- [Reviewer] This is a follow-up video,
to the Arctic Air personal space cooler,
that I made her a view of a few weeks back.
Keep watching, and I'll show you how
you don't have to spend $20
on a replacement filter.
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like all popular products,
the arctic air attracts some negativity too.
The most common,
and unfair observation being said,
is that it doesn't cool a room.
It's not supposed to replace
an air conditioning unit,
it's just over six inches cubed.
No one ever claimed it to be a room cooler.
It's advertised as a personal space cooler.
So it's not going to cool a room,
nor will it make you a sandwich,
or wash your car,
but you can't fix stupid,
so some people are complaining about that one.
It makes a great low powered,
and compact alternative to a desk fan.
A desk fan can be cumbersome, unbalanced,
and generally, in the way.
This tiny unit has kept me cooler,
it sits on my desktop,
taking up hardly no space at all.
First, let's take a look at how it works.
Water goes in here,
and collects in a tray at the bottom.
The water is absorbed
by the feet of the filter material,
This causes an evaporative cooling effect.
The simple fan of the rear of the Arctic Air,
then pushes this cooler air towards you,
which can be directed by the grill.
Evaporative cooling is the same principle,
as how our bodies naturally cool us when we sweat.
As the moisture is evaporated into the air,
it takes the heat away with it in the process.
Some tests I've seen,
include people measuring the temperature
at the back,
compared to what comes out of the front,
and then making misguided conclusions.
What comes out the front is of course cooler,
but some people show how it's only
a few degrees cooler.
This is true, but what's being missed,
is the fact that it's not pushing
the same dry air at you.
The air is both A cooled and B moistened,
and the fact that the air is moistened,
adds to the effect of cooling you,
again through the process of evaporative cooling.
Or effectively, making you feel,
or giving you the equivalent cooling,
of a much greater drop in temperature difference
than what's recorded in those tests.
We had a heatwave this year in the UK,
and this unit has been running almost all day,
every day, and next to my bedside at night,
to allow me to get some sleep.
Some people are reporting, or claiming,
that you have to replace the filter
as often as every two months.
The instructions say six months.
Well, I feel it still cools just as good
as it did two months ago,
however, you may more likely be motivated
to replace your filter early,
when it starts to smell a bit fishy.
I see replacement filters advertised at around 19.99.
I'm gonna show you
how you can restore your arctic air filter,
and spend potentially nothing.
What you need is some simple white distilled vinegar,
which you might already have,
or you can buy for a few pennies,
pour one to four parts vinegar to water.
I've made my concentration too strong here.
Allow the unit to go through a full cycle,
emptying the reservoir.
And this will completely deodorise your filter.
The vinegar smell goes away after a day or less,
and by the way,
if there's some high-explosives vinegar,
somehow, somewhere, that I don't know about,
don't blame me if this ruins your day.
I'm just showing you what I did.
I don't see the manufacturers recommending this,
but they want to sell you a filter, right?
One last tip, some people complain
about the $40 price point.
These things, from what I can tell,
all originated from China.
Some top retailers appear to be getting the boxes
branded with their logo,
under some kind of licensing deal maybe,
where they promote it as their own product.
I believe if you shop around online,
and, or wait a little longer for overseas delivery,
you can get one for more like the $20 price point,
or even as little as $7,
if you buy, like,
hundreds of them wholesale, see ya.