Enjoy the new scam-buster! Stay cool out there. ❄ Oh! And subscribe and stay tuned because in my next episode I'm visiting the famous Windows XP "Bliss" hill! Tune in on JULY 21! 🔔 UPDATE: I ran the Keystone AC energy test again and it read 1,278 watts-more than shown in the episode (716 watts). I'm not sure if the meter was freaking out earlier, or if the Energy Saver button on the AC did that.
@caspice Жыл бұрын
If you had put ice in the ChillWell, would it had worked better?!.
@Andou_Rena324 Жыл бұрын
Asians like to use the term "Aircon" instead of "AC" or "Air Conditioner". If the ad says "air con", you should think the product is from unreliable company of China. Most of asian countries are learning British style English. Reliable companies in Asia choose proper and familiar words for your country. So...... beware of that.
@jerrykass5913 Жыл бұрын
They have another one of these scam ads saying it was created by a NASA engineer
@theatheisthammer Жыл бұрын
I smell SHITEEEEE😂😂😂😂 I MADE A Aircon out of copper tubes a jug of water and some peltie plates and a water pump and bottle
@rarerubber Жыл бұрын
NICE AWES0ME 🎉✨🎉✨🎉🎉🎎🎭🎎🎭🎎🎭🎗🎗🎗🎗🎗🎗🎗🎑🎑🎑🎑🎑🎑🎑✨🎆
@frankbiz2 ай бұрын
It's sickening how those KZfaq ads can lie through their teeth and KZfaq does nothing about it. Tell the truth about something and they will delete your account.
@mr.giggles499516 күн бұрын
Walmart has been selling millions of them too
@janemba42 Жыл бұрын
While making the Chillwell they forgot the most important part. Making it chill well.
@pauldavison5382 Жыл бұрын
Ba dum tiss!
@tbuk8350 Жыл бұрын
This may be the greatest comment I've ever seen.
@joshua.harazin Жыл бұрын
Chillsorta™
@nix4644 Жыл бұрын
@@pauldavison5382 Good written description of a rim shot.😀
@cartoonhead9222 Жыл бұрын
They forgot the punctuation marks. Chill? Well....
@robcat20759 ай бұрын
Irony... this scam air cooler does a better job of humidfying a room than the scam humidifier I bought.
@frankbartol3196Ай бұрын
Well then the money spent is not wasted.
@josbar2835Ай бұрын
😆🤣
@danrichdrivingandmore5348Ай бұрын
Ha!
@mikekasich83619 күн бұрын
So what happened was ontel made this humidifier sorry air cooler But it didn't sell well so they stopped production and he listed it from their website but they had a massive backlog in the warehouse of all these unsold units So this random Chinese company (We know it's Chinese because they had to use AI to do their English video) probably bought out their entire stock at a huge discount cuz they were trying to get rid of them rebranded as chillwell and sold off all the originally unsold units with this fake video fake story etc Honestly basic business when you're talking about international trade and scammy products
@crowznest43813 күн бұрын
I'd never pay good money for one but if I found one in the trash, that's what I'd use it for.
@camduran3352 Жыл бұрын
I’m SO GLAD someone is finally exposing this! I really don’t know how it is that they’ve been able to legally describe an evap-cooler as “air conditioning.”
@tylerkrug7719 Жыл бұрын
Chinese companies don't follow laws
@toriless Жыл бұрын
simple, the FTC is the worst government agency EVER and needs to be shut down, period. They are useless.
@eightcoins44018 ай бұрын
If the ad for the thing youre selling is using stock footage and an AI voice, legality has never been considered. At that point youre just trying to as shamelessly scam people as possible.
@A_Stereotypical_Heretic7 ай бұрын
They don't advertise them as air conditioners, they advertise them as air coolers. Slick, and unfortunate that they both have the same letters that can be represented as AC. Except air conditioning is usually shown as A/C, and these are advertised as AC.
@occono35437 ай бұрын
Maybe they are illegal. Someone has to actually get the site blocked or payments to them blocked, or their web host held liable. It's not magic.
@irkalla100 Жыл бұрын
As someone who takes care of and old woman with internet access, I want to rip apart all these scammers and every platform that plays their ads.
@augustoof13 Жыл бұрын
Same,,, my grandpa keeps on asking me about these stupid weight loss gummies and I want to tear my hair out whenever he says anything about them.
@alanfike Жыл бұрын
Show her these videos!
@marcogenovesi8570 Жыл бұрын
get a pihole or another network-wide ad blocker, that's what they were built for
@harriska Жыл бұрын
@@vgamesx1 or adguard home as it is a little easier to use
@ciri151 Жыл бұрын
adblock
@johnnyhellfire6 Жыл бұрын
It's amazing how this young genius invented a SWAMP COOLER lol
@friddevonfrankenstein Жыл бұрын
And a bad one at that. I wonder how it is supposed to extract heat energy from a room while sitting in the same damn room. Do these people even basic physics bruh?
@UncleKennysPlace Жыл бұрын
@@friddevonfrankenstein Yep. It can actually only heat the room, and increase humidity. Brilliant.
@johnnyhellfire6 Жыл бұрын
@@friddevonfrankenstein they are relying on folks like my mother in law, hints why I'm staring at one now lol
@Gruntsworth Жыл бұрын
@@friddevonfrankenstein Some people have zero concept of physics or energy. I once told a friend my PC had excellent cooling, but my room got way too hot while the machine was under load. "But if your PC has good cooling, shouldn't your room be cool?" ...... Guess they think heat energy just kind of disappears into a black hole or something.
@friddevonfrankenstein Жыл бұрын
@@Gruntsworth It's the magical heat dissipation void, never heard of it? :D
@rarebrockstark62193 ай бұрын
I made that exact same "product" with a $5 USB fan, a Amazon cardboard box, and a ice full of tupperware
@raven4k998Ай бұрын
yeah and how many did you sell?🤔🤔
@Chonkems15 күн бұрын
@@raven4k998 billions. it truly is taking the market by storm, you know.
@JMan91919918 ай бұрын
As an HVAC Technician I thank you for this video. I've seen so many of these different companies trying to sell their tiny evap coolers as portable AC solutions and it's wild how many people buy into it. Swamp or evaporative coolers are a great solution for dry climates as adding humidity is actually beneficial for comfort (50% humidity is ideal for comfort cooling), although good ones use much larger fans for more air circulation and BTU removal from the air. Hopefully more people will see this and realize that these little coolers are not a good solution for cooling, they're better off getting desk fans than this.
@waqasahmed9392 ай бұрын
Tbh they're even somewhat useful in humid environments too (up to a limit) I use them in the UK in the summer until it gets too humid and then the evaporative coolers do nothing (ditto for any fans) But I'm aware that these simply can't be air conditioners, especially when they don't condition the air and they actively act as humidifiers. I have something similar to this on my desk but because it was actually advertised as an evaporative air cooler, it cost just £20
@user-tp1rb9zr9o2 ай бұрын
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@user-ce1bm2ds5bАй бұрын
thank you sir for the info - i was scammed by this company for 5 units that I still haven't received. I am curious how they have so many 4.5+ stars on the Amazon reviews - they must be paying people to lie or know how to manipulate the reviews.
@IPodExploration Жыл бұрын
The saga with these air coolers never ends, they just CANT stop coming back!
@ids1024 Жыл бұрын
Presumably that's the "perpetual" part they were advertising.
@RedNoise-hz5nh Жыл бұрын
fr they needa chill 😭
@RedNoise-hz5nh Жыл бұрын
ha get it
@MightyMattTM Жыл бұрын
For a while though the drama seemed to have.... cooled off....
Yep, bought 2 for $14 identical to these a while back on ebay and it was just a LOUD computer fan blowing air across a wet sponge. The LED lights were cooler than the air.
@uncaboat2399 Жыл бұрын
_"The LED lights were cooler"_ Good that it had some redeeming value.
@nBasedAce Жыл бұрын
That's what a swamp cooler is! They do work in conditions that aren't humid. The problem is dumb people not doing any research into what they are buying and then buying something that won't work for them and then they shit on it.
@trishg5820 Жыл бұрын
I bought 3. What an idiot.
@gringoreno Жыл бұрын
Only work in low humidity. Works great in Nevada desert in summer paid 20 dollars at big 5 for money home Depot wanted 40
@ildart87387 ай бұрын
If you do not study physics in high school, then the whole world will be filled with magic and wonders.
@raven4k998Ай бұрын
which is why if you have you realize this device was made by a child whom has not yet reached that part of his or her education🤪🤪
@calholliАй бұрын
@@raven4k998 NO, it's much worse than that.. There is no child. It's just a made up story for advertising it
@cbreezy21 күн бұрын
Eh, I didn’t and learned everything I know about Physics from KZfaq and knew this ad was for gretards.
@debbest8546 Жыл бұрын
Good accurate presentation. Scammers have been trying to peddle their garbage (like the mini swamp cooler) for decades...
@raven4k99811 ай бұрын
what does blowing a plastic bag tell besides that it blows?🤣🤣🤣
@Seraph68 Жыл бұрын
The biggest thing with evaporative/swamp coolers is that their efficiency is inversely related to humidity. In the dry desert of "Phenix", it is an effective cooling system that can save a lot of money over Air Conditioning, plus it adds enough humidity to the air that it isn't absolutely dry. BUT if you were in any place with humidity (or the rainy season in Phoenix), its effectiveness drops to that of a standard fan. Not to mention that you can find better portable swamp coolers (if you are in those dry conditions) at many stores for much less than these "revolutionary" ones online.
@geraldmartin7703 Жыл бұрын
I had a memorable experience with a window mounted water cooler in an Arizona motel room five decades ago. It was summer and the outside temperature was around 90 degrees. At first the coolness was refreshing. However, within an hour or so the humidity in the room was oppressive and any cooling effect was swamped by the muggy air. Also I remember reading about the problem of bacteria and mold building up in the "drip pad" unless it was cleaned regularly. No telling what was blowing into that cheap motel room along with the moist air.
@EarthboundX Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I live in Washington State, one of the most humid places in the US. These swamp coolers don't do much up here in my experience. I have one of those portable air conditioners that hooks up to a window with a hose now. KZfaq loves to tell me how crappy and inefficient these are, but it works for me, lol.
@johnpekkala6941 Жыл бұрын
Exactly. I picked mine up at my local grocery store for about 10 bucks. Comes with RGB LED lights and all and it works reqally well as long as its standing just next to you blowing you right in the face but cooing an entire room with one of these? Not a chance.
@Palmtop_User Жыл бұрын
I genuinely didnt know about swap coolers till i visited my brother when he was in colorado. We lived in connecticut which has very humid (when hot) summers meaning adding humidity is unimaginable. Its still kinda weird to me but it works there so im not gonna question results
@liam3284 Жыл бұрын
The issue with swamp coolers is, they don't work in a closed space.
@jjjacer Жыл бұрын
I really hate all these small swamp coolers, when searching online for a portable A/C for my garage or car, 90% of what came up was these scam coolers. hiding the results i actually wanted.
@cleverwink8262 Жыл бұрын
What brand did you find that was an actual AC?
@jjjacer Жыл бұрын
@@cleverwink8262 I gave up looking online and just went to walmart and bought a midea 5000btu unit, not really powerfull enough for my garage but should be fine for inside my van
@mbburry4759 Жыл бұрын
@@cleverwink8262should be pretty obvious once you know. Portable have have a decent size air hose to exhaust to the outdoors. And will say things about a compressor and such. Look nothing like a swamp cooler, and none of them are this small
@toriless Жыл бұрын
@@jjjacer You probably need double that, minimum. I use 12K units since they still work on 120.
@jjjacer Жыл бұрын
@@toriless yeah the 5k unit just slows the heating of the garage and removes humidity, eventually ill get my garage insulated and go with a 120v mini split. i really got the 5k unit for my cargo van as its the cheapest way to cool something like that, just got to drill a 6in hole in the body lol
@Koyu_Ruh9 ай бұрын
Ah yes. Of course a school expells you for not bowing for your AC overlords.
@calholliАй бұрын
It happens.. don't deny it.
@tallylali3449Ай бұрын
I just saw your review on this, really enjoyed it… thank you for not letting us buy crap! 👏🏼👏🏼
@AidenRKrone Жыл бұрын
I had a weird aunt who wanted to "go green" so she bought a bunch of these dumb swamp coolers from Walmart and put them around her house and refused to use her central AC system. She swore up and down that they were more efficient and effective than AC, but anybody else who went into her house would roast from the heat. It had to have been a case of the placebo effect.
@mattBLACKpunk Жыл бұрын
Still less energy usage than ac, no?
@jfast8256 Жыл бұрын
@@mattBLACKpunk I can cool your house with the power of thought for $5 a month. Far less energy usage than even these coolers :)
@mbburry4759 Жыл бұрын
Probably, with some of this goofy crap you never know... 90% savings electric savings by being 99% more sweaty, feeling %95 hotter, and having a %90 more chance of messing up the drywall/sheetrock most homes have... Unless you live in a super low humidity, high temperature environment and have it blow right at you
@Gatitasecsii Жыл бұрын
Swamp coolers are absolutely more efficient than AC when it comes to cooling hot dry places.
@sihamhamda47 Жыл бұрын
Bruh I hope she know about off grid solar system soon, that could be more efficient in long range while still allow her to use anything like normal
@juances Жыл бұрын
With all these coolers you're ready to become a real life Mr Freeze supervillain. Well except instead of freezing gotham you'll just produce a slight breeze but hey it's a start.
@AxeGaijin Жыл бұрын
Mr. Breeze has a nice ring to it...
@tonycostanzo8561 Жыл бұрын
The ad I saw on FB had the inventor as a retired NASA engineer from Houston caring for his sick mother
@Martial-MatАй бұрын
They're always NASA engineers, people who beat their professor, or military vets.
@nancymcmonarchАй бұрын
Yeah, that's the Breezy Comfort. Same garbage, different name. And they make it look like there are big copper tubes inside that hold real coolant. Nope! Ironically, that ad popped up for me in the middle of this video.
@14stockfan Жыл бұрын
The irony of the animation used for the "revolutionary cooling system" being a generic compressor animation is the most hilarious part of the whole thing.
@frankbartol3196Ай бұрын
I recently saw an ad with a shot of a frosted up copper pipe. No view or explanation of what it was connected to or how it works.
@ivoryowl Жыл бұрын
Another common backstory in these ads is how some engineers stood up against the "greed" of the corporation, who was selling products at a high cost when the actual production was so cheap, and then got fired when they confronted the "higher ups" about it. Then they proceed to open their own company and sell a similar product, of equal or better quality, at a fraction of the cost. I have to resist the urge to roll my eyes every time I hear a variation of this "story".
@Henrik_Holst Жыл бұрын
yep that one was the version they tried here in Sweden, where the Engineers suddenly where getting Swedish names as if we had some big AC industry (which would be very strange since close to no one have AC here).
@mcameron60312 ай бұрын
As an engineer, I will 100% sell anything I invent to "big xxxxx" rather than start my own business....I'm not a businessman, im an engineer, and if I can get rich doing engineering I'm gonna do it.
@Buggyismellow Жыл бұрын
Thank you for saving me from this scam! The thing that’s killing me is I’m a truck driver, and I’m told AC is a “Luxury.” Feels like an excuse to not fix our tractors AC. I need something to help cool me down in that hot box. Especially with the heat of summer coming in soon.
@nomore6167 Жыл бұрын
"The thing that’s killing me is I’m a truck driver, and I’m told AC is a 'Luxury.'" - It will probably remain a "luxury" until the point where heat exhaustion literally causes a driver to fall asleep and crash a truck, causing hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in damages and potential lawsuits.
@hideousruin Жыл бұрын
That's insane. Where do you drive. I couldn't drive for an hour where I live without AC. It's been 98-100°F for weeks and it's essentially always 100% humidity here so all that sweat does is make you more miserable. Once when I drove OTR I was near Death Valley CA and it was ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX DEGREES FAHRENHEIT, and guess what - my AC went out. I called my company for them to send me to a shop and they told me I would have to wait. I asked them where they wanted me to leave the their rig as I was going to take a train home. They sent me to a shop.
@lucianaromulus1408 Жыл бұрын
When I drove a truck, the truck stops with the hook up AC units were a GOD SEND. Wish it was more widespread.
@hideousruin Жыл бұрын
@@lucianaromulus1408 The yellow round things in the ground you ran a clothes dryer outlet style expanding tube for ac and it also had cable tv and phone hookups?
@lucianaromulus1408 Жыл бұрын
@hideousruin7222 they weren't in the ground, they were suspended from this elevated metal beam structure that ran throughout various truck parking spots. I think it was called Idle Air (its been a few years).
@williamjones7163Ай бұрын
I lived in Phoenix for 30 years. Many homes have BOTH air conditioning and air cooling (through evaporative cooling). Phoenix is very hot but also very dry most of the time. Sometimes during the summer the humidity rises and the evaporative cooler fails to work. You must use the air conditioning to remain comfortable. That POS 2.0 will not cool anything. It is a scam, a lie, a crime against humanity.
@Soooooooooooonicable2 ай бұрын
"He was expelled three days later" 🤣🤣 That's gotta be the funniest part of that whole dumb story. Even the school was angry with him for turning down the AC industry money?? LMAO
@retrozmachine1189 Жыл бұрын
This miracle portable aircon scam has been in action since at least the '70s. God only knows why but my mum bought one of them back then. We even point blank told her it was a rip off before she bought it, but none-the-less buy it she did. She even convinced herself that it was effective. One twist on the variation she bought was that the instructions said to put a few ice cubes in the water to help with cooling. It didn't even have an evaporation pad, water just dripped down in front of the fan and every 15 mins or so the bottom tray had to be emptied into the top again. Haha, they have ice in this one too. Some things never change.
@stepheneyles2198 Жыл бұрын
That sounds like the first Chillwell, shown at 9:55, which has a tank at the top!
@jamesstreet228 Жыл бұрын
If you don't remove the heat from inside your house and get it to the outside you're wasting your time and money. These things cannot work. If you put ice in it and blow air across the ice it will be cold air because it's removing the heat as the heat is absorbed into the water of the melted ice but the heat in your house is now in the water. You'd have to continuously throw the water outside and refill it with ice over and over.
@TWEAKLET Жыл бұрын
i try to tell people ice isn't going to cool a room the amount of ice you would need would be obscene i would then point to a glass of a ice water and ask them how much its going to cool the room by the time all the ice melts and they just call me stupid
@DK-co2bg Жыл бұрын
Old news for sure. 😅😅
@mikekasich83619 күн бұрын
So in order to save electricity you have to use a real air conditioner to freeze the ice so that your fake air conditioner can blow the cold air on you?
@kevin34ct Жыл бұрын
I turned one of those into a real AC. I put a TEC with heatsink on it and a hose connected to the hot side exhausting out. It's only good for a Tent camping at night, but that's what it was made for.
@a64738 Жыл бұрын
TEC is great when you need it to be small and cheep, but they use a LOT of energy to create that cold compared to compressor refrigeration. Also that heat need to be dumped somewhere, I have been thinking running water would be a great way to cool a tec easily and effectively (here water comes from a river so no water is wasted if you let it run).
@dabigkahunacatfish2992 Жыл бұрын
P.T. Barnum said it best, "There's a sucker born every minute" and boy dose this A/C (lol) unit fit the bill. lt's always nice to watch a fellow skeptic in action. Thank you.
@yuoiyuoi899Ай бұрын
First time viewer, instant subscriber. I was seriously considering buying a (3 of them) Breezy Comforts originally $502.43 discounted to $204.97. Wow what a deal! Internet is wonderful, Computer Clan came up on a scam search with Krazy Ken. This guy is clearly tech savvy with great humor and sarcasm.
@itjustmeLamАй бұрын
Also, the fact that they used some footage of a documentary (not that kid engineer one on KZfaq, but rather one from Switzerland's SRG SSR!) to make some fake "backstory" trying to trick viewers to buy these "portable ACs" that is straight up a scam! When I see that ad in the video, that SRF 1 logo at the top right already throws me off even before the video went to that part when he noticed it! I KNEW it was fake and a scam right when I saw that! Also, he did some similar ones already (I recommend watching the Blaux ones, which is a similar scam product that he debunked back!)
@ontaka5997 Жыл бұрын
Freeze a plastic bottle filled with water and place it in a small metal bowl (to collect the moisture accumulating on the surface). Place a normal electric fan behind it and you'll probably get similar results, except for a much cheaper price. The room temperature will unlikely drop but you can get a cool breeze out of it if you sit in front of it.
@XtreeM_FaiL Жыл бұрын
Freeze your bottles in friend's hplace or you only increse the heat load inside your house.
@skuula7 ай бұрын
Except that when you froze it, the freezer dumped the same heat + some more in the house that the bottle will absorb.
@wrecktifier12 ай бұрын
@@XtreeM_FaiL Except that the hot air from the freezer dissipates into the house evenly (not noticeable), but the blowing cool air on you feels good.
@Boogie_the_cat Жыл бұрын
Did anyone else notice the video wasn't sponsored by Linode? By the process of dumb-limination that must mean that Linode are the ones who made the fake AC products, so they refused to sponsor this video. Also, if he found out a way to recycle coal that is generated by air conditioners that would be two amazing inventions.
@dieseldragon6756 Жыл бұрын
Only a British-made air conditioner would run on coal...But if it's possible to reclaim and recycle the coal it uses for cooling, perhaps we could send it to our railway industry so they can then put it inside the „new“ steam trains the Dept. for Transport has just promised us? 🙃
@dashcamandy2242 Жыл бұрын
@@dieseldragon6756 Will those British coal-powered steam trains be riding on the new railroad we're building in the US to cross the Pacific and Indian Oceans? 🤪
@NorthStarBlue1 Жыл бұрын
I'm guessing they meant to say charcoal, as to imply that it had an activated charcoal filter in it and toss another buzzwordy lie onto the pile. But given that these garbage ads are probably written by ChatGPT and assembled completely by AI algorithms, there was likely no actual human intervention to check the glaring errors in them.
@dieseldragon6756 Жыл бұрын
@@dashcamandy2242 It'd be nice to think they would, but I doubt they will... 🚂🇬🇧😉 The simple fact is: We British are _entirely incapable_ of driving _anything_ on the correct side of the road... ⬅🇬🇧🚘😉
@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780 Жыл бұрын
@@dashcamandy2242 i doubt the existence of a ocean train will work the way its intended
@throughmylens5127Ай бұрын
I left a big swamp cooler running for a few hours inside a building and when I returned it was hotter and at 99% humidity.
@davidadausuel4537 Жыл бұрын
I must say, that I truly appreciate and enjoy your videos. You in-list humor and common sense into each of your videos while proving whether or not they are legit, that make me want to watch you more. You are truly a breath of fresh air.
@raven4k998Ай бұрын
man am I contributing my heart out to global warming I just keep farting Jesus Christ🤪🤪
@BowsettesFury Жыл бұрын
Never thought I’d live long enough to see Blaux get rebranded for the 10th time. 🤣
@NorthStarBlue1 Жыл бұрын
I mean, it could very well be the same people who were behind Blaux for all we know. These fly-by-night operations tend to just buy drop shipments from whatever Chinese factory is selling the cheapest that day, which is why these come usually unbranded and in a bunch of different styles, and when enough people finally catch on and report them for misleading the consumer about their junk, they just disincorporate and come back a month later under a new name which makes it really hard to stamp them out entirely.
@StinkyPoopyMcFartFace Жыл бұрын
Every summer I looked forward to my amazon shilling the same Blaux revolutionary space heater I mean AC all over my home page. They all look exactly the same and have some crazy story about how they changed the AC market forever.
@BowsettesFury Жыл бұрын
@@NorthStarBlue1 I’m betting it is 😂
@SuperCosmicMutantSquid Жыл бұрын
"Oh boy! This is BOUND to work this time!"
@uncaboat2399 Жыл бұрын
@@NorthStarBlue1 which gets us back to that age-old saw ... *CAVEAT EMPTOR*
@Dorff_Meister Жыл бұрын
Before getting into it, as others have said, I feel confident it's a swamp / evaporative cooler. When I lived in NM they were great. Unless there was high humidity.
@madmax2069 Жыл бұрын
yup, they're swamp cooler/evaporative coolers, the one in the video operates more like a humidifier (due to using spray nozzles) more than a swamp cooler that's blowing air by a wet pad. yeah, they work when the humidity is low, but you cant run them for long as they increase the humidity in the room then it'll just be a hot muggy room. while these wont cool a room, they will cool a body part when they're sitting about a foot away blowing on said body part but keeping them on for too long it will increase the humidity to the point where they don't work.
@samsimington55636 ай бұрын
I remember getting this particular ad on a school laptop multiple times. And if it was truly illegal to sit in a classroom warmer than 75 degrees I know multiple schools in the Northern US that would do it solely because it's illegal (alongside zoophilia)
@OverkillutubeАй бұрын
That robot narration is the only red flag anyone should need 😂
@MrMegaManFan Жыл бұрын
I think Technology Connections covered this scam too, but the more people that bust it, the better.
@mcmadness110 Жыл бұрын
He did, I remember seeing his video a while ago.
@GrueTurtle Жыл бұрын
I spent this whole time thinking this was a re-upload or this guy really did a video about this
@azulleth9401 Жыл бұрын
I'm from the UK so it's not hot long enough for air con in my flat, but I did invest in a good ceiling fan this has been a life saver. These scammers and the people involved need to go to jail.
@im-that-guy-pal Жыл бұрын
Fans actually produce additional heat from the motor. It just feels cooler because the moving air
@adamb89 Жыл бұрын
A long time ago a buddy of mine made a sort of air conditioner using an old blower motor, a cooler, couple pipes, and sacks of ice he'd take from his restaurant job after close. The machine would just refill the bin with fresh ice overnight so nobody knew or cared, and he would use this makeshift thing to cool his room in the summer. It was surprisingly effective from what he said. It made his room comfortable during the day, and then he worked nights. It was a tremendous amount of work but money was tight.
@toriless Жыл бұрын
1 20" Lasko for $24 at Walmart is plenty for 1 person.
@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 Жыл бұрын
Southern England is the same place I first found myself craving the essential "luxury" of AC. I knew it existed - the family car had it - but like. Not buying your story that it isn't hot long enough. Avoided suffering for multiple years is surely worth the less than £1000 a window box would cost.
@azulleth940110 ай бұрын
@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 the south does get hotter than north. I live in the north west, close to a large river and the sea where it always cooler. Maybe if global warming keeps extending the heatwaves but for now air con would be overkill and a waste of money to buy and run compared to a ceiling fan. Buy and use what meets your needs best this why we have multiple options for heating and cooling solutions
@I0NE0074 ай бұрын
8:09 "Isn't this just a water evap cooler?" "No. That's only what it TRIES to be, but it doesn't do the "cooling" part. Which probably means the Evap portion isn't too good, either."
@rickhazen5227Ай бұрын
Another great video man! Your research is only outdone by your comedy and humor. Keep up the great work I'm always learning something from you. Thanks again
@AnonymousFreakYT Жыл бұрын
The problem with the energy measurement metric is that you'd have to add the energy used to freeze the "filter", too.
@DiggingDeepVlog Жыл бұрын
Not a factor as most people have a freezer anyways that runs 24/7
@AnonymousFreakYT Жыл бұрын
@@DiggingDeepVlog It still takes a little more energy.
@hez8719 Жыл бұрын
@@AnonymousFreakYT It take 0% more energy to freeze the filter since the freezer is running at all times anyway. Unless the person trying to freeze the filter only turns on the freezer to cool the filter then it's not an energy increase.
@DiggingDeepVlog Жыл бұрын
@@AnonymousFreakYT I mean true you’d need to add in the energy expenditure for the fridge/freezer but what we’re saying is people already use those appliances anyways so it’s not really a factor
@starsiegeplayer Жыл бұрын
Actually, the freezer pack will cause a net increase in heat in the house, because you are using a true refrigeration system to freeze the ice pack. The refrigerator will put out more heat freezing the ice pack then the ice pack can absorb.
@Cyber_kumo Жыл бұрын
I live in an area where a window AC unit can cost as low as $150 at Walmart. Pricing this at "$138" is hilarious to me. I also see people buying those little swamp coolers as well, but it's always humid in the summer where I live, so it never works.
@F8... Жыл бұрын
I'm sitting here under the nice coolness of one of those cheap Walmart window ac right now and it don't even up my electric bill if I let it run non stop lol
@rw3075 Жыл бұрын
@@F8...Which brand and model please?
@willgaukler8979 Жыл бұрын
.... got a small window air conditioned from sear for $99.00 30 years ago ... still going strong and cools 5,000 square foot bedroom ... good point about normal humid states ...
@JasonEngman5 ай бұрын
Of course it doesnt work, but if it did, it would be a significant savings here. Cheap AC has garbage SEER, and at 60c kwh electricity the difference in operating / purchase price between SEER units alone can be made up within a month. If it somehow cooled effectively and used 90%+ less power it would be a game changer.
@jetjazz058 ай бұрын
Don't you hate being a student approached by a corporation to buy a product you designed, you say no then get expelled? Such an every man story.
@edwardthorne9875 Жыл бұрын
I am so glad someone is debunking this scam. I got caught up in the followup ads, and bought an extra, so they got me good. In the fine print, they say -"Works best when 6 to 8 inches from the human body." That about sums it up. This should be illegal.
@Rickyp0123 Жыл бұрын
In the energy usage comparison you actually gave this product too much credit. You should have accounted for the energy used to freeze the filter (and any ice if added) since that would be largely responsible for the cooling, and it was chilled by a freezer which operates via a heat pump, the same way as an ACTUAL AC. I suspect this would close the gap a bit.
@bertellijustin6376 Жыл бұрын
Not like a heat pump, it’s a freezer, there’s no need to bring heat into the box. Heat pumps have a reversing valve that allows the switch from moving heat out to in.(direction the refrigerant flows) A freezer works like a freezer. (Or a regular A/C system if you really want a metaphor) Which is a vapor compressor pumping refrigerant through the system and the heat exchangers. (Evap and Condensing coils generally with a fan to live air across them.)
@Rickyp0123 Жыл бұрын
@@bertellijustin6376 Respectfully, nah mate. I don’t want to make enemies in the internet, but… A freezer is by definition an insulated box with a heat pump to pump heat OUT OF the box. Just like an AC system consists of a heat pump to pump heat out of the room, and some heaters use the same tech to pump heat into a room. As you said, you can have a central climate control system in your house with a reversing valve which would allow you to either cool or heat your house with the same system, but this reversing valve is not the defining characteristic of a heat pump. A heat pump is just the technology to move heat from one place to another consisting of a loop of two refrigerant-filled coils, a compressor, and a metering device between the coils (usually a capillary tube). Freezers, ACs, and heaters of the sort that use heat pumps all work the same. Some peripherals may be added to suit certain applications, e.g. fans across both coils of an AC, a resistive heating element for automatic defrost on a freezer, or a reversing valve on a climate control system. But the underlying heat pumps are identical. I think the confusion here is that the term “heat pump” is often used to refer to household heaters which use heat pump technology. Other applications for heat pumps have their own names based on what they do, e.g. freezer or AC, but since the word “heater” already describes many technologies, “heat pump” has become shorthand for a heater which uses that tech. Cheers mate.
@MLennholm Жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's something a lot of people seem to forget and furthermore, the cooling effect of the swamp cooler can never make up for the heat the freezer spewed into the house (assuming the freezer is located inside with no external venting, which is the case for most households) while creating that block of ice, so the net effect is not cooling but actually heating.
@Rickyp0123 Жыл бұрын
@@MLennholm Great point! Electricity wasn’t the full cost of cooling the ice… you also pay in heat spewed by the freezer. I forgot about that!
@lassikinnunen Жыл бұрын
@@bertellijustin6376its a heat pump, heat pumps dont need to be two way to be heat pumps. Now, aircon systems that can pump heat two way are marketed as heatpumps yes, sure. But thats just because they sell better like that in cooler regions, not because a regular aircon wouldn't be a heat pump.
@fc43865 Жыл бұрын
Even the cooler looked so surprised that someone would actually buy them
@Judas1911WR1 Жыл бұрын
90€ for that thing? in germany you can buy similar coolers for less then 20€ from discounter store
@itweeb4765 Жыл бұрын
Warehouse workers have known about this particular invention for years. It's what the supervisor brings in when it's 90f in the warehouse and they're too cheap to install an AC system.
@saintwcf2 ай бұрын
not just a swamp cooler, but the worst swamp cooler every marketed. and it is horrid in humid climates because it ADDS to humidity.
@harshbarj Жыл бұрын
These things REALLY depend on local conditions. I use one for both early and late year cooling, when dew points are under 40°F. The rest of the year it's just too humid with dew points in the 70's and 80's. Simply another case of overselling a product. They can work very well if used properly.
@harshbarj Жыл бұрын
Should add, for full home cooling you need a big one. These are great though for the hot but dry days where you just want a "cool" breeze while at the computer!
@chrisjamesr774 ай бұрын
I don't know where you are, but I live in Michigan, and it seems like whenever it's hot enough to where I'd want air conditioning on, it's humid as well. So they'd pretty much be useless for me, I guess!
@okbanlon Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this detailed breakdown! I sort of "knew" this thing would be bogus, but it's really nice to run the numbers and do the actual testing. BRAVO!
@toriless Жыл бұрын
Yeah, a cheap $20 swamp cooler sold for an extra $100 each.
@rock-afire-fanАй бұрын
that precision "cooling element" clip is literally an animation of a scroll compressor not even related to cooling LMAO
@SSGLGamesVlogsАй бұрын
You don't mind if I add an F to that acronym?
@rock-afire-fanАй бұрын
@@SSGLGamesVlogs add as many letters as needed
@nancymcmonarchАй бұрын
Yeah, years ago when I was unemployed and broke, I was gifted a swamp cooler one super-hot summer. When the room was really hot, the ice melted in minutes, and I was "cooling" my room with hot water. Worse, it made the room crazy humid and miserable. Worse than nothing, so when the thing got MOLDY inside, I kicked it to the curb.
@UltimatePerfection Жыл бұрын
Cool video. It's really chilling how cold-blooded scammers will take advantage of people's misery.
@perfection7722 Жыл бұрын
Stop it sir.
@UltimatePerfection Жыл бұрын
@@perfection7722 You mean... I should freeze?
@UltimatePerfection Жыл бұрын
@@perfection7722 Also you need to be reminded that JAGIELSKI is PERFECTION. @UltimatePerfection. There's no higher form of PERFECTION than JAGIELSKI as JAGIELSKI is the Ultimate PERFECTION.
@coolelectronics1759 Жыл бұрын
lmfao I get it.
@perfection7722 Жыл бұрын
@@UltimatePerfection I yield to the greater life form. I was just saying stop the puns it was way to many in one comment lol that's too much power Even for the flawless ones
@nanopone Жыл бұрын
i love it too much when ken breaks the professional act and goes insane for a few seconds
@Karalainee5 ай бұрын
From 95-60 in a classroom in 2 minutes? Nothing screams scam like unattainable stats.
@texarkana378118 күн бұрын
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the average American consumer
@bob_the_bomb4508 Жыл бұрын
What’s amazing is that a British guy called Martin also apparently did exactly the same! What an amazing coincidence! I reported it to KZfaq as a scam. I’m equally amazed that KZfaq allow scam ads. Note: may include some sarcasm…
@IamTehGuyz Жыл бұрын
You're only allowed to break the rules if you're paying YT for the ad space.
@tronbasic4968 Жыл бұрын
"Do not remove filter during use" Scares the shi* out of me. Thanks Ken
@jimm63866 күн бұрын
This week, I just returned a Chillwell to the company - now I'll see how much they charge for what they refer to as : Shipping and Handling".
@TheOfficialDorianelevator6 ай бұрын
1:05 i died of laughter
@ateltoni Жыл бұрын
4:30 i absolutely love it, when that censoring beep is cutting off your speech partly at the end.
@keithmichael112 Жыл бұрын
1:48 I can't believe Big Air can get kids expelled from college, who knew
@joem107016 күн бұрын
High school science would have protected people from falling for this obvious scam. As an HVAC tech, these commercials irritate the shit out of me and wonder why these scammers aren't arrested.
@sue2019 Жыл бұрын
We bought chillwells W 2 cartridges. Guess we r the stickers. We bought it June 8th. Didn't one pack 1 of them. The other sat in our kitchen. Finally we used it. No cooling down the area we had. I just looked up their policy for returns. 60 days. If they don't accept them, instead of looking at their time limit, how abt my warranty of merchantability. That's where if u buy a lawnmower, it must cut the lawn. In this case, if I purchase the air cooler, it needs to cool down the area, like they said. I'm not happy.
@GFSwinger1693Ай бұрын
The best thing you can do in the future to prevent yourself from getting scammed on anything is to remeber you do not get something for nothing. There is no such thing as a pertpetual motion machine and in the case of air conditioning, cooling and dehumidify air is an energy intensive process. It is not free in your home and it is not free in your car. You car's MPG suffers because a significan amount of energy is required to compress Freon or whatever refrigerant is used. Have you ever felt and old fashioned style bike pump? Remeber how the pump gets pretty warm? That is work converted to wate heat. Compressing a vapor is very inefficient. Freon is a working fluid that changes phase during the refridgeration cycle. The energy to compress the Freon vapor is mostly lost as heat. There is zero way a table top device that runs on batteries can accomplish any of this. Anybody that trys to tell you otherwise is an idiot or more likely, thinks you are.
@shadowtheimpure Жыл бұрын
A cheap version (no more than $20) of this type of device is a godsend in the winter here in Michigan where the air can get PAINFULLY dry at times.
@carlrodrigues6919 Жыл бұрын
You can make your own chill well
@toriless Жыл бұрын
@@carlrodrigues6919 or better, get a 20" box fan and a wet hand towel.
@danlargent3806 Жыл бұрын
At this point it seems like the inconsistencies in these ads are almost on purpose to confuse
@user-nf7tt2uo1r2 ай бұрын
Using that Chillwell ad logic, it will 100% more energy efficient in "off" mode.
@mrhand.j3bs11 күн бұрын
This video is one of those things you show your child as they grow up and start their new life. It contains the foundations of the never-ending scams that lurk in every generation.
@faustlove Жыл бұрын
So glad i found your channel!! I worked in marketting for around 20 years. Dealt with some major brands who wanted to test their latest and greatest products on an unsuspecting public. Because of this, I refuse to do business with 4 companies. Your videos are well researched, well produced and so entertaining!! I've been binging your channel for several hours now!!😂
@davidingram1016 Жыл бұрын
Was the CDC was of those “ company” or the FDA ..
@faustlove Жыл бұрын
@@davidingram1016 Hartz is one. The thousands of animals (dogs mostly) that they have killed and are still killing are of no consequence to this 'family' company. Don't take my word for it, Google 'Hartz dog deaths' but be prepared, it's heartbreaking. Yum Inc. is another. They own several businesses including Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC. Their treatment of employees and policies on food safety are enough to give you nightmares.
@spideylover4105 Жыл бұрын
Name and shame the companies!
@clehaxze Жыл бұрын
8:36 The ${region:capitalized}$ is just some code that was supposed to be replaced by their backend to some other name. But they screwed up and left it there.
@Tajagee1233 ай бұрын
Just seen a chill well scam and they selling them for 199 dollars bro! Truly evil world we live in
@longbeachdarrellАй бұрын
It’s 115° here in Parker Arizona. I just bought one of these. Can’t wait to try it out.
@efficiencygaming3494 Жыл бұрын
I believe ${region:capitalized}$ is what the state of Arizona is called in Dimension 404. The capital is Phenix. 15:17 Fun story - my little brother actually got one of those Star Belly toys for Christmas. The packaging was in hilariously broken English. Instead of saying "STAR BELLY Dream Lites", it said "SLAR BEILY Dteam Lifes" 😂
@gamewizardks Жыл бұрын
You forgot to calculate the energy required to freeze the filter in the unit. That was accomplished by your freezer (a separate HVAC unit) and not the Chillwell. At the end of the day, this thing likely consumes more energy than a traditional HVAC system per degree of temp drop when you factor everything in.
@innocuousmerchant87667 ай бұрын
it's consuming electricity and probably warming the room up.
@hughaskew6550Ай бұрын
I 'invented' this idea back in 1975. I hung frozen gallons jugs of water in front of a box fan and viola! Chilled air.
@Sheerwillpower2 ай бұрын
Nothing beats a window AC. They keep us cool here in Yuma Arizona😎
@blanana_m Жыл бұрын
Are these things gonna be a yearly thing now? Are we gonna get a new scam cooler every summer?
@rickard234 Жыл бұрын
One can only hope
@davidrandolf9922 Жыл бұрын
A note to remember, basic AC, you do not cool anything, you can only remove heat or add heat. Traditional ac units capture heat through the tubing with refrigerant then cycles to the outside .
@nancymcmonarchАй бұрын
? Every TRUE air conditioner I've ever had has blown lovely, frigid air from the front end.
@CharlieSvetlana15 күн бұрын
*IN THEIR ADS THEY SHOW THE PERSON BY THE POOL WITH THAT ITEM, WHAT THEY DON'T TELL YOU YOU HAVE TO PLUG IT IN TO SOMETHING*
@langolier95 ай бұрын
Oh my gosh I’ve been clinically depressed for four years never once did I laugh or smile recently I started feeling better and I know I’m better because I can laugh because when the room went from 95 to 65 and two minutes and everything holy crap. I laughed out loud for the first time in many years I’m gonna watch all your videos. I’m subscribed you’re like my new favorite, KZfaq guy.
@OtherWorldExplorers Жыл бұрын
You know I thought there was going to be a recycle of the last ones you bought. And yet somehow you made the content feel fresh and original again!
@user-uo4ro8jo4i Жыл бұрын
Really enjoying these scam busting episodes!
@ryanstage70159 ай бұрын
I juuuuuust saw the same video…..but for a HEATING system. Martin apparently also went to school in Alask and his plea for a new heating system fell on deaf ears. So he uses his (AI que for heating science) skills to make a genius heating system. And boy-oh-boy it’s taking America by storm.
@cheapbastard990 Жыл бұрын
The irony is that swamp coolers do not work near swamps. Some of the better ones actually work rather well in the desert though. If you are in an extremely dry place (and in the shade) evaporating water to cool is very effective. That's why good canteens are covered with thick cloth. Even if it's over 100 degrees outside, if you keep it went and hanging in the shade, you can get the water in the canteen fairly close to freezing. But here in Mississippi, with high humidity, you can only get a drop of a few degrees.
@k5vg20 күн бұрын
Yeaaaah, NO. You're not keeping any canteen "close to freezing" by keeping it wet and hanging it in the shade. SNL is hiring writers--you should give them a call.
@cheapbastard9903 күн бұрын
@@k5vg Your ignorance of physics and lack of experience is showing. You are right that wouldn't work that well in Florida. The humidity would slow evaporation down considerably. It would still cool the water a bit though. But in a really dry place, say west Texas, even of it's 100 degrees in the shade, if you keep the canteen wet, you can get it down into the 30s. Try it yourself! Then you wont make such a fool of yourself in the future.
@TonyLing Жыл бұрын
2:20 In a 401 square foot room, the magic suddenly stops working.
@hardcorescythe Жыл бұрын
if only they chilled well
@smokymcpot591711 күн бұрын
Removing the filter at the end during it running had me rolling.
@mikehrabar79993 ай бұрын
If you freeze the cooling cartridge in your freezer, the freezer warms the kitchen by a corresponding amount, plus additional heating for friction, sound, and other inefficiencies. You might as well just leave the freezer door open for a few min. Same net result.
@markr.1984 Жыл бұрын
I have a similar unit made by another manufacturer and I actually found a great use for these! No, they won't cool even a small half bathroom worth a crapola. But I found they make a great short distance humidifier in the winter when your house humidity goes really low. I put on of these by my bed and let it blow directly on my face after I fill it with water. I breath somewhat humidified air the whole night while I sleep, even though it doesn't generate enough humid air to humidify my entire room much. It does just great close up. I verified this by putting my Kestrel 5500 weather meter on humidity and put it right where my head would be when I sleep and turned on the "AC" unit, blowing on my pillow. The measured humidity went quit a bit higher up close, so then it is great to breath the air near the fake AC unit. But the entire room humidity was not even moved but a fraction, even after a long while. But yep, if you like to breath more humid air while you sleep, use one of these, especially in the winter!! In my test the humidity level in my bedroom was only about 18% but where the Kestrel meter was it went up to as much as 35%, which is much healthier to breath. My test was just as scientific as Krazy Ken's, since I had a Kestrel that is trusted by professionals. I'm a pilot so I use my Kestrel to measure both pressure and density altitude.
@stepheneyles2198 Жыл бұрын
Do you hold your Kestrel out of the window while flying? ;-)
@Landis_Grant Жыл бұрын
breathe not breath
@tjlambaes Жыл бұрын
I love watching these commercials every time I’m served one. As someone who understands physics and how refrigeration works, it’s clearly a swamp cooler lol.
@jamesstreet228 Жыл бұрын
These same people would likely buy a window unit and sit it in their floor and not understand why it's not cooling their house.
@iitzfizz Жыл бұрын
Yup, you're not going to get an effective air cooling system without refrigerants.
@sybillestahl8646Ай бұрын
It’s amazing how many people don’t know the First Law of Thermodynamics: you can’t destroy heat. It has to go somewhere. Yes, you can put the heat into evaporating water, 540 calories per gram, but then you have that water in your air. I have to run a dehumidifier full time in summer as it is, or my basement floor gets wet and mould grows.
@famouslastwords0791HR Жыл бұрын
I desperately bought one of these two years ago because I was completely broke and my apartment was unbearably hot. It was beyond useless.
@nicole-uo9cd Жыл бұрын
Same here!! After placing my order, it took over a month for me to receive in the mail and when I realised these were just air humidifiers (which are useless in the summer here in New England), I was just plain pissed off that I had been scammed... But unlike you, I had purchased THREE of these worthless pieces of crap!!! What's even worse is that they were advertised on KZfaq!
@TotallyNotRedneckYall Жыл бұрын
I grew up with a swamp cooler on the llano estacado, we normally had about 15% humidity. It would keep the house 15-20 degrees cooler than the outside air on a dry day.
@lazyreal6024 Жыл бұрын
its scary seeing the evolution of these scam ads. They have almost have believable claims(for the average customer) and if it wasn't for the scam company using cheap marketing tricks i can see alot of consumers falling for this. Like instead of 99% less cheaper it is 98.7% And 400 ft2 that is almost an resonable claim
@cowboy1752 Жыл бұрын
What I did when my air unit wasnt't working was washed my clothes and hung the clothes and towels to air dry around the inside of the house and turned a fan on. I live in a dry climate so it worked perfect for free!
@jima50533 ай бұрын
Old fashioned swamp coolers. My parents house in SoCal had two and neither one did anything but increase the humidity levels to uncomfortable levels. True, when water evaporates it does soak up a tiny bit of heat. But I prefer warm and dry air to muggy cold air.
@bengranby6506 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I used the swamp cooler years back when working overseas with deadly heat. The tech (I showed it to some American engineers) has existed for about 100 years all over the world before stable power was present for getting A/Cs. The one we had was plug-in and add water. Everyone liked the A/C better, so we left the swamp cooler outside just for the smokers (yeah... I was one then but now quit!). Many government offices there had them all over their main corridors (but offices had a/c and kept their doors closed.) They are great if you stand in front but do not cool much outside of that. But clearly I come from Big A/C, so you cannot trust me.
@tsdobbi Жыл бұрын
When in was in basic training in the Army, in the middle of summer in the south. Our barracks had these big industrial fans. When we would come into the barracks from busting our ass outside, we would be soaked in sweat and get in line to just take our shirts off and just get blasted by this fan. The evaporation of sweat by this industrial fan seriously made it feel like someone just dumped ice water on you, it was glorious.
@Clarissa_Star Жыл бұрын
These things never chill, so it's up to Ken to roast them.
@notfunnynewsАй бұрын
Ading moisture to a humid day must be another great thing.