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Mine came in today at Home Depot. Installation was easy enough. The room that’s my office in a new house has two windows facing the sun for most of the day. Absolutely unbearable for the past couple of months with even higher temperatures to come. It’s like a wave of heat hitting me in the face.

My main job is an audio engineer. That sounds fancy, but basically I clean up audio for podcasters. I edit videos for YouTubers as well. Now you know more about me. A niche I carved out almost 20 years ago. Anyway..,,,,

I couldn’t sit at my desk anymore in this house. Holy shit. I’ve lived in a camper in the Deep South before. Never felt heat inside like this (inside).

This fucking unit is amazing. Total comfort. It’s more quiet than my $120 tower fan. The office was an ice box today.

What I can say is the heat that exits the tubing to outside is hot as shit. I bought two plants to go on the porch outside the window to block the nigger vibe. That doesn’t really matter. The efficiency rating says I can run this half the day all year and come out to about $8/month on my ever increasing utility cost.

It’s awesome.

Mine came in today at Home Depot. Installation was easy enough. The room that’s my office in a new house has two windows facing the sun for most of the day. Absolutely unbearable for the past couple of months with even higher temperatures to come. It’s like a wave of heat hitting me in the face. My main job is an audio engineer. That sounds fancy, but basically I clean up audio for podcasters. I edit videos for YouTubers as well. Now you know more about me. A niche I carved out almost 20 years ago. Anyway..,,,, I couldn’t sit at my desk anymore in this house. Holy shit. I’ve lived in a camper in the Deep South before. Never felt heat inside like this (inside). This fucking unit is amazing. Total comfort. It’s more quiet than my $120 tower fan. The office was an ice box today. What I can say is the heat that exits the tubing to outside is hot as shit. I bought two plants to go on the porch outside the window to block the nigger vibe. That doesn’t really matter. The efficiency rating says I can run this half the day all year and come out to about $8/month on my ever increasing utility cost. It’s awesome.

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[–] • 4 pts

I'm glad you're happy with your purchase. Have you also considered window film to block some of the heat coming in?

[–] • 1 pt

I have packs and packs of Duck brand film like that. I used it in a camper I had to live in for like 6 months.

Speaking of, we spent 10 grand on that camper, several grand on the county running electricity to it, and a septic tank install. Thankfully, we came close to getting value back on it when all the property was sold. It was an awesome spot for anyone who wanted to stay away from niggers and have creature comforts in the back for hunters and fishing fans. I wouldn’t call is a mother-in-law setup, but it was nice.

[–] • 2 pts

The biggest issue with the kind you have is the unit blows cold air out - then immediately sucks some of it back in to cool the coils and blows it back out the window. That's default by design because you don't have any outside fresh air intake for the purpose of cooling the coils. You're losing some of the work the device does because the manufacturer was lazy.

There used to be models that drew from and exhausted outside the area being cooled, but those seem to have vanished.

[–] • 2 pts

They are much harder to find but they're still out there, at least as of last year when I looked.

[–] • 1 pt

You’re right. There’s a significant part of the night when the door is open and the central air is circulating in that room and the unit is off. The purpose is to make the room tolerable. It’s doing better than that.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

I'll start off by stating some of the hate points for a portable A/C unit, then add one great point about it that I could benefit from now.

The hate points. It is loud, unsightly, looks like a poor persons home, takes up space on the floor, has cords running to power it, leaves a vulnerable point in the window for easier access for bugs and thieves.

Up until this year, I found no good reason why anyone would want portable unit over central air. Set the temperature and it comes on as needed and cools the entire house to that temperature when needed.

That is all great, until your wife gets hot flashes because she is going through menopause. She has the temperature set to 58 fucking degrees in my house. The rest of us are freezing, and we just bundle up in a bunch of layers while it is scorching outside. If I had a window unit, I could at least contain the cold to one room and the rest of us could live like civilized people at 70 degrees. I need to go outside every hour or so just to warm up. For my daily showers, I will easily just stand in the hottest water that I can tolerate for half an hour and let the heat warm me to the bone marrow.

Young Men, take heed, this will one day be you.

[–] • 1 pt

Aint no heat like menopause heat. Think instant 106 degree fever. I remember one night in an O.R I was talking to a nurse and she suddenly flushed beet red and pouring sweat. Total hot flash.

BTW, some women have hot flashes forever.

[–] • 1 pt

If my wife ends up like that, I'm going to rip out my furnace and put her in its place. The blower can pull hot air off of her and she can heat my home in the winter.

[–] • 1 pt

Lol, built in humidifier too.

[–] • 0 pt

I have been hot all my life. Keep in mind my dad and I first started out with houses next to each other for me to watch over him. But it was too much land he was too motivated to meticulously maintain. He’s almost 70. He falls a lot.

Living in the same house, he is always cold. A house with the thermostat at 84 is comfortable for him. I can’t live like that. And the room where my office is is beaten down by heat.

This unit is nearly whisper quiet. Maybe the technology is just a little better now. I’m on day 3 with it and love it. I’ve reinforced insulation all around it and have added multiple window locks. I think it’s great.

[–] • 1 pt

That is a very good use for it. It's not until you go through something like that where the ability to cool just one room is invaluable. If I ever build another house, or flip one or whatever, and I'm going to live there, I think I will give each room the ability to set its own temperature.

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It truly is invaluable. I didn’t think the heat would be so bad because I’m retarded. Summer heat heat can still hit the 90’s. It’s close to that now. And the windows face the sun most of the day. Poor calculating.

[–] • 1 pt

Oh, it’s a 10,000 btu Westinghouse. Paid like $230 +store warranty that was another $30.

Room is way under spec. 190 sq ft with 9ft ceiling.

[–] • 1 pt

The only issue I've ever had with them is the electricity cost. Then again I was out west using them when it was 100 or hotter out. I had one when I lived in Reno and it worked great for the office I was cooling but it was much more expensive to run than the window unit. I get them out here (AZ) temporarily when my AC dies in my apartment. I usually just cool the bedroom for the cats. They work surprisingly well, they are just pricy to run - at least the ones I've used have been.**

[–] • 2 pts

A traditional window unit is more efficient. This is a brand new house and I was worried about looking like trash. That might be unreasonable but it is what it is. These windows in this room face the front. I’m not fancy or better than anyone. But the optics of a window unit….it was a factor.

My neighbors up and down the block have the same complaints. I just couldn’t keep living like this (the crushing heat in this room).

Highs have only gotten up to 85 so far. 90’s will happen soon

This room baked but the back half was cool. That includes my dad’s bedroom. I cohabitate with him and he is always cold. I guess that just comes with age because I can remember him always yelling at us kids to close the door as to not let the cold from the a/c to escape. “It’s getting hot in here!”

This unit has fixed the issue.

[–] • 1 pt

They are the epitome of White trash but they work like crazy. We had to use one in a one hundred year old house with no air conditioning and wiring that looked like coat hangers (coat hangers were once wire for all you zoomers).

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

Were the coat hangers copper?

Edit: autocorrect

[–] • 1 pt

we don't need no stinking copper wire!

[–] • 1 pt

I love them - a bit on the pricey side as far as usage goes, but that mileage will vary. My only real complaint was the shitty injection molded plastic frame where the hose connected to the unit to exhaust air. The model I have has a slide and locking plastic bullshit setup that broke (in fairness, it was kids that broke it), but I can't get a replacement and haven't yet put too much rigging effort into it. Yet.

[–] • 1 pt

Mine has that slide in lock to the back of the unit. I had a bitch of a time getting the hose to screw into it. I felt like a retard. ~~~~

[–] • 1 pt

I borrowed one of those from work and it sucked ass. The exhaust put out more heat than it could remove no matter how I set it up to not do that.

Eventually, the exhaust tube will get hot and start heating the room.

[–] • 0 pt

That’s all I’ve read. That chubby gay guy who has that technology connections YouTube channel really laid it down on the bad parts of portable air conditioners but I’m experiencing way more benefits than negatives. And not to hate on the chubby fag too much because he really does have quality content and a wealth of information. He is still cliff-worthy though.

[–] • 0 pt

Which of the chubby fags with a YouTube tech channel are you referring too?

[–] • 1 pt

How do you deal with the condensate? I have one and and it's a major pain in the ass to lift the stupid thing up so I can drain it into a bucket. There's no way I can plumb a drain line, even out the window.

[–] • 0 pt

No need to drain anything unless I set it to dehumidify. Manual says the water collection is beneficial in AC mode.

[–] • 1 pt

Air conditioners are the best thing to happen since fried potatos.

[–] • 0 pt

I’m sure you’ll find that niggers somehow invented air conditioning.

[–] • 1 pt

This is cool. I'm guessing you have curtains to block out some of that direct sunlight? Even sheer drapes go a ways in stopping some of the heat if you don't want to sit in darkness. I recently discovered the magic that is a dehumidifier but this bad boy looks like he will do a similar good job.

[–] • 1 pt

Air conditioning sucks out humidity by default. And this type of unit recommends not having to dump any water by default. It’s working so well and my productivity is soaring because I’m comfortable in there.

I have blackouts and little potted trees in front of it. I’m super satisfied so far.

[–] • 1 pt

Dehumidifiers don't actively cool down a room, all they do is remove the humidity and blow out warm and dry air.

[–] • 1 pt

Correct. I was trying to say AC units removed humidity too. Yeah, I wrote that stupidly.

[–] • 0 pt

they are great for a quick fix but are very loud.

[–] • 0 pt

Not loud at all. I have a higher end tower fan that is as loud…..which isn’t loud at all really. It’s quiet. It really is.

[–] • 0 pt

The one I used for a while was quieter than a box fan. Only complaint was it used a ton of electricity.