Arctic Air Pure Chill 2.0 Evaporative Air Cooler

This review is for the 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: People have a love/hate relationship with this evaporative cooler. As a retired 35 year career in both Residential and Commercial HVAC/R, I can tell you this is not an air-conditioner as most people would think. Please be smarter than that. Let me also clear up something else about air-conditioning. Air-Conditioners DO NOT make cold air. A/C's remove heat from the air passing over an evaporator coil. I'll stop here and keep it simple. Much like a Swamp Cooler, used in drier climate areas, a fan or blower creates an air stream. Then you have a mister or Piezo device adding water vapor droplets to the air stream. This causes the water molecules to change from a liquid state to a vapor state. This removes some heat from the air stream and blows it into the space. Remember we are now adding moisture to the air. So technically this device is also a personal Humidifier. With this device, the principal is the same but on a (personal) scale. What I mean is, it is not going to cool down a space. So again... this is a personal device that is meant to be pointed towards a person to receive the full effects of the device. Now to make this work a little better, I fill the container with ice cubes and then add water to top off. Don't worry about running out of water to soon. The ice will melt fast. What you are doing is just chilling the misting water down a bit, absorbing some more BTU's before it is dispersed into the air stream. Another thing that is helpful is to take the cartridge out, saturate it with water and freeze it. When you are ready, just drop the frozen cartridge into place, turn on the machine and enjoy. Modes of operation are: Fan - Three speed settings (Fan Blade) symbol Cool - Two settings (Snowflake) symbol Turbo - A button for Highest Fan Setting (+) Light - A button for the LED Color changing lights, and to turn off the lights completely Okay, Class dismissed. So here are the PRO's: It works as advertised to cool and humidify the air around (You). I like the size of it. Not too intrusive or overly small. Excellent design. It is easy to use and functions as designed. The power supply is included! It is a 120VAC to 12VDC and is very efficient at drawing only 8 to 10 Watts of power. An added bonus not mentioned in the "About this Item" is that you can use a 12VDC car adaptor to run this in your car without an inverter. Also you can plug a USB-C end to end into a cell phone battery bank and run your cooler. Works off any solar generator too. Great For Power Outages: The Price is excellent at this time. Okay, CON's: Subjective - Fan noise level. Remember you have three speeds and then the Turbo speed. Not going to lie to you... It can get loud on turbo and high. Slower speeds are much more tolerable. So for my recommendation, and for what it is, and its intended use, I give it five stars. I ain't kidding you, last night we lost power briefly. I quickly set this up to work off my solar generator with a USB-C. cable and it worked flawlessly. I highly recommend the Arctic Air Pure Chill 2.0