Zero Breeze Mark 3 AC Review: Effective Portable Cooling

As the weather heats up, the trappings of summertime get with it: swimsuits, mosquitoes, and, naturally, portable aerial conditioning.

Go-anywhere AC is present a thing, and successful fact, I’ve been penning astir it since 2019, erstwhile Zero Breeze released its archetypal luggable, battery-powered aerial conditioning unit. A (minor) update arrived successful 2022, but present mentation 3 is here. Conceptually, the Zero Breeze Mark 3 (Roman numerals begone!) remains the aforesaid arsenic its forebears, though the plan has been tidied up a bit, giving it a cleaner and much polished look. Nevertheless, it’s inactive a beast of a instrumentality that is hardly thing that volition unrecorded successful your trunk conscionable successful lawsuit you instrumentality an impromptu travel to the beach.

Portable Air

Measuring 22 x 10 x 12 inches (without the artillery battalion installed), the Mark 3 is simply a small larger than the Mark II and rather a spot heavier, present weighing 22 pounds compared to the Mark II’s 17 pounds. Clip connected the tremendous 1,022-Wh artillery battalion and you’re adding different 14 pounds to the rig, though that frees you from having to beryllium adjacent a powerfulness outlet if you privation to chill down.

I complained successful some of my earlier reviews that Zero Breeze’s attack to charging was a spot silly, due to the fact that though the artillery battalion physically clips onto the bottommost of the aerial conditioner, it uses a abstracted cablegram to connect to the aerial conditioner’s charging port. Incredibly, this is inactive the case, though you tin astatine slightest present run the Zero Breeze from artillery powerfulness portion it's simultaneously charging—something that wasn’t imaginable connected erstwhile iterations. (You inactive can’t tally the Zero Breeze portion charging if the artillery is wholly dead. It needs immoderate juice, astir a 50 percent charge, to get things going, aft which it tin tally indefinitely.)

A caller diagnostic is that batteries tin present beryllium stacked and charged successful series (as galore arsenic you like), each daisy-chained to the next, though astatine a minimum of $600 per battery, this tin rapidly get exorbitantly expensive. Each Mark 3 artillery besides has other outputs that tin beryllium utilized for different devices—one USB-C port, 1 USB-A port, and a 12-volt DC socket. This is simply a downgrade from the Mark II battery, which has each of the supra positive a 2nd USB-A port. Why it was removed is simply a mystery.