Crompton Ozone 88-Litre Inverter Compatible Desert Air Cooler with Honeycomb Pads for Home and Commercial (White and Teal)

Pros:
Fan speed: High enough to reach to the furthest corners of a medium sized room (14′ x 16′). I always prefer high speed mode with filled in ice chamber. Try to place this near a open window for best results.
Handling: Separate knob for speed control and function control.
Vent: I don’t know the exact material type may be made of wooden pulp but works fine.
Noise: It generates lesser noise than a pedestal fan.
Quality: The fan is a metal one. Although the outer body is made up of plastic but appears sturdy enough. I didn’t face any problem after using this vigorously for two weeks.
Cons:
Size: Too large to fit in a small room.
Operation: Insetion and outletting of water is a pain to your ass.
Smell: Fishy smell comes out from the cooler after using same water for more than two days. I had tried to remove this smell but everything went in vein. Only solution is to drain out all the precious water from the storage.
Power chord: Too short to cover even 3 feet. You can not place the cooler near to the switch board always.
Look: Robust. Might not always matched with fancy furniture in your room.
No outer cover is supplied to protect the product from dust when not in use.

Summer and air cooler goes synonymously, especially when you do not want AC and are trying to avoid it.

Upon subsequent analysis wrt price point, features and utility wrt room size this model emerged on top, from among similar range products from other companies.

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🎁 INSIDE BOX
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▶ Cooler
▶ Manual
▶ Warranty Card

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➕ PROS
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1. Good looking, lightweight & portable
2. 4 castor wheels to make it portable (wheels are actually smooth)
3. Effective cooling for room size of 20x15ft.
4. Honeycomb type cooling pads on three sides for effective cooling.
5. Good capacity (75l) water tank. Single fill lasts for full 14-18 hours of continuous usage.
6. Auto swing (R-L) ensures uniform cooling of room
7. Full plastic body means no issue like in all metal desert coolers, which rust after a while and start leaking at times.
8. Direct transparent zone to act as water level indicator to let you know when tank is empty. No mechanical components here.
9. Sufficiently long cable, approx. 1.5 metre. For more you require extension cord.

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➖ CONS
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1. Installed honeycomb type pads are difficult to find. You need to settle for normal grass pads later on when these are clogged.
2. Water inlet lid is difficult to open (mostly a manufacturing defect in this piece). Initially we thought that we would break it while opening, it was that hard to pull
3. Gimmicy ice chamber and you would better use lower water inlet to put in ice to cool water instantly. If you use ice chamber, icethe process of cooling water is very slow- ice melts and cold water flows down the pipe to the tank.
4. Noise levels are higher but that is due to higher air flow to cover bigger spaces and sadly you can’t avoid it. If you go for bigger coolers, you would have slightly higher noise levels.

For the cons, I am deducting 1 star. 4 stars as the product fulfils its purpose in best possible way with some scope for improvement in other domains.

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🎛️ KNOB CONTROLS
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Knob 1:Controls speed, 3 speeds to have
Knob 2: Controls autoswing and water pump- water pump on and swing off, water pump on and swing on, pump off and swing on, both off

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🎛️ AIR DIRECTION CONTROL
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Horizontal Blades: No auto swing, manual adjustment (hard to adjust)
Vertical Blades: Auto swing, knob control, all blades move simultaneously

So in practice you can have air directed either up or down or front, with auto swing of vertical blades covering all zones as per manually set horizontal blades.

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⚙️ TIPS
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1. Install cooler near window or door so that it can pump in some of fresh air from outside to have a control over humidity.
2. Better if you can install it in balcony, facing window such that its 3 sides are able to suck in fresh air. Cover rest of window with cardboard or thermocole sheets for better insulation. It helps control humidity in room, as if it’s inside a closed room, it continuously adds moisture.
3. Cross ventilation doubles the cooling effect. So if cooler on one corner, provide air escape route on other corner.
3. Use ice cool water for faster cooling. You can manually add ice to it.
4. Clean cooler once or twice a week. It ensures long life of cooler and hygiene too. Or it may soon become prominent breeding place for mosquitoes.
5. Do have an eye on air quality. If theres lot of water droplets along with air, get it checked or it may cost you coolers motor in long run, as it may burn.

6. END OF SEASON TIP: To ensure long life of cooler, completely clean and dry it before storage. Then add few drops of oil to shaft of motor and store it. This way your cooler will be ready to cool upon unpack from last season or else you may end up your cooler in repair shop.

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🏆 FINAL VERDICT
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Not a bad deal for the price and performance. You don’t find many coolers with such water capacity.