It's a modern day swamp cooler. They work great when there is zero humidity. If you are in a humid climate it will just move the humidity around. Arizona "WOW", Florida "I want a refund".
Yep... I tried explaining that to someone a few years ago, and they must have been young, because they didn't understand that humidity makes a swamp cooler useless. I have to give them credit, though... After a bit of research they came back and apologized for being so rude. 😁 I'm from south Louisiana, so I have just a bit of experience with humidity.
@@elpinshimay4270 That's not how physics works. Hot/warm air is lighter than cool air. The cool air sinks, forcing the warmer air up and out through the window.
Those "AC units" are actually mini swamp cooler, so they work best with dry air. get a portable dehumidifier run it for 15 minutes and CLOSE VENT ZIPS to keep more of the humid outside air out. Then the swamp cooler will truly be worth your money. - A Southern
@UCzCLyQ3Bz68jWuq5l-ovrIA Swamp cooler work by cooling the air through evaporation, much like we do through sweating. For it to work best there needs to be less humidity. if it's too humid (like it the this video) the air will reach the dew point faster and the cooler will be less effective if not completely useless. I've use a mini swamp cooler like this in the Texas desert and the temperature drop from 104°f to 78ish°f in our small camper.
Something about watching these type of videos, allows me to humble myself beyond measures. It also reminds me of how much of a free spirit I truly am deep down, but continue to let the measures of society scare me off from truly being free and doing what I want to do.
Woah there brother, got a lot going on in that comment there ! Sounds like you need a change of pace mah man! The only thing in life that SHOULD be holding you back or keep you clocking in day in and day out 24/7 365 is taking care of your kids and their mother/s but once they're all grown and outa the pad you did your job ! Time to live your life how you imagine yourself , what kind of life do you. Find yourself day dreaming about ? Do it buddy before you're to old and full of regret , we only got 1 life , this is it boys !! Don't waste it trying to keep up with everyone else or that nagging nothings ever good enough soon to be ex wife !!! Good luck buddy!
@@TylerGibsonMusic it doesn’t take long maybe an hr or two and it’ thawed out. Yet, the water stay cool for I want to say 3-4 hrs. So on a good day 5 hrs. Then you can just keep wetting it with water only and it will be cooler than the air around you. It’s not going to cool a huge room. But a small space like bathrooms or RV rooms it’s perfect idea if you ask me. Yet, who am I?!. I don’t run the ac in my apartment that much anyways. I’ve have seen my electric bill as low as $15 a month. Mater fact that’s what my electric bill was last month! I have lab top and phones but no tv not microwave. I do have a stove and with 4 eyes on it that I use to cook my food that is fully electric.but no more than I use it to cook a meal or two every day at most. I don’t mind sacrificing is what I’m saying. So my word might not be the same as someone else’s that wants or needs MORE!
@@TylerGibsonMusic I will say this its cheaply made so you can’t go throwing this thing around or it will break. The only thing I hate about mine is that I have to wet it all the time. You can get a box fan sit it on the concrete and wet the concrete and do the same thing. We use to do this with the shop fan in the shop on hot days. Just wet the ground and sit a fan in front of it. The air will be cooler than without the water from the humidity!
Actually soup is great in hot weather. Especially for people like me from the Caribbean. On some of the hottest days we might eat a soup, after the soup your body is so warm that it makes outside feel like nice and cool. Might be tricking your brain but it works
@@chrisb3437 I'm more into savoury flavours too. Interestingly, kidneys are searching for salt when they process liquids. People think that salt causes dehydration but without it, our kidneys would fail.
I like how this guy makes mistakes and as I’m watching , it’s pretty cool to see someone going through the motions just to do better next time. Much respect.
@Kelvin Guerrero I've heard that moisture is bad for RV's & campers. Since this increases the moisture in the air, I wonder if it would be an issue possibly causing mold, mildew issues.
Evap coolers only work well in dry climates - I'd save that for your trips to the SW. My recommendation would be to set up a fan near the door to exhaust the hot air out, and have another window cracked as a passive intake if you're consistently hotter inside vs outside. Keep trucking!
Yeah, I live in Dixie, and they're absolute garbage here. People still buy them and those "Arctic Chill" hats thinking they're going to be freezing or something.
Yep! I went through 2 of them in Birmingham, AL where we drip humidity. I read up on 'swamp coolers', much bigger versions of these, and all articles say they work great where the air is very dry. I also started smelling something off with the second one - the thick filter was forming mold!!!!
I've seen tons of reviews for this cooler, and finally someone actually tested it in a small room instead of just testing it by standing in front of it.
my brother gave me the exact same swamp cooler it does cool down the room but it's not going to make your room super cold as it's not an AC and sense it's a swamp cooler it will not work if it's too humid in your room I recommend using it with a fan
This was a horrible review. If you know the physics behind it, it won't work in a humid environment no matter what because no water can evaporate into saturated air. This was a very poor use case and it even says on the box, hot dry air goes in, cool moist air comes out.
That's because it's meant for you to be in front of it, not room cooling. Though you can do that too if you position the airflow properly and live in a low humidity area.
Hey Mav, you already have a hatch on the ceiling, just install one of those Fantastic fans there. They pull out the hot air from the top of the camper. According to others those can work miracles.
I have an AC up there on my camper . One of those and a couple of solar panels , you're in business . One 100AH batterie will run it all night in the desert , and what power your panels don't supply to recharge , your alternator will while you are driving .
@@inmyopinion6836 100AH @12V is not sufficient to run a rooftop AC unit. Most of them are 13.5BTU and pull 14A @120V. That battery would last only minutes.. If your inverter could even handle the 25A start up load of the compressor.. Doubtful.
Hey buddy, From experience with that exact “AC unit” the only way that you will feel true cold air blowing out of it, is only when I filled it with freezing cold water that I bucketed when I was in South Dakota last fall. I found that, Unless you have a Freon based system, you wont find anything other, to cool your badass camper brother. Not trying to be a negative Nancy just trying to give you a bit of experience advice is all 👍🏼 your the man to this day keep on truckin 🤘🏼
Technology Connections has a really cool video (no pun intended) on why portable ACs don't work. It's an online scam that has gone on far longer than it should have :(
Those coolers totally work... As long as it's placed directly in front of your face! I love the car! First New Beetle i can honestly call cool. Can't believe I never thought to use jerky in soup/stew before!
I bought one of those last year, and you're supposed to wet the filter, and then put in the freezer to get cold before you install it and fill the reservoir with water and turn the unit on. But your way is fine too, .. if you want warmer air. Lol.
@@viewermc9128 Except it isn't zero dollars. It takes power to freeze the ice. Doing that is less energy efficient then simply running an A/C. These things are stupid. Wet your face and sit in front of a fan. Same thing, actually better because you didn't waste your money on this.
Mav, the cooler you got is more for the Southwest. In Arizona, my extended family refers to them as swamp coolers because they use moisture to cool the hot, dry air, but if you're in an area with as much greenery as there, it's almost assuredly moist air already, which means you're really just adding humidity. Imagine putting a damp towel over a fan, that's what you've got. Perhaps a better alternative is a window AC unit that fits in your vent and you can pack away safely when traveling/not in use. It'll be more costly, but far more effective.
I'm sorry, I'm calling bullshit...I'm in central Texas on a river, humidity high as hell, and mine is a freaking LIFESAVER! 😉 Speaking from total personal experiences, believe me, it's way better that NOT having one. Have y'all ever even tried one?
@@riverratrvr9225 I have one and could not feel any difference. I even tried putting ice in it and it was not any cooler. It was basically like a regular fan that didn't blow very hard. It was loud too. Glad it works for you though.
It's such a refreshing change to watch videos made by someone who is so nice and polite to others as you are. In all of your videos you introduce yourself and offer to share your food with strangers which is so rare these days. If you haven't traveled down south to Arkansas, Missouri or Oklahoma, you should! We have beautiful lakes, rivers, camp grounds and hiking trails for your videos. Keep setting a good example for others and as you say Keep on trucking!
The back suspension on that bug is sagging pretty good. might wanna look into some heavy duty springs or struts to better handle the camper weight. Keep up the good work sir!
The best AC we ever devised for a smaller hot living room was a large styrofoam cooler full of ice on a high wall shelf with a hole punched through each side and a mini shop-vac pushing air through the cooler out at you. Yeah, we had to keep draining water and filling the cooler with new ice, but as long as there's electricity, your fridge can make ice. I remember my great uncle had an actual "Ice Box" refrigerator in the early 1960's that was cooled by big block of ice and not an electric compressor. Back then the Ice House was an important local supplier of cool before Norge, Coldspot, and Frigidaire came along.
I remember going to the "ice house" w/my grandparents to get blocks of ice. They would put it in super heavy paper bags for easy carrying, that was back in early-mid 60's. Thx for bringing that memory back.
@@basilioalvarez2013 That old Ice House is still there. They just no longer are open to the public. They supply bag and block ice to those ice freezers in supermarkets. Basillo, remember the outdoor Ice Freezers out in front of liquor and convenience stores? I think they all got moved inside. Having them outside was such a stupid idea wasting so much electricity to keep ice frozen in 100ª heat.
We had an ice box for a while when I was a kid. I remember the ice man tromping upstairs to above the ice block in the bottom of the box. Mother always mopped up after he was gone. I used to put the card in the front window showing the ice man what size block of ice we wanted. 1949. 😁
Mav, The “air conditioning” unit that you have will never cool your camper unit because the principle that it works on is all wrong for your environment. In Arizona we call those units, “swamp coolers” or just plain, “coolers”. They have a porous belt like inside of a box and it sprays water over the belt. The fan blows the water vapor into the air and it feels cooler because Arizona has extremely low humidity 6%. You have 80% humidity and all your unit is doing is adding more humidity to the air and it just makes you more miserable. A regular air conditioner takes humidity out of the air to help make it cooler. That’s why you see water dripping out the back of the air conditioner. Your system will never work in a humid climate. The co. that made the unit isn’t telling you the whole story about what climates that it will not work in. It is simple physics. If you go to a climate with low humidity your unit may help you out “somewhat”. It will never perform as well as a regular air conditioner unit. The swamp coolers have been around for decades. It is nothing new at all.
Probably what we called, growing up, Water Fans. Big ole honkin things we had to add water to them with a garden hose. It didn't do much but was better than nothing.
The issue with those "space coolers" is they're just glorified swamp coolers. How they work is they use water to cool down the air, but what happens when the air is already full of water because of humidity? That's right, the Arctic Freeze has to work 3x as hard for very little effect, if you have a dry area with no ventilation, then this little machine will work perfectly.
@ChocolateSyrupOverdose If the vessel that holds water for your space cooler can fit ice, then yes that's perfectly fine. You can also leave the filter inside the freezer/fridge so that when it's time for you to go and use it, your filter is already cold. Since the way they work is just blowing a fan across the wick, the filter, that's soaking up the water from the vessel. Just cuts down time on how soon you get the cool air.
@ChocolateSyrupOverdose Depends on the brand, I've gone through three different mfgs. Artic Air could take ice, the other Chinese knockoffs will too. Currently I am using a more expensive one called Evapolar and it works fantastic but the refill hole is too small and it BURNS through water (irony). Isaac is right about the environmental issues - you take this down to Louisiana it ain't gonna help you one bit. You come out to the Majove desert where I live and love to camp - even in the summer, these things make a massive improvement in the quality of your life.
I live in Arizona, a lot of people around here have swamp coolers, myself included, but when it rains and it’s still 90+ outside, they don’t work for shit
They are great when it starts cooling down at night, but during the day they are much like a fan that blows medium when you sit right in front of it. I've got 3 of them. 😹
I use frozen bottles of water on a tray with a fan blowing air through them for my tent. I can't say how many bottles at a time you would need, but start with a couple, and add more until you get the desired effect. You shouldn't need more than 6 at a time. The efficiency will depend on the fan so make sure to have a fan that moves enough air all throughout the space. It will also help a lot when it comes time to heat the space as well.
Thanks for your video and how you are naturally sharing your unique car camping experience. I admire your rig!! I wish someone would create a similar camper for my Camry!!
I have one. Wet and freeze the filter, then add cold water & ice on top. Buy a second filter to swap back and forth when it starts to cool, wet and put them in and out. Add more ice to water. You’ll always be cool.
yeah the problem is mav is trying to cool the entire temperature of his camper. i agree that this works directly for the air blowing on you while you are sleeping but if you are looking to cool something like this that is baking in the sun and bakes on the inside you need a proper unit.
Problem is he is in a very humid state. Even if you could get the air to be cold you would end up drenching everything with water. and making it even more humid. If used in dry heat the moisture evaporates instantly , this causes a more efficient cooling effect. Like sweating.
I bought the same one for my 30ft camper....works better with ice and ONLY for a room. Love love ALL your stuff. Your an inspiration to many others....KEEP ON TRUCKIN
Good attempt with the cooler...I have the same exact one, and use it instead of my house a/c sometimes...but you have to start with really cold water, and the filter works better if frozen. You also have to keep it away from a wall, or it won't pull enough air through. It is just a glorified fan, but those things I mentioned could help in your small space. Good luck, stay safe...
@@guineapiglady2841 he never said to use ice just said to use cold water and stick the filter In the freezer, I stick ice cubes in mine and it’s perfectly fine. As long as you don’t put too much water the ice works in your favor when it melts.
@@Connor.l5165 great idea with the ice. I bought one if these for my campervan Toyota sienna. I have a fridge/freezer USB and 2 will make yogurt cup ice cubes for the mini AC
If it's humid, the way you get the best operation out of it: 1. Use a dehumidifier next to the evaporative cooler intake vent. 2. Use a frozen pack or ice in the reservoir. 3. Freeze the filter before use. 4. Use a fan along with it 5. Vent the area even slightly. If you can put the cooler in front of the vented area, even better especially if it's drier outside. That it cooled that down even a few degrees, even with it being humid outside that's actually pretty good. I know it didn't feel like it, but it did work. A better way to stay cool, when it's humid, is to have a high powered fan, with or without the arctic air. Cooler with it, but with a high powered fan it will help evaporate any moisture inside.
Yes, as I have experimented with a bigger version, using ice water and dehumidifier: the dehumidifier unfortunately releases heat, and it really defeats the purpose.
if you're hooking up a dehumidifier you may as well just install a window AC instead. similar in power consumption and also dehumidifies and cools at the same time.
It's not a swamp cooler. It's a portable air conditioner all ac units use water in thier systems how ever unlike a swamp cooler the filters are enclosed and don't require constant wetting with water every 30 minutes. These portable ones can run for hours before you need to refill the reservoir.
@@mcdtropicalfishandaquarium8993 all ac do not use water it uses refrigerant to cool that portable ac is a swamp cooler it only cools if the humidity is low
@@mcdtropicalfishandaquarium8993 It's not an air conditioner. It's an evaporative cooler. It literally says it on the box. Two completely different technologies. "Swamp Cooler" is another name for an evaporative cooler.
Used one of those back when my houses AC went out during the last Texas heatwave and unless you add ice to it, and I mean a ton of ice, it doesn’t do shit
A little tiny swamp cooler like that will actually make the room hotter. You're not imagining it. As the humidity increases, so does the heat index. So if you increase the indoor humidity and saturate the air, it's going to feel a whole lot hotter. Also, the humidity means that the sweat on your skin can't evapourate, so you run the risk of heat stroke. In short, those tiny coolers are a dangerous gimmick.
@@harryharvey1070 Yes, but this isn't relevant. These kinds of units are too small for anything other than maybe a closet. Too small for any sort of meaningful cooling, and all they do is make the room more humid. Which makes things feel hotter. This is probably even more pronounced in a camper, most of which has issues with condensation.
@@KudzuHaiku Naw, for a small space like that it could work fine in a dry climate. The trick is to manage the air intake. A percentage of the intake for the swamp cooler should be the hot/dry air from outside. AKA put it next to a vent. Evap coolers are the norm in some parts of the country. but if you have more than 25% humidity at noon their kinda garbage.
@@KudzuHaiku If you've never lived in a desert, don't rebut what you've never experienced. "Drier climate' is utterly relevant. And a camper basically is a closet.
The directions state to use a water soaked & FROZEN cartridge, & to put ice cubes into the water reservoir. Were you able to do that? Please retry, & I hope it works better for you.
Undrrachievers!!! Watching this from Memphis TN where it was a chilly 103° today. Humidity is always a given. 😂 My chiller works better in an enclosed room.
Dude. I have the Artic Air. Have used it for 3 years now. I shut up my room/ small camper to use it and fill it with smaller ice cubes and cold water and have it blasting towards me. It is just a little swamp cooler really but mind works great! Happy camping!
There are some really small AC's that work would great for you. When looking at AC's (or heaters) you always want to look at the BTU. For a small cabin, small trailer like you have, what not, anything around 8x8, so even most truck bed campers, 1000-3000BTU are enough. They are rare but they are out there.
I used one in the UK Summer once and it sucked! We get really humid Summers here and they don’t work. They just push humid air around. I even tried ice!!
Had one of these on a remote job in Alaska during August last year. Put blankets around the bottom bunk to make a sweet little cold room. The device worked extremely well! Inside my little room it was 62ish out side it was 90. No humidity though.. makes a big difference.
You can build a swamp cooler for much less. Mav probably has the tools at home to build one. The only drawback is that I don't know how well it would work in a humid environment.
Yup, another UA-camr takes another hit for the team. Don't know if he ever tried one of those electric outlet mini-heaters, but this seems like the same waste of time
Move to the southern New Mexico desert and it’ll work much better. Additionally, you need to have an inlet and outlet vent (one must have a fan) for it to work indoors. Otherwise, you’re just creating a sauna.
Couple of tips for me with those little boxes. Dropping ice in the reservoir, or putting the filter in the freezer. Also , since they draw very little power. You can Daisy Chain like 5 of them together. 👍
That’s a good idea but if they’re $40 a piece. That’s $80 for 2, $120 for 3, $160 for 4, $200 for 5. That’s a lot of money when you could just go get a cheap a/c unit.
1. Probably work in a low humidity area a tiny bit better...but it is just too small and you do not have much in the way of insulation to keep cool air even if it created it. 2. Hot soup was a good choice to cool down. 3. You could probably use a cheap monopod or even walking stick/trekking pole (adjustable) to help support your outdoor food prep surface and stop the bouncing. 4. SHURflo (94-009-10 White Electric Faucet (About $50) is a tiny little sink faucet with built in pump and switch. Easy way to get water compared to hand pump. I had one and it worked Great. 5. FK'n awesome little rig...now all you need is a killer little mini trailer to stow your gear. This was worth the time to watch and ou covered the rigs basics without even talking about them.
Just having the vents open will drop the temperature. An exhaust fan on the ceiling would be very effective. Personal coolers are only meant to be fans that blow slightly cooler air directly in front. They aren't meant to cool any size room.
Put a maxxair fan in that bish and your good to go! Mine has rain sensor,5 forward speeds and reverse for pulling air out, it would actually work good since you have those vents
The heat has to go somewhere. If the unit is in an enclosed space, it's not going to change the temperature. Cool air comes out the front, warm air comes out the back. It's right on the box. You have to vent the warm air coming out the back, out of the camper. ✌️❤️
I am a Texan who has lived in Minnesota over the last three years. It is pretty swampy this summer! Would love to see your car in person. I want to get into the tiny house/van life. Nice video :)
Do you want to be introducing more humidity into your camper when it’s already so damp? I live in New England where it is extremely hot and humid in the summer. We take moisture out of the air using air conditioners and dehumidifiers. I think those swamp coolers are good for desert cooling.
Those are rookie numbers, jk hahaha. Here in Southern California we’re used to 90 degree temps, we get 6 months of hot and 6 months of devils butt crack. It was 105 with 30% humidity.
@@jonb5057 southern Cali is worst place I ever lived. Shitty weather, overcrowded, traffic, overpriced housing. There will be water wars. And earthquakes...
Mav, your best bet would be to find a way to mount a fan directly in front of one of the open vent flaps and drawing cooler air in from outside. Wouldn't do much during the day when the sun is out, but would definitely work at night after the sun has gone down and the outside temperature starts to drop. Speaking from experience, works great in a 5th wheel bedroom that is right above the hitch, so it's a really compact space and it gets like an oven during the day in their, but feels great at night with a fan in the window.
It would be pretty easy to throw a Max Air fan on that roof too. Like super easy. I have one on my van and it's a beast. Just put it on exhaust mode and it sucks fresh air in through all my windows. Lots of speeds and features. It was essential in my build.
Maybe cut a vent in the Floor that has access to dark un heated air space.. combined with a roof vent/fan to pull air... just having moving air.. Those popup shells seem like they'd get hot anyways...
The only thing that “cooler” does is make fan noise, and spray water droplets, which may feel cooler on your hand, due to evaporation, but can’t cool the air temperature.
Not necessarily true, it’s basically a miniature swamp cooler. Here in Arizona a lot of people have swamp coolers and not even AC, they work well at cooling, but only in dry environments. Like 10% humidity or less. And once it gets over 100°F, or if it’s really humid out they don’t work very well
Would have been better if you had it sitting in front of the screen and the rest of them closed bringing in to 67° are to help cool it through the cooler at any rate I don't see how anything that small can cool anything
I lived in southern New Mexico for a couple years out in the desert in a mobile home with no A/C only a big swamp cooler. It worked surprisingly well most of the time. When the weather occasionally got humid, like before a thunderstorm, it didn’t do much.
I know this video is a year old but I just saw it now. This is absolutely the cutest camper I have ever seen. I just love it. I live in the south and the humidity is unbearable. But I felt sorry for your young Minnesota self.
You need to shut down the net-windows entirely and it’ll work. All the cool air run out when it’s open. What it does is take warm air from inside the room and cool it and then keeps on repeating it. It add ice instead of water in cooler, It actually works.
On the other end of this spectrum, if you completely seal your tiny living space and try to use this, it's going to make the air more and more humid until it stops working.
We had a large swamp cooler when I was growing up. It made it humid and 5 feet away you couldn't feel any cool air. Useless pieces of crap no matters what the paperwork said it was supposed to do. We had constant cool water flowing into it. Zero help.
@@mircat28 There are a great number of reasons this could be the case, and unfortunately, the vast majority of them come down to your guardian(s) being cheap and/or not maintaining it.
Definitely clove all the “windows” use duct tape to ensure total closure. soak filter for at least 20 minutes. Fill with some water and ice cubes. My friend used one when her 2 grandkids were having a camp out in the backyard, in 9- degree weather. It did cool the little tent fairly well.
As soon as you said “it’s humid”, that was a hint that this thing was toast. It appears to be an evaporative cooler (swamp cooler), and they only work in dry to extremely dry air. The practice product/idea test series is great, though! Thanks.
“In Minnesota its really humid” Florida: hold my beer. In Florida we call those swamp coolers. Part of feeling cooler is less humidity. Those things make it more humid. What you probably need is a nice exhaust fan in the ceiling of the topper shell to draw the warm air out.
@@alexisbridges4971 no but i live in Florida and Florida is practically a large swamp... the average relative humidity in Florida is: 74% with an average dew point of 62 degrees wheres Minnesota's avg humidity is 70% with an average dew point of 34 degrees the Florida air holds more moisture due to the higher dew point... I guarantee if you take a person from each state and put them in the opposite state they will say Florida is more humid. Theres a reason Florida is listed as a tropical climate... multiple sources list Florida as the most humid state in the US.
@@Super_64 damn bro, never been to Florida, but I can tell you Costa Rica is way hotter, my god, in summer the heat is amazing, specially in the northern part of the country
I live in a 15 passenger van I campered out with solar power in the desert outside Phoenix, AZ. I have an Arctic air tower cooler that I used in the summer. It worked okay but not great. I used the melted ice water from my cooler to put in it and that helped. It was 117+ on some days and over 110 for months it seemed. I ended up covering the top and sides of the van with a tarp that reflected sunlight away and that helped substantially.
It’s fills me with exuberance to see these videos no matter how my day has gone. I will hopefully watch these with my wife and kids one day. Thanks bud for the content you pump out to us all.
Hey Mav, love your setup. As far as the cooler unit goes, what you described in your video is that you fill it with water. I think that is a portable version of a "swamp" cooler or "evaporative" cooler. I live in a very dry desert area, and those are used, and work until we get into our monsoon season. Humidity here is about 14% today and 96 degrees, (6/4/2022). Our summer is just getting started. In monsoon season, (about mid August), the humidity jumps to about 60%, and the evaporative coolers we have here where I live become useless, so most people here just use air conditioners all summer long. In order for your cooler to work more efficiently, you need the air passing through it to be dry. Minnesota weather, I'm told, is VERY humid. If you travel to someplace more arid than Minnesota that little unit might make it bearable enough to sleep when it's hot. If you ever do travel to someplace dryer than Minnesota let me know how that little unit works. Keep livin' the life. I enjoyed the video and the pho' recipe. Be safe out there.
Even with soaking and freezing filter and then filling reservoir with ice and water... Damn thing only cools a little bit. Bought 2 recently and trying to return
@@FurnitureFan I've got a propane fridge in my RV. It costs me about $15 a month to operate and keeps my ice cream frozen solid along with everything else in it. Your right, it's the way to go.
Super excited to watch this one!! Your Mexico series was so amazing!!! I started my own adventure channel too you inspire me!!! Love your videos and your cook ups! ⛺️🌊😊
I'm glad you made this. I was thinking about buying one of thos Arctic Air devices. Not now. It's good to make video reviews for these new products. Good to watch them before you buy anything too.
You need to fill chilled water in it. It's actually not air-conditioning but air-cooler. It uses the coldness from the chilled water to cool the air. Only works until the water is chilled and once water goes back to normal, the air will go back to room temperature as well. The box for misleading purposes does not add this information on the it and gives the impression that it is a unit that cools air by itself like a real aircon. Well for the camper, if you can arrange for hard ice and chilled water, you can buy a bigger air cooler and put hard ice in it with around 3-5 littered of water. The ice will take time to melt giving you atleast and hour or 2 worth of cold air.
An easier/cheaper approach might be ice packs from your cooler in concert with your little fan. One pack on your neck and another on your chest might well get you through nights like these. And, their effect not impacted by humidity. Love your series.
It's a modern day swamp cooler. They work great when there is zero humidity. If you are in a humid climate it will just move the humidity around. Arizona "WOW", Florida "I want a refund".
that’s a big no-go for AZ during monsoon season... during our hottest months, it’s less than worthless here too
@@justjenn83 totally agree
Yep... I tried explaining that to someone a few years ago, and they must have been young, because they didn't understand that humidity makes a swamp cooler useless. I have to give them credit, though... After a bit of research they came back and apologized for being so rude. 😁
I'm from south Louisiana, so I have just a bit of experience with humidity.
The cool air is escaping thru the open window.
@@elpinshimay4270 That's not how physics works. Hot/warm air is lighter than cool air. The cool air sinks, forcing the warmer air up and out through the window.
Those "AC units" are actually mini swamp cooler, so they work best with dry air. get a portable dehumidifier run it for 15 minutes and CLOSE VENT ZIPS to keep more of the humid outside air out. Then the swamp cooler will truly be worth your money.
- A Southern
@UCzCLyQ3Bz68jWuq5l-ovrIA Swamp cooler work by cooling the air through evaporation, much like we do through sweating. For it to work best there needs to be less humidity. if it's too humid (like it the this video) the air will reach the dew point faster and the cooler will be less effective if not completely useless. I've use a mini swamp cooler like this in the Texas desert and the temperature drop from 104°f to 78ish°f in our small camper.
@@Diogenes323 Good to know, thanks, @Diogenes
Dehumidifier is perfect I live in Minnesota and it’s sooo perfect for our humid weather
Me as an NC southerner, agree.
Can confirm. - A New Mexican.
Something about watching these type of videos, allows me to humble myself beyond measures. It also reminds me of how much of a free spirit I truly am deep down, but continue to let the measures of society scare me off from truly being free and doing what I want to do.
Do it. I live in a truck bed camper I gutted and built out into a cedar cabin.
I'm so glad I did but I had so many reservations going in.
Try meth, you'll be doing all kinds of shit you never thought you would, meet people you never would otherwise, geniuses!
No guts no glory. It's actually not as drastic as you might think, cutting off the grid. This phone is my tie to it
Woah there brother, got a lot going on in that comment there ! Sounds like you need a change of pace mah man! The only thing in life that SHOULD be holding you back or keep you clocking in day in and day out 24/7 365 is taking care of your kids and their mother/s but once they're all grown and outa the pad you did your job ! Time to live your life how you imagine yourself , what kind of life do you. Find yourself day dreaming about ? Do it buddy before you're to old and full of regret , we only got 1 life , this is it boys !! Don't waste it trying to keep up with everyone else or that nagging nothings ever good enough soon to be ex wife !!! Good luck buddy!
adding ice cubes to water compartment and soaking + freezing filter made it work SO GOOD for me.
It tell you to freeze it
How long until it melts and stops working like that?
@@TylerGibsonMusic it doesn’t take long maybe an hr or two and it’ thawed out. Yet, the water stay cool for I want to say 3-4 hrs. So on a good day 5 hrs. Then you can just keep wetting it with water only and it will be cooler than the air around you. It’s not going to cool a huge room. But a small space like bathrooms or RV rooms it’s perfect idea if you ask me. Yet, who am I?!. I don’t run the ac in my apartment that much anyways. I’ve have seen my electric bill as low as $15 a month. Mater fact that’s what my electric bill was last month! I have lab top and phones but no tv not microwave. I do have a stove and with 4 eyes on it that I use to cook my food that is fully electric.but no more than I use it to cook a meal or two every day at most. I don’t mind sacrificing is what I’m saying. So my word might not be the same as someone else’s that wants or needs MORE!
@@TylerGibsonMusic I will say this its cheaply made so you can’t go throwing this thing around or it will break. The only thing I hate about mine is that I have to wet it all the time. You can get a box fan sit it on the concrete and wet the concrete and do the same thing. We use to do this with the shop fan in the shop on hot days. Just wet the ground and sit a fan in front of it. The air will be cooler than without the water from the humidity!
For like 2 months then it’s not the best
"its 90* out....Im making soup tonight"
"yeah soup was a bad choice, Im sweating bullets"
Milkkkk was a bad choice
Actually soup is great in hot weather. Especially for people like me from the Caribbean. On some of the hottest days we might eat a soup, after the soup your body is so warm that it makes outside feel like nice and cool. Might be tricking your brain but it works
@@chrisb3437 It works with tea too. ☕
Probably any hot drink would work.
@@Squidgy55 yup hot liquids do the job. I personally prefer something salty, not a huge sweets fan. But it works either way
@@chrisb3437 I'm more into savoury flavours too.
Interestingly, kidneys are searching for salt when they process liquids.
People think that salt causes dehydration but without it, our kidneys would fail.
I like how this guy makes mistakes and as I’m watching , it’s pretty cool to see someone going through the motions just to do better next time. Much respect.
v,s
Facts, Genuine. Agree 💯%
I agree :)
I didn't have a good example of that growing up. It was either "do it right or not at all" :/
@Kelvin Guerrero I've heard that moisture is bad for RV's & campers. Since this increases the moisture in the air, I wonder if it would be an issue possibly causing mold, mildew issues.
I'd add ice in that water
Evap coolers only work well in dry climates - I'd save that for your trips to the SW. My recommendation would be to set up a fan near the door to exhaust the hot air out, and have another window cracked as a passive intake if you're consistently hotter inside vs outside. Keep trucking!
Yeah, I live in Dixie, and they're absolute garbage here. People still buy them and those "Arctic Chill" hats thinking they're going to be freezing or something.
Its a radiation cooler just not big enough plus lack of insulation and temp of water
Yep! I went through 2 of them in Birmingham, AL where we drip humidity. I read up on 'swamp coolers', much bigger versions of these, and all articles say they work great where the air is very dry. I also started smelling something off with the second one - the thick filter was forming mold!!!!
TRUST me in my DRY DRY area, it DOESNT WORK ! For $50 its far from worth it !
They are old time swamp cooler that makes it muggy. Those things are useless.
I've seen tons of reviews for this cooler, and finally someone actually tested it in a small room instead of just testing it by standing in front of it.
my brother gave me the exact same swamp cooler it does cool down the room but it's not going to make your room super cold as it's not an AC and sense it's a swamp cooler it will not work if it's too humid in your room I recommend using it with a fan
bro literally tried to cool an insulated camper with all the windows open xd its not physically possible
This was a horrible review. If you know the physics behind it, it won't work in a humid environment no matter what because no water can evaporate into saturated air. This was a very poor use case and it even says on the box, hot dry air goes in, cool moist air comes out.
That's because it's meant for you to be in front of it, not room cooling. Though you can do that too if you position the airflow properly and live in a low humidity area.
That mexico trip really got to Mav. He's out here making soup on a hot ass day like all my Mexican mama's out there. Ustedes saben
nothing but facts😂
Ustedes do not saben this is not a Mexican thing 😂
🤣💀
Lol 🤣 es verdad
It was 105 yesterday and my mom decided to make caldo de res for lunch, talk about sweating bullets
Hey Mav, you already have a hatch on the ceiling, just install one of those Fantastic fans there. They pull out the hot air from the top of the camper. According to others those can work miracles.
Exhaust fan will do good
I have an AC up there on my camper . One of those and a couple of solar panels , you're in business . One 100AH batterie will run it all night in the desert , and what power your panels don't supply to recharge , your alternator will while you are driving .
But not a Fantastic Fan. Max Air fan, all the way.
@@inmyopinion6836 100AH @12V is not sufficient to run a rooftop AC unit. Most of them are 13.5BTU and pull 14A @120V. That battery would last only minutes.. If your inverter could even handle the 25A start up load of the compressor.. Doubtful.
Recently heard of a slow start device for air conditioners
Hey buddy,
From experience with that exact “AC unit” the only way that you will feel true cold air blowing out of it, is only when I filled it with freezing cold water that I bucketed when I was in South Dakota last fall. I found that, Unless you have a Freon based system, you wont find anything other, to cool your badass camper brother. Not trying to be a negative Nancy just trying to give you a bit of experience advice is all 👍🏼 your the man to this day keep on truckin 🤘🏼
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Well said
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Doesn't work for shit
Technology Connections has a really cool video (no pun intended) on why portable ACs don't work. It's an online scam that has gone on far longer than it should have :(
Those coolers totally work... As long as it's placed directly in front of your face! I love the car! First New Beetle i can honestly call cool. Can't believe I never thought to use jerky in soup/stew before!
I bought one of those last year, and you're supposed to wet the filter, and then put in the freezer to get cold before you install it and fill the reservoir with water and turn the unit on. But your way is fine too, .. if you want warmer air. Lol.
I don't believe you.
@@viewermc9128 Except it isn't zero dollars. It takes power to freeze the ice. Doing that is less energy efficient then simply running an A/C. These things are stupid. Wet your face and sit in front of a fan. Same thing, actually better because you didn't waste your money on this.
🤣BAhahahahah😂🤣😂
Mav, the cooler you got is more for the Southwest. In Arizona, my extended family refers to them as swamp coolers because they use moisture to cool the hot, dry air, but if you're in an area with as much greenery as there, it's almost assuredly moist air already, which means you're really just adding humidity. Imagine putting a damp towel over a fan, that's what you've got.
Perhaps a better alternative is a window AC unit that fits in your vent and you can pack away safely when traveling/not in use. It'll be more costly, but far more effective.
Or you can just close his windows on a camper to keep the cool air in🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣
Jake is right; swamp coolers like this are not made for humid climates. Some of these tips about ice and cold water do sound helpful.
Yeah I use the same artic air in my RV and it works well enough for me.
I'm sorry, I'm calling bullshit...I'm in central Texas on a river, humidity high as hell, and mine is a freaking LIFESAVER! 😉 Speaking from total personal experiences, believe me, it's way better that NOT having one. Have y'all ever even tried one?
@@riverratrvr9225 I have one and could not feel any difference. I even tried putting ice in it and it was not any cooler. It was basically like a regular fan that didn't blow very hard. It was loud too. Glad it works for you though.
It's such a refreshing change to watch videos made by someone who is so nice and polite to others as you are. In all of your videos you introduce yourself and offer to share your food with strangers which is so rare these days. If you haven't traveled down south to Arkansas, Missouri or Oklahoma, you should! We have beautiful lakes, rivers, camp grounds and hiking trails for your videos. Keep setting a good example for others and as you say Keep on trucking!
Agree! There’s a reason why we’re called the natural state!
I could show you some amazing areas on the Ozarks. I love living in Oklahoma
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@@jimiesoteric2417 How is the grand lake of the Cherokee?
Soup is definitely a good choice for a hot summer day. Gets you nice and warm 😂😂🫶🏽
Some gazpacho
this guy is not the smartest in the planet
@@XIAXCI he had the screens open too, how's it supposed to cool down the camper when he's got it work for the whole universe.
The back suspension on that bug is sagging pretty good. might wanna look into some heavy duty springs or struts to better handle the camper weight. Keep up the good work sir!
Coilovers would be perfect and just put the rear on if you can only order the rear.
They make tow springs for that model of VW
@@everyone_knows_itsbutterst7808 Fucking WHY
Maybe he just wants it dirt nasty low
@@dawsondawson2008 aa1aaaa
Mav: It's one of the hottest days of the year
*makes soup*
Good soup
He’s gotta be Hispanic 😂😂
@@juanalfonso7701 Best scene out of the entire series.
The best AC we ever devised for a smaller hot living room was a large styrofoam cooler full of ice on a high wall shelf with a hole punched through each side and a mini shop-vac pushing air through the cooler out at you. Yeah, we had to keep draining water and filling the cooler with new ice, but as long as there's electricity, your fridge can make ice. I remember my great uncle had an actual "Ice Box" refrigerator in the early 1960's that was cooled by big block of ice and not an electric compressor. Back then the Ice House was an important local supplier of cool before Norge, Coldspot, and Frigidaire came along.
Made something similar. Used frozen jugs of water. two at a time. lasted half day prr jug.
I remember going to the "ice house" w/my grandparents to get blocks of ice. They would put it in super heavy paper bags for easy carrying, that was back in early-mid 60's. Thx for bringing that memory back.
@@basilioalvarez2013 That old Ice House is still there. They just no longer are open to the public. They supply bag and block ice to those ice freezers in supermarkets. Basillo, remember the outdoor Ice Freezers out in front of liquor and convenience stores? I think they all got moved inside. Having them outside was such a stupid idea wasting so much electricity to keep ice frozen in 100ª heat.
We had an ice box for a while when I was a kid. I remember the ice man tromping upstairs to above the ice block in the bottom of the box. Mother always mopped up after he was gone. I used to put the card in the front window showing the ice man what size block of ice we wanted. 1949. 😁
Shove, not above.
Know you love the truck, but I have to say, I personally find the cooking segments most enjoyable when performed in the Bugless. Very nice!
Mav,
The “air conditioning” unit that you have will never cool your camper unit because the principle that it works on is all wrong for your environment. In Arizona we call those units, “swamp coolers” or just plain, “coolers”. They have a porous belt like inside of a box and it sprays water over the belt. The fan blows the water vapor into the air and it feels cooler because Arizona has extremely low humidity 6%. You have 80% humidity and all your unit is doing is adding more humidity to the air and it just makes you more miserable. A regular air conditioner takes humidity out of the air to help make it cooler. That’s why you see water dripping out the back of the air conditioner. Your system will never work in a humid climate. The co. that made the unit isn’t telling you the whole story about what climates that it will not work in. It is simple physics. If you go to a climate with low humidity your unit may help you out “somewhat”. It will never perform as well as a regular air conditioner unit.
The swamp coolers have been around for decades. It is nothing new at all.
Probably what we called, growing up, Water Fans. Big ole honkin things we had to add water to them with a garden hose. It didn't do much but was better than nothing.
Only way it would work is if he was able to freeze it
Just what I was going to say, only you said it better.
GET THIS MAN A SHIELD!
First instruction on the box: hot DRY air goes in…not in Minnesota 😂
Mav: "I picked a bad day to wear pants."
Also Mav: "perfect day for hot soup"
This x 100
I was thinking the same thing 😭
It seems counterintuitive but I wonder if it works. Seems a lot of people in very hot places like to eat hot peppers.
Jesus loves you and is with you
Love this comment.
I love it to
The issue with those "space coolers" is they're just glorified swamp coolers. How they work is they use water to cool down the air, but what happens when the air is already full of water because of humidity? That's right, the Arctic Freeze has to work 3x as hard for very little effect, if you have a dry area with no ventilation, then this little machine will work perfectly.
@ChocolateSyrupOverdose If the vessel that holds water for your space cooler can fit ice, then yes that's perfectly fine. You can also leave the filter inside the freezer/fridge so that when it's time for you to go and use it, your filter is already cold. Since the way they work is just blowing a fan across the wick, the filter, that's soaking up the water from the vessel. Just cuts down time on how soon you get the cool air.
@ChocolateSyrupOverdose Depends on the brand, I've gone through three different mfgs. Artic Air could take ice, the other Chinese knockoffs will too. Currently I am using a more expensive one called Evapolar and it works fantastic but the refill hole is too small and it BURNS through water (irony). Isaac is right about the environmental issues - you take this down to Louisiana it ain't gonna help you one bit. You come out to the Majove desert where I live and love to camp - even in the summer, these things make a massive improvement in the quality of your life.
@@isaacgame7304 Never thought about the filter/fridge idea, have to try that.
@@beedubs100 does not work
@@adventureswithwhitney5219 rip.
That cooler box said “enjoy quiet cool air” you can hear that bad boy from outside the car 😂
You'd probably be further ahead to start the car and crank the AC. Those swamp coolers work best in dry environments.
And get small foam cooler get alot of ice and make more ac only problem is ice will melt over time but it works
Dry ice wont melt but it will work
Make a couple of those for cheap and he should be good.
I live in Arizona, a lot of people around here have swamp coolers, myself included, but when it rains and it’s still 90+ outside, they don’t work for shit
That "air conditioner" is a small swamp cooler. That is a KILLER cooker. HUGS from Austin, Texas.
They are great when it starts cooling down at night, but during the day they are much like a fan that blows medium when you sit right in front of it. I've got 3 of them. 😹
I’ve always wanted a bug as a kid and I’m really into car camping as an adult so the fact that you’ve combined both is amazing. I love it!
But that's not a bug
For car camping a bug is a ridiculously tiny option
I use frozen bottles of water on a tray with a fan blowing air through them for my tent. I can't say how many bottles at a time you would need, but start with a couple, and add more until you get the desired effect. You shouldn't need more than 6 at a time. The efficiency will depend on the fan so make sure to have a fan that moves enough air all throughout the space. It will also help a lot when it comes time to heat the space as well.
Add rock salt on top in a bowl for longer lasting also.
I wonder if he used ice instead of water, if it would make a difference 🤔
@@my_flippin_journey No. These things are junk. A handful of ice cubs wouldn't even cool a closet
@@my_flippin_journey Good thinking- Yes, it would be cooler if you filled it with ice water, but it's still putting out really humid air.
@@my_flippin_journey yes it does work with ice!
I love this content
Same
I hate it
@@godhandsver dont watch it
@@ricksanchez5135 I won't
love your life style...
Thanks for your video and how you are naturally sharing your unique car camping experience. I admire your rig!! I wish someone would create a similar camper for my Camry!!
I have one. Wet and freeze the filter, then add cold water & ice on top. Buy a second filter to swap back and forth when it starts to cool, wet and put them in and out. Add more ice to water. You’ll always be cool.
Yes let me freeze my filters as I’m camping 😂😂
@@ryanmitchell9523 you don't use a cooler? I mean even Mav has a fridge/freezer
Angel is right. We did the same when the A/C broke in our office, but not sure that's possible when camping. 😅
yeah the problem is mav is trying to cool the entire temperature of his camper. i agree that this works directly for the air blowing on you while you are sleeping but if you are looking to cool something like this that is baking in the sun and bakes on the inside you need a proper unit.
Problem is he is in a very humid state. Even if you could get the air to be cold you would end up drenching everything with water. and making it even more humid. If used in dry heat the moisture evaporates instantly , this causes a more efficient cooling effect. Like sweating.
“Mav pulls out mega 1 pound bag of jack links beef jerky” Me - “this man must be rich”
this man makin $60k a month off youtube alone
Yup he has over a million subs
He is !
beef jerky hella expensive in the state tho
Hahaha omg I thought the SAME! I never buy the big bags!
I bought the same one for my 30ft camper....works better with ice and ONLY for a room. Love love ALL your stuff. Your an inspiration to many others....KEEP ON TRUCKIN
I have one of these and use it when sorting through my storage unit in the summer. Adding ice helps it a lot.
Good attempt with the cooler...I have the same exact one, and use it instead of my house a/c sometimes...but you have to start with really cold water, and the filter works better if frozen. You also have to keep it away from a wall, or it won't pull enough air through. It is just a glorified fan, but those things I mentioned could help in your small space. Good luck, stay safe...
And then the ice melts.
@@guineapiglady2841 he never said to use ice just said to use cold water and stick the filter In the freezer, I stick ice cubes in mine and it’s perfectly fine. As long as you don’t put too much water the ice works in your favor when it melts.
@@Connor.l5165 I'm talking about the other tiny AC.
Iam just a wondering were you buy a camper like this for the newer Generation vw thanks
@@Connor.l5165 great idea with the ice. I bought one if these for my campervan Toyota sienna. I have a fridge/freezer USB and 2 will make yogurt cup ice cubes for the mini AC
If it's humid, the way you get the best operation out of it:
1. Use a dehumidifier next to the evaporative cooler intake vent.
2. Use a frozen pack or ice in the reservoir.
3. Freeze the filter before use.
4. Use a fan along with it
5. Vent the area even slightly. If you can put the cooler in front of the vented area, even better especially if it's drier outside.
That it cooled that down even a few degrees, even with it being humid outside that's actually pretty good.
I know it didn't feel like it, but it did work.
A better way to stay cool, when it's humid, is to have a high powered fan, with or without the arctic air. Cooler with it, but with a high powered fan it will help evaporate any moisture inside.
Yes, as I have experimented with a bigger version, using ice water and dehumidifier: the dehumidifier unfortunately releases heat, and it really defeats the purpose.
@@todayipaint4667
Yes I noticed that with one that I picked up recently.
That's a neat little set up. I wonder if his power converter is heating up the cab?
if you're hooking up a dehumidifier you may as well just install a window AC instead. similar in power consumption and also dehumidifies and cools at the same time.
I just bought one and she leaks everywhere. Glorified fan as he says imo.
swamp cooler is a good way to get mold and mildew in that camper.
Free food!!!
It's not a swamp cooler. It's a portable air conditioner all ac units use water in thier systems how ever unlike a swamp cooler the filters are enclosed and don't require constant wetting with water every 30 minutes. These portable ones can run for hours before you need to refill the reservoir.
@@mcdtropicalfishandaquarium8993 all ac do not use water it uses refrigerant to cool that portable ac is a swamp cooler it only cools if the humidity is low
@@mcdtropicalfishandaquarium8993 It's not an air conditioner. It's an evaporative cooler. It literally says it on the box. Two completely different technologies. "Swamp Cooler" is another name for an evaporative cooler.
@@mcdtropicalfishandaquarium8993 dude it’s a swamp cooler
Your windows are open and it’s driving me nuts that you’re drawing this conclusion with all your cold air going right back outside
That's basically a miniature swamp cooler, they suck in humid areas. Love your videos and the attempt! Thanks for the awesome content!
Mav: it's hot
Also Mav: makes Hot soup for dinner.
Just giving ya shit, love the content brother!
I was thinking the same 😭
Think he used hot spices..🤔
Get your core temperature up, and it'll feel cool. For example if you take a hot shower then towel off and walk around.
Still has his socks on too...
that exactly what you should be eating when it hot lol it refreshes your body
This man reads, camps, socializes, cooks… he’s the ideal human. He’s what most people strive to be lol
Like Daniel Boone……..mountain man 👍🏼 Lord Jesus, please watch over and protect him
Yall some brown nosers
Settle down
@@ptsdgopedsnbikes8156 You can’t say something nice about someone anymore? Compliments aren’t brown nosing. Nice people compliment people.
I mean, I think most of us that watch him all do the same?
Used one of those back when my houses AC went out during the last Texas heatwave and unless you add ice to it, and I mean a ton of ice, it doesn’t do shit
A little tiny swamp cooler like that will actually make the room hotter. You're not imagining it. As the humidity increases, so does the heat index. So if you increase the indoor humidity and saturate the air, it's going to feel a whole lot hotter. Also, the humidity means that the sweat on your skin can't evapourate, so you run the risk of heat stroke. In short, those tiny coolers are a dangerous gimmick.
They actually work better in dryer climates
@@harryharvey1070 Yes, but this isn't relevant. These kinds of units are too small for anything other than maybe a closet. Too small for any sort of meaningful cooling, and all they do is make the room more humid. Which makes things feel hotter. This is probably even more pronounced in a camper, most of which has issues with condensation.
@@KudzuHaiku Naw, for a small space like that it could work fine in a dry climate. The trick is to manage the air intake. A percentage of the intake for the swamp cooler should be the hot/dry air from outside. AKA put it next to a vent.
Evap coolers are the norm in some parts of the country. but if you have more than 25% humidity at noon their kinda garbage.
Can confirm
@@KudzuHaiku If you've never lived in a desert, don't rebut what you've never experienced. "Drier climate' is utterly relevant. And a camper basically is a closet.
A well thought out plan for camping on the hottest day of the summer. Pants, soup, humidifier and a quilt.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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The directions state to use a water soaked & FROZEN cartridge, & to put ice cubes into the water reservoir. Were you able to do that? Please retry, & I hope it works better for you.
The only time a swamp cooler has worked for me was when the air was dry, if it’s humid it doesn’t work AT ALL
My daughter and I love watching your videos ! She wants to do stuff like this when she is older ! Love watching the adventures! Can’t wait for more !
Pre-video predictions, the lack of airflow will make the camper humid and therefore make the artic air useless.
Spoiler the artic is useless by design, it garbage
artic air is useless in general, it only mists damp air on you, which makes it more humid. Not good for cooling whatsoever
Arctic Air is a genius invention. It does nothing and can sell for a ton of money. Brilliant.
Mini swamp cooler.
Undrrachievers!!! Watching this from Memphis TN where it was a chilly 103° today. Humidity is always a given. 😂 My chiller works better in an enclosed room.
Dude. I have the Artic Air. Have used it for 3 years now. I shut up my room/ small camper to use it and fill it with smaller ice cubes and cold water and have it blasting towards me. It is just a little swamp cooler really but mind works great! Happy camping!
There are some really small AC's that work would great for you. When looking at AC's (or heaters) you always want to look at the BTU. For a small cabin, small trailer like you have, what not, anything around 8x8, so even most truck bed campers, 1000-3000BTU are enough. They are rare but they are out there.
I mean, i dont know how youre expecting it to get colder while having both of your windows open and hot air circulating constantly...
He's obviously not the sharpest tool in the shed!!
was thinking the same thing .. don't know how this cooler works but if u use an "AC" close all of the windows
@@jrambo7495 He’s making around $35K a month on UA-cam so he’s one upon you.
@@HamburgerHelperDeath proof that even a total numb nuts can make decent money!! Good for him!
@@jrambo7495 A dumb nut nick named Rambo can talk a lot of useless crap too
I used one in the UK Summer once and it sucked! We get really humid Summers here and they don’t work. They just push humid air around. I even tried ice!!
You should make a Tacoma build with camper on the back next!
True
Underrated comment
He has enough subs to pull this off.
That would be a good video
Donniedagoat facts bro
These guys are making a killing on that gimmick artic air! Unbelievable.
Yeah like these don’t even work but people are just to lazy to return it or just have a placebo effect
Evaporative coolers work great in super hot dry areas but to so much in humidity. In near 0% humidity that thing may have a chance
@@jakerogers6562 exactly, it says right on the box DRY AIR into cool air.
The “VW” on the side of the camper needs to be replaced with “MAV”. Gotta find an A somewhere and just flip the w over
thats genius
@Timothy Mckee mavw
Mavwrick
The w sands for wambo
@@qwertykeyboard5901 wambo. Hahaha
Had one of these on a remote job in Alaska during August last year. Put blankets around the bottom bunk to make a sweet little cold room. The device worked extremely well! Inside my little room it was 62ish out side it was 90. No humidity though.. makes a big difference.
"Hottest day in Minnesota almost 90 degrees" makes soup..
Love the vids man keep on keepin on.. safe travels
Thanks Mav for wasting $90 bucks on one of those room coolers so we didn’t have to. Appreciate it.
You can build a swamp cooler for much less. Mav probably has the tools at home to build one. The only drawback is that I don't know how well it would work in a humid environment.
Yup, another UA-camr takes another hit for the team.
Don't know if he ever tried one of those electric outlet mini-heaters, but this seems like the same waste of time
They actually do work, it just has strict conditions under which it will.
what? It costs $90 ?? I could get something like that for like $15
I understand how unusual it for 90's way up in Duluth. But that is why we put up with 6-8 months of winter. Also, thank you for calling it Frolf !
Dam I would take 6-8 months of winter instead of 6-8 months of summer we get here in So California
What is Frolfing????. 😁
@@clarebrant5305 frisbe golfing where i’m from!
@@kcck7588 Aha..... Thank you. 😁
We have 12 months of summer down here in south Texas lol
Move to the southern New Mexico desert and it’ll work much better. Additionally, you need to have an inlet and outlet vent (one must have a fan) for it to work indoors. Otherwise, you’re just creating a sauna.
Mav: "I dont know about you southern people but its humid and feels super hot"
Southern People: **FLORIDA HAS ENTERED THE ROOM**
I was thinking the same. NC raised. It was humid.
@@CobCeo I grew up in NC state my teen years but live in FL now but was born here as well... It do be hot
Its Hot n Humid here in TN too 🥵
And...Philadelphia is in here sweating with you😓😓
here in louisiana 89 feels like 109 never get a break 🤦🏼♂️
Couple of tips for me with those little boxes. Dropping ice in the reservoir, or putting the filter in the freezer. Also , since they draw very little power. You can Daisy Chain like 5 of them together. 👍
That’s a good idea but if they’re $40 a piece. That’s $80 for 2, $120 for 3, $160 for 4, $200 for 5. That’s a lot of money when you could just go get a cheap a/c unit.
Well, if you already got a freezer, why not just leave the door open and put your small fan in there? (wink, wink)
Crazy how I’ve seen this around town but never in 1 million years would’ve thought he had a UA-cam channel
1. Probably work in a low humidity area a tiny bit better...but it is just too small and you do not have much in the way of insulation to keep cool air even if it created it. 2. Hot soup was a good choice to cool down. 3. You could probably use a cheap monopod or even walking stick/trekking pole (adjustable) to help support your outdoor food prep surface and stop the bouncing. 4. SHURflo (94-009-10 White Electric Faucet (About $50) is a tiny little sink faucet with built in pump and switch. Easy way to get water compared to hand pump. I had one and it worked Great. 5. FK'n awesome little rig...now all you need is a killer little mini trailer to stow your gear. This was worth the time to watch and ou covered the rigs basics without even talking about them.
Just having the vents open will drop the temperature. An exhaust fan on the ceiling would be very effective. Personal coolers are only meant to be fans that blow slightly cooler air directly in front. They aren't meant to cool any size room.
I agree with Exhaust fan looks like you already have a spot in the roof to put it.
Put a maxxair fan in that bish and your good to go! Mine has rain sensor,5 forward speeds and reverse for pulling air out, it would actually work good since you have those vents
The heat has to go somewhere. If the unit is in an enclosed space, it's not going to change the temperature. Cool air comes out the front, warm air comes out the back. It's right on the box. You have to vent the warm air coming out the back, out of the camper.
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I am a Texan who has lived in Minnesota over the last three years. It is pretty swampy this summer! Would love to see your car in person. I want to get into the tiny house/van life. Nice video :)
You’re crazy for eating spicy hot foods and hot soup in a hot camper. 😂💗
Do you want to be introducing more humidity into your camper when it’s already so damp? I live in New England where it is extremely hot and humid in the summer. We take moisture out of the air using air conditioners and dehumidifiers. I think those swamp coolers are good for desert cooling.
Back here in WA, we were getting record temps of 110 in July, and by by now we're at 65 in the mornings until 10 AM and man it feels nice.
Those are rookie numbers, jk hahaha. Here in Southern California we’re used to 90 degree temps, we get 6 months of hot and 6 months of devils butt crack. It was 105 with 30% humidity.
In Elk Washington on the north east side of the Evergreen state, we have FORTY degree evenings regularly now. Booyah! Loving it!
@@jonb5057 southern Cali is worst place I ever lived. Shitty weather, overcrowded, traffic, overpriced housing. There will be water wars. And earthquakes...
Mav: "I picked a bad day to wear pants."
Me: yep. that needs to be on a shirt so I can wear it.
I can get that done by tomorrow.
@@FabiusMaximus1000 i'll take 5 please
@@FabiusMaximus1000 that would be lit
Mav, your best bet would be to find a way to mount a fan directly in front of one of the open vent flaps and drawing cooler air in from outside. Wouldn't do much during the day when the sun is out, but would definitely work at night after the sun has gone down and the outside temperature starts to drop. Speaking from experience, works great in a 5th wheel bedroom that is right above the hitch, so it's a really compact space and it gets like an oven during the day in their, but feels great at night with a fan in the window.
It would be pretty easy to throw a Max Air fan on that roof too. Like super easy. I have one on my van and it's a beast. Just put it on exhaust mode and it sucks fresh air in through all my windows. Lots of speeds and features. It was essential in my build.
Maybe cut a vent in the Floor that has access to dark un heated air space.. combined with a roof vent/fan to pull air... just having moving air.. Those popup shells seem like they'd get hot anyways...
😮I knew as soon as you picked that thing up you were in trouble 😮
The only thing that “cooler” does is make fan noise, and spray water droplets, which may feel cooler on your hand, due to evaporation, but can’t cool the air temperature.
Not necessarily true, it’s basically a miniature swamp cooler. Here in Arizona a lot of people have swamp coolers and not even AC, they work well at cooling, but only in dry environments. Like 10% humidity or less. And once it gets over 100°F, or if it’s really humid out they don’t work very well
Your right! I have one and it does not work as advertised...
Would have been better if you had it sitting in front of the screen and the rest of them closed bringing in to 67° are to help cool it through the cooler at any rate I don't see how anything that small can cool anything
I bet you're suppose to use cold water , and the water he's got contained is probably lukewarm
@@HeadbangMushroom nah google evaporative cooling - thats the concept here. Tiny droplets should evaporate easily, cooling the air.
I lived in southern New Mexico for a couple years out in the desert in a mobile home with no A/C only a big swamp cooler. It worked surprisingly well most of the time. When the weather occasionally got humid, like before a thunderstorm, it didn’t do much.
Honestly I’d eat anything he fixes it’s very satisfying to watch him cook
Me too, he’s so handsome
I know this video is a year old but I just saw it now. This is absolutely the cutest camper I have ever seen. I just love it. I live in the south and the humidity is unbearable. But I felt sorry for your young Minnesota self.
Goes to try out swamp cooler because it’s too hot, drags boiling soup into the camper.
Yep mav love videos like this where you try new things out. Kinda like Steve Wallis does too, super entertaining
A Mav x Steve Wallis video would be one heck of a crossover.
You need to shut down the net-windows entirely and it’ll work. All the cool air run out when it’s open. What it does is take warm air from inside the room and cool it and then keeps on repeating it. It add ice instead of water in cooler, It actually works.
On the other end of this spectrum, if you completely seal your tiny living space and try to use this, it's going to make the air more and more humid until it stops working.
We had a large swamp cooler when I was growing up. It made it humid and 5 feet away you couldn't feel any cool air. Useless pieces of crap no matters what the paperwork said it was supposed to do. We had constant cool water flowing into it. Zero help.
In a dry environment they work well...
@@mircat28 There are a great number of reasons this could be the case, and unfortunately, the vast majority of them come down to your guardian(s) being cheap and/or not maintaining it.
Definitely clove all the “windows” use duct tape to ensure total closure. soak filter for at least 20 minutes. Fill with some water and ice cubes. My friend used one when her 2 grandkids were having a camp out in the backyard, in 9- degree weather. It did cool the little tent fairly well.
I am just amazed seeing that camper on top of a VW.
Thanks for the review
I’m in Texas and I’ve camped in pretty warm temperatures, usually the most effective thing has been quality fans, I have a few that I take with me.
Yes!! Me too, fans save lives, lol
You should make a cook book with all your recipes and meals you made
I would so buy that… thought about camping in my Prius a coupe times and the first thing I’ve thought about was… “what would I cook?”
As soon as you said “it’s humid”, that was a hint that this thing was toast. It appears to be an evaporative cooler (swamp cooler), and they only work in dry to extremely dry air. The practice product/idea test series is great, though! Thanks.
You need 70% ice and 30 freeezing cold water
No way man, I'm in central Texas and mine is a lifesaver. We're all humidity here 😉
@@maxsjoberg788 any water will work! Have y'all ever even tried this thing??? Damn!
@@riverratrvr9225 central texas gang
I think you need to pump ambient air into the space to have the cooling effect
You have to freeze the thing which say pre soak with water trust me it work a lot better after that
It's a swamp cooler, cools by rasing the humidity only works to "cool" if the area you are in is extremely dry heat, like Colorado or Arizona
Explains why my one was shit here in NZ
Those suck in CO too haha. Real AC or nothing
A mini portacool lol
Love my swamp cooler for May/June in AZ. Cools my house into the 60s for pennies. Now, my AC bill last month...yeah.
Yeah its a waste of money, ice cubes help a little bit. But not for the humidity, better off with a fan
“In Minnesota its really humid”
Florida: hold my beer.
In Florida we call those swamp coolers. Part of feeling cooler is less humidity. Those things make it more humid.
What you probably need is a nice exhaust fan in the ceiling of the topper shell to draw the warm air out.
have u ever even been to min?
@@alexisbridges4971 no but i live in Florida and Florida is practically a large swamp... the average relative humidity in Florida is: 74% with an average dew point of 62 degrees wheres Minnesota's avg humidity is 70% with an average dew point of 34 degrees
the Florida air holds more moisture due to the higher dew point... I guarantee if you take a person from each state and put them in the opposite state they will say Florida is more humid.
Theres a reason Florida is listed as a tropical climate... multiple sources list Florida as the most humid state in the US.
@@Super_64 damn bro, never been to Florida, but I can tell you Costa Rica is way hotter, my god, in summer the heat is amazing, specially in the northern part of the country
@@josuedixon_ not to be rude but there was no mention of Costa Rica at all for this video or these posts.
@@Super_64 I know bro, just wanted to let you know there can be hotter places than others, it's okay bro
I live in a 15 passenger van I campered out with solar power in the desert outside Phoenix, AZ. I have an Arctic air tower cooler that I used in the summer. It worked okay but not great. I used the melted ice water from my cooler to put in it and that helped. It was 117+ on some days and over 110 for months it seemed. I ended up covering the top and sides of the van with a tarp that reflected sunlight away and that helped substantially.
reflectix works better. also remove the fan cage to make them alot more powerful
Wow! I don’t really know what to say about the camper but good to know about the Arctic air thing.
It’s fills me with exuberance to see these videos no matter how my day has gone. I will hopefully watch these with my wife and kids one day. Thanks bud for the content you pump out to us all.
Hey Mav, love your setup. As far as the cooler unit goes, what you described in your video is that you fill it with water. I think that is a portable version of a "swamp" cooler or "evaporative" cooler. I live in a very dry desert area, and those are used, and work until we get into our monsoon season. Humidity here is about 14% today and 96 degrees, (6/4/2022). Our summer is just getting started. In monsoon season, (about mid August), the humidity jumps to about 60%, and the evaporative coolers we have here where I live become useless, so most people here just use air conditioners all summer long. In order for your cooler to work more efficiently, you need the air passing through it to be dry. Minnesota weather, I'm told, is VERY humid. If you travel to someplace more arid than Minnesota that little unit might make it bearable enough to sleep when it's hot. If you ever do travel to someplace dryer than Minnesota let me know how that little unit works. Keep livin' the life. I enjoyed the video and the pho' recipe. Be safe out there.
You have to freeze the filter and put ice cubes in the water! Trust me it makes a HUGE difference!!
Sure.
He can just use the freezer in the VW's glovebox.
Even with soaking and freezing filter and then filling reservoir with ice and water... Damn thing only cools a little bit. Bought 2 recently and trying to return
Convenience stores sell bags of ice cubes, he really needs a freezer.
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I've got a propane fridge in my RV.
It costs me about $15 a month to operate and keeps my ice cream frozen solid along with everything else in it.
Your right, it's the way to go.
First time seeing your videos, love the concept of the car/camper! So cool!
Super excited to watch this one!! Your Mexico series was so amazing!!! I started my own adventure channel too you inspire me!!! Love your videos and your cook ups! ⛺️🌊😊
@@kaylee.f yes I agree!!!
96% humidity and a real feel of 106 here boss man we know exactly what you’re talking about down south 😂❤️😂
Thats chill.. Been over 110 degrees all week here boss.
@@cdeezy2718 Where at? What's the humidity?
I'm glad you made this. I was thinking about buying one of thos Arctic Air devices. Not now. It's good to make video reviews for these new products. Good to watch them before you buy anything too.
You need to fill chilled water in it. It's actually not air-conditioning but air-cooler. It uses the coldness from the chilled water to cool the air. Only works until the water is chilled and once water goes back to normal, the air will go back to room temperature as well. The box for misleading purposes does not add this information on the it and gives the impression that it is a unit that cools air by itself like a real aircon. Well for the camper, if you can arrange for hard ice and chilled water, you can buy a bigger air cooler and put hard ice in it with around 3-5 littered of water. The ice will take time to melt giving you atleast and hour or 2 worth of cold air.
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Mav is playing rust IRL
How is he playing rust
@@itworked2818 yeah I have no idea lmao
@@DutchVannDerLinde yea like what??????
WHO ARE YOU?
Rust is a video game, everyone lmaooo
An easier/cheaper approach might be ice packs from your cooler in concert with your little fan. One pack on your neck and another on your chest might well get you through nights like these. And, their effect not impacted by humidity. Love your series.