Apex 500

Great cooler Air cooling: It drops temp 30 degrees easily Noise level: very quiet Comfort: it greatly reduced ambient temperature Why did you pick this product vs others?: the WiFi capability is a great feature that others don’t have functionality right at your fingertips

Owned it for about a month and now it leaks everywhere. And I have a small 1 bedroom apartment and it still doesn’t cool the place down lower than 5 degrees. Do not recommend. Not worth the money. Clunky and makes the apartment humid when it shuts off (cuz the water runs out from leaking all over my floor) and it’s loud. Very loud.

This cooler is the perfect size for our dog pen in the garage. We are in hot AZ and our dog stays completely comfortable with it well over 109 degrees outside. We keep the garage door open about 3 ft.

I like the cooling of the Apex 700. It's also much quieter than my old evaporative cooler. I also like the fact that the intake and cooling vent are both on the front - which means it can be put in a corner without worrying about airflow. The hose intake is also on the back of the unit and out of the way. The unit is WiFi/app controllable, and can send status notifications to your phone. It was giving me some erroneous complaints about potential for overfilling for a few days, but those have gone away. The issue I've had with it - and almost sent it back over - is that it was leaking a significant amount of water. When I diagnosed the problem, I found that the cover for the evaporative media touches the media. When water gets to the front of the media, it wicks on over to that cover, then the path of least resistance for that water is to channel out of the unit and down onto the ground (or in my case, my patio's concrete slab). I don't know why the designers thought it was a good idea to have that front cover touch the cooling media that can have water on it, and not provide a path of least resistance for the water to wick back down into the unit rather than out onto the ground. Removing the cover over the evaporative media fixes the problem, but I think it would also work to space the cover out so it doesn't touch the media, cut the cover back, or add some kind of lip that extends down from the bottom of the grille that would wick the water down that way and back into the reservoir rather than out and onto the ground.

The product works very well. It drops the temperature in our barn over 10 degrees. The auto start up and shut down is very effective. Moves lots of air and throws a wide swath!

Leaks water. Calling Portacool results in being on hold and then disconnection. Avoid this product and company.

I have not used the evaporative cooler yet. It was purchased for use in the Texas Hill country, not the Gulf coast. Evaporative coolers work their best in drier climates.