Honeywell CO60PM 2471 CFM Indoor/Outdoor Evaporative Air Cooler (Swamp Cooler) with Mechanical Controls in Gray/White

I am really impressed with my Honeywell Evaporative Cooler. As you can see in the picture, it is about 13 degrees cooler in my house compared to the outside temperature. I have several Evaporative coolers and this one is one of my favorites.PROS:1. The fan on low is very powerful already. It is enough to cool most of my house. It cools about 1000 sqf. I don't use the higher settings as the wind is just too strong for indoors.2. When used outdoors, it cools my 600 sqf covered patio on low setting.3. When the temp outside goes over 90, it blows a constant 78 degrees.4. When it reaches 100, it blows a cool 80 degrees as measured from a thermometer by the output.5. Filling with water is done from the top of the unit. When it hits 90 and up, I add ice to the water I pour in.6. I have window fans blowing out the humid air so I get the cooling without adding humidity. I also open windows. The heat doesn't come into the Windows because the air getting blown into the house by the cooler gets blown outwards from any open window or door. Just make sure the open window is not facing the side of the house where wind blows to your house.7. When we cook at noon, we open the door to the garage. My garage has a whirly bird turbine on the roof which sucks the air out of the garage. It sucks the heat and humidity from the kitchen into the garage and out the roof turbine. As a result in 110 degree weather, I didn't need to use my AC.8. It is built like a tank. It reminds me of Coleman giant cooler. Rugged and strong.9. Meant to be left outside. It has UV protection so you can use it outdoors.10. I open my patio sliding door and put it in front just as you see in the picture. That way I get direct air from outside and not sucking air from inside the house and increasing humidity.11. In the evening when it is cooler outside, I switch off the Cool function and I set the fan on high to blow cold air into the house.CONS:1. Cleaning requires that you remove screws on the back and both sides to remove all the cooling cells. I wish that it was just press button or latch.SUMMARY:I cannot say enough nice things about this. I use it even when the Relative humidity is 70%. Humidity does rise so you have to vent it out just like I did. It is built finer than my Portacool. I highly recommend it.

I live in SW Colorado Springs and renting a house without A/C. The weather is very dry and hot during the day, with cooler temps at night. But 2 out of the 3 levels of this house temps during the day were reaching 86º and hotter. I did lots of research on this product and thought this was the unit that best fit our needs. My folks recently moved in with me and they are home during the day. I had to do better for them. We felt an immediate change in temperature, on the middle level where I put the unit. I have a nice lower window in the dinning room and I put the unit right in front of the open window. This floor is very open and it cools the whole floor to a nice comfortable temperature in the mid-70's. This floor is where the kitchen, dining room and family room is and where we spend most of our time. Each bedrooms are cooled by the ceiling fan along with small tabletop fan, in each room, but windows are open at night allowing comfort sleeping, as it gets into the 50's at night. The walkout basement is always cool, but is used for storage and laundry room, since it is not finished. I have been using this for 3-weeks now and have not yet had to clean it, but I am aware that I will need to soon. There was a bit of an odd smell the first day, but the odor was not bad and is not producing any odors now. We only run it in the late afternoon until it starts getting cooler in the evenings. I bought a 15' hose to fill it originally, but use a 2-gallon watering can to fill it before use each day. I have not got my first electric bill since getting the unit, but believe in the reviews that it will be economically better than the window A/C unit that the owners left for me to use. If there is a downside, I'd add that it is loud enough that the TV has to be turned up to hear it, but conversations are held at the normal level unless someone tries to talk from the kitchen to the family room, then it gets hard to hear what was said. I can say that it is a little louder than running a table fan on high. The unit has 3 settings and I need to add that we have not needed to run the unit past the first setting.