Save your money when you see ads for cheap “personal air coolers” on TV
There are a handful of fine products to find in corny cable infomercials, however it’s no surprise to anyone that several of them are junk or outright worthless.
I spent a fantastic chunk of money on a “cold heat” soldering iron that supposedly only worked when you touched it to metal or to the end of a long wire of lead solder.
Unluckyly, the tiny induction furnace in the unit wasn’t strong enough to melt solder, so it never entirely worked no matter how several times I tried the wretched thing. I even looked at forum posts as recent as a few years ago plus people are still complaining about these exhausting things over 10 years after they were first released. But there are equally exhausting products with the infamous “as seen on TV” label nowadays. For instance, my discouragingly naive sibling was harping to me Last monthabout this $20 “portable air conditioner” that he had ordered from a cable commercial. I looked it up plus discovered that his $20 “portable air conditioner” is entirely called a “personal air cooler,” plus it’s nothing more than a micro-sized evaporative cooler. Evaporative coolers use a easy fan to push air through a wet medium, thus causing the moisture to evaporate into the air, thereby dropping the temperature in the process. But this natural cooling from moisture evaporation only works in dry climates. My sibling was under the impression that he could take this tiny little evaporative cooler camping plus get air conditioner inside the tent. Since our outdoor humidity here hovers above 69% in the summer, the little “personal air cooler” isn’t even going to work!