ladies and gentlemen boys and girls this is something that excites me like crazy
what's going on everybody eric here from nomadic fanatic it is time for another
product review i'm going to introduce you to something you may not know exists already this is
the world's smallest portable air conditioning unit for camping this is an air conditioner guys
this is not one of those cheap walmart boxes that says it cools but it doesn't it doesn't did this
literally has a compressor in it uh the size of this air conditioner is stated to be 2300 btus so
growing up when i was a kid in my bedroom window i had a 5000 btu air conditioner in the window this
is 2300 about half of that window size ac that i had the rooftop air conditioner that's on my rv
currently is a 13 five hundred this is only twenty three hundred again i'm just trying to establish
some context here this is a small portable air conditioner but it does get the job done
zero breeze is marketing this towards outdoor camping uh putting it in your car putting it in
your van not so much in the rv industry but that's what i'm here to do i'm here to debunk things and
tell you that guess what this can keep you cool and comfortable in your rv if done correctly
and today i'm going to show you how to correctly use this oh did i mention it runs off a battery
this is one of the batteries a battery operated air conditioner folks
let's see slide this guy on like this
locks in it's a little heavier with that but now it's a battery operated air conditioner
you can run it with these batteries or you can run it straight plugged into your outlet
we're going to go test and see how much watts this thing used so you can see what it does
but let me bring you a little closer and show you some specs on it all right so let me show you a
couple things on here we'll go ahead and turn on the battery here to get her all started up
uh it'll beep and then over here you gotta get a red light here on top that tells you it's powered
on ready to go there is one cord here that you have to plug in to there there's also an adapter
to run both batteries so that you can charge both batteries while you're also running this thing we
are going to talk about the exhaust and everything and how i have that situated inside the rv in a
moment but first i just want to show you the front of it here's where the air comes out it's all just
touch so you just touch it to turn it on it starts in rocket mode which is the coolest it's really
bright outside but this dial you can turn the fan and the cooling all the way up and then if you
look at the front there it's at 67 degrees going down that's the air that's coming out of this
i'm going to stand back to also tell you that this has a built-in soft start system so it is
slowly coming up so that you can use this off the batteries and your inverter it's not going to have
those deep discharges it slowly turns on we're going to plug the watt meter in it later and check
it is definitely blowing out some nice air it says 65 that will continue to climb even lower
so there's an intake here for air ambient room that's how it knows how it's doing the back
is spewing out hot air on this side not quite hot yet but it will get hot and there's another
exhaust right here again more on the exhaust features and stuff later so you got it starts
up in rocket mode automatically little rocket you can switch it to regular air conditioning
right there with little snowflake turn the fans we're at 62 degrees there this moves up and down
huh that's actually i know you can't probably even hear anything but it's on
and it'll get down it'll get cool we're gonna let it go for a little bit actually
put it back on rocket i'll get back here in a couple minutes all right
and it just keeps dropping it's flickering on your end but not on mine 59 degrees there
oh yeah bottom line this thing flat out works it's continuing to drop now it's at 57 degrees
and it is some cold air coming out i want to talk about the vent system because honestly this
review isn't complete by just showing you what it looks like without all the stuff attached to
it that you have to have so we'll start with the front i'm going to turn it off actually
and again it's going to slowly turn off ramp down everything
all right it's finally turned itself all the way completely off but that's a good thing
because that's going to protect your inverters and your batteries from having big draws it's
going to be easy with them so i showed you how this goes up and down here to adjust
but what if this is sitting here because it has to be there and i'm sitting over there how do
you get cold air over to you well that's why it came with this front piece this front piece
mounts on the front with an allen wrench so i'm going to go ahead and secure this on there
two allen wrench screws on both sides
all right and then once that's tight on there like that now you can simply open this up adjust it
put it wherever you want and have air just on you wherever you need it i think it's
an absolute must to have this so and i will just point out so if you've seen any of the
promotional stuff or any of the other reviews that i can find right now people aren't showing
these they just want to show how small it is but the problem is that's not practical to me because
i always use it with everything connected which i'm going to show you the rest of it
but again i i feel like this is essential i've even had this situated making an entire u-turn
like this and coming back to hit me sitting in the seat which i'll show you in just a moment
but the back if you buy a portable air conditioner and it doesn't have dual exhaust like you've seen
the big ones you put in your house and it has one tube that goes out to the window there's only one
tube you are not going to be very efficient this has the dual ports and it comes with
well it comes with this piece and the pipes this is extra and i'm going to show you how i have
it installed and okay essentially these two have to hook on it comes with two more hoses and then
i made this and cut this to fit one of my windows also to keep bugs and other critters from getting
in the tubes when i'm not using it you can see these little trying to make it so you can see it
there you go see it so what i actually used is it was cheaper just to buy two strainers
and then i cut the material from the strainers to fit over them to keep bugs from getting in this
they're not going to be able to climb through here when hot air is coming out but the other
one maybe or if it's off at night and i leave the window open so i custom made this to fit in the rv
multiple windows but i'll just show you what it looks like because i feel it's important to show
what the actual assembled piece looks like okay so now we are looking at a portable air conditioner
that looks something like this let me get behind it it looks like this that's what it actually
looks like inside my rv which is still compact um the battery situation i mean unless you're really
trying to save your batteries i'm just going to plug it into my normal outlet and running off my
lithium batteries and the solar panels of my rv so with that let me bring this inside and show
you how it looks inside all right and there she is folks fully installed here uh currently sitting on
part of my dinette and all i would need to do is grab a bungee from underneath the table wrap up
the handle and go back down for transport but i probably won't be using it while i'm driving
due to the fact that it needs to be plugged outside so that custom piece that i fit you can
see it curves along the window just perfectly and then all you do is open the window a little bit
we'll go outside and i'll show you what it looks like on the outside i originally chose to have the
white side of the board to the out but it just didn't look good because this isn't pure white
so i went with the black side which kind of matches the matches the tint here and that's
what it looks like again there's going to be no bugs getting in there at night
i do have to pull it out of the window in order to close the window and then i have a little rod to
secure the window in place while i'm using the air conditioner but from the outside you really can't
even tell that much if i really wanted to i could even get some black spray paint and paint part of
the duct work out here and the actual vent there which i might later on i don't know yet one thing
i will remind you is that be mindful of which side goes up and down on this unit this side
this side is the hot air exhaust so this side you want to be high you want the cold intake to
be lower because heat rises so make sure that you have it in this configuration that you see here
not the other way around with the heat on the bottom and then this guy can just twist around
and face wherever i want right here in the chair usually so um right now you can see i've unplugged
the battery i've just got the power cord plugged directly in we've got it plugged into our little
watt meter right here where it's drawing for some reason four watts of ghost watts there
not even turned on well that's not true we do have the red light on there so something's on here
uh let's see other things we're going to talk about so the big question everybody's going to
ask eric how much space will it actually cool well according to zero breeze this is meant
to cool a space that is up to 40 square feet 40 square foot space which would be pretty much most
most cars suvs vans maybe even some of the sprinter vans and stuff like that but an rv
probably not i mean if you measure the length of my rv 24 feet by eight feet wide
no that's just under 200 square feet but we're not really cooling 200 square feet because we've got
cupboards and we've got the fridge that pops out we've got this countertop here and stuff like that
as you can see i've closed the back curtain right now to the bedroom so really what we're doing is
we're changing a few things i've also got the curtain behind you across the cab over and then
right behind the driver's area here and the bathroom door is closed boy it's getting hot
i got to turn that on here so let's see where we're at now we're still eight feet across here
but when you get to the fridge it's obviously not eight feet anymore it's four and a half feet so
eight feet for those three feet and then four feet for the last five feet i'm not i'm not good
at all this measuring let's see how from the back of the camera all the way to the curtain
is 10 feet so 10 feet by what should we call this we got eight there we got four and a half here
let's just round it to the middle and say six so ten foot by six foot is what we're
trying to cool which is sixty square feet and this is rated for forty so we're over that
but in hindsight even if it doesn't maintain a perfectly cold temperature year round
since we can adjust that and kind of spot ac while we're sitting here you know so i'm going to sit
here at the computer and i'm going to aim this you know i'm going to bring it all the way over to me
aim it right at me or on me or on the bottom of the table here while i'm on the laptop to
feel that it's gonna feel cooler than it really is because it's literally spot cooling me right
now it's not i don't it might not be cold there or back there or something but right here it's
going to be nice and chilly and i do need to get some shades for right here too to keep the sun out
but uh let's do a test all right so i got the watt meter here can you guys see that yeah 4.2
watts 3.3 all right so i'll be showing you this as we go through the process here but let's go ahead
and turn it on i want to turn it on to the highest which will be the rocket it starts on rocket turn
it all the way up cooling on rocket and as it fires up we're gonna okay so 17 watts already
don't know if you can hear it also just starting to warm up even more there's 25
watts remember that my rooftop ac my 13 500 uh ac that's on the roof there runs on 1300 watts
1300 watts just trying to get it to focus there we go and the glare out of the way sorry about that
67 watts 71 watts but while it's revving up there oh my gosh
it feels so nice feels so nice this won't even set off the fans on my inverter it won't
all right we're up to 103 watts 104 105 now it's still climbing very very slowly
but not 1300 watts so far 110 watts and it's still ramping up what do you think of that
opie right there oh how does that feel oh you like that's gonna be your new spot huh
yeah you like that one i'm just gonna keep checking this 121 watts now
how far will she go oh i missed it it went up to 134 and now it's dropping
it's still on rocket but now it's down to 119 and continuing to drop down so it hit that
desired temperature that it was trying to get to on rocket and now you can switch it to cool
cool right there now let me let let the regular cool catch up and we'll see how
much that runs on just regular cool now that we're maintained all right 75 watts
let's scroll down and get the amps just want you guys to see that less than one amp .76 amps
oh it's still going up a little bit but yeah less than one amp guys for this air conditioner so i've
been testing this thing out for a good week now guys and getting ready to make this video but
i wanted to really get some numbers and show you everything because i wanted it to look good there
is one thing that i forgot to show you and that is because it's a real air conditioner because it's
actual air conditioner that removes moisture from the air there's also a drain hose you attach a
drain hose right there and i will show you what i've done is put it down here into a bucket
okay and this bucket has quite a bit of water in it can you see that
quite a bit of uh dirty water there and then i'll just empty this once a week or so on the road but
that's something to consider and then as far as transport this comes out of the window the window
secures and then i bungee this to the table right here but the reason i mean it's so portable that
this little thing i cut right here it'll fit into the side window over in that chair it'll fit into
the bedroom window in there i could put this on my bed and just cool me in there close the blinds
right there and just cool a much smaller space all night long we're only talking what was it 130
watts max that's nothing when you have 500 lithium amp hours of battery storage overnight and they're
just going to recharge the next day when the sun comes out so zero breeze has done something that
is just going to be a game changer for a lot of people who don't like the heat in the summertime
i'm sorry tara didn't pop up here it's just kind of all opie today that's okay yeah i want to thank
zero breeze for sending this out to me and the two extra batteries and the cables and everything we
are going to be enjoying a cooler summer this year with this unit right here there are some links in
the video description if you want to check it out for yourself but yeah thanks again xero breeze
and we will see you back to our regular scheduled programming tomorrow from the road thanks guys bye
you