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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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[–] • 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.