Dreo Evaporative Air Cooler 40 Cooling Fans that Blow Cold Air 2023 Upgrade with 80 Oscillating Removable Water

First off - this is not an AC, it is an evaporative cooler. Evaps work by blowing air over a wet filter, which cools the air. Evaps work great in dry climates. If it is humid, they tend not to get as great of results. I live in a very dry climate, and have had central Evaps that work great, and this one is great too - for a single room. I use it in my west facing bedroom which gets hotter than the rest of the house. I also take it with me when we go to places that don’t have A/C. I like it so much, I bought one for my kids. Things I like about this product: - It is quite large and has a wide oscillator which fans the whole room - The fan is very quiet compared to other tower fans I have had - The controls are quiet - I had another brand that beeped very loudly with every button pushed - The display is muted and goes dark when on, so it doesn’t glow - the other brand had a very bright display - There are 4 fan speeds Things I wish were better, but have no problems living with because I love it - The timer only goes to 7 hours - The container for the water is hard to clean (true of all of these designs) - The buttons are practically invisible unless the lights are on in the room, but I have memorized the remote In summary, if you are in the proper climate and need one room cooled - this is awesome and I highly recommend it! Read more

Bought after apartment AC went out and during heat dome. Now just using during sleeping without water as AC is working and cooling off at night. As a former user of a box fan this is way better. It may be me but with water and ice packs my room did not cool much. I wonder about quality of ice packs as they really expand in freezer. Too make clear, I turn off AC at night while I sleep and just run fan on level 2. It is over 6 ft from head of bed and I can feel it. It is too bad someone can't invent something like a tanning bed but with water cooling. Read more

I’ve had this evaporative cooler for almost 2 months now, and I’m very happy with it. I didn’t want to mess with a portable or window unit AC, and this is a great alternative. We are currently in a heatwave, and each evening this week, the cooler is able to lower the temperature in my bedroom by 2-3 degrees by the time I go to bed, and even more overnight. (I keep it off when I’m away at work) It’s obviously not as effective as AC, but it makes a significant difference on these hot days and nights. I personally haven’t noticed much of a difference between using the ice packs or not, but I also tend to fill it with water that’s been in the fridge as well. Read more

I truly bought this accordingly because of its raving reviews. It doesn't disappoint. It is truly a jewel for cooling off your room during the warm summer days and nights. Make sure that if you use the cooling with the additional ice packs, that you leave a window sort of cracked or at least in a space where there is lots of air for circulation. It does limb the humidity chart and rather fast. If you are living in a humid climate, you might want to think afterwards. However, its still works well without the cooling evaporation button on. So far, happy that I made the choice. Read more

the fan itself is pretty good, however it has a major flaw and now i am searching for replacement fins for it, it says to clean every 2 weeks or so, but one week of not taking it apart had caused issues the main flaw it had is that it feeds water from a tank on the bottom and pumps it up, the water the goes down on the fins and goes back into the tank if its not evaporated, this is probably good to avoid being knocked over, but the design of the tank has a huge flaw. its pump is not at the bottom of the tank, meaning thet even when the tank is empty' there is an inch or so of water, and this water had been a exposed to everything in the air multiple times before resting in the tank, and it gets dirty very fast, and i have found it looks yellow in a few days, not 2 weeks, and it has gotten harder to clean to the point i think i need to replace the blades it never says to avoid filling the water tank with a pitcher or cup, and if it did i would still take a star away for that, so don't say i was just using it wrong putting the pump a bit lower in the tank, possibly having some plastic to make it the lowest point would help with a lot of this --------------- a different more minor thing that annoys me is that the fan had "air conditioning" in its amazon details section, when its not, and its instructions state it isn't, i get how it works and to not compare it to an actual ac unit, but i find the wording deceptive although at least it isn't in the title itself last time i checked ---------------------------------- aside from that, the fan was good while it lasted, and probably is still an ok but overpriced fan without the cooling feature, i like that its screen goes dark after leaving it for a while, an issue i always have with tower fans at night giving of often blue light making it hard to sleep, i didn't need to tape over the display of this one as a fan, its worth 1-2 degrees f of air temperature at night to me, roughly the same as my older tower fan, with cooling, its maybe worth 1-3, with cooling and ice its seemingly worth 2-3 degrees, however this is with the thing pointed at me, i don't think it can cool a room, at least a room in an area with 40-50% average humidity, if you live in an area with less then that, it probably will, but i don't its power cable is a bit on the short side, but that isn't the biggest issue, i don't rate remote controls because i never keep them long enough it had been good at not being knocked over at night, a major plus from fans that then to get toppled if hit in the darkness really do hope there are replacement fins, because the ones i have might not be healthy to aim at myself for much longer Read more