Arctic Air Ice Jet vs Pure Chill: Ultimate Cooling Showdown! 

Yeah I was thinking 80% humidity not going to work so good

But at the same time it increases humidity in a room, so it basically useless.

Only good in places like Las Vegas, Nevada like where he lives. If you're in the tropics, hell no.

That’s a great point!

You are so much better of getting a fan, or if you can afford it, a window AC unit.

It's probably going to be a defining thing about this era when we look back in the future. Tacky LED lighting on everything.

It's obnoxious. It's actively harder to find (insert almost any piece of electronics here) without blinding, blinky lights. And the worst part is many of the products with them, don't even let you turn them off. I don't think manufacturers understand that not everyone on earth is 12 years old.

When done properly, RGB lighting can look good. With that said, every product having a RGB, or only a RGB, model is annoying as hell. It can look really good in a custom computer but just looks stupid on a desk or box fan, etc.

Epitomizes the saying of "putting lipstick on a pig" imo. Usually this cheap Chinese consumer tech is loaded with "features" like LEDs and speakers, with the core function being greatly inferior to the more reputable competition.

Damn right lowers the value. Anothe one is cheap bluetooth device sounds.

solid compromise nevertheless

Also, the placement within the device is very inefficient. If each of the ice packs was rotated by 30 degrees, the surface area directly hit by the airflow would be much larger

@@paul_ko But that only helps when you have more than one in the unit. The real problem is surface area. Instead of that X pattern with gaping holes, it would be better with a series of tube vanes running through the rings, and then being able to offset the angles on each one like you said, it would perform much better. I think the ideal way to run it is with two in the unit and one in the freezer that gets swapped in every so often. Or maybe even a whole extra set of three. It's not a bad idea, using your freezer for a little extra air conditioning when you need it. Better than a swamp cooler, IMO.

you lost any credibility as a "HVAC engineer" when you said "transfer the cold".

They didn't teach you about heat exchangers, compressors, and refrigerants in your BSME program ?

Yup, feels nice in the beginning then it starts to feel worse 😂

I have no issue WHATSOEVER sweating in high humidity haha....Dixie is brutal.

In the desert that's a moot point. In humid climates, it makes a bad problem worse.

You still sweat in high humidity, it's just you get little to no evaporation to cool you off.

Humid rooms don't hold on to heat better, it's the other way around. Hot air can hold more water, which is why swamp coolers work very effectively in hot, dry climates. The reason it feels hotter when it's humid is because your body can't get rid of heat effectively since your sweat won't evaporate. Your body will produce plenty of sweat, the problem is that it doesn't go anywhere and therefore doesn't carry away any heat energy.

same here!

Interesting. I would say that is not an upgrade!

@@Freakinreviews Yes, I was ready to buy this insta-read thermometer when it told me there was an upgrade to it, guess what the upgrade was? it read 1 second faster for 100.00 more, LOL!!! I took the original figuring I could wait the second.

Thanks for the input! I was considering buying one, but I saw bad reviews and your input is the deal-breaker.

It's the same at Ace Hardware. Crap motors and crap brand...

I wouldn’t doubt that a bit. I had the Arctic Chill for one night and didn’t sleep. I was in tears. That thing is a piece of junk. Idk how that company is still going

Probably from the poor souls thinking this is comparable to an air conditioner when it’s just a wet fan

@@vegancharlieleeblue😊😊😊😊😊😊

It's unreal how many people here in Houston end up buying them only to find that it doesn't work at 90+ degrees with high humidity. Money down the drain

Texas... What can you say...

The problem a lot of people don't know what a swamp cooler is or how the work.

They'd probably work alright in West Texas, as in Abilene to Pecos and up the Panhandle, but not Coastal at all. Lived in Yuma AZ and swamp coolers work a treat there, except during Monsoon Season, and you spent a bit every quarter on water filters, CLR (or alternatives) and actually scrubbing your cooler screens, all those hard deposits.

It's Texas, not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Not really. You have to freeze the ice packs and your freezer will pump out more heat than it removed, making the overall temp higher.

@@misterhat5823 These are spot coolers, not room coolers. Meant to be blown on you cooling you off.

@@misterhat5823 The overall temp doesn't matter, that's going to be hot regardless. The point of this is to point cooler air directly at yourself, or do you honestly believe this tiny device is meant to cool an entire room?

​@@misterhat5823Maybe you freeze things different where you are but here where I live my freezer is running whether I have Ice Jet freezer rings in it to freeze or not.

At least in the Pure Chill’s defense - I used one for a summer because I wasn’t able to have an AC in my office, and it was a lifesaver. Yes it was a headache putting a new ice cube and water in every 30 min, but the area in front of it was noticeably cooler than the rest of the room, which was all I needed. For $20 (at the time) it was money well spent.

@@Imdrunkontea I guess that's fair, but for 100 more dollars you could've bought a window unit.

@@spikedwk like I said, I couldn't install an AC

@@Imdrunkontea yet you worked there? Why?

It’s almost like physics can’t be beat.

Also in the uk can you point me in the right direction for that please, im dying here 🤣

Did you fill the cooler with frozen water bottles and punch holes in the side ?

@@AJ-ey4ev I set them in two layers, standing upright. Had a styrofoam layer separating them. Had holes in the separating layer for air flow. I cut a six by six slot in the bottom of the cooler for the output air, and used a box fan duct taped to the open top area. So basically the air blew into the cooler, circulated around and came out the bottom vent. Looked a bit like a square bass speaker with a bottom port. Also had a drip pan to catch the condensation. I had about 16 bottles I think.

Unless it can hold more energy than water (which isn't likely since water is extremely energy dense), then it really doesn't matter how cold it can get. The entire point of antifreeze is to keep water, which is what's actually carrying the energy around, from freezing and destroying whatever cooling system it's in. Anyway for this kind of device it'd be actively worse. Ice has to absorb energy just to change phases into liquid water, just as liquid water needs a lot of energy to actually turn into water vapor. It takes a 5.4x as much energy to turn 1g of 100 degree celsius water into vapor as it does to heat that water from 0-100 degrees, while in comparison it takes about 0.8x that much energy to get ice to melt into water. So just for ice to melt into water, it absorbs as much heat as it'd take to heat water from 0-80 degrees C. You WANT the water to freeze, not to mention you don't want to reduce the freezing point to be so low that you can no longer freeze the water at home. For a more effective version of the Icejet, you'd need something that freezes/melts at a reasonable temperature (something you can do in a home freezer), doesn't expand/contract too much while freezing/melting (so as not to break the housing it's in), absorbs a huge amount of energy as it melts, is cheap enough for mass production, and is also safe enough for everyday use by regular people. AFAIK, something like that just doesn't exist. That's why the regular Arctic Air is more effective than the Icejet, vaporizing water just absorbs way more heat from the surrounding air than melting ice does, and it'll be especially effectively since James lives in Las Vegas. Where the Icejet would have an advantage is in a more humid climate, since...it can actually work at all as opposed to a swamp cooler which becomes useless when it's humid.

I did the homeless Van life and it was absolutely brutal!!! My A.C didn't work and my driver side window didn't go down 🥵🥵🥵. I'm looking for a roommate if you have any income at all

Thanks Alvin!

So????? What's the " much bigger device" called??? Also, how much was it. You gotta give info, not just it's better

@@user-tn7dh2ii5l it was an iwata evaporative air cooler. They have various models but they're all essentially the same thing but different sized water containers and fans.

I was wondering the same thing.

Five of these pieces of junk? If you are going about all the trouble, paying the electric bill for 5 of them, just buy a real AC

Someone said you were sweating in a video, and your garage gets hot in the summertime? Who would've guessed. Man this is great info, please tell us more 😂

Thanks! Now onto the next one!

Oh my god. You really went there…. “Garth Brooks in the Life of Chris Gaines” - I remember that turn-of-the-millennium hot mess well.

@@kcindc5539 Hehe, it was such a crap show!!!

@@mackmcmillan9905 it totally was. Beyond cringe right from the start.

@@kcindc5539 100%! HAHA

@@mackmcmillan9905 I vividly remember the moment in 2000 (2001?), working from home, with the “Music Central” cable channel playing through the speakers…. when this sad-sack maudlin funeral tune started and the image on screen was this emaciated-looking goatee’d dude posing his emo best for the camera… and that, boys and girls, is how I first encountered the truly godawful fever dream that was Chris Gaines..