Yeah, this isn’t G.Q. material.
I keep seeing ads on my social media for the Qinux Breezamax. For reasons I cannot discern, I cannot embed the hyperlink in here. WTF.
Lemme try old school here.
Reviews on the InterWebs are useless. So I turn to our astute and technically savvy Dopers. It this the Emperor’s New A.C. or does this thing work and draw a fraction of my window A.C. unit??
I can’t see anything at that link that talks at all about how it works, that is, how it cools the air. This, along with my BS meter, leads me to think it is, well, BS.
There are a lot of devices on the market that are just small swamp coolers. These basically work by turning hot, dry air into cooler, humid air. This works, if your air is already dry, but the small ones don’t work very well, certainly not for anyone but the person they’re right next to and pointed directly at.
This particular product, though, from what I can tell from a quick search, doesn’t even do that. It’s just a fan.
It doesn’t say how it cools.
Is it a traditional A/C with Freon or such?
Is it an evaporative cooler?
How does something that small work?
Save your money.
ETA: They’re offering 50% off right out the gate.
All those company logos scrolling across?
None of them link to anything.
At the bottom of the page are a number of payment options. None of them link to anything.
Given what @running_coach just pointed out, and the lack of any mechanism noted for the cooling, I’d move past “hapless hype” and into “scam”. Hapless hype is the Chillwell and like mini-swamp coolers, where, yeah, technically while they have water, ice and a useful climate, could briefly cool a small area, this looks like nothing but scam advertising, and all you’ll get is a quiet fan if anything at all.
It’s a scam. It’s a cheap USB-powered fan without even any evaporative cooling. Definitely not an air conditioner.
@robby
I hadn’t even gone looking for reviews.
On the “About Us” page:
Since the Breezus logo is there, you would think it’s about the company.
Wrong.
Ecomerzpro is the reference platform where to get the maximum results for online sales, where the best and most powerful advertisers meet, including the latest and latest trends with the largest and most relevant publishers of the online ecosystem.
All this with the best technology and using the most effective and innovative formats, allow us to achieve results that you have never been able to imagine.
**“Suckah”.
Ahhhhh well. I’ll turn away from Alchemy and return to the warm slightly dangerous Illuminati instead.
Like a good Doper.**
It’s bladeless.
Whats moves the air?
And why does being bladeless make it cool the air better?
It’s battery powered.
How long does it last?
It says installation needs no tools.
How does it mount to a wall?
It refreshes the air.
Filters? It doesn’t say.
They claim over 500,000 customers. Happy customers.
ICANN shows a registration date of 2025-06-24
Barely 5 weeks ago.
Expiration term is only a year.
Your wallet will be lighter, so you will generate less body heat carrying it around.
It’s a small heater. And 100% efficient, like any resistive heater. It won’t heat very much, since it’s just waste heat from the fan and from air friction, but nevertheless it converts all of the energy in its battery into heat.
Au contraire, mon frère. Read it again. The website is quite upfront about how it works. The very first bullet point under Qinux BreezaMax Features says it uses CryoFlux® Technology. You know, like a graphics card. Or something. Duh!
(I’ve also heard that it’s powered by Brawndo* but I have no cite for that so… caveat emptor)
*It’s got electrolytes!
Total WAG, having not heard of this until just now when I clicked on this thread, maybe it’s an ionic breeze. It certainly wouldn’t be very powerful, but that weird ozone smell might trick people into thinking it’s doing something.
Someone should suggest this to BigCliveDotCom. This is exactly the stuff he likes to take apart and show us why, at best, it does nothing at all and, at worst, the shoddy design means some exposed part has the ability to become live.
Given the name of the product, I think you’re on to something there.
Honestly, that was my thinking. Something about the name made me think it’s an ionic breeze type thing. However, I think when they say “bladeless” what they mean is “has blades”. An honest mistake, surely.
Assuming this is the same product, I see a squirrel cage (centrifugal fan) and I’m guessing they’re suggesting that doesn’t have blades. Maybe?
Ecomerzpro seems to be a drop shipper and/or fulfillment center. They probably have similar pages set up for other products they sell as well.
I think it’s safe to assume all the good ‘reviews’ were seeing are paid for by them as well.
Yeah. Worth a quick glance:
I am particularly intrigued by this comment:
For the purchased price they could have included some lubricant with the unit
Hm. Which way to read that …..? 
It doesn’t. It has Vertical Impellor Vanes.