Desktop Air Conditioner
by Can You Imagine
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Customer Review: Desktop air conditioner
Summary: 2 Stars
This machine doesn't get cold and and end up just blowing hot are at you.Customer Review: Good idea....Great flop
Summary: 1 Stars
Well fully knowing that the idea of blowing air over ice is a commonly used form of air conditioning i believed this product should in fact do what it is labeled to do, be an air conditioner. Unfortunately, it does not. As well as there being other problems with this that has to be the most important.
It really goes back to the fact that the fan doesn't have enough stength behind it. It can not by any means blow over the ice hard enough to actually cool even the smallest area. Either there needs to be a bigger fan in the engine or just a bigger fan in the first place. Either way it would then push more air over the ice making it work atleast somewhat better.
Another fatel flaw to the design is the air conditioner only comes with one bottle and you can't find a replacement bottle. So after about maybe 2 hours at best, the ice has all melted and you have to stick in back in the freezer until the next day. I at first believe in this product and thought i could get around this problem by using another type of bottle. I tried to use water bottles and gatorade bottles, but both had the same problem. The bottles could not fit into the right place to not block all the air. So without an actual replacement bottle (or actually 12 so you could go through entire day) this system is rather flawed.
My third real problem is more of a complaint and an annoyance. If you use batteries they die within hours so that is obviously not the key. It has the possibility of a plug in on the backside of the unit. Of course that type of plug in, is not included or a common plug in type. So to avoid constantly buying batteries you have to spend about $20 to get the right plug in. So instead of having a $20 air conditioner i have paid $40 and it doesn't really do anything. For that money i could have easily bought a much nicer air conditioner and have had it actually work.
In summary, don't buy this product. If you like it so much, buy a regular fan with a much stronger push behind it and stick a frozen bottled water in front of it. I guarantee it will do better than this product and probally will save you about $30.
Customer Review: Don't Waste Your Money
Summary: 1 Stars
I am going to come right out and say it - this product is a piece of garbage. It does not work. To feel cool air, you would have to place it right up to your face. I was misled by the first couple of reviews and I must admit that I was very gullible. You get cooler air by placing a water bag with ice up to your skin. The battery compartment was hard to open as the short nail seems to have been placed by the manufacturer at an angle. One of the knobs on the side fell right off upon opening. The entire thing is made of cheap plastic. But the biggest downside is, it really does not work as advertised. I am extremely surprised that this is being sold on amazon and I could not even get myself to give it a star but my review would not get posted unless I gave it at least one star!!!Customer Review: Miserable waste of money
Summary: 1 Stars
When you try to open the latch to put the D batteries in, you have no idea what kind of screwdriver to use. The screw holding the latch closed is ridiculously small. I called the company and they said to use the type of screwdriver you would use to repair eyeglasses. So I went out and bought one of those kits. Then when I tried the eyeglass screwdriver on that screw, it STILL did not work. Maybe other people have been able to get that screw out but I sure as h**l could not. And you can't run the stupid thing unless you can put the batteries in.
If I were you I would NOT buy this. It's junk.
Customer Review: Unworthy
Summary: 1 Stars
With summer just around the corner, I had hoped this product could handle cooling the cab of my GEM car. (An electric Neighborhood Electric Vehicle, or NEV.) Mine's a 2-seater, so the cab is very small. I read the other reviews and knew it was a risk, but I bought it anyway. I liked the idea of using a bottle of frozen water as the coolant. What's inadequate is the fan. I believe it would work much better if the fan had some power to it, which it doesn't. So I'm having to come up with some other idea to stay cool on this summer's southern heat.