So glad I saw your great review before buying this piece of junk. You saved me a lot of money. Thank you for showing how completely useless it is to cool a room.
It is NOT meant to cool down a room. It is a personal air conditioner to keep only YOU cool. Please do your research before making silly comments like this!
Well I know u all think its a piece of crap, but I fill it up like ur supposed to before I go to sleep, and NOW, I sleep so good. With the chill well, my room is like 72 ,and without it is 78. Yes, I do keep it on my nightstand, it's worth it to me!! ALSO, I got mine off an add from Facebook. It Only Cost 49$ for 2 of them. Free shipping on 1 of them. I gave the other 1 to my son for his room . His room is smaller than mine and he loves his too, he says he also sleeps better! So honestly, I love this thing cause wethr I'm going to bed,reading or watching TV, it cools me down so I'm very Comfortable!!
Thanks, great review. Since this thing is a "Swamp Cooler" and not an Air Conditioner (A/C) I don't understand why they have not been hit with a false advertising charge. I remember a window mounted swamp cooler in my childhood that worked well for the living room, but then the usual humidity in the area is low and swamp coolers will work better in low humidity.
Thank you! You saved a lot of people from making a horrible purchase. Just bought a regular window AC unit a bit just over the price of that Chill”Not”Well unit. They are bunch of scammers saying it will cool any room….yeah right!
Yep, a window unit for my garage is what I was looking into before I stumbled upon an ad for this. I was putting in my address on their site and thought “let me see if anyone has made any reviews” THANK GOODNESS lol. Back to picking out which Window Unit i’d like haha
I have a product the Blaux classic desktop AC - looks identical to this one, I got three for $100. The only difference is mine doesn't take ice cubes, you take a thick sponge, soak it with cold water, inserted into the unit along with the special ice tray. It really only works if you have it right next to your face while you're sleeping. I use it, but there's so much faults advertising. It's ridiculous! Thanks for doing this test.
Haha thank you sir. I thought you might not be able to resist. Find it interesting how they say this has "revolutionized" the AC industry. Yet again like many products there seems to be more fluff than facts.
I can see some instances where they provide cooling (when in a climate controlled room), but they are definitely not replacements for air conditioning.
@@Jeffreviews4u which defeats the purpose for which they are advertised. Cool a 95° room in only minutes without a controlled air environment. It's a no go for me. I will stick to my AC (for now).
What's really good about these USB swamp coolers, is that they can run off of a portable cell phone charging battery. I used to do that at where I worker because my work station was away from any outlets. On medium to low, it would last almost five hours. So, just buy a nice sized portable battery for charging us devices and you can have you space cooler anywhere Also you have to once in awhile check behind where the filter sits in because that can actually fill up with water and spill over. The way they designed it though is you turn off the mist when that happens, when the water gets high enough and what will happen is, much like with the first Arctic air that used to paper filter that Drew the water up into it, you can just run the fan on this one with that filter soaked, and it will put out cool air as water drains out of the filter container
They sell these at Big Lots for 28.95$. I was thinking of getting one to set on my night stand for when I sleep. I already have central AC in my home. But wanted to set it at 78 and turn this on hoping to get back down to 73. Not going to waste 30$ on something that is going to make my room damp. I keep computer stuff in here. Last thing I want is one of these running in my PC room.
Dude. You just got ripped off $100. It’s just a $6 cheap plastic box with a small fan blowing humid air. Maybe drops the room temperature by a couple degrees but in reality the room is going to feel more hot and stuffy with all the humidity it’s creating. Thanks for posting that as I was seriously considering buying one.
I was looking at these and thinking about buying them for the upstairs bedrooms and the playroom, but I don't think I'm going to. Big swamp coolers do a decent job, but we've had enough portable swamp coolers to know they don't really work, and if you live where it's humid, they don't work at all. We've lived where it's humid and where it's dry, and we've experienced swamp coolers in both places, and this is just a waste of money. I'm really glad I saw this review! I think you've saved a lot of people a lot of time, frustration, and definitely money. Thanks for your honest and really in-depth review! 3:20
while they don’t necessarily cool down an entire room, they do cool my small office space very well. it’s certainly not a substitute for AC but it works very well in tandem if you like it cooler than most
Thanks Jeff, I was thinking about get one of this junk, your honest review save me hundred bucks, shame to those UA-camr who receive money to do fake review - all read script didn't even show how the device runs.
Thank you for the honest review. Well done! I live in my RV in the High Desert. Who would have thought that living in a metal box in the desert would be a bad idea? ;) With 100+ degree F average temperatures outside, the ac in my rig struggles to keep the living space comfortable and often fails to reduce the inside temps. under 90 F (outside 110). I wonder about the quality of the product. Is it going to last more than one season? If it falls off the counter will it survive? After watching your review, I don't think those questions matter as the unit doesn't look like it is anywhere near what it is advertised as. You expect some exaggeration, but they claim up to 12 hours use on a charge whereas you experienced maybe 3 on the lowest setting. If they can't be honest enough to at least be close to reality in their advertising, I'd rather not do business with them. You have saved me much time and stress. Thanks again, Jeff.
One thing i noticed upon googling the reviews from tons of people they are almost always sponsored. Then none of them tell you how many degrees of coolness its supposed to lower the temps. Not mentioned!
PAHAHAHAHA watching your video sparked a childhood memory. Back in the '60's, vehicles were not made with an A/C. We had a Chevy Impala & my dad put in the backseat a hard plastic box that had a fan inside & a place to put ice. It ran on batteries. That was our A/C. Hmmmmm 🤔 new invention 😆
I can't say if the device works or not because I never got mine. I ordered online from the official site and received an email two days later saying that it had been shipped. My credit card was charged of course. The tracking showed that the label had been created but UPS had not yet received the package. After 16 days and two phone calls to customer service, I asked for a refund and am still waiting. The customer service rep told me that some shipments via UPS do get 'hung up' and cannot be found. Then why don't they change their shipper? I also found their online site horrible to use. It kept hanging up and would not move forward until I had clicked on additional items which I did not want. I like to check the total before I finally place my order, but the order went through first with no way to cancel when I found that I had ordered additional items that I did not want. Another minus is that the cooling cartidges have to be replaced every 1 -3 months, and they cost almost as much as the unit with its 50% off. Bottom line - the web site needs redesigning. The customer service reps are pleasant, but we should not have to keep calling them. They need to use another shipper.
Yes, it's important to have realistic expectations of what you're getting. Definitely not a room air conditioner. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment 🙂
I'm glad I stumbled upon your review of this product before I purchased it. I am a rural letter carrier driving around in those HOT mail trucks and wad looking for someway to cool it down this summer, but I guess just like the little fans that you wear around the neck, ir the air that's being sucked into it is not cool it's not going to help cool me down..:-(
God bless you! The inventor/company must’ve paid google a lot of money because I read trust something reviews n honest something reviews n all good n kept scrolling n scrolling n all good reviews, FROM REVIEWING COMPANIES, not real ppl. I finally came across your reviews. Thank God I did because I was about to purchase 4 for my mom’s apt for each room. Smh. Thank you Lord for getting me to your video/review. NOPE, not buying. The hassle for my elderly mother (I live in another state) to return these….smh
This is the main reason I run this channel...I have purchased many of those too good to be true products and was disappointed. Happy to help! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment 🙂
Hi, I bought a chillwell portable air cooler about a month, not hard to use boyght I left on charge was red and lid up green, and did not come on, not the ligh up lights, How to fix it?
@@art47430 I didn’t expect an air conditioner regardless of what they said. No coolant. But for me, in 110 degree heat right now, that 60-70 degree breeze it imparts is freaking heaven when my ac is set to 87. And my ac is set to 87 to avoid $200-$400 power bills every month. At 87, my bill is about $150. So for me, and what I need it to do, it works. It cuts between $50-$250 a month and that is worth the $50 I spent.
In your case anything is better than nothing. But it's an expensive way. Try a primitive and ultra cheap $2 hand fan and use the rest of that $97 for cold beer 🍺🍻 and soda and steaks should do the same thing to enjoy the summer.
I bought my Chillwell before I seen the review and I just have it next to me while I sleep blowing into my box fan and every night I refreeze the filter and refill but the first week after I bought it this weird brownish stuff started to stain the plastic on the vents and inside the filter holder. Not sure what it is and it can be cleaned off but for the most part its stuck on there and keeps coming back is it mold? Or what
Got my Chillwell today. After fully charging it and following the instructions, it didn't work. It kept shutting off after 2 seconds... I want a refund...
Darn it I dismantled my central air unit and sealed it up removed the concrete pad after buying 4 of these believing overkill was better for my 5 000 Sq foot home I'm in deep doo daa
Buy a bucket or tradh can fill with ice! & cut a hole in top of the lid! Buy a small or medium fan cut hole on lid so fan can sit on top of it blowing Air onto ice in bucket! Of course plug in fan. Oh! Buy small plastic tube to cut holes in trash can or bucket push plastic pipe on side of trash can/ bucket! fir ventilation!!!* trash can at bottom has a plug can open up to drain ice/ water after it melts! Home made A/C!•● videos for similar products....
Of course it's garbage. Hell you can make something like this with a 10 dollar fan and a styrofoam cooler from a gas station and frozen water in a 2 litter bottle.
Yes, for sure. It is a glorified Styrofoam cooler with the exact same so called advanced technology (!!) at 9 times that price. Smells like a scam to me. If I have to place ice and cold water in front of a fan that this one does, I can do the same by placing a small portable fan behind a tray of ice and get about the same effect without spending a hundred bucks.
I was considering this for a power-outage emergency to run off a battery pack as you have shown. After watching your video it became apparent that it misses the mark for my intended use. Thanks you for your review and saving me $$. I'm subscribing to your channel. Good job!
I purchased a much larger item similar to this. Its a floor unit that holds near 3 gallons of water. Now i will say for those smaller units like the one in this review. They are all mostly just junk. The only way these smaller units are of any use at all are situational. Ideally if you have it parked on top of you. The other major factor in how well these kind of items like the one in this review work are based on current humidty levels where you are using the device. If you live somewhere that has high humidity. None of these devices are going to work as they claim what so ever. Now back to the floor unit i mentioned... The bigger floor type units do work. The one i bought was around $200. Seeing i live in California humidity is almost always below 40%. Making the unit do very well. I also bought a dehumidifier to run that actually feeds even drier air to the unit. Thus boosting its efficiancy. But again as i mentioned... Humidity is the deciding factor. If you live somewhere thats prone to high humidity avoid any kind of product like this as you are just waisting your $$$
Hey Jeff. Your review was spot on!! I ordered the product but it is not worth the money. At least they offer a 60-day money-back return but also said that if I kept the product, they would give it to me at half the price. Unfortunately, I will be sending it back. I wish I had researched reviews before purchasing, but it's all good.
Thank you, Jeff! Finally an honest review on this rip off P.O.C. I is amazing that this company is allowed to make the claims that they do when this device does absolutely nothing. I had the Arctic Air and it was completely useless. Good to know that this is basically the same thing.
Excellent presentation, well put to the point! Realistically I believe the best portable air conditioner is the Esky type one. Which is basically a portable ice cooler box with a fan on the top lid to suck the cool ice air out into the room! Try that for a review as it would be dripless & no mess.
I have it by my bed at night, I love it! I bought it at Goodwill for $3.00. I had 2 before this one came out, they all worked great. But I would never buy it for 90.00. You can't bet the price at Goodwill specials.
Hey man, what a super review on this piece of junk, I was actually going to buy one of these. I don't think this thing would cool a 4x4 closet Thanks Jeff
I just found this one new for $5 in a thrift store and ill say for what I paid its pretty cool 😂 sorry 😅, jokes aside it works well having it aside in my desk meanwhile working in a hot day, ill just be careful and put a plate underneath. Thanks for the review!
Thanks. Great demonstration. I'm glad I searched up some reviews. I was about to buy a 3-pack of these little suckers to supplement our AC (kids' rooms on the south side of the house still get much warmer than the rest of the house). You saved me more than $200!
I considered buying the Arctic Air for years, and more recently the Chill Well (after seeing their ad). Thanks for saving me money with your review. Based on your review I see the machines are based on a method people used to cool their homes prior to AC, which my grandfather told me about. He recounted that there used to be ice houses, which he described as barns that stored large blocks of ice cut from lakes and ponds, with straw packed between the blocks, and also straw between the blocks and the walls of the barn. The straw acted as insulation and prevented the blocks from sticking to each other. During the summer months you would go to the ice house (or buy ice from an ice house), chop up the ice and direct a fan to blow air across the ice into the room. As I recall it described, the ice was put in a container that the fans air could pass through, something like a small slotted laundry basket, with a pan underneath to catch the water from the melting ice. My grandfather said this effectively cooled small rooms. The Arctic Air and Chill Well have more bells and whistles, but it appears they do not have sufficient volume or area of ice water in front of the fan to actually cool.
People still use swamp coolers to cool their homes. We had a BreezeAir when I lived in Western Colorado. It really cooled the house well. The thing is, they only work in a dry climate.
The design would work much better if there was something like a length of pvc in a box you fill with ice with a fan at one end, there would be much more surface area for heat to be exchanged.
The Arctic air pure chill and the chillwell are basically the same. There is another one called arctos. It is just like the Arctic air pure chill. They are all USB powered. And it is said that you can use any USB block. The ChillWell is the only battery operated. There is a neck unit called Artic Air Freedom. I like your reviews.
It's not a new technology the way they advertise it it's a swamp cooler or evaporative cooler I wouldn't buy that crap to save my life I used to have one of those free-standing ones on wheels you wake up in the middle of the night either hot and sticky or if it gets colder in the night cold and clammy and everything's covered in d e w your house the way they advertise it in the commercials with the proprietary technology none of that's going on it's a full lie I think you should mention that as well I watched the commercial where the quote unquote student invented it and get kicked out of school there's no proprietary technology inside that thing it's a swamp cooler another revamp jip
You think 100 bucks is expensive. In UK similar Junk is being sold at nearly £180, nearer to 3 times what you guys pay for "Junk"! That makes us Brits far more gullible than you guys lol! I open my door at night while watching TV allowing cooler air into my home during really hot days. Also by darkening a room during the day will help reduce heat inside. Then use an ordinary fan to keep you cool. I'm in UK but have lived in many REALLY HOT countries and the current heat-wave was uh like everyday temperatures to me. I hardly need to cool down. Just drink plenty of non-alcoholic fluids to keep hydrated. At night if you're suffering, try wetting a Tea Towel and laying it on your Torso with a fan on. Don't knock-It until you try it as it works!
Bought two. Pitiful. Hated them. Am in Dallas, Tx. Didn’t do much of anything. You were right on and all the hype on all sites is B.S. Scam indeed !! Ugh
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Thanks Jeff. You just saved me $80. I have no idea how this company has not been sued. Their commercial is straight up false advertisement.
Agreed
Correct! I agree! False advertising! 👍
Chinese shell company. Impossible to secure a refund.
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Fan no enough blow !I put ice 🧊 water 💧 why no make bigger Bro.thanks.
So glad I saw your great review before buying this piece of junk. You saved me a lot of money. Thank you for showing how completely useless it is to cool a room.
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Hmmmmm....I love my Chillwell. Take it to bedroom when finished using it near kitchen sink. Always use cold water.
@@marciaheuer6457 I found this to be no more than junk.⁹
It is NOT meant to cool down a room. It is a personal air conditioner to keep only YOU cool. Please do your research before making silly comments like this!
You literally saved me from wasting 💰 & for the happy crowd it might work under the blankets for a hot min. 😅
Well I know u all think its a piece of crap, but I fill it up like ur supposed to before I go to sleep, and NOW, I sleep so good. With the chill well, my room is like 72 ,and without it is 78. Yes, I do keep it on my nightstand, it's worth it to me!! ALSO, I got mine off an add from Facebook. It Only Cost 49$ for 2 of them. Free shipping on 1 of them. I gave the other 1 to my son for his room . His room is smaller than mine and he loves his too, he says he also sleeps better! So honestly, I love this thing cause wethr I'm going to bed,reading or watching TV, it cools me down so I'm very Comfortable!!
Thanks, great review. Since this thing is a "Swamp Cooler" and not an Air Conditioner (A/C) I don't understand why they have not been hit with a false advertising charge. I remember a window mounted swamp cooler in my childhood that worked well for the living room, but then the usual humidity in the area is low and swamp coolers will work better in low humidity.
Thank you! You saved a lot of people from making a horrible purchase. Just bought a regular window AC unit a bit just over the price of that Chill”Not”Well unit. They are bunch of scammers saying it will cool any room….yeah right!
Yep, a window unit for my garage is what I was looking into before I stumbled upon an ad for this. I was putting in my address on their site and thought “let me see if anyone has made any reviews” THANK GOODNESS lol. Back to picking out which Window Unit i’d like haha
Not mitt to cool a House
I just saw the ad for this machine and thought it sounded so nice and amazing. Im so glad i saw your review instead of wasting $90
I have a product the Blaux classic desktop AC - looks identical to this one, I got three for $100. The only difference is mine doesn't take ice cubes, you take a thick sponge, soak it with cold water, inserted into the unit along with the special ice tray. It really only works if you have it right next to your face while you're sleeping. I use it, but there's so much faults advertising. It's ridiculous! Thanks for doing this test.
Love the way you present the explanation and comparisons. You saved a few people $$$$
Haha thank you sir. I thought you might not be able to resist. Find it interesting how they say this has "revolutionized" the AC industry. Yet again like many products there seems to be more fluff than facts.
I can see some instances where they provide cooling (when in a climate controlled room), but they are definitely not replacements for air conditioning.
@@Jeffreviews4u which defeats the purpose for which they are advertised. Cool a 95° room in only minutes without a controlled air environment. It's a no go for me. I will stick to my AC (for now).
What's really good about these USB swamp coolers, is that they can run off of a portable cell phone charging battery. I used to do that at where I worker because my work station was away from any outlets. On medium to low, it would last almost five hours. So, just buy a nice sized portable battery for charging us devices and you can have you space cooler anywhere
Also you have to once in awhile check behind where the filter sits in because that can actually fill up with water and spill over. The way they designed it though is you turn off the mist when that happens, when the water gets high enough and what will happen is, much like with the first Arctic air that used to paper filter that Drew the water up into it, you can just run the fan on this one with that filter soaked, and it will put out cool air as water drains out of the filter container
They sell these at Big Lots for 28.95$. I was thinking of getting one to set on my night stand for when I sleep. I already have central AC in my home. But wanted to set it at 78 and turn this on hoping to get back down to 73. Not going to waste 30$ on something that is going to make my room damp. I keep computer stuff in here. Last thing I want is one of these running in my PC room.
Dude. You just got ripped off $100. It’s just a $6 cheap plastic box with a small fan blowing humid air. Maybe drops the room temperature by a couple degrees but in reality the room is going to feel more hot and stuffy with all the humidity it’s creating. Thanks for posting that as I was seriously considering buying one.
I was looking at these and thinking about buying them for the upstairs bedrooms and the playroom, but I don't think I'm going to. Big swamp coolers do a decent job, but we've had enough portable swamp coolers to know they don't really work, and if you live where it's humid, they don't work at all. We've lived where it's humid and where it's dry, and we've experienced swamp coolers in both places, and this is just a waste of money. I'm really glad I saw this review! I think you've saved a lot of people a lot of time, frustration, and definitely money. Thanks for your honest and really in-depth review! 3:20
while they don’t necessarily cool down an entire room, they do cool my small office space very well. it’s certainly not a substitute for AC but it works very well in tandem if you like it cooler than most
Thanks Jeff, I was thinking about get one of this junk, your honest review save me hundred bucks, shame to those UA-camr who receive money to do fake review - all read script didn't even show how the device runs.
Thank you for the review. You just saved this lady money. YOU ROCK!!!
Finally… A legit, non-marketing review!
Thank you for the honest review. Well done!
I live in my RV in the High Desert. Who would have thought that living in a metal box in the desert would be a bad idea? ;)
With 100+ degree F average temperatures outside, the ac in my rig struggles to keep the living space comfortable and often fails to reduce the inside temps. under 90 F (outside 110).
I wonder about the quality of the product. Is it going to last more than one season? If it falls off the counter will it survive?
After watching your review, I don't think those questions matter as the unit doesn't look like it is anywhere near what it is advertised as.
You expect some exaggeration, but they claim up to 12 hours use on a charge whereas you experienced maybe 3 on the lowest setting. If they can't be honest enough to at least be close to reality in their advertising, I'd rather not do business with them.
You have saved me much time and stress. Thanks again, Jeff.
Thanks jeff you saved our money. Hi from Turkey!
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Thank you for this review. Yours is the only one I found that wasn’t connected to the company that produces that.
One thing i noticed upon googling the reviews from tons of people they are almost always sponsored. Then none of them tell you how many degrees of coolness its supposed to lower the temps. Not mentioned!
Thanks for the honest review, other reviews were definitely placed by the company itself. Hopefully people do their due diligence before buying.
PAHAHAHAHA watching your video sparked a childhood memory. Back in the '60's, vehicles were not made with an A/C. We had a Chevy Impala & my dad put in the backseat a hard plastic box that had a fan inside & a place to put ice. It ran on batteries. That was our A/C. Hmmmmm 🤔 new invention 😆
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I can't say if the device works or not because I never got mine. I ordered online from the official site and received an email two days later saying that it had been shipped. My credit card was charged of course. The tracking showed that the label had been created but UPS had not yet received the package. After 16 days and two phone calls to customer service, I asked for a refund and am still waiting. The customer service rep told me that some shipments via UPS do get 'hung up' and cannot be found. Then why don't they change their shipper? I also found their online site horrible to use. It kept hanging up and would not move forward until I had clicked on additional items which I did not want. I like to check the total before I finally place my order, but the order went through first with no way to cancel when I found that I had ordered additional items that I did not want. Another minus is that the cooling cartidges have to be replaced every 1 -3 months, and they cost almost as much as the unit with its 50% off. Bottom line - the web site needs redesigning. The customer service reps are pleasant, but we should not have to keep calling them. They need to use another shipper.
Because of your review of this product I’ve decided to purchase thank you so much for your video
Normally, I hear just the opposite - lol. Let me know what you think when you get it. Thanks for stopping by and commenting 👍
I almost bought the 4 pack
Thanks for the review
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They r ok ., it’s just a mini swamp cooler., if u place it on ur desk 2 feet from your face u will feel cool air that is all …
Yes, it's important to have realistic expectations of what you're getting. Definitely not a room air conditioner. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment 🙂
Thank you for the honesty 🙏
Absolutely! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment 🙂
Thank you Jeff. Your test and info has a great value,
I'm glad I stumbled upon your review of this product before I purchased it. I am a rural letter carrier driving around in those HOT mail trucks and wad looking for someway to cool it down this summer, but I guess just like the little fans that you wear around the neck, ir the air that's being sucked into it is not cool it's not going to help cool me down..:-(
I have been ripped off so many times by products advertised on Yotube that I refuse to be scammed again - and it really is just another scam.
It definitely doesn't work as described. Thanks for stopping by and commenting 👍
God bless you! The inventor/company must’ve paid google a lot of money because I read trust something reviews n honest something reviews n all good n kept scrolling n scrolling n all good reviews, FROM REVIEWING COMPANIES, not real ppl. I finally came across your reviews. Thank God I did because I was about to purchase 4 for my mom’s apt for each room. Smh. Thank you Lord for getting me to your video/review. NOPE, not buying. The hassle for my elderly mother (I live in another state) to return these….smh
This is the main reason I run this channel...I have purchased many of those too good to be true products and was disappointed. Happy to help! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment 🙂
THEY ARE TOTAL GARBAGE. 📵👎👎👎👎👎👎
Misting? Lol yeah that’s a great idea. Let’s do it maximize the humidity so we can grow some mold in our house.
Thanks, Jeff...
Excellent review! 🙂
Remember that God loves you Jeff! ❤️
I alsi think that this unit is overpriced...😮
Looking for cooling for my van, which I use camping. Don't think I will buy. Thanks.
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sadly i just ordered it. retired and live in an rv, was hoping to cut my cost. guess ill be going through hassle of returning
Thanks brother just saved me some dough
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Good work. This video saved me $90 lol.
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these work, but only in dry, low humidity climates
This was a great PSA! Thanks for saving me 💰!
Even the manufacturers are careful not to refer to it as an 'air conditioner', simply 'AC'. This stands for air cooler in this instance.
I think it stands for portable AndCrap
Hi, I bought a chillwell portable air cooler about a month, not hard to use boyght I left on charge was red and lid up green, and did not come on, not the ligh up lights, How to fix it?
Thanks for the honest review. Wont be buying this for sure
Thank you so much for this review!
I thought there was more to it than that. I can build my own for a fraction of the price.
thanks saved me money
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I wonder if you can put dry ice in it?
Great vid jeff !
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These are ok for personal coolers. They are too small to cool an entire you, but they keep me cool enough.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience!
@@art47430 I didn’t expect an air conditioner regardless of what they said. No coolant. But for me, in 110 degree heat right now, that 60-70 degree breeze it imparts is freaking heaven when my ac is set to 87. And my ac is set to 87 to avoid $200-$400 power bills every month. At 87, my bill is about $150. So for me, and what I need it to do, it works. It cuts between $50-$250 a month and that is worth the $50 I spent.
In your case anything is better than nothing.
But it's an expensive way.
Try a primitive and ultra cheap $2 hand fan and use the rest of that $97 for cold beer 🍺🍻 and soda and steaks should do the same thing to enjoy the summer.
Thx Jeff.. good video, you saved me some money
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Thank you for saving me the $100.
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thanks
I bought my Chillwell before I seen the review and I just have it next to me while I sleep blowing into my box fan and every night I refreeze the filter and refill but the first week after I bought it this weird brownish stuff started to stain the plastic on the vents and inside the filter holder. Not sure what it is and it can be cleaned off but for the most part its stuck on there and keeps coming back is it mold? Or what
Got my Chillwell today. After fully charging it and following the instructions, it didn't work. It kept shutting off after 2 seconds... I want a refund...
Darn it I dismantled my central air unit and sealed it up removed the concrete pad after buying 4 of these believing overkill was better for my 5 000 Sq foot home I'm in deep doo daa
Buy a bucket or tradh can fill with ice! & cut a hole in top of the lid! Buy a small or medium fan cut hole on lid so fan can sit on top of it blowing Air onto ice in bucket! Of course plug in fan. Oh! Buy small plastic tube to cut holes in trash can or bucket push plastic pipe on side of trash can/ bucket! fir ventilation!!!* trash can at bottom has a plug can open up to drain ice/ water after it melts! Home made A/C!•● videos for similar products....
Need a good one Jeff
it looks like a copy of the 30 $ artic air with a 85 $ price(In my country) useless!
But thk for saving our money❤
No buy! Tnx for this review
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Thanks for the review. You saved me a ton of money by not making a purchase.
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A laser thermometer it’s a lot more accurate for air
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it is a $100 fan !
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Great review!!! I really wanted to buy it but my husband said it would be garbage and you proved it! Thank you!!!!!
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Of course it's garbage. Hell you can make something like this with a 10 dollar fan and a styrofoam cooler from a gas station and frozen water in a 2 litter bottle.
Yes, for sure. It is a glorified Styrofoam cooler with the exact same so called advanced technology (!!) at 9 times that price. Smells like a scam to me. If I have to place ice and cold water in front of a fan that this one does, I can do the same by placing a small portable fan behind a tray of ice and get about the same effect without spending a hundred bucks.
Its a septic tank, and this guy seems so proud to inhale it all day.
G A R B A GE !!!
One of the most helpful reviews I've ever watched. Thank you Jeff!
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God bless you Jeff!!! Thank you for great job!👍👍👍
I was considering this for a power-outage emergency to run off a battery pack as you have shown. After watching your video it became apparent that it misses the mark for my intended use. Thanks you for your review and saving me $$. I'm subscribing to your channel. Good job!
I purchased a much larger item similar to this. Its a floor unit that holds near 3 gallons of water. Now i will say for those smaller units like the one in this review. They are all mostly just junk. The only way these smaller units are of any use at all are situational. Ideally if you have it parked on top of you. The other major factor in how well these kind of items like the one in this review work are based on current humidty levels where you are using the device. If you live somewhere that has high humidity. None of these devices are going to work as they claim what so ever. Now back to the floor unit i mentioned... The bigger floor type units do work. The one i bought was around $200. Seeing i live in California humidity is almost always below 40%. Making the unit do very well. I also bought a dehumidifier to run that actually feeds even drier air to the unit. Thus boosting its efficiancy. But again as i mentioned... Humidity is the deciding factor. If you live somewhere thats prone to high humidity avoid any kind of product like this as you are just waisting your $$$
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Hey Jeff. Your review was spot on!! I ordered the product but it is not worth the money. At least they offer a 60-day money-back return but also said that if I kept the product, they would give it to me at half the price. Unfortunately, I will be sending it back. I wish I had researched reviews before purchasing, but it's all good.
Thank you, Jeff! Finally an honest review on this rip off P.O.C. I is amazing that this company is allowed to make the claims that they do when this device does absolutely nothing. I had the Arctic Air and it was completely useless. Good to know that this is basically the same thing.
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Thanks for the review was going to buy saved me a good deal of money.
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You are absolutely amazing sir! Thank you so much for your help and time. I greatly appreciate your review. You saved me. They almost got me.
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well they got me, I read this after I bought the stupid thing 😟
Thank you for this...they almost got me
@@ezraana1 Same!! Never again!
Excellent presentation, well put to the point! Realistically I believe the best portable air conditioner is the Esky type one. Which is basically a portable ice cooler box with a fan on the top lid to suck the cool ice air out into the room! Try that for a review as it would be dripless & no mess.
I have it by my bed at night, I love it! I bought it at Goodwill for $3.00. I had 2 before this one came out, they all worked great. But I would never buy it for 90.00. You can't bet the price at Goodwill specials.
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Great review, as honest as the day is long. Many thanks for saving me the heartbreak of buying this cheap piece of crap. Have a great day!
This thing sucks if it doesn't work they won't take ur money back n it doesn't work
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Hey man, what a super review on this piece of junk, I was actually going to buy one of these. I don't think this thing would cool a 4x4 closet Thanks Jeff
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Good thing I saw this. No wonder ChillWell gives you a 50% discount when you buy 4. It probably takes 4 just to cool down one room 😂
So basically get a bowl of ice cubes and run a fan behind it and save 90 bucks
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@@Jeffreviews4u thanks for the review the only portable a/c units that work are the dual hose units that are pretty expensive
I've used those in the past, and you're right, they are expensive.
I just found this one new for $5 in a thrift store and ill say for what I paid its pretty cool 😂 sorry 😅, jokes aside it works well having it aside in my desk meanwhile working in a hot day, ill just be careful and put a plate underneath. Thanks for the review!
Would it cool a small one man tent camping off grid
Thanks. Great demonstration. I'm glad I searched up some reviews. I was about to buy a 3-pack of these little suckers to supplement our AC (kids' rooms on the south side of the house still get much warmer than the rest of the house). You saved me more than $200!
Thanks Jeff! Another definite no buy...
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I considered buying the Arctic Air for years, and more recently the Chill Well (after seeing their ad). Thanks for saving me money with your review. Based on your review I see the machines are based on a method people used to cool their homes prior to AC, which my grandfather told me about. He recounted that there used to be ice houses, which he described as barns that stored large blocks of ice cut from lakes and ponds, with straw packed between the blocks, and also straw between the blocks and the walls of the barn. The straw acted as insulation and prevented the blocks from sticking to each other. During the summer months you would go to the ice house (or buy ice from an ice house), chop up the ice and direct a fan to blow air across the ice into the room. As I recall it described, the ice was put in a container that the fans air could pass through, something like a small slotted laundry basket, with a pan underneath to catch the water from the melting ice. My grandfather said this effectively cooled small rooms. The Arctic Air and Chill Well have more bells and whistles, but it appears they do not have sufficient volume or area of ice water in front of the fan to actually cool.
i actually did that and used a fan to blow ice through a mesh container with a cooler beneath the ice to catch the water and it is very effective.
@@blueoverlord7276 it would be effective in dry climates. But, in Houston or New Orleans it would be trash!
People still use swamp coolers to cool their homes. We had a BreezeAir when I lived in Western Colorado. It really cooled the house well. The thing is, they only work in a dry climate.
You mean the genius kid who invented this in his college wasn't so genius after all?
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these things are horrible. for the last 5 years I can't believe they get away with their false advertising. Also it puts humidity in the air too.
I bought one before I saw this video. Good review. I would not recommend this product. If you are right in front of it it is ok .
I agree. If you are in front of it you will get a cool breeze but it's definitely not a room air conditioner. Thanks for stopping by and commenting 👍
Yes, you are correct. Fortunately, for me it works for me as a quick cooling down "Moment " as I relax in my recliner, & CW about 2ft away facing me.🥶
The design would work much better if there was something like a length of pvc in a box you fill with ice with a fan at one end, there would be much more surface area for heat to be exchanged.
I also think an insulated reservoir would be helpful so the water/ice could stay cooler longer. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. 😃
@@Jeffreviews4u very true! It seems not a whole lot of effort was put into designing this thing!
@@stephenzavatski8016 sounds like you can design a better one 🤷🏽♀️😁
Congrats you have invented the frozen block in front of the fan trick . The 1920's salutes you for bringing it back to mainstream attention.
@@dorraefrazier8632 sure does😂
The Arctic air pure chill and the chillwell are basically the same. There is another one called arctos. It is just like the Arctic air pure chill. They are all USB powered. And it is said that you can use any USB block. The ChillWell is the only battery operated. There is a neck unit called Artic Air Freedom. I like your reviews.
You're right Kaye... The added humidity this unit provides only adds to your misery..
Finally, a real person, thanks
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Thank-you Jeff for just saving me $168 of my hard earned money. You Rock!!
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This thing is not worth $10 dollar's , it could not keep a 4x4 room cool, don't wast your money....
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@@Jeffreviews4u I bought 2 of them , what a joke.... One leaked and one would run out of water in 15 min.... The joke was on me.....
It's not a new technology the way they advertise it it's a swamp cooler or evaporative cooler I wouldn't buy that crap to save my life I used to have one of those free-standing ones on wheels you wake up in the middle of the night either hot and sticky or if it gets colder in the night cold and clammy and everything's covered in d e w your house the way they advertise it in the commercials with the proprietary technology none of that's going on it's a full lie I think you should mention that as well I watched the commercial where the quote unquote student invented it and get kicked out of school there's no proprietary technology inside that thing it's a swamp cooler another revamp jip
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Thank you for your honest review . I wish I had seen your video before I bought it. It’s a waste of money & a total scam. This is just a personal fan.
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A GLORIFIED FAN😁
I will not go to war with china for stupid products. my camping cooler hooked to a fan would do better. this video helped me not buy one. great video.
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My new chillwell won’t stay running. I turn it on and all the lights and it goes right back off immediately! Can you help me
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It would probably work great in Siberia?
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You think 100 bucks is expensive. In UK similar Junk is being sold at nearly £180, nearer to 3 times what you guys pay for "Junk"! That makes us Brits far more gullible than you guys lol!
I open my door at night while watching TV allowing cooler air into my home during really hot days. Also by darkening a room during the day will help reduce heat inside. Then use an ordinary fan to keep you cool.
I'm in UK but have lived in many REALLY HOT countries and the current heat-wave was uh like everyday temperatures to me. I hardly need to cool down. Just drink plenty of non-alcoholic fluids to keep hydrated.
At night if you're suffering, try wetting a Tea Towel and laying it on your Torso with a fan on. Don't knock-It until you try it as it works!
Thanks for sharing the tips!
Soooooooo basically it's a scam. Might as well be $19.99. Thank for the video. Saved me some $$$$.
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Bought two. Pitiful. Hated them. Am in Dallas, Tx. Didn’t do much of anything. You were right on and all the hype on all sites is B.S. Scam indeed !! Ugh
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Thanks for the great review of the Chillwell portable AC product.
I subscribed immediately to your site.
I'll be back.
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I'm subscribing to your channel now. Awesome review. Thanks! Product es no bueno!
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Thank you, your review was great ,to much trouble for me ,thanks I don't need all that dripping mess,getting ice ,buying batteries, heck no😫 😝🥵
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