- Modern & stylish design evaporative cooler can be used also as a humidifier, fan and ioniser
- 4 litre water tank with a low water level alarm, ice box provided for added cooling
- LED control panel with soft touch controls, built in 8 hour timer & remote control
- 2 operation modes, 3 fan speeds & 60° oscillation
- Dimensions: H883mm x W308mm x D292mm
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The Air and Water Centre recommends the use of this evaporative cooler in bedrooms, living rooms or small rooms.
The RAFY81 cooler reduces the air temperature by sucking air into the unit and then blowing it back into the room through a moistened filter. Provided with the cooler is an ice box; this ice box can be placed in the freezer and when needed placed into the water tank to aid in cooling.
An ioniser is incorporated in the evaporative cooler this provides cleaner fresher air to the electrostatic settling of dust and the invigorating effect of breathing ions which are found in abundance in the vicinity of waterfalls and mountain tops.
Hints for better cooling - For best performance position the cooler in a location that will create a "flow-through" air effect. The greatest cooling effect will be felt if the unit is operated in a partly opened doorway or window with the "cool" air directed into the room. It is also important to have a door or window partly opened away from the air cooler, in order to create a the "flow through" effect. The recommended humidity maximum level is 60% or less, which allows a noticeable temperature decrease. The evaporative cooler is not an air conditioner it does not use a compressor and refrigerant gas. You should not expect an evaporative cooler to work as effectively as refrigerated air conditioning.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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**UPDATE**
Right, well it's been well and truly hot for a week and I I've got to say I'm not sure how effective the evaporative cooling is. To be honest I do not see much in the way of cooling from the unit, once the air temp in my office reaches 28 or more (which it now has). The problem is I guess that the water temp rises rapidly, as the ice blocks melt quickly at these temps.
It still works brilliantly as a fan, with the remote being very handy too. But I think I'm off to bite the bullet, so to speak, and get a proper air conditioner.
**UPDATE END**
I'll update this later in the summer when it has had a sterner test of its abilities. For the time being I'm pretty pleased. I sit in a south facing office that gets absurdly hot even before summer kicks in. Think tropics style heat in the summer. So faced with option of working "au natural" or sweating throughout the working day I decided purchasing something to cool the office down instead.
I didn't want to purchase an air conditioning unit, largely due to the cost of running them. However a fan alone is not enough, the cheapo oscillating fan just didn't cut the mustard. The old fan seemed to only have fast, very fast and supersonic speeds, and also was at face height - fine for having in the corner of large room but irritating in an office.
So, saw this and thought I'd take a punt. Seems to be made well enough, although as you would expect is made of plastic. Overall I think it looks pretty neat, and size wise is ok too, being about 20cm wide (30 at the base) and sticking above my desk by about 20cm (the fan part though finishes at about desk height). The LED control panel works well, as does the remote (all controls accessible from the remote too). You can see what mode you are in, of which there are a few to choose from.
The fan works well and the slow speed, pushing out a nice gentle breeze, and has three settings going up to the strongest which pushes out a fair volume of air. The blades on the front move to create the same effect as the oscillating fan, and can be kept in a fixed position if you prefer (again controllable via the remote). The evaporative cooling does appear to work, you have to wait a few minutes for it to start to take effect but once it does you feel the cooler air come through. Now the ambient temperature in my office is about 23 at the moment, so will have to wait and see if it still works when the room is around 30 or more. I'll update once it gets hotter, but the ice pack that comes with it should help.
Only issue so far is that it does not remember the setting you were on, so always seems to start back up in the non-cooling, non-moving fast fan setting. Reason this is irritating is that I could have bought a timer switch, plugged the fan into this and had it come on in cooling mode before I get into the office. However as you are supposed to have a window open then this is probably not a good idea anyway, just would have been nice to try (it does have a sleep timer though).
Right, well it's been well and truly hot for a week and I I've got to say I'm not sure how effective the evaporative cooling is. To be honest I do not see much in the way of cooling from the unit, once the air temp in my office reaches 28 or more (which it now has). The problem is I guess that the water temp rises rapidly, as the ice blocks melt quickly at these temps.
It still works brilliantly as a fan, with the remote being very handy too. But I think I'm off to bite the bullet, so to speak, and get a proper air conditioner.
**UPDATE END**
I'll update this later in the summer when it has had a sterner test of its abilities. For the time being I'm pretty pleased. I sit in a south facing office that gets absurdly hot even before summer kicks in. Think tropics style heat in the summer. So faced with option of working "au natural" or sweating throughout the working day I decided purchasing something to cool the office down instead.
I didn't want to purchase an air conditioning unit, largely due to the cost of running them. However a fan alone is not enough, the cheapo oscillating fan just didn't cut the mustard. The old fan seemed to only have fast, very fast and supersonic speeds, and also was at face height - fine for having in the corner of large room but irritating in an office.
So, saw this and thought I'd take a punt. Seems to be made well enough, although as you would expect is made of plastic. Overall I think it looks pretty neat, and size wise is ok too, being about 20cm wide (30 at the base) and sticking above my desk by about 20cm (the fan part though finishes at about desk height). The LED control panel works well, as does the remote (all controls accessible from the remote too). You can see what mode you are in, of which there are a few to choose from.
The fan works well and the slow speed, pushing out a nice gentle breeze, and has three settings going up to the strongest which pushes out a fair volume of air. The blades on the front move to create the same effect as the oscillating fan, and can be kept in a fixed position if you prefer (again controllable via the remote). The evaporative cooling does appear to work, you have to wait a few minutes for it to start to take effect but once it does you feel the cooler air come through. Now the ambient temperature in my office is about 23 at the moment, so will have to wait and see if it still works when the room is around 30 or more. I'll update once it gets hotter, but the ice pack that comes with it should help.
Only issue so far is that it does not remember the setting you were on, so always seems to start back up in the non-cooling, non-moving fast fan setting. Reason this is irritating is that I could have bought a timer switch, plugged the fan into this and had it come on in cooling mode before I get into the office. However as you are supposed to have a window open then this is probably not a good idea anyway, just would have been nice to try (it does have a sleep timer though).
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Hi
This is working as described. Have tried with Ice packs, and works really good creating nice chilled blow during hot nights, it was really bad in our bedroom last few nights as per weather conditions, humid and hot etc... We have installed this in the corner by the window, with frozen ice pack it's blowing very nice chilled air for about 5-6 hours than we need to replace Ice pack, but without this it is still nice air breez with cold water it's ok not chilled but ok enought to maintain nice air floow. Ionised air you can fill the difference. Bit loud when set on full power or med. Ok on slow mode, sleep mode is annoing as it's blowing for a second very quaiet and then going to full power and it's very loud than agin qeit etc...
In general we are happy for the price which we have paid it's working good. Not sure for how long as we are using this for about 3 weeks.
Wojciech
This is working as described. Have tried with Ice packs, and works really good creating nice chilled blow during hot nights, it was really bad in our bedroom last few nights as per weather conditions, humid and hot etc... We have installed this in the corner by the window, with frozen ice pack it's blowing very nice chilled air for about 5-6 hours than we need to replace Ice pack, but without this it is still nice air breez with cold water it's ok not chilled but ok enought to maintain nice air floow. Ionised air you can fill the difference. Bit loud when set on full power or med. Ok on slow mode, sleep mode is annoing as it's blowing for a second very quaiet and then going to full power and it's very loud than agin qeit etc...
In general we are happy for the price which we have paid it's working good. Not sure for how long as we are using this for about 3 weeks.
Wojciech
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i spend 2 weeks look for nice and silent machine for summer and i find this one
is quit big but i can sleep trhough a day time is nice quiet
4 liter water included ice box
negative dont forget buy battery to remote control because isnt included
is quit big but i can sleep trhough a day time is nice quiet
4 liter water included ice box
negative dont forget buy battery to remote control because isnt included
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