Arctic Air Pure Chill 2.0 Evaporative Air Cooler by Ontel - Powerful, Quiet, Lightweight and Portable Space Cooler with Hydro-Chill Technology For Bedroom, Office, Living Room & More,Blue

I bought this in 2022 when I was living in an about 200 square foot studio. I put ice in the tray, froze the filter and it did not cool me off at all. At least, no more than my fan at the time. BUT, that was because I was using the item under the wrong expectations. I needed an AC to beat the heat wave and the high humidity. I packed this away and bought an AC on Facebook Marketplace for $50. Fast forward to 2024, and I am now in love with this thing! I'm in a new apartment that's basically in the attic. We're currently in the midst of another heat wave. I have my AC running full blast, but there are areas where they just don't have a wide range of affect. Which unfortunately consists of my bedroom. Enter this baby! I once again froze the filter and added in some ice water and am enjoying the cool breeze blowing directly into my face. I have this right next to the head of my bed and it makes all the difference. It is important to note that this is not the only fan in my room. I have 2 more on the left and right hand side of my bed, so I get a nice circulation going. The Artic Air is not the primary reason I no longer overheat at night or wake up sweaty. What it is, is a good cog in the machine. It is a great PROXIMITY cooler. I think if you want to get the most bang for your buck, you need to measure how well it will cool like a 1-2ft area. For me, I just needed it to cool my head and pillow. I've had another mini fan in the same place I now have the Artic Cooler. The Artic Cooler is better. I've used the cup of ice in front of said mini fan. The Artic Cooler is more efficient. It's compact. It's easy to clean. I can easily move it to my work desk. It's handling the current 86 humidity tonight. For $40, this thing is worth it. But it's worth it to effectively cool that 1 to 2 feet area. Please note I am using this with conjunction of: +2 ACs in the Living Room on Full Blast -(My Living Room is about 10ft away in a straight hallway) +2 Fans on the Left and Right Hand side of my bed. Also running on Full Blast The Artic Air Cooler was the missing piece of the puzzle I needed to keep myself cool. It will not cool a room on its own. It just picks up the slack while your actual AC and/or Fan does the heavy lifting. If you want to purchase this item, you need to have a good expectation of what it can do. And I hope my review puts it's quality into perspective.

scroll to bottom for UPDATE! a lot of work for a nice breeze (not for a bedroom sized space) but it will cool you off when faced directly in your direction. airflow vents for up and down do work well. you can see the air mist shooting out of the machine on a hot day. as far as portability , you need an outlet USB port and A to C cable. so it needs to be consistently plugged in. would be great if you could just charge it. works without “ice/water” as a normal fan but not worth using without the cold water or ice cubes in the water, at that point you’re probably better off with an ordinary fan. it gets loud on “full speed” but fan speed 3 and “chill” mode 2 isn’t too loud and does provide cool air. the filter needs to be cleaned after each use just running through cold water and for the best results put the filter in the freezer too (in my opinion not worth the time for the little bit of extra cold air). but needs to be cleaned regardless. it’s alot lighter in weight than i thought and smaller dimension wise but one tray of ice cubes will fit into the top with a little bit of water and will be melted down to ice water within 45 mins and provide a cool breeze when faced in your direction. been using for 2 weeks in a hot work space almost running 24 hours a day and it’s still holding up however one of the vent blades has broken somehow and just faces downward with no sign of how or where it broke .. for the price and size it will be useful for the right condition i gave 3 stars because the vent blades simply breaking out of no where. also i have to stack it on a few boxes to be high enough in the air to reach me. i think the more expensive ones are worth it if your looking for something to keep you cool not break easily so worked for 28 days and the. simply stopped and wouldn’t turn on all the way and would get extremely hot near the plug in port . so i sent it back for a much better one at the same price just didn’t have a filter and is twice the size. i shouldn’t of even given it 1 star but it did its job for 28 days but i would advise not wasting your money on this , theres several other better ones in the same price range !!

While this does work a little bit, it doesn't work the greatest. I followed the instructions on the instruction manual as it said to do. But, I just didn't see a difference in the temperature with this. I soaked the blue cartridge in water and put it in the freezer overnight to give it the best chance to work, but after 5 minutes of the air cooler running, it pretty much unthawed itself. While I did have it running on high and it was 90*F outside and it being 85*F in my small bedroom (a 15' x 20' room, with just a regular fan in it) it did feel cool with me being no more than 3-5 feet in front of it, but not by much. I also noticed that for a full tank of water in the tank that it is able to run with water for about 6ish hours before the water tank empties itself. I also cannot stress this enough that you MUST put this on a plate or a bucket lid (I used a square ice cream bucket lid and it did just fine) of some sort as it leaks water really badly and will easily leave a water puddle and water rings on the surface you have this on.

I bought the Arctic Air Pure Chill 2.0 hoping for a little extra relief during the summer, and overall I'm very happy with it. This is a **personal air cooler**, not an air conditioner. It won't cool an entire room, but it does a nice job if it's sitting on your desk, nightstand, or right beside you. I noticed the coolest air when I used a **soaked or frozen cooling cartridge.**The air is definitely more refreshing than using a regular fan. The only thing that frustrated me was finding the cooling cartridge drawer. It's located on the front of the unit, but it isn't labeled. A simple label would make cleaning and replacing the cartridge much easier. I also like that it's compact, fairly quiet, has multiple fan speeds, and uses very little electricity. Keep in mind that you'll need to refill the water tank regularly, especially on the higher fan settings. Like other evaporative coolers, it works best for personal cooling rather than lowering the temperature of an entire room. Overall, I'd give it 4 out of 5 stars. It's a good option if you want a portable cooler for your personal space and have realistic expectations.

Comparing the negative reviews to the positive reviews to my own experience, it's pretty clear that most of the people giving this thing a bad review didn't realize what they were actually buying. This will NOT air condition your entire house. It's basically just a small fan that blows colder air than a regular fan at you. Like regular fans, that means will not cool off your entire house or apartment, but it will keep the area in front of it cool. And it's amazing! We put it on the ottoman in front of the couch while watching tv, and having a regular floor fan behind us with this thing in front was way cooling, much better than the fan by itself. It's not going to replace an actual air conditioner on a super hot day, but it's got just enough cooling power to be really helpful if you can't use an a/c (maybe because you live in an apartment and technically aren't allowed to have one, or you can't afford to buy one because yiiiiikes they're expensive). But it's really helpful for if a fan just isn't enough to cool you down. Also because of its small size, I find I prefer using it to fans when it's a little cooler out. Sometimes fans are obnoxious, they're loud, they blow things over, but this little thing doesn't have the blowing power to knock all your papers off your desk like a big floor fan does. I like to just have it on the ottoman blowing on my propped-up feet. It's supreme. I see some people complaining about how you can't turn the lights off, but you can. You need to keep hitting the light button, you have to cycle through all the light options but there's an "off" option at the end of them. The lights that indicate what settings are on don't turn off, but they're really minor - like, they aren't really bright. I especially like that this thing is small enough that it won't be hard to store somewhere in winter when it presumably won't be needed, unlike those big oscillating fans which are awkward to find a place for. Cons: On the highest settings it's kind of noisy, but it's a steady noise level so it's easy to learn to tune out and turn the tv volume up over. Also the plug for it gets EXTREMELY hot after it's been on. I don't think it's necessarily a fire hazard, but I would give it a few minutes after you turn it off before you unplug it from the wall. All in all, if you know what to expect from this little guy, you will really enjoy it and appreciate it. Don't go into this thinking it's a $35 air conditioner that will put your entire home into the arctic circle. It will give a nice cold blast to the area about 6 feet in front of it, which cools more efficiently than a fan but isn't as effective as an actual air conditioner. This guy is an air *cooler*. Side note: You're encouraged to put ice cubes in the fill thing, and it can take an entire tray of ice cubes to fill it up! Edit: One year later and it's still great and I am still genuinely baffled by all the negatives. This thing got me through some nearly 100 degree days. It does NOT leak if you use it correctly other than some condensation drips, which iirc it does mention can happen. I really truly do not understand the bad reviews, like people were expecting this thing that's smaller than a CD player to cool their entire homes all day by itself??

I ordered two units for when my AC goes on the blink and they work ok for a small area (which is all I need). The problem is with the instructions. The illustration for the product does show where the Air Direction Tab, the Water Tank, the Power/Fan Speed Button, the Turbo Button, the Cooling Control, and the Light On/Off Button is as well as the Power Adapter and the Cartridge. HOWEVER the very next page of the instructions booklet in item #2 says to “Use the Cartridge Drawer Tab to pull out the cartridge drawer and removed the cartridge. BIG problem, the illustration does not show where that “Tab” is and on the setup page it has a picture that makes it look like it is on the side. Guess What - there is NO TAB ON THE SIDE - EITHER SIDE!!! I called the number on the booklet and the woman that answered said it is at the bottom of the vent on the side (she was looking at the SAME BOOKLET I WAS APPARENTLY. When I told her that there was no tab at the bottom of the vent on the side she wanted to argue with me. She told me to send it back to Amazon or the company could send a “ONE TIME REPLACEMENT” in the most rude voice I ever heard. NOTHING ON THE UNIT IS MARKED AS BEING THE CARTRIDGE DRAWER TAB - NOTHING. So I looked at all aspects of the unit and found out that the ENTIRE BOTTOM EDGE OF THE VENT THAT HAS A LITTLE ENTIRE SHELF AS THE BOTTOM OF THE VENT IS THE SO CALLED “TAB”. Forget about their customer service - apparently they - or at least that one person is not able to communicate effectively about their own product. It would make it easier if the illustration as well as the unit itself labeled that last edge of the vent as being the “tab”. The operation is fairly good, but do not count on anything from that company being illustrated property. Forget about the typographical errors in the narrative of the instructions booklet, I guess they don’t proofread their own instructions.

This product does work as a spritzing fan personal cooler. However, do not expect it to make any room cool when the temps are above say 80°F / 26-27°C. I have a battery powered early 2000s version of this that I take camping to deal with heat of the day heat. However, this version is more efficient than the older design but works exactly the same way. My use was because Refrigerant was low on my Home HVAC and it would be close to 10 days to get the canister of Refrigerant delivered. I froze the cartridge and applied ice to the water tank and even added ice to the upper tray to melt cold water into tank. The result. House temp was 77°F to 79°F that was as low the HVAC could currently cool on a 100°F+ day. The Pure Chill 2.0 has a better fan design than the original version which I do not own but have used before in an office that had one. So, air flow is such that you can place the unit 4-5 foot /122 -152cm away. The effective cooling time is 2 hours max but closer to 1.5 hours before water in tank reaches equilibrium to room temperature. At this point, you have to add ice to tank or turn it off for an hour to freeze the cartridge. The overall room temperature dropped 2°F for a 200 square foot space. If you are in the effective 15-20° arc of the fan, the cooling effect is noticeable and much cooler. The air coming out immediately with new frozen cartridage is around 50°F on a hot day and it climbs to room temperature quickly at a rate of 1°F for every 5 minutes for the first 30-40 minutes before it begins reaching thermal equilibrium. In truth, you will need extra cartridges to maintain advertised cooling where 1 or 2 is in the freezer swapping them out every hour or so. Is Pure chill cost effective over other versions? Not really! My choice for this unit was the fan power as I did not want it running next to me up at 5-6 feet away. Otherwise, I would have bought other versions which have easily accessible replacement cartridges that are super cheap verses these which are ridiculously expensive.

These little units are awesome!!! And please know...for $40 these are not going to cool an entire room. They are more of a desktop, or end table "personal" cooling fan. Add ice and water to the top tray, soak and freeze the bottom insert..turn it on and it actually blows cold air!!! Not punch you in the face cold blast...but our AC went out 2 days ago...its 90 degrees outside and 85 inside and wont be fixed for 2 another day...so YES these little fans are most welcome when Im working at my desk...or even better when Im sleeping. They dont last all night......but thats ok. They are only $40!!!! buy 4 of them...you wont be sorry if you are in need of a little fan that gets cold. They are not loud, at all..and easy to operate.

These Machines are fantastic!! I use it everyday including cool days. I use to own the same model but it stopped working after two years of continuous use, my body overheats a lot so I need things to cool me down and fast. The fan is incredibly powerful (I'm a fan guy lol) I was honestly shocked how powerful it was and the mist comes out very fine so nothing gets wet on the table or on the machine, Some people may say that "it doesn't blow cold air" but when a fan blows air it is automatically cooler. You can't expect it to be an AC unit *THIS IS NOT AN AC UNIT* I never bought it for this purpose thinking it was an AC unit (I have AC's) I bought it so it could cool me down in out of the way spots, from the main AC unit we have and it does just that. Sometimes fall asleep to it being on and when I wake up there's no more water in the tank lol I love putting ice cubes in the water or dipping the filter into water letting it soak, then putting it in the freezer, putting it back in the machine and turning it on, makes it so much colder, you can even put cold objects behind the fan like ice packs and it will increase even more. It's not gonna drop the temperature in a room from 38° down to 30°, it's a personal cooling device meant for one person but it is not for an entire room, maybe for some air circulation but that's about all. I did find the first one I used, the cord stopped charging and even when I used another USB-C's it would not charge anymore, unfortunately the newest one I just bought fell off the table and smashed to pieces 😭 So now I will have to order another one, can't live without it anymore. I would highly recommend these to anybody who have overheating issues at home It's way better than a spray bottle with a fan by a longshot the only thing I would like that it doesn't have is an oscillation option. Gets very cold 🥶 on one spot too long lol

Enfría suficiente Necesita estar conectado , no es de batería recargable

Es personal, si ayuda mucho. Nos gustaron las luces y si se pueden apagar, si nos mandaron el original.

Compré uno y a los 6 meses dejó de funcionar. Contacté a Amazon para que me ayudaran y me enviaron un reemplazo, pero de igual manera a los 6 meses falló. No vuelvo a comprar uno de estos. Es bonito, principalmente por la luz, pero no enfría como describe, y se descompone a los pocos meses de uso.

Es una hibrido de ventilador con humidificador, fuciona bastante bien. refresca y humedece una habitación de 6 x 4 m sin mayor porblema. Por supuesto que no es un clima artificial. Nadie lo esperaria con ese precio