people are lead to believe that a charger can reverse the damage done by age, they will buy into hook, link, and sinker.
Clearance at more than twice the original price? Quite peculiar, isn't it?
These were never meant to be swamp coolers. They lied to even the factory workers. The workers thought they were making legit ACs.
@@ZeldagigafanMatthew Many of these vendor trash items prey on peoples insecurity and lack of self esteem, such as "add 10 inches to your 2 inch urinary device", or "lose 120 pounds by getting a dictator as a president," or "Make your 120 year old body look 60" Toxic...toxic..toxic.
Just got an ad for 'chill Breeze' The revolutionary portable AC unit invented by a genius high school kid from Pheonix. Claimed it will disrupt the AC industry, cost 98% less to run, recycles cool air 'so no cool air will be wasted,' and can cool down an entire class from 95 to 65 in 6 min!
The 2 variations I was stupid enough to try literally didn't even cool down my half bath. 😒 Luckily I was able to return them and get a full refund. Thanks for doing your channel...it'll save a lot of people time and money !
Maybe they would sell more if they rebranded it as an humidifier...
They won't lol cause it not even a good humidifier
Not for 89 bucks tho.
Or call it by it's real name. An evaporative cooler. AKA Swamp cooler
At least that would be honest advertising.
It's still just too small to be anything but annoying....
I just got my "Mold-Growth Extreme" air-cooler, and I have to say I couldn't be happier. Finally someone has invented a device that blows air over water. My walls dripping with moisture and a productive cough is a small price to pay for no comfort.
It took a moment but LOL
Good one 😃
Bravo
Considering I live in South Florida, the prospect of a swamp cooler sounds terrifying to me already! I want my moisture gone, thank you...
@@starwarriorterra8373
Right. A swamp cooler only works in dryer climates.
Good report. I was an air conditioning engineer for a few years, so I can tell that these units are ridiculous.
Amazing they can get away with blatantly lying to the public.
What engineering field are you in now?
Their lawyers probably call it "puffery."
@@StopWhining491 Attorney Generals would call it fraud, but they disappear faster than pretzels in a cheap bar, so not worth pursuing.
@@StopWhining491 It's a Hong Kong based company where basically copyright law doesn't exist. They don't need lawyers.
@@thewinterwoods Truly buyer beware society. No one to protect the stupid. A fool and their money are soon parted.
They are sold here where I live at Costco and at hardware box stores. One thing that I noticed while seeing it at those places, is that none of those places had any out of the box and hooked up so that customers can test it out.
People that bought that:
Oh no I don’t need that thermodynamics course.
I'm HVAC certified and everything you say is 100% correct and accurate.. these are literally just small swamp coolers.. there is no phase change or anything going on in them.. other than trickling water down a piece of paper with a fan..
@Deborah Ajao Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. Abbreviated as HVAC. These are contractors and technicians that do this for a living.
@Deborah Ajao yep 👍🏻
@Deborah Ajao the trick i guess is to get the right amount of airflow through it....
What's a swamp cooler?
@Deborah Ajao Yes, that is the same principle as "swamp coolers" (technical name: evaporative coolers). They blow air over water mimicking the effect of a sea breeze. Decent evaps have pumps to circulate the water and special cooling pads to channel the water. However, they need ventilation in order to work effectively. So you should place them next to an open door or window to get the best cooling effect. In a confined space, they will just pump humidity into the air as he explains in the video which makes you feel hotter.
When I saw that ad with the weird pile of pipes, I decided to reverse image search it. It was a homemade swamp cooler made by a DIY youtuber. It just barely worked and spat water everywhere, but that's besides the point. They stole the image. I'll update this if and when I find the DIY video again.
Update: here is the video they stole the pipe cooler thing from ruclips.net/video/0cvX-jVFx50/видео.html
Computer-Clan can even sue the living shit out of them for illegally using his video's without permission
Forgot about this a while. Finally linked the pipe thing. I actually had to re-image search it, because typing anything other than its exact title into youtube will not show it.
Thank you for enlightening me and saving me mucho $$.
I must be very gullible....because I almost bought 3 of them to share with my family.
BTW you are very personable and entertaining! You could probably talk me into buying ANYTHING! LOL!
Willington Force, a student who had to study in high temperatures because his school ac system broke. The school wouldn't replace. So he invented this. The AC companies tried to buy him out. He said no and was expelled and it was at that moment he realised he was on to something. He teamed up with world engineers and released the product. Apparently it's took the UK by storm.. however his college was blantly the USA.. so he didn't even try to conquer his own market.
Well done to him though lmao
"this can cool down a dorm in just 6 minutes"
me, with a much MUCH larger swamp cooler that can barely do that: well that was a f%cking lie
The Water Wall in Houston is pretty cool.
Yeah its like 5 stories tall, but it does keep the area cool.
Me with an _actual_ mobile AC unit (the ones that vent out of the window through a tube): 6 minutes my ass :D
yup i have a 5 liter swamp cooler and i live in the uk which is the most ideal use case scenario cause the humidity is low enough for them to actually work
even then it dont do that in 6 minutes i could maybe get it down in 15 if i use the ice packs to assist it
@@cy-one Try elevating your portable AC unit. Put it up on some cinder blocks or a stand so that the bottom exhaust is at the level of the exhaust tube. It should work a bit better for you.
@@cy-one even those work better if you add insulation to the tube. That way the heat it just pulled out isn’t leaked back into the room
Now, how many of these prodigies have revolutionized the ac industry
They're all variants of the same person.
No it's the air con industry. Get it con. Cuz air conditioners are expensive and that's a con!!
assassin's creed industry
to many
same thing with those monoculars that should apparently be made illegal... and all the "well-known dentists" completely changing the way the world brushes their teeth... and the "genius college student" that keeps inventing free power or whatever.
Living in the Desert South-West, we use swamp coolers all the time - huge things, with huge fans and with water pumps to get the water to the top of the 8" thick waffle cardboard evaporator. They are huge, they are heavy, they require regular maintenance, but they do work if your humidity is normally 20% or less. These little things are a joke and I knew it the first time I saw one. Then I started seeing that they were invented by a "Nun", a "genius teenager", a "high school teacher", and someone's sweet puppy - just made up the last one. I have been waiting soooo long to see someone actually address this blatant scam. There must be thousands of very disappointed/pissed-off people out there - just a little poorer, and hopefully just a little wiser.
I'm gonna market cheap slippers made in China and call them "My Sweet Puppy" brand, I know I'm gonna sell millions, thanks for the royalty- free idea and no, you don't get a cut.
@@BeachsideHank oh please! At least cut me in for .0001%, I am saving up to buy this marvelous portable air conditioner that you only add ice and water to - it's hot, I really need this! And, if you could, send me a pair of those there slippers - stuff made in China is always top quality. 🤣 😂
YES!
I thought that these things were just small swamp coolers. That principle of cooling doesn't work back East here where high humidity is the norm.
The military (army at least) uses the sh*t out of this product. It doesn't work. It just makes the room humid.
You can’t use these anywhere near the coast because of the humidity. These little baby swamp coolers only work where it’s extremely dry air. And to call room that size in six minutes will require a very very large swamp cooler with plenty of fans.
So, I just saw one named ‘Cooling Hero’. Their BS backstory was that it was some “prodigy” student from an Arizona school, named Martin. There, they credited him with working with scientific theories like the ‘Bernoulli equation’.
It’s hilarious bc there’s a misleading snip of the minute-long ad, where it says that his “invention” helped the sweltering temps of the broken down AC classrooms, from a WHOPPING 95 C to 65 C. Wow. That is a serious misleading information scenario…. Oh, and then at the end of it all, he gets “EXELLED” from his…. school..? For not accepting the “offers”….?
None of this is remotely believable, and anyone with a semi-decent set of critical thinking skills would eventually figure out these hot messes of crappy ads.
I can’t believe it, even in the adverts for Blast Auxiliary THE FANS SAY BLAUX ON THEM STILL
I have a more affordable option, though it is a bit high-tech.
Let me explain it in steps so that it's easier to follow.
Step 1 : Take a towel and soak it in water(cold water if possible)
Step 2 : Take off your shirt
Step 3 : Put the towel on your back and shoulder
Step 4 : Turn on the ceiling fan or other fan
Step 5 : Sit comfortably on a chair
Note : Once the water gets evaporated from the towel completely, you may perform Step 1, 3 and 5.
wow, thanks man. i've saw this kind of guide before and it's a little bit confusing. thanks for simplifying this. now i have find a way how to turn on a fan.
My gramps told me something like that once.
@@richardm3023 My Ole Grandpa said " If it sounds to good to be true ,most likely it is not true."RIP Grandpa!After forty five years I still miss you.
Went to Disneyworld Orlando once. Stayed in a nice condo. Hot AF. Took one of the condo's white linen napkins, soaked it, and wore it like a mullet under my baseball cap. Once an hour I'd hit a water fountain to refill the reservoir.
@@akkico You're welcome : )
If you do not have a fan or having difficulties turning it on then no worries at all, since I have an easy solution for that as well.
For that first of all you need to get a book or magazine. Ideally 10 to 12 inches in length, 6 to 7 inches weidth and around 0.5 inches thick.
Hold the book or magzine in your right or left hand as per your convenience and then bring it near your face about 4 inches from your face.
Make sure that the book is perpendicular to your face and then start bending your hand back and forth 1 - 2 times a second.
Keep repeating the process till you start keeping that your current hand is getting tired and then switch your hand and move to the previous step.
Not to mention the ‘nun’ who ‘revolutionised’ the ‘English’ aircon industry (whilst using US power outlets in the stock footage)…
Yeah what’s with that story? Why is school in session when it’s hot summer? Teaching summer school? Did that many students flunk? If she’s so smart why couldn’t she teach the kids properly during fall/winter/spring? And wasn’t the nun wearing dark clothing? I’ve seen nuns switch to all white from late spring thru summer. No penguin outfit when it’s hot. Like C&C said: “things that make you go ‘hmmmm’ “
@@nickpalance3622 In German youtube ads the nun is...of course german. But you see the english video footages ;-)
And the "Yorkshire" fireman, who looked very American. It's almost as if they're having fun seeing how ridiculous they can make the story and still get sales.
@@nickpalance3622 LOL! It's funny when stock footage of an Australian or European big rig is used in commercials here in the USA.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know you cannot cool a 95 degree room to 65 degrees in 6 minutes unless you have like a 25 ton AC, which in itself is about half the size of the room.
Well, they never said how big or small the room was so...........
Wouldn't even work in a linen closet. Except to help produce mold.
Yeah it takes someone with more knowledge than a rocket scientist, a mechanical engineer.
A device with refrigerant at that
Maybe it’s doll house room
I work at one of the major consumer electronics retailers in Australia and we sell the artic air units
The amount of customers that come in thinking it will work for cooling down an entire room
I always have to convince them it will work like a fancy desk fan 😂
Eventually these fake Portable AC ads are gonna say It can cool the universes hottest temperature (5 trillion degrees fahrenheit)
In just 6 minutes 😂
Shady company:here's this new ac made to disrupt the industry.
Ken: just when I thought I was out, they keep pulling me back in!
here's a practical example of why paying attention in high school physics class actually pays of...
High school, should have learned this by six grade, what do they teach kids now days!
@@jeffreymartin8228 The people buying these were the kids in the back of the room in seventh grade general science playing with themselves.
off*
i'm really excited to see that iMac prototype in the back in action
Awesome. Stay tuned… ; )
Nice episode, thank you! the commercials are already ridiculous..... but my Mom bought one as they came up, some years ago. beside being totally useless, there whole machine is full of fungi after some weeks and is spreading this all around ...
Ken can you review the arctic air pure chill and make a comparison video about the blaux and the Arctic air pure chill
Problem is : peoples today prefer to believe in a "too good to be true" ads rather than use theirs brains to learn how things works... Because when you know how things work, you can't be fooled...
Yup. Some guy in a lab figured out a swamp cooler is more efficient than the refrigerant cycle, a process that is litterally more than 100% efficient. And with this knowledge he didn't go to sell it to everyone who will buy, but instead made a cheap product to sell to you for less than your window A/C unit. Occam's Razor is the first thing that comes to mind.
@@hampsterblade6195 It's not just people today. You can look at advertising back in the 80s... Same crap, same stupid buyers.
A lot of this stuff has it's basis in conspiracy thinking. That's why those "Doctors hate him!"-style ads are so effective. Longwinded anecdote time: I have a friend who once tried to convince me that some lone genius inventor once made a car that runs on water, only for him to die under mysterious circumstances and the oil companies and car industry buried his research. He knew it had to be true because he saw it on facebook once. And when I tried to explain all the reasons why that makes no sense he accused me of being a gullible sheeple corporate shill. He's a grown-ass 50 year old guy btw. So I went online and spent WAY TOO MUCH time looking into the story, from proper, credible news sources and court records, and it turned out it was based on a con artist "scientist" who claimed he had invented a hydrogen combustion engine (not water, hydrogen) that claimed scientifically impossible efficiency numbers. He took his investors for millions, claimed to have a prototype that nobody ever got to see because he was supposedly paranoid "Big Oil" was going to steal it, and in the end he got taken to court where he failed to produce any prototype, blueprints or scientific data that would suggest his miracle engine was even theoretically possible. He then died of cancer several years and several other cons later. But that didn't fit my friend's narrative and world view at all, so he insisted that my sources must have been bought by the big corporations and the goverment. **facepalm** Truly, the only credible source of information is a rando on Facebook who agrees with all your preconceptions and tells you you're a Very Smart Boy for believing his crazy story.
People have alway been like that it just today we have the world wide web. Remember the wild west snake oil, or fake cure all medicines
It’s actually kind of a testament to how vulnerable we all are to advertising which is quite scary.
I was looking for something to help cool a small room a few years back. I looked at these coolers, and almost bought one. After looking into it a little bit, it seemed like they didn't really work that well. I put a tupperware with ice in front of a box fan and got about the same result, hahaha.
And yet, RUclips allows this blatent false advertising on the site, yet demonitize others for telling the truth.
They are allowing some truly awful things here lately. Dangerous fake medical things. Thanks Susan
@@mustangnawt1 indeed. I can't believe some of the ads on here lately. Not only clearly scam content and questionable products, but medically dangerous stuff like you mentioned. And then they have nerve to either deplatform, strike, or put the stupid "factcheck" label on creator's videos.
I've even seen pictures on Reddit of RUclips allowing copyrighted and Content ID protected content in pre-roll and mid-roll video adverts!
Thanks. I was going to get a Blaux, thinking: more expensive is better! Had no idea a portable AC is still a bogus idea. I was burned with the $40 cheap one & BreezeMax, also cheap. Lies are everywhere! What a world~
I bought the BreezeMax AC. I knew that it wasn't an air conditioner, but more like a swamp cooler. But thinking that we each have a rather small bedroom these might actually work for us. Nope. They advertised the units as being 80% off the regular price, which made them about $50 each, when you bought 2 units. Then they tell you that if you order a third unit it will be half off, which should have been $25. I also ordered the replacement filters and an additional warranty. So when I check my account balance, I discovered that I had paid about $350. The units finally arrived and at first inspection we can see that, minus the plastic housing, it's basically a computer fan with a water reservoir. We plugged one in and it barely blows any air. I called customer service as spoke with a rep who obviously didn't speak English as their primary language and am offered an additional %50 off if I keep them. Up to that point, the rep was more or less pleasant. When I said that I didn't want to keep them, the rep asked what I didn't like about the unit. I said that for the money I could have a whole house air conditioner and I just want to return them and be refunded and they had a "money back guaranty" in the advertising. Now I'm being rude, according to the rep. He says he will send me the info to return the units, but I will have to pay for the shipping. I paid shipping of $9.95 to get the units, so I agree. Return shipping cost me $80. I was further informed that I only had 30 days from the receipt of the product to return them and I would receive an email confirmation within 72 hours receiving the package. I wisely had them sign for the package, so that I knew exactly when they received it. No email confirmation was received and it took weeks for them to refund my money. NEVER AGAIN! Now I will only buy through known and trusted vendors like Amazon or the big box stores.
America: the place where "Good Business" started as 'start high so you can negotiate down to a good price' and became 'keep it high and take away the ability to negotiate'.
Especially car dealerships!
what
AC man for 25 years. Laugh so hard when I saw commercial almost hurt myself
Honestly a 2009 cheese grater Mac Pro could cool a room better than these “AC’s” at the cost of some noise.
my macbook pro from 2015 sound identical...
Or the trash can macpro.
If you fill it with water? Otherwise, how does something adding heat to a room cool the same room?
I just came here again to thank you, my mom saw an ad here on RUclips about one of this, she asked me if I saw it and oh boy... if I saw it haha... I showed her your videos about this! Thanks for make this kind of videos, we really appreciate :)
This is hilarious , found your vid because i just got an ad for the "Chill breeze" pretty much the same product that you're talking about , same video clips , and they claim it can chill a 400 sq. ft. room from 95 to 65 degrees in TWO minutes 😂, i wish i were joking
I just got the same "Chill breeze" ad, and that brought me here. Glad to see I'm not alone.
“I’m not really a *fan* of that AC”
No
Just no
Yes
Just yes
That was
a cool comment.
Ooooh...that wasn't fantastic...try again!😄
Thank you for doing these videos. I am so sick of companies that scam people.
ssshhhhh hes not making a dent cause they just change there names to get around this guys videos
Same most of them come from Asia I'm sure
@@attackonmars5198 I love that part of how a fan that blows worse then a pc fan can be an air conditioner when it humidifies instead of dehumidifies a space and to make matters worse it does not pump the heat anywhere like a real air conditioner does and then they have the nerve to call it a air conditioner that is disrupting the market when it's only disrupting gullible peoples wallets🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@attackonmars5198 Built in China, but I'll bet some American corporation is making money off them.
More of these Ken, MORE. Love this series, always an instant click whenever I see one on my feed.
The amount of products like this being returned ( pallets) should say something about things like this
Gracias por compartir. Que bueno que existiera un pequeño aire refrigerante. Aunque un poco más grande pero todavía no lo han inventado.
Why wouldn't Blaux be pronouned to rhyme with "faux"??
3:11 I feel like Ken should file a copyright infringement lawsuit against these companies for that part.
A little DMCA claim would be nice...
So glad to see this. I exposed this on Twitter a few months ago. Where the hell is the FTC. These people belong in prison.
Thanks for the episode! Truly informative. These guys should be ashamed of themselves. I live in Northern California where it gets RED HOT in the summer. Always looking for an AC alternative measure. Going to stay with the AC.
ANYONE buying ANYTHING in ANY AD nowadays, ESPECIALLY SOCIAL MEDIA ADS, has got no-one to blame but themselves, when they get ripped off.
Everyone is selling online and do everything to AVOID YOU LIKE THE PLAGUE once you buy something.
Everyone is selling cheap China made junk on Amazon,Ebay, and Walmart, and those places make BIG commisions on all that junk.
The only way you have ANY chance of getting your money back is if you buy it at a walk-in store with receipt in hand, or you have a membership, like Prime, that allows you free shipping and free return shipping.
Otherwise the cost to ship it back and possible restocking fees just ad to your loss, and put you S.O.L.
As an hvac engineer, I've never believe in this crap in the first place. it's no better than my 2 dollar usb fan.
Wait! You have a 2 dollar usb fan?!? How much is it, and where can I buy one?
How can you be an HVAC engineer if this product has decimated the HVAC industry ?? 😊
@@richardm3023 well the cheapest one does cost less than 2 bucks, and a battery is included.😊 minus the S/H.
@@dionysus2006 the air-conditioner will say "I'LL BE BACK"
@@skliaw6127 I have to get one right now! Sorry. I watch a lot of infomercials.
8:56 Ken: "she walks outside, a place where you don't use airconditioning "
Qatar World Cup 2022 Stadiums:" Hold my oil"
Thanks for doing this. I had 2 friends try and tell me about the Arctic Air and how amazing they were (before they actually bought them BTW). Without having to do much looking I explained there is no way they could do what they thought they could and it was a scam. They actually though it would work as good as a regular AC unit for some insane reason. They both didn't buy them after that. I can't believe Home Depot sells them
Noneya bizness You can't believe Home Depot sells them? Then where do you think Home Depot and Lowes and practically every other hardware store in America gets almost all of the products they sell from?
I have some gorgeous ocean front property in Arizona that will make you a great deal for; but hurry, the offer will end soon and supplies are very limited...hurry..!!
@@marbleman52 Ever watch late night TV? You jumped the shark here.
@@noneyabizness7288 Yes, and when a client sends me a $10,000 certified check to cover closing costs on this beautiful beach property, I will send them ..free...not one, not two, but THREE Arctic Air coolers and pay all shipping costs..!!!
I have one of the Artic Air but I only bought it as a nice computer desk fan for myself. For those purposes it works well for the price. That being said, yeah, people shouldn't be expecting to full on replace AC's with these things.
This reminds me of the genius idea I once had to open up my freezer door on my mini fridge to cool down my dorm room in college. Spoilers, It didn't work.
I’m in hvac school and this video slipped into my algorithm, you’re a smart dude. You spoke nothing but truth. Definitely subscribing.
Great video. I work for an air conditioning company and I see so many ads for products which aren't air conditioners marketed as air conditioners. Here in the UK we have a company called Dyson. They introduced a range of fans and tried to claim that they could lower the temperature of a room, despite the fact that they don't contain any refrigerant gas or cooling element. They even had ads showing red air going in to the fan and blue air coming out the front, deliberately deceiving the customer by pretending that the fan could change the air temperature. They were reported to trading standards and subsequently changed their ads very subtly but they still call it "Dyson cool". They also cost several hundred pounds, when they do the same thing as a desk fan from a hardware store!
I have one, but I'm not naive enough to think it's going to cool the whole room. I just point it at me when I'm sitting at my computer desk and it works just fine.
Same here, also have one. Its actually providing some nice extra cooling compared to a fan but its more a face cooler, not a room cooler. I say these are not complete BS but they are not at all what they claim to be and no they can NOT cool a room at all and are NOT AC devices. They will only cool a local surface placed very close to the machine. The reason they cant cool a room is because these devices don't transport heat away from the area but instead rely on surface cooling the same way as why we sweat to keep cool. It blasts you with a mist of water and air and as that water then evaporates from your skin due to the airflow from the fan it cause local cooling but that heat in the end instead adds to the total heat in the room (cause the heat need to go somewhere). A true AC instead is a heatpump that need a sealed air outlet/hose to the outside to activley pump the heat away from the entire room or building to outside of the building. Same wikth a refrigerator. The inside of it holding the food gets cold but the room the refrigerator is placed in get hotter as this is where the heat is transported.
I also got an Arctic Air for around 30€ just to try it out. It's nice when you work at your pc and when the water is ice cold, but that's about it. Those prices for other, similar models for around 90$ is absolutely ridiculous.
I agree with the other comments that it is effective as a face cooler. I live in an old high-rise where they have to switch the central air from heating to cooling in the spring and cooling to heating in the fall. It is very imprecise choosing the ideal date to make the cutover. I wind up using these face cooling devices for those 1 or 2 weeks of transition each year.
“I know I’m 10 stories underground, but it’s still hot”
That would be because of the thermal gradient
Wouldn't that be a good bit further underground? I know that there's a underground village/city in Australia because the surface is too hot to live on
@@MrHack4never there's a sweet spot
@@MrHack4never Coober petey been there !!
That's because he's close to the 10th level of H3LL.
actually kinda not even close to some hot spots underground on earth
I tried one. It felt good ON MY FACE but then I was stuck holding the stupid thing up to my dang face. LOL No they don't actually work to cool any space, let alone a "room". All it does is add a negligible amount of humidity which then may evaporate causing a "cooling" sensation to the person standing in its path. Now, evaporative coolers that are large, and take up a chunk of floor space - those work! I just set mine up because I'm trying to lower my electric cost, so I'm avoiding using my Air Conditioner. It's already 90 deg. outside and it's only going to get hotter as the spring progresses. :( Living near Las Vegas, is awful in the summer.
Let me translate those temperatures to the 21th century, for everyone not still living in a cave (aka 99% of countries):
100 = 37,7° Celsius
95 = 35° Celsius
65 = 18° Celsius
You're welcome.
The more Ken feels infuriated with these scam products, the more he sounds like Shane from Rerez when he goes crazy reviewing those crappy games and consoles 🤣🤣🤣
lol
I bought one of the coolers at the Home Depot, because I know what a swamp cooler can do, and what it can't. I have used mine as a spot cooler, and if it is dry enough, then it works. A rule of thumb is that a swamp cooler works if the DEW POINT is lower than 60 degrees. As the dew point increases above 60, the cooler becomes less and less effective. Fresh air needs to be introduced into the area, because as the cooler runs the air around the cooler increases in humidity, the dew point increases, and the cooler doesn't cool. I'm fine with my purchase. It was on sale for about $19, and I know how to use it.
Same. It's not that these things don't work at all, it's just that they fall very very short of the marketing hype. If you get one at a fair price and have the right expectations (i.e. a bit better than just a fan in the right circumstances), they can be a good purchase.
I've never heard anyone mention, that the refrigerator pumps out more heat making ice, than any cooling you could will ever get from the ice.
The cooling capacity of ice is so comically low lol. Add the heat from the freezer and you're in a net negative for sure, swamp coolers don't even need ice or cold water to work.
ITS A SWAMP COOLER! LoL
had a huge window size one in OKC, OK. in 1959. Dad cooled it down by spraying water on it with a hose. Sticky Yuk.
"Inventors"? Really?
One thing many people don't think about is that the ice you have to put into these things needs to be created somehow, which is done by putting water in your freezer. All the heat energy pulled out of the water needs to go somewhere and where does it go? Your freezer spews it out as warm air right into your house, so the net effect is that you're not cooling anything and in fact all the mechanical action of the machines involved will slightly raise the temperature in your house.
Every time I see one of these commercials I think, "So, you're telling me you invented a swamp cooler?"
Clan, You are 100% correct. *It is physically impossible for those little FAKE fan units to pump heat out of a room.* I have worked for decades around commercial-industrial HVAC, and I have a mech engineering background.
My wife Uses something like that to stay cool, when she is on the porch, It is call a bucket of frozen water and a Fan, way more effective then those little cube things. :D
My old math teacher close to 20 years ago told of how he cooled his bed room, fan blowing at a large pan of water, and one fan for exhaust at the window.
Sure, he's probably correct! But One must wonder are the big conventional air conditioning manufacturers clandestinely paying this man to debunk anything that thwarts conventional air conditioning?!😮 Yes, It's a two-way street! Just had to remind all of you out there.....
Bro is really good at making videos, I looked up Breeze Max because I had an ad on Instagram saying it was actually a kid that was in a college class with a broken AC and they had to study in a room in 95 degree temps so “he took it in his own hands” (this 1 kid) and invented the Breeze Max (doesn’t deserve caps but ima keep it grammarly) anyway so that how I got here. Thanks man. GREAT video man for real
I bought one from Home Depot (Artic Air), I didn't expect the claims to be valid ,however, I was satisfied with the performance because....well, I knew what to expect! It is simple a tiny swamp cooler! But if you direct the air on you and put the wet filter element in the freezer for about 45 minutes, it will cool you for a little while.....long enough to let you drift off to sleep. And it's not too loud. In fact I like the light noise it makes because I live near a highway and it drowns out most of THAT noise. Also note that this is used in my bedroom in conjunction with the central A/C system because my room gets full sun and is hotter than the rest of my home, so I have to supplement by using some sort of fan or turn the A/C temperature down; which will make the bill go up! If you know what you are buying and you ignore the goofy claims and the inflated prices you may enjoy one of these as I do......I paid $38 for mine which is a little pricey for what it is but I'm pretty satisfied.
just found this and WOW. Thank you. My daughter lived in South Africa, with brown outs.... she would make a air cooler with a styrofoam cooler and some ice and a battery fan. It's part of her the electricity is gone kit... there is a real video on how to deal with electricity loss. We need more skeptics like you on RUclips!
Thank you, you have just confirmed what I'd suspected all along. I've been seeing these ads for ages now and every time I saw one I just thought "that just can't be right, surely?"
I don't know much about the psychology behind influence but I just think of something is too good to be true, it probably isn't.
keep up the stellar reviews, my friends! Glad you exposed these Scam portable Air Coolers~! I almost bought one- I'll stick to filling my stainless steel pan with ice and placing it behind the room fan
I actually have the Arctic Cool, which I got for about $30. It's pretty much a tiny swamp cooler. I use it as a desk fan and it works really well when temperatures are below 95* F outside and below 83* F inside. It's definitely not an AC and yes I have to soak the filter and pour in water but it DOES keep me from using my central AC, as long as I'm about 2ft away from the fan. What's interesting is that the unit works my spraying out water from the tank onto the filter which the air passes through, but the water part doesn't really help as much as the soaked and wet filter. I don't have to replace the water for a good 10 hours of running, which is nice, but the cooling is significantly less when the filter dries out, so I do have to soak the filter every 2 hours if I want it to stay super cool. Ice or ice cold water in the tank doesn't help with cooling as much. It makes sense that ice would help cool things down but by the time that turns into mist, it's just about as cool as room temperature anyhow. Long story short, these mini evaporative fans DOES cool you off DIRECTLY more than a regular fan but it will not change the temperature of the room itself. If anything, like mentioned in the video, the overall room temperature may be hotter because the unit is introducing more moisture and humidity into the room. Also, the unit probably works less efficiently in very humid climate.
I love how these scams always give you an inflated "value", no the value is what you are selling it for. Im glad I live in Alaska where the summer temps are usually in the 60s.
I wish I could say the same. It's usually low 70s for the first part of the summer her in Washington, but ever since July last year, everything is all off. It's supposed to be 90 on Sunday.
Or you can live by the beach where it's 70° year round 59 at the lowest
Not for long, global warming is on its way and for sure won’t miss you out.
@@pigswillbepigs I know, I already live in Washington and we are already getting 90-94.
I grew up with an evaporative air cooler, they're a cube that's at least three feet to a side with a 1/2 horse motor lol
They work ok when the humidity is less than 40%, but anything over that and you're just pushing soggy air around your house.
I knew it! Thank you for the confirmation. Please uncover more junk scams as there are a lot of gullible folk who could really use the information.
I actually found this video because I just got an add for one of these things and wanted to do research 😒 Great work exposing them !
you know whats an amazing cooler and it only cost about 50-60 bucks? a RYOBI cordless whisper fan.
it really helps on those insanely hot days when were all working outside. just need a bucket full of ice and water, stick the pump in the water and turn it on. enjoy the cooling mist well as the breeze from the fan.
Even Ken couldn't stay away from the amogus word
Sus.
when the impostor is sus! 😳
I have a large floor model Evap cooler, and it does cool the air right in front of it by about 5 to 7 degrees, useful for our hot back room. That requires putting water, ice and ice packs in it and it is only works well if humidity doesn't get above 50%.
5 to 10 degrees differential is about all one can expect from an evaporative (swamp) cooler
Some of the single inlet ones
(Master Cool) with a thick 8 inch pad do a bit better still a swamp cooler though .
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!!!! My wife has been asking me to buy the 4 pack of these for a couple weeks and I didn't feel good about it. Also I can never find any info on how or where to buy a new filter and none of them offer them on their sites as far as I can tell.
You will toss the units in the trash long before they need new filters. LOL
I just told the wife it's one of those rare things that would disappoint her faster than I do in bed, and she quit asking for it... 🤣
I did buy one of these from Amazon ( I rarely buy off of that platform), it is nothing more than a fan with a built in battery. It sits on my desk or bedside table. I paid $66 CAD for it. I treat it as a portable fan. It does work a lot better than the mainstays branded fan from Walmart, which stopped working within a week. I would be reluctant to buy another one. Mine is unbranded, and works within my expectations.
Dude, your commentary is smooth and concise - no fluff. Your transitions are effortless and polished. I got what I was looking for in the first 30 seconds but finished watching the rest of the video just to hear you talk lmao
When someone gave me an old "swamp cooler" when I was younger, it didn't take me long to figure out they are the stupidest form of "cooling" equipment there is. If you use ice in them from your fridge, the fridge generated more heat producing the ice. And they humidify the air, making it harder to sweat off any heat. Basically, they provide some short-term relief to the person it blows on directly at the sacrifice of the long-term comfort of the rest of the space.
They work in dry climates like Phoenix AZ where it's under 20% humidity. If you're anywhere but the US Southwest they're counter productive.
Yeah I’m in Bakersfield. Ca and they still use them somewhat here
I use one I my shop where I stay
A large metal bldg improbable to use AC it’s a 4000 CFM about 10 feet away from where I sit lol
I’m an AC guy for fifty years and have a lot of experience with coolers in commercial applications like restaurants warehouses and such it’s 105 here right now but summer will be over soon LOL
But you know I’m an old guy and I can remember when there was little air conditioning. When my father worked I. The oil fields in the forties tower work ( that’s midnight to eight AM he would come home soak burlap bags drape them I’ve the bed edges and use a fan to move air while he slept under the bed to keep relatively cool.
Now people can’t live without air conditioning but I made a good living from it all.
Folks say "It must nice being an AC tech, working in cool places." Until you explain that you work where the AC is *busted* .
The only place on earth were those do any cooling, are places with little to no humidity. Like where I live (Iran) there are big swamp coolers on every home.
Sam here in drier parts of Australia. They're called evaporative coolers here, and in the dry parts of the country, you can get big house mounted units with a large roof mounted evaporation unit, it's plumbed into the household water supply, and run through a ducted system within the house.
Freakin’ Reviews has a few good videos on how products like the arctic air aren’t very effective at cooling.
They heat - because the refrigerator that makes the ice cubes puts it out.
I'm sure you mean they are _ineffective_ at cooling.
I do have a little USB rechargeable fan with a water reservoir that uses cold mist as a cooling method, it's amazing for cooling you personally or dropping the temp when camping just a little bit, but it was also like sub-$20
I was able to get the Blast Auxilary unit from a facebook listing for about $50 so I wasn't ripped off heavily like others, but I was surprised by just how cheap it was. It's a glorified desk fan at best. I've used it for a month and a half now and stopped filling it with water after a few weeks in because it made zero cooling difference. Also pouring water in it just accelerated the amount of mold and dust that was accumulating on the water curtain. Since I stopped using the mist function I just took the curtain out and it works better as a basic fan! I've also just been using it during the winter to balance out the heat in my apartment that I don't control. Also the thing has a hilariously short battery life and somehow turns itself off after it's been on for 12 hours.
Glad to know it was all false advertising!
Before I would buy such a way to high priced box, I prefer my good ol' reliable Fan :D
A walmart that i go to seem to be selling generic swamp coolers so idk if their from these blaux people
As someone whose stocked those....yea they are
@@azclake4057 wow well not getting those these
"It's not my goal to take down a brand or company".... But it is pretty satisfying
THANK YOU for saving me lots of money. My home gets unbearably hot in the summer and I was about to spring for the 3 pack.
When watching RUclips without being signed in, I get bombarded with these ads, like 7/10. This time with a genius young Swiss guy. Pathetic.