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The heat index is in it's triple digit numbers here in Texas. Even the garage is showing 105 with the door open and a fan running. can't get the inside lower than 85-86 degrees. The AC only gets a break at night. I needed something more and I got it. After ordering my Sunpentown Evaporative Air Cooler SF-608R, it arrived in about 4-days and was put to work. The air started to cool down slowly. Let me say that even though this little cooler can't cover the size of the front room, it helped in bringing down the temp to where we run it at 80 degrees.I'm happy to say that I'm loving it, because heat is one thing that can bring me down at my age after open heart surgery. It's made for a smaller room, but I still use it in a much larger room and it did help! Do I recommend it? YES! I only wish I had the cash flow to get a much bigger one for the garage.
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If Your going to spend $110 on this item , spend $40 more and get a KuulAire. For $145 you can get a fantastic little Kuulaire swamp cooler. For $175 you can get an amazing Kuulair swamp cooler that blows like a large A/C unit. They make some unbelievable and great looking swamp coolers. They aren't going to be as quiet as this Sunpentown but this things really doesn't do much anyway. I live in a very dry climate in Colorado and this Sunpentown doesn't cool the air more than 2 degrees MAX. It truly is a complete waste of money.Honest reviews on Sunpentown SF-608R: Evaporative Air Cooler # SF-608R MPN: SF-608R
My home office doesn't have a window that opens to put in a window AC unit, and the only wall I could cut through to vent a portable unit is visible from the street. So I bought this Sunpentown unit about 5 years ago.It cools the 9 X 12 office by about 5 degrees here in the arid high desert. The office doesn't have a door, and I think it would lower the temps a few more degrees if the space was closed.
I have it about 4' from my computer, and have it set to swing back and forth, so it blows on the computer to keep it cool (and it does a good job) then it swings to my arm and it does feel quite cool even today when it's 95 outside and 85 in the hall just outside the office. I can immediately feel the temperature difference when I walk into the unairconditioned living room.
I put a couple bigger chunks of ice in the top bin along with a tray of regular sized ice cubes which melt fast enough to keep the fabric filter/wick damp and cool. I add to the ice about every 2 hours so I use up 5 to 7 trays of the smaller cubes and 8 or 10 larger chunks -which are about 3" square and 2" thick, made in old tupperware type containers -between 10 am and 7 pm.
I don't think having ice water in the lower compartment is worth it unless it gets completely unbearable in here. You need a couple gallons of water/ice in the lower compartment to get the level high enough to run the recirc pump, and the ice you need to cool that quantity of water and keep it cool is prohibitive unless you have 1.5 or more extra cubic feet of space in your freezer, which I do not. Plus, when you add ice it eventually fills the reservoir too high so every few hours you have to wheel the unit somewhere to drain half the water out before you can fit more ice in. For me, the outside temp has to be 110 or higher to make it worth clearing out freezer space and all the extra effort.
It works better than just a fan, and I think it was worth the price, because it was my only option other than a box fan. The heat coming off my monitor and computer processor heats up the room by several degrees and was completely unbearable before I got this unit. Now I can have the computer on all day without miserable heat.
It wasn't cooling very well earlier this year, so I finally ran some vinegar thru it and thru the recirc pump then took it apart to clean. After 5 years it's now working like it did when new. It probably should be cleaned every fall before putting it into storage to get the best performance.
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