(1 YEAR REVIEW) black & decker “portable air conditioner” 12000 btu
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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similar but smaller unit: amzn.to/3jbwnMA
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I insulated the hose on mine it got really hot defeating the ac ability.. I mean hot..The single hose unit is garbage. why? It only vents air to the outside..So what you say. well that air must be made up somehow.. It sucks the hot air into home thru doors electrical outlets.It creates a negative air balance.. I read manufactures web sites they STATED it doesnt workwell in high heat their words go read.. I had a big unit, fan was amazing..but it sucked all the hot outside air into room . They are costly ineffiecent.. they do not work.. I put a 12000 btu in window smaller capacity then portable and it cools my entire apartment.. Like the portable never ever could.. I tried to give it away no takers its heavy.. Forensic analysis..OK.. It has a pump on bottom of unit to release water over coils to help cool unit. Mine was rusty and full of yuckies dust slime etc.. Its a BAD design..It must be cleaned out..but its on the bottom unit must be fully disassembled.. Almost impossible to accomplish without damage..Soo many screws its insane.. The bottom tray that holds water at pump also get clogged with see above.. Hindering its performance.. I paid 800 bucks for mine.. 350 for my window unit.. That actually performes excellant.. Window units do not blow air outside they recirculate room air. On the cold side..The hotside it well outside not effecting inside air balances.. Upon my forensic analysis these things are junk.. READ manufactures disclaimer doesnt work in hot weather?? I read it too late the fool I be. 2 hose might work but why use it when a window unit blows it away.. Dont have to drain condensate bucket.. really cold air..No hot unit in room creating more heat.. I hope this helps someone not fall into the trap.. I was pissed at how dirty the unit was and not cleanable means junk.. I clean my dehumidifier it gets dirty coils lasted 12 years.. Have a nice day..
800!?!? what the??! other normal units are 300! return that junk right now, dont bother finding a double hose, theyre all out of stock!
I LOVE my portable B&D unit. It keeps a 650 sq room very cold. And yes I would put a wall unit in if I had widows for it on this room . I love this unit!!!
The purpose of the portable ac is for you to move it where you need it. So if you want an ac that sits in just one place then get a diff unit
well if you dont want the unit for long and will soon rid it and want it easy to deinstall, yea
@@peppermeat8059 guud engrish
@@mikegreene8461 you mean grammar?
@@peppermeat8059 Leave my Grandma out of it.
@@mikegreene8461 what? how old are you?
Mine is a Lexent. It cools my bedroom in about half an hour. It drops it at least 10-12 degrees. Absolutely love it.
Your one of the lucky ones,enjoy
oh yes i see its very expensive, is it a double hose?
I have the two hose unit so it doesn't suffer like the single hose models. Also, I only use mine for power loss and I can tell you it keeps a 400 square foot room very cool. Go for the two hose unit.
if the power goes out what do u plug it into to use it. i was looking for something for a hurricane for wks. maybe a powerstation battery to go with it
@@marksmith5468 I have a portable generator that I plug into the house wiring with a generator outlet and lockout switch that disconnects the main outside power first. This is the only safe and legal way to do it. With LED lights your home draws very little once the A/C, stove, water heater and dryer are not running. You can be very comfortable, use the microwave and refrigerator too. a battery unit would run for an hour or two max and a generator can be had for the same money or less. Mine would use less than 5 gallons a day and five, five gallon cans are plenty for any events.
@@scottdenhamrealestate7716 …but who’s bragging…
@@mrgoggles1963 Just trying to help. You don't live in South Florida without a hurricane plan. A few random power outages spoils a lot of food when you think it will never go out. One other thing the video said was he never empties the water. Down here I have it attached to a five gallon bucket which after a few days starts to get really full.
@Jay Lakhani I use a Arctic King AKPD-12ER4 12,000 BTU unit. The two hoses are 6" round each. I'm sure you could use it every day but mine is just used for power outage or Main A/C problems (none yet.) With hurricanes it's just when not if.
I have an LG. Had it almost 10 years. Works great. Takes up about a 1foot x 1 foot space. Easy to install. Almost 0 maintenance and no heavy lifting to get it in a window. I am handicapped so this works great.
LG. Takes up about a 1foot x 1 foot space..........I'm curious about this LG, especially about its size and its capability, seems like it'can be used in a tent! Would U kindly give me its model? Thanks in advance.
@@napman99 No, I don't live in a tent.
@@dawnmurphy7488 I don't live in a tent neither (I do when I go camping)! But the size is so small that I thought it should be able to be powered by Big power bank (Jackery, Big Blue...etc that have 200 watt +) in a tent. Thanks anyway, I'm sure I can find out of this particular model when I research at LG.
@dawnmurphy7488 ..pls tell me how I get that size of lg ac
I need that ....please
Why not shorten the hose and put the unit closer to the window?
Yea, something going on there.
You might want to wrap some reflectix around the big exhaust hose to cutdown on the heat it projects. These units are great for basements with the smaller windows
get a casement ac unit silly..
great idea!!
I bought one in April '22 as well because I knew this year was going to be HOT. Mine is a Toshiba, and the Black and Decker appears to be a rebadged Toshiba. Everything is the same including the remote, except the control buttons on the unit are colored differently for the B&D branding. It cools a room well enough, but forget about sleeping in that room when its on. Its LOUD.
remember, the fan and compressors are LOUD, when i was at this house tent place for 2 days it had an ac, it didnt cool the tent well enough, because no insulation, the air handler is quiet but the evaporater is buzzy, whenever my parents ac is on the outside unit is super quiet, Samsung, if there ever a samsung portable ac, maybe its compressor will be more quiet
I’ve had Toshiba, Black&Decker, and Midea.
The Midea wins out by far. Something about that hose, it intakes from the outside instead of the room. Keeps our 400sq ft master room at 63degrees all night in the Texas heat. My central air was costing too much for the entire upper floor. This works faster and costs less.
Biggest problem with one-tube portable AC is that it suck hot air from outside as replacement for the air it pushes out..
We are first time home buyers and our 1929 home has no central ac. We are using one of these on each floor and keeps things comfortable! This video was super helpful for installing! We probably would get window units going forward but I do love these!!
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window units are more for small sliding windows, if you got ones that you push outwards to open, you probably have to remove that window, if you have that window abit elevated from the wall, where glass in under the window, i would feel it would crush it and that supports wont b easy
if you have a house, mini-split units are the way to go
Toshiba makes one identical to that but the tube you do not have to thread in its already got a ring attachment that Clips on to the attachment that Clips onto the air conditioner and when you want to take it down or out it dismantles very quick and easy by just pushing on the clips with a hose connection in hose dismantles everything comes off and you can put it up for the season and comes with remote timer sleep mode and you can't angle your vent electronically with the remote or why it runs it remotely goes back and forth on its own so it's not just facing the one direct Direction it goes up and down towards the ceiling back towards waist level so you can either have it on one set angle or you can let it run on its own and it blows back and forth from the ceiling all the way down to waist level check it out it's a really good machine
I purchase this unit. It’s power cord is extremely Short! I plugged it in to 2 different outlets on my room that are on 2 different circuit Breakers and it blew them both within 10 minutes. I have not been able to use this unit. Very disappointed.
HEY! the manual WARNS YOU TO NOT USE EXTENDERS!! the extender has to have a rated input and output thats very high for air cons. you will have to just get a window unit, that hopefully has a long cord. return your ac
Io ho collegato il tubo di scarico del condizionatore portatile al tubo del camino della stufa cosi ho tutte le finestre e porte chiuse ho scollegata la stufa e ho collegato il tubo di scarico aria calda alla canna fumaria va benissimo la canna fumaria è in acciaio e esce dal muro in soggiorno si alza di 3,5 metri e va sul tetto
MOLD ALERT. Had this unit for 3 years. Clean the filters often. Had a cough for a year now that i couldn't get rid of. Even got an inhaler because my doctor said i developed asthma. Got really bad the last few days and worse when i was in the room this unit was in. Decided to take it apart and saw white mold on the fan blades on top. Never been a fan of this thing because it's incredibly wasteful using already conditioned air to cool the condenser. Never again.
yeah means its not condension the humid air enough, yeah get a window or minisplit
I have a LG portable air conditioner and it does okay but I think window ac units are really probably the better choice for more efficient cooling a room. I've noticed when the temperature and humidity are really high the portable ac units struggle to cool off a room.
Purchase a portable dehumidifier... I usually set the timer for 4 hours before I wake up then turn the AC unit on you'll thank me later
@@juniorjr.427My dehumidifier blows out hot air, good for cold damp basements, but not helpful for a hot muggy room.
@@juniorjr.427 yeah those things are 100-500 dollars for them, ni
@@peppermeat8059 a lot of stores will sell you refurbished ones around $200... and you can find them on sale a lot
I wonder why this guy is complaining about not having a window unit when this portable unit is specifically made to move around! The window units are stationary… They are completely different categories of machines. It’s almost like eating an apple and complaining that you’re not eating an orange… Get the orange if you want it!
These units are almost perfect for what they do. The maker of this video was complaining about this portable unit with its compressor inside which make the unit work harder because of the extra heat…so? Bottom line: if taken care of these machines will last 5 to 10+ years without any problems. These are absolutely solid machines and they’re work horses! They will run forever. And the best part is they will quickly cool a 500-700 square foot room (depending on BTU model) with a comparable quality of a modern luxury hotel room. And that’s not an exaggeration!
Adding to my previous comment: Stay AWAY from this junk. I bought two from Amazon and both died in less than two years. The support is a total joke. They referred me to their webpage that lists 'service' centers. What they don't tell you is that this is just a list of general service stores they pulled off the internet. When you call them they will tell you that they do NOT service these units. So there is NO way to get these fixed. The manufacturer (in China) will not send you any repair manuals. This is NOT from Black and Decker; it's a division was sold to an overseas company many years ago and they were allowed to use the name...not too smart B&D.
Heads up they make them with heat as well so you don't have to take it in and out of the window.
Portable air conditioners are CRAP 💩
I have one thank you you've really helped me so much question can a remote be ordered. I think it fell inside while I was fighting to get it aligned. Thank you just saying Later gator
I wanna now buy so nice for two bedroom how’s colder
You can explain about that 🙏
Dude must be from the southern hemisphere, as he is threading everything thring left handed threads.
Noticed that too.
Try threading it the other way and you will have trouble.
@@MrZiffos Actually if you have a hard time getting the union or bolt started, you can turn it to 'wrong' way to feel it 'seat' properly, then when that happens, you start turning it the right way. This way you don't cross thread it as easily.
im in sotuhern hemis😦
I wish I had found your video sooner! I bought an LG 6000, but your instructions are better for my unit than what I found from LG. Your adapters look just like mine. I found the hardest part was threading the adapters onto the flexible hose at both ends. I really wanted to watch someone do this, and that is what I value the most about your video, but it is all excellent. I'm a 68-year-old woman, so lifting a window style A/C in and out for the seasons was not an option for me. The LG I bought does come with security latches. I loved what you did with the foam insulation.
My central air outside fan stopped spinning, so I replaced the capacitor, but that did not fix it, so this was an affordable alternative. It will be nice to have a backup, even after I get the central air fixed. Thanks for this! Great job!
Do these cool a room well. My central ac has a refrigerant leak in its suction hose and won't hold any refrigerant at all and the ac tech said that they would need to run a new suction line through attic and they want 1200 dollars to do that. So I'm asking you if these kinds of a portable acs do actually cool a room well? Thanks in advance
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@@AaronHatcher Yes they do cool a room and they are a lot cheaper to run. Go to Big Lots and buy the sun blocking curtains they have two pair in a package for $20-$25 which work great to shield the sun. I have these curtains throughout and I have a fan blowing from the living room where the window unit is into the hallway which keeps the first floor nice and cool.
@@AaronHatcher Portables are the least efficient a/c units. Window ones are a step up and split systems are the most efficient plus they give zone control and are super quiet.
I’m with you. I’m a 74 year old woman and couldn’t do a window one. Also I couldn’t get on end threaded do just put it out of window. My windows open outwards so it was all a bit tricky. So worth it though. UK.
So……how do you keep the psychos out of your house 🏠😡🤬😬, but psycho jimmy is watching me 🥺
I like the 12000btu window ones by GE or Fridgidaire. Those things are heavy but like you said all of the heat is all on the outside of the window. I have a Portable Toshiba 12000 btu AC unit that i just bought and it works great as of right now. Gets the room from 80 or maybe 81 all the way down to 70. Next year i will probably buy a window AC unit like i previously mentioned. A 12000btu window AC unit would turn my room into a fridge which would be great👍
Does it have to be plugged into window? Just got one of Facebook marketplace that didn’t come with those connections. Will some sort of bad gas leak into room?
Why would you use a portable unit when the right kind of window for A/C mounted unit? The other thing with these crappy hoses is to buy metal tape for all connections and use insulation around the hose for less heat loss.
My unit is a Black and Decker 12,000BTU and I love it! I have central AC but use this to save electricity (1000w vs 2300w). Portability is the main MAIN reason I bought a...portable unit. I could run mine in a tent if I needed to. I have a small house (1200sqf) and this makes most of the house comfortable, with the living room getting cold. Fans do the job and use 120w combined.
My goal is also to use this when they play shenanigans this coming summer here in Kalifornia with power. I have 7200 w of battery storage so I can run this 3/4 of the day, allowing for recharging via sun and duel-fuel generator.
surely the central system would get down to temperature quicker, so you'd be running it for a shorter period of time and therefore use less electricity?
@@darrenbrooks7108 For sure likely if you wanted to get to a fairly cold level. My central AC stays on for hours due to poor insulation in this pre-1975 house. This portable unit stays on much of the day to maintain a comfortable level of coolness when the outside temp is below 85 degrees.
My main use is for power outages. Kalifornia will have more brown outs and blackouts this year.
@@winstonsmiths2449 ah I see :)
I'm in the same boat! 1960's house in central FL, my poor central air just can't keep up. And frankly I'm tired of cooling the entire house at night just to keep the bedroom at a tolerable sleeping temp. Just took delivery of this 12,000BTU and looking forward to installing tonight!
I'm in SoCal and we're just coming out of a heatwave that was brutal. I don't have ac but will never be without it again. I'll buy a portable ac.
Is it compatible with swivel windows than open from the bottom, outwards? Most videos show people with sliding windows, but I'm finding this to be difficult as ours aren't like that.
Bro wrap the tubing in reflectix. The bubble foil wrap stuff. It will help greatly!
Or foil
Can you explain ?
My black and decker is the worst portable AC I’ve had
Have the same one. This thing produces so much water we had to add a hose a giant bin to collect all the water. Of we dont't, it literally spits water out of the vents
geez it really overfills?
as long as it keeps my 700 sq foot apartment cool enough where i am not melting during +40 Celcius
most windows in the uk actually open outwards on a slant so these would be no good :/
ok no one gives two fucks about the UK model
So we have an option to collect the water or not? Because I thought we must put the tube and collect the water and dump it, would you please explain that please and thank you! I have some issues on that as I collect the water, it’s keep wetting my carpet and I’m not happy with that, I would appreciate if you be able to explain for me how I can avoid that, thank you!
Hose don’t look long enough.
Excellent set up for the portable AC unit. Good job 👍
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Do I have to remove window screen?
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@@SVETLANA_NICOLE luckily i dont have to but i have to push the window all the way
OUR 12,000 PORTABL ONLY LASTED 3 MONTHS . COSTUMER SERVICE JUST KEEP TELLING ME
THEY ARE GOING TO SEND RETURN LABLE . NEVER HAPPENED!!!!!!!!! DON'T WAISTE YOUR MONEY. B&d sucks
There is a problem inherent in the design of this type of single hose (portable) air conditioner. They suck! Literally. They blow the hot air out of the room, which then causes hot air outside the room to be "sucked" into the room. If this was not true, a vacuum would develop in the room, by pumping air out and not allowing any back in, and you would asphyxiate from eventually having no air to breathe.
The non-portable, installed units, that have a unit inside the building and a unit outside the building, I found, from experience, to be far superior, and actually cool the room down, even on really hot days. Unlike the portable single hose units, they do not blow air out of the room, they transfer the heat outside the room via a refrigerant that stays within sealed pipes and gets repeatedly cycled between the inside and outside of the building, taking the heat (but not the air), with it. No air is pumped out of the room, so no hot air is "sucked" in from outside the room - making them much more effective at cooling the room, even on hot days, where a single hose portable unit is effectively almost useless. On really hot days, with a single hose portable unit, I found I just ended up with a small pool of cool air right in front of the unit and the rest of the room uncomfortably hot.
You can change the temperature from Fahrenheit to Celsius.
your biggest con is space. you do realize that you can cut that tube to size. make it 1-2ft. problem solved.
It's trash
For the amount of air it blows out.. well.. new air from outside seeps it's way in the house to equalize .. and that outside air is nasty and hot. Think about it.
It should have 2 hoses, one to suck air in, and one to blow right back out.
Just get a piece of medium sand paper, and sand down edge of the pipe, adjustable, sand that, Bugger, smoke a good Mary Jane
i would want a floor unit, i don't want to deal with bugs ans mosquitos on summer every year flying through window air conditioner holes, no matter how hard i tape them,, they still find their way into my room!!!!!
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They are pretty much the same…just do your research on how many btu’s you need and wether you want a heat pump one. Also….DONT FORGET….These units have FILTERS that need to be cleaned after each season.
Yes, if never cleaned, mold will start growing on the fan or on the plastic, and if not found, having the unit on with mold in it will give you asthma
Wait till you need to clean the coils. Will take you 2 to 3 hours to take it apart and clean the coils. That's when you will go back to window unit. Unless your neighbor hood ass. does not let you have a window unit then this unit will work
I want to buy it
This air conditioner is not efficient, it wastes too much power. It suck the cold air in the room to cool the condenser and blow it out as hot air. In fact it did not entirely recycle the air in the room but rather close to 100% fresh air means it suck in 100% hotter air from ourside, under the door or other gaps around the room. This takes a lot of electricity to operate it.
So it blows warm, humid air out the back?🤣 Wow great design.🤪
Don't waste your time these things are terrible they don't work returned it after 3 weeks. This unit distributes a lot of heat in the room more heat than cooling and a big waste electricity
this shit barely works. turns my apartment from unbearably hot into slightly less unbearably hot
On my Polo Cool just cut a considerable length off that hose so it takes up less room and you can push the unit closer to the window.
It means there is less hose to heat up.
Thank you very much ..This is a really good instruction video ..I have no choice ..have to use this kind ..id rather take up space than sweat and not be able to sleep this summer ...:)
I have one when my ac went out. The thing I can’t put an ac window unit thanks to HOA so this worked great for me.
Cover the exhaust with a warm blanket as it acts as a heater... The blanket will act as insulation.
Can you put the link to the kit you got somewhere??
just don't buy a portable AC. Not worth the money.
I have one of these and I've also had a window unit. I like this much better than the window unit. It cools a lot better.
The #1 best thing you can do to improve one of these units is to Insulate the heck out of that exhaust hose.
Ours was reading 170 degrees uninsulated and 98 degrees with the insulation.
170 degrees?? Shoot you could slow roast a pork in that hose
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in every house there is warmth coming in by the windows. he sucks the warmth in and throws it out.
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I have a Danby 12000 BTU dual hose. my 4th year owned it and works great, i close all bedroom doors then it keeps my whole top floor of my house cool. paid $100 for it off craigslist guy did not know how to use it he thought it was broke.
no ways he sold it for 100 dollars, didnt know how to use it and thought it was broke, thats hilarious!! I guess some people who dont know how to use something expensive have those kind of people who would start lying to them about that hmm, it doesnt work, you can give it to me if you dont want it, like that, i dont know what im saying, its hard for me to make sense
Need to buy the dual hose design units. The single hose units are not efficient design.
GULPS ELECTRICITY AND ONLY COOLS RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT... BY MORNING... STILL 82*??? by then it has to suck in hot outside air to blow thru condensor... after a/c'ing the room??? total waste. better than nothing , but not really . i used it for a few years, but... for the amt of electricity used to run it... and the a/c that it put out... not worth it. never again.
give it to someone who really needs it or sell it or legally throw it away
This is awesome video, thank you this is a great explanation. I'm a new homeowner and had no idea how to do it. Thanks
It’s a good video.
one guy in the comments said he got a free double hose on craigslist for 100 dollars cuz he didnt know how to use it and thought it was broken, some people will lie to you about it to get something expensive for free!
It's not portable. See that vent hose. Buy a cheap window a/c and you can move it from window to window on a cart. But you will find out you don't have to move it at all.
theyre not like cheap, but cheapests are 200 dollars or 300, theyre ugly with fewer features but best
So you made the portable aircon stable?
I have a Hunter and that portable A/C runs like a champ!
Please, I had a question, if you please. Is this mobile adaptation going to be a future adaptation, and the previous adaptations, such as split air conditioning, for example, will be canceled. Thank you
Which company?
what??
Soo you get rid of the water by blowing the hot air that is blowing back into your room where the cool air is cooling the same room there for creating moisture in the same same room where the portable ac is cooling the same room YEA OK I GOT IT THANKS!!
It’s blowing outside lol what ?
Good video. It would have been nice if you had mentioned if this unit effectively cooled down your room or not though.
Not enough for sure
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I've had one of these in my garage for two years, a garage with no windows. I bought it used and it works great. Recently when the AC in the camper broke down I put this in it temporarily and it worked great. I love these things, especially for spaces with either no windows or no "traditional" windows. I recently bought a second one.
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Is it possible to use it without a window? Someone told me that I had to put it out a window or it wasn’t safe? Inclement come to UA-cam for answers I hope you can help 🙏 what is the consequences of not having it vent outside?
@@VioletHeyoka No. The vent sends out hot air so if it wasn't vented to the outside the machine would be blowing cold air out the front and hot air out the back, defeating the purpose of cooling a space. It doesn't have to be a window. I cut a hole in a wall and put mine in the garage and I cut a hole in the floor and to vent one I put in a camper. Good luck with yours.
How big did the bill jump per month?
@@SplashJA I haven't noticed it jumping at all.
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this looks useless because it will suck in all hot air from all other side of your home
Mine did not come with the window extender and is falling out all the time
Waste of time
No mention of start room temp and room temp after an hour.
Yunk. All those style models are yunk. Dont buy
Those units also create a draft on your home since they only have an out hose, this draft will constantly being in warm moist outside air into the house/structure.
You mean a negative pressure?
The compressor in mine stopped turning on after a month of getting it...just in time for the 30 day return window to close up. All it does is blow out warm air. When it did work it was amazing.
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I can’t find the window extender
Please help desperate
Those A/C units are horribly inefficient, for a 12K BTU unit you are only realizing at best 6K BTU.
Think about it, Where is the make-up air coming from that that unit is blowing out the window? It is being sucked into the house from every crack and crevice in the house from the outside. Yes, hot outside air is being sucked into your house.
I have one of those that I use in my house on my generator after hurricanes here in FL, I built a plywood box around the air intake, making provisions so I can remove and clean the filter, and attached a 6" aluminum vent pipe to it to the outside so all the make-up air comes from the outside, this made the unit function much much better. You will notice all the good ones nowadays have the 2 vent pipe system.
The biggest problem with a lot of these portable air conditioners (including the one shown in this video) is that they are "single-hose" units, which means that they suck in (relatively cool) indoor air to BOTH expel heat (through the single hose) and to send cooled air into the room. That's inefficient because some amount of the relatively cool indoor air is being lost by being pumped outside through that single hose.
If you want a more efficient design, look for a so-called "dual hose" portable air conditioner which works more like a conventional window-mounted air conditioner does. A "dual hose" portable air conditioner sucks in both (relatively cool) indoor air AND (relatively hot) outdoor air, but keeps them separate and uses them differently: The indoor air is cooled further and then expelled indoors, while the outdoor air absorbs the waste heat from the air conditioner and is then expelled outdoors. This is a much more efficient setup than using indoor air for both cooling the room air and getting rid of waste heat.
Thank u
Great explanation
Absolutely correct. Another disadvantage of single hose portable AC is, it pumps air out of the room, creating low pressure, which sucks in outsode hot air.
@Jay Lakhani I don't have any specific AC model recommendations. I was just curious about how they are engineered and so I looked into that.
I recently bought one made by Toshiba. Works great as of right now. The hoses are right next to each other in one big hose. I put an extension on the one that blows out the heat so i dont get heat brought in by the hose that sucks in the cool air👍👍
I have a 1 week old of this exact unit. (Basically brand new)!! I let it run on 70 and it goes great for 2 minutes and then just shuts off. Please help!!
The return air for the condensation should be fresh air fro outside the window not from the room...
The hose doesn’t pull air from outside it dumps the hot air outside
What are you talking about? The hose is exhausting hot humid air. The AC pulls air from inside to cool it and the hose spits out the humid air outside. Man people are dumb....you being one of them. Delete your comment.
Amazon has a brand YUESUO has such a cheap and quite beautiful quality
This would be awesome if they made this for a 2 car garage door. I do not have windows in my garage but if it could be adapted to a garage door like it does for the window would be awesome.
I bought this for hubby, hoping this would work in the garage. Dang this sucks
If you are a DIYer, you can run a vent to the outside of the home like a clothes dryer has, and connect the AC exhaust directly to that. Otherwise I'm sure you can get a handyman to install one for you cheap enough.
sadly, you gotta go for an mini split,
Have u thot about having it upstairs? Or highest point in the house? Cold sinks. Heat rises.
It's not a house AC unit. It's for small rooms.
What if your opens in vertical, how can you get & fit this? Thanks
That window is vertical. Horizontal, just move the adjustable hose thing.
$300 for a small portable? A window ac would cost half that much.
In my area they aren't allowed 😢 so I had to get one like this
I would not buy one again. Very noisy. Tube going out window heats up very hot so A/C is very inefficient.
Has anyone had theirs for over 2 years. Mine is having trouble cooling. Only use it from May-Sept each year then it's off until next year. I clean the filter after each use but this summer it just stopped cooling.
I was going to get a portable, but they are junk overall. Bad efficiency, leak heat and just don't seem to last long.
Hello guys,
Question, I bought one of these 14000 btu and I’m having an issue with it. Once I turn the ac on after a minute or two it starts to shake and turns off. First time owning one of these so I’m not sure what can it be.. any help pls
I've had this unit for 9 months now, and I'm not happy with it. It doesn't seem like the thermostat works correctly - it cycles to the fan when the room is still hot, so something isn't right. This is even when I have it turned all the way down to 64, which is the lowest it goes. I'm probably going to get a regular window unit at this point.
A mini split unit is much better in my opinion.