Honeywell 300 CFM Indoor Portable Evaporative Cooler, Fan & Humidifier with Detachable Tank, Carbon Dust Filter & Remote Control, Silver/Gray

9 reviews for Honeywell 300 CFM Indoor Portable Evaporative Cooler, Fan & Humidifier with Detachable Tank, Carbon Dust Filter & Remote Control, Silver/Gray

1. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Chile’ – July 15, 2024

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   Enfria mi habitación durante las noches y días calurosos, logra bajar la temperatura de la recamara permitiendo dormir tranquilo y fresco, es un poco ruidoso pero te acostumbras.
   This air cooler is great ,it lower the temperature in the room, its powerful but little noisy. I can sleep better and fresher during hot nights.

2. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   mkulap – July 23, 2024

   Love it

3. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   英國著數網購優惠 UKJetso – August 6, 2024

   Excelente equipo, de muy buena calidad, enfria el aire, lo tengo en un departamento ubicado en el último piso me da un muy buen servicio, lo he utilizado en nivel de baja y media potencia, dispone de un filtro que absorbe olores, además es de fácil mantenimiento, comparado con productos que venden en el mercado nacional supera su calidad. No es un equipo de aire acondicionado, pero se acerca.

4. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Emmanuel M. – August 13, 2024

   The product is okay. It is used in the living room

5. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Serge Kuzin – August 20, 2024

   We got this for pop up trailer camping. This is just great, we can put it at one end of the camper and it blows cool air across the room. You can’t really air condition a popup so this was the next best in our opinion. Noise level is minimal, you do hear water trickling. It actually sort of nice, like you’re by a creek. We live in Southern state where the humidity is pretty high, yet it still works just fine for us. We don’t expect this to be an air conditioner but my observation (and thermometer gauge) clocks about 10 degree difference from air coming in and out of the unit. The closer you sit to it the better it cools you. Again, inside a popup camper, this works great just about everywhere. You need to open all the windows for best air flow. Very easy on power, I use Kill-a-watt meter and at low speed it pulls 70 watts and on high it will pull 90 Watts, this is perfect to use when you’re on camper deep cycle battery power and still would like some cooling inside the pop up camper. We use it as a regular fan as well, but evaporative cooling is definitely great on it. You can put ice inside the water tub for better cooling (just be careful with the water pump and water level gauge as they drop inside the water tank and you don’t want anything obstructing them). Water pump swings on a hinge and you have to be careful not to damage it when you open the water holding tank compartment. I wish the water compartment was insulated like a cooler, so the ice would stay there for longer, but alas it’s still a great little swamp cooler.

6. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Choe Gu-Sung – September 10, 2024

   I recently moved into a new apartment. Although it did not face the sun, it still got unbearably warm in the afternoon and retained that heat throughout the evening. Fans did surprisingly little to make my nights tolerable and my only other choice – unless I cared to break the building’s rules by sneaking in a portable air conditioner – was to have a window-mounted AC unit installed. For this slice of civility, I would need to pay more than $1,500 over the duration of my lease.

   For some people, that might be a worthwhile expense. However, it just made me feel like the money in my wallet would evaporate along with the heat. Since a third fan would not likely accomplish what the first two could not, I looked around for swamp coolers. The fact that they function less well in high humidity was dispiriting, but I decided to take the risk and buy this unit. After using it for a month – and because I did not see many reviews from others using it in humid environments like Hawaii – I feel confident writing a review.

   PROS
   – Makes temperatures bearable (in certain conditions)
   – Significantly cheaper than air conditioning

   To make sure I could properly assess how well the unit functioned, I bought a humidity and temperature monitor. I used this model (ThermoPro TP55 Digital Hygrometer Indoor Thermometer Humidity Gauge with Jumbo Touchscreen and Backlight Temperature Humidity Monitor) and strongly suggest that anyone considering a swamp cooler buy a humidity monitor for reasons I will discuss below. For the week before my unit arrived, my bedroom’s average temperature was in the upper 80s with humidity hovering around 50%.

   When I first used the cooler, I placed the thermometer in front of the air outlet and the temperature dropped to 80 ºF and the humidity rose to around 60%. This was more than enough to be able to sleep comfortably and even get under a blanket because it got too cold. Great! What a change from sleeping in the buff.

   The instructions recommend keeping a window AND door open to let the humidity escape, but I prefer to keep the door semi-closed for a bit of privacy. This traps the moist air and increases the humidity to around 65%. When I wake up in the morning, the air coming from the unit feels only slightly cooler than air blown by a fan. This has been further corroborated by my experience when the ambient humidity (i.e. without the swamp cooler running) is around that figure. In such conditions, the cooler functions as little more than a fan.

   For this reason, I think it is critical to have realistic expectations of what this unit will do. If your room’s humidity is significantly more than 50%, I would not recommend this product. This also means that you must be okay with not getting value from the unit on days that are unusually humid, which may be the very days you would most want to cool yourself down. Furthermore, it is important to remember that this will NOT cool an entire room. It must face a person or a bed.

   Of course, this unit has benefits that might outweigh its drawbacks. Hawaii has the nation’s highest electricity prices, which makes operating an AC unit – even sparingly – a painful experience for those on tight budgets. The more you pay for electricity, the more attractive this unit becomes. Since it only requires tap water and does not draw more power than a 100-watt lightbulb, it is also a much more environmentally friendly option than air conditioning.

   CONS
   – Loud
   – Bright lights

   Even on the lowest setting, the unit’s fan is both strong and loud. When I run it on low during the day with my windows open, I can just barely make it out over the sound of the nearby freeway. On high, it competes with the loudness of the nighttime freeway itself. At night, this does not particularly bother me since I sleep with ear plugs, but it might bother someone who is a light sleeper or has trouble getting to sleep in anything other than total silence. I wish the unit were a bit quieter, but I feel like I would have to spend twice as much to get a product that does that.

   The unit’s front has a series of intense blue lights to indicate fan speed, cooling, whether it is on a timer, and oscillation. Unfortunately, this only adds to the swarm of other things in my room the emit light when I am trying to sleep. I wish the manufacturer had included an opaque slide I could put over the lights to block them at night or had positioned there somewhere else so it would not face me while I am in bed.

   CONSIDERATIONS
   – Requires daily refilling
   – Heavy
   – Maintenance

   Using the unit on its highest setting overnight depletes the water tank. I could get two days of use on medium or low. In either case, however, I end up refilling the unit daily. This does not bother me since my bedroom is only a few steps away from my bathroom, but it is an extra minute or two that one must add to their routine.

   I separate the tank from the top half containing the fan when I refill the unit. However, filling it up all the way makes the entire thing surprisingly heavy. This may not make the swamp cooler a good fit for the elderly or those with disabilities. Moreover, it is impossible to tilt the unit and wheel it around. The tray that you are supposed to use to fill the unit opens and lets water escape. Whose bright idea was it to not include a latch or something?

   The instructions recommend performing monthly maintenance on the unit. I have not gotten around to doing that, but when I pour out the old water I do sometimes notice that it is slightly dirty – almost like lightly used mop water. This is because it is pushing air through a curtain of water that captures a lot of dust and other particulates that are floating around. Gross, but if it were not in the water, I would be breathing it in just the same. At any rate, I will update this review when I get around to cleaning the unit, but people considering buying it should be aware that it requires more maintenance than a traditional air conditioner.

7. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Emmanuel M. – September 17, 2024

   I saw me from the Heatwave last summer!

8. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Michael Redo – September 23, 2024

   First off, this is not a substitute for an air conditioner. I purchased this unit because my office is on the top floor and in winter, because heat rises, in the afternoon, the office becomes a static electricity charged oven. This unit sits by my desk and works perfectly to cool the area around me and also provide some much needed moisture. This will not work well in humid environments, nor will it replace a/c to cool an entire room, but for my purposes, it works perfectly.

   If you overfill it, it will leak – don’t ask me how I know. That was only because I didn’t understand the first time I used it how the fill indicator worked. Have had no other problems with leaking since then (and I’ve had it a few months).

   The only thing I wish is that it actually had a lower setting. On low, the fan is still quite strong and quite loud. Minor thing to me when the rest works so well.

9. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Chile’ – October 1, 2024

   I wasn’t sure if this unit was going to work in my house because I already use a Mastercool swamp cooler as the cooling system. Regardless of what room I put this unit in, it’s going to lower the temperature at least 10° even when the swamp cooler is running on high. As you can see in the photo, I put it next to a fan to help circulate the cool air even more. I do the same when I move it in to the bedroom during the evenings. I’m very happy with my purchase…