Bonaire Pinnacle

Great service by Bonaire but beware of the warranty if you buy a house with Bonaire installed – Updated to 4 stars. I have to update this review because of some excellent work of the Bonaire support team. For reference my initial review is still below but Bonaire has since rectified the issue in agreement with me for additional costs which I was OK to sign off on. They also kept their promise of any post-repair issues and honoured their… Read more

commitment by fixing some of the issues that happened aftewwards. So overall great work by their support and repair team for turning this around from a one star review to 4 stars. I will now recommend everyone to buy Bonaire products but if you are buying a house with Bonaire fitted in then you might not be covered for the warranty which my review below mentions.

Previous review: We bought a house with Bonaire heating system installed. It was a 2 year old system and it stopped working with 'Error Code 39: Ground Fault Lockout 2'. Bonaire refused any warranty claims as they mentioned that the warranty is only for the original buyers. They also never showed up after repeated calls and even us paying for their visit. Imagine buying a house with Bonaire system installed which stops working and they refused to fix the issue! It is hell. Don't buy Bonaire either if you are building a property for yourself or for investment becuase sooner or later buyers will recognise that a Bonaire system will have no warranty cover for them and is a huge risk for them as it will stop working.

Great product and excellent service agent – Firstly, hats off the Climate Master Fyshwick (and particularly a shout out to Val) for squeezing us in before Christmas rush. Our old unit carked it and the new one was in as quick as a blink! The new unit is excellent...yes, there is some fan noise but when it shifts so much air it is understandable. It even cools under the outdoor living… Read more

area! I wouldn't call the noise obtrusive though, it ticks away on low with a nice zephyr to a good strong boost blast on high. This unit has kept our home cool through the heat of this Canberra summer nicely...and love the open doors and windows...light and breezy. No more stuffy air conditioned air for us! And with the new technology in the fan motor, almost can't wait to get a power bill...strange that, but this unit will pay for itself. We are very happy with it!

Excellent!!! Best ever upgrade – We had an old Bonaire that WAS GREAT BUT got replaced with a Pinnacle 220 when a tree fell on my home. The Humidity control feature of the Pinnacle sorted out the short coming of the evaporative cooler that did not hold cooling on humid days. We will NEVER need air conditioning that I considered getting before. The Pinnacle is just all round perfect. It does the job all year round to perfection. Very very happy with it :)  Show details

Great so far – Good unit so far. My first evaporative cooler so had nothing to measure it against. Chose Bonaire as purchased through local electricity provider on very good terms. Had my eye on breezair or braemar but a grand dearer . Would love to test drive a breezair, but how? Got the Pinnacle 180 version, up from the 160 quoted me based on handy review… Read more

comments online.

Only could get a 10°c difference on a 38°c day, was hoping for more. However, using the Delta T temp method from BOM provided by another good reviewer on this forum is a handy tip to know, but still struggling to get down to that ideal temp. First season in, still evaluating.

Mixed bag – Performs as described on the tin, cooling performance on par with most evaporative units but has some useability issues. 1. Not as quiet as the breezeair at the lowest fan speed. 2. Big jump in noise and fan speed between setting 1 and 2 3. Unintuitive controller - setting a timer for shutdown is unnecessarily complicated and changing between… Read more

modes(water pump on/off) is not straight foward.

4. Shutdown timer allows you to set the time but not the day so timer shut off is limited to 11.59 pm of the same day. *seems odd but ask for demo - set time to 10pm and ask sales team to make the unit turn off at 1am, can't be done.

5. People have reported issues if wireless controller is too close to main unit - have personally experienced this, the controller restarts and looses all settings.

6. Has a humidy control mode that runs the water pump less on days that are humid -works well.

Unbelievable difference to temperature in home 40 degrees outside 22 Degrees inside all day long – A powerful product that on first use in early January we new we had made the right choice. Even cooking a roast on a hot day is no issue. I was fortunate to talk with a person within Bonaire 2 years ago and remembered how highly he spoke of the then new product. Snowman installed exactly one week after our initial meeting and Quote. The team were… Read more

very professional and cleaned up after installation. I would highly recommend the Bonaire PEL200 Evaporative Aircondioner and Snowman

Very Good – Our last Bonaire VSL-72 was installed in 1998 and only now has been replaced with a top of range Bonaire PEH220 Pinnacle. We purchased the PEH220 Pinnacle given it had the highest power output and 95% of the 1200 watt power output of our past VSL-72. The PEH220 remote has multi function buttons compared to the VSL-72 remote, therefore will take… Read more

a little getting use to.

The PEH220 model has less maintenance and some additional features such as humidity control and water decalcification and no seasonal maintenance.

The Store provided a baffle that is intended to control cold air draughts entering via ceiling ducts, but it only minimises draugjts and does not totally eliminates draughtss.

We also liked the 7 year warranty