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Portable A/C Tom Del Rosso 06-27-2007
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Posted by Jensington on June 28, 2007, 12:09 pm
On Jun 27, 5:45 pm, "Proctologically Violated=A9=AE"
> Wish I had known about the two hose units! :(
> Now that I think back, I seem to recall two hose units, but didn't realize
> the purpose.
>
> Good link, but website wasn't that informative--no price, EER. Any ideas?
> Other observations good as well. Prodigious condensate. I "prefer" to em=
pty
> buckets/use the water, but it is a chore.
> A pump to a storage barrel would be better.
> The 850 watt Amana can readily fill a 5 gal pail in 24 hrs.

They are all pretty ineffecient. Better effeciency can be had by
spending more money on central A/C (higher SEER) or a mini-split (for
example Fujitsu's run up to a whopping 21 SEER). In both of those
cases you would need a professional install.

That being said, a dinky little A/C like that, even running at 8 SEER
or something crappy like that, is not going to break the bank just
because it's not big anyhow, and you probably don't run it 24/7.
Additionally, depending on your situation, wasting some electricity
dollars may be ok if the alternatives (putting central A/C in your
rental unit or something) don't make sense. This "ineffeciency" may
add up to something like $10 a month (guessing here) so it may not
matter.

Jensington


Posted by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tekkie=AE?= on June 28, 2007, 9:38 pm
Proctologically Violated©® wrote:

> Wish I had known about the two hose units! :(
> Now that I think back, I seem to recall two hose units, but didn't realize
> the purpose.
> Unfortunately, never saw any two-hose units when I was ready to buy, and
> likely the PC Richards people wouldna known what they were for, either.


So you got hosed!

Posted by hallerb@aol.com on June 28, 2007, 11:22 pm
years ago i got into a heated argument with the fellow in charge of
building maintence where i worked. the window AC unit was ineffective
having been vented into a compressor machine room. in the summer the
temperature in there must of been near 200 degrees. the jerk claimed
that had no effect on the ac operation...

clearly he was wrong, and either too stupid to realize it or plain
lazy and didnt want to move the unit. worse the company wanted us
looking professional in long sleeve dress shirts and ties, in a
office near 90 degrees..........

heck they really wanted us in suits.........



Posted by James Sweet on June 29, 2007, 10:59 pm

> years ago i got into a heated argument with the fellow in charge of
> building maintence where i worked. the window AC unit was ineffective
> having been vented into a compressor machine room. in the summer the
> temperature in there must of been near 200 degrees. the jerk claimed
> that had no effect on the ac operation...
>
> clearly he was wrong, and either too stupid to realize it or plain
> lazy and didnt want to move the unit. worse the company wanted us
> looking professional in long sleeve dress shirts and ties, in a
> office near 90 degrees..........
>
> heck they really wanted us in suits.........
>
>

Yikes

I've observed that head pressure is more or less directly related to
condenser temperature, if it was 200 degrees in there the pressure must have
been through the roof. No wonder it quit working.



Posted by Richard J Kinch on June 28, 2007, 12:33 am
Jensington writes:

> 2) Be prepared to have a real drain (ie hose going somewhere) on the
> unit unless you want to be emptying condensate all the time.

Or you can add a condensate pump for about $40.

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