NewAir AF330 Portable Evaporative Swamp Air Cooler with BuiltIn HEPA Air Purifier
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of NewAir AF330 Portable Evaporative Swamp Air Cooler with BuiltIn HEPA Air Purifier
Customer Review: It's just a fan, not a cooler
Summary: 1 Stars
This "Swamp Cooler" is nothing but a fan, with a water container. There is a piece of fabric at the back of cooler which should get soaked in water and cool the air down as it passes through. However, this fabric hardly absorbs water, and it is too thick that does not let the air flow through it. As a result, you have a portable water tank, with a fan that sucks air from openings around this fabric, without cooling it.Customer Review: Just does not work
Summary: 1 Stars
As with other reviewers, this unit provided no cooling for me at all, not even a half a degree, even after running it for hours. The air blowing out of the unit was basically room temperature, never cool. As others have noted, evaporative coolers don't blow air as cold as an AC, but it should be cool. I tried it with cold water from the fridge, the ice tray filled with ice, sitting next to a partially open window (this is needed with evaporative coolers to draw in dry air). I'm in Denver and the air was pretty dry. There are two main reasons I'd guess this unit is ineffective: 1) Quality control at the factory is poor. Some people say it works great, but so many people seem to get no cooling at all in dry climates that I say it's a gamble. 2) Poor design. The size of the filter where air is sucked in is small, no more than 12x14 inches. If you go to a home center and browse the coolers there you'll see that most have quite large intake vents, and the big ones have multiple intake vents (maybe it's in proportion to the power of the fan). Also, this unit has a pad (kind of like a wide belt) that rotates down into the water and up across the intake vent, but it must not be very effective at absorbing water. Most other evap coolers, even the portable kinds, use aspen filters (or similar synthetic filters) and pump the water to the top of the filter so it trickles down and saturates the filter.
I returned it immediately.
Note: Air-n-Water charges a 15% restocking fee even if the cooler doesn't work. Just don't bother.
Customer Review: Just okay
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought it based on the recommendation from my neighbor.
I have it in my living room, but even after operating for long hours it doesn't reduce the heat that well.
I would prefer an air conditioner vs this one.
Customer Review: Manual missing vital info
Summary: 2 Stars
Ah, does anyone know what the lightning symbol inside the gear mean? The manual I found online (no manual in box) doesn't have a description of the panel indicators. Kinda dumb if you ask me.Customer Review: Not exactly what you expect
Summary: 3 Stars
When you get an air conditioner you expect something that works the same like your old electricity wasting product, but without the electricity bills piling up. If you are expecting this to replace it, you are in for a rude awakening. This is not what you expect whatsoever. It works like it says: cool, but is it really as cool as you think? On a scale from 1, being a regular fan, and 10, taking a cold shower, I would most likely give it a 3'ish. I'm not trying to insult the product at all; I am trying to give the best review that I can so that no one falls into the same fate as I have.