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Posted by Amanda on July 16, 2006, 11:13 pm
My AC - 6 yrs old - needs service. Beutler is coming on July 27. I got
a Soleus (K32, I think) from Fry's for $499. It's 12,000BTU. Are these
worth keeping? How about service contract? And ..
today, I saw another Model at Fry's - I didn't see it yesterday. Soleus
LX120 which also is
12, 000 BTU but has heater feature. It's the same price (499.95) as the
other one after manufacturer rebate. I am thinking to get that one, if
I plan to keep it. My question is, is this kind of dual things a good
thing to have. BTW, what type of heater is it?
BTW, I am using it a small room - office.
See at
http://www.sylvane.com/soleus-air.html?source=goog&keyword=soleus%20portable%20ac&s_kwcid=soleus%20portable%20ac|412465886
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Posted by Matthew Reed on July 17, 2006, 12:41 am
Does yours work well? I have the 10,000 btu model. It is a worthless piece
of junk. It will cool a small closet and that is about all. They have a
fatal design flaw - the high pressure side is cooled with inside air and
then vented to the outside, which results in a constant flow of hot air into
the room. I'm trying to figure out some way to draw outside air to cool the
high pressure side, like most a/c units do.
.
> My AC - 6 yrs old - needs service. Beutler is coming on July 27. I got
> a Soleus (K32, I think) from Fry's for $499. It's 12,000BTU. Are these
> worth keeping? How about service contract? And ..
>
> today, I saw another Model at Fry's - I didn't see it yesterday. Soleus
> LX120 which also is
> 12, 000 BTU but has heater feature. It's the same price (499.95) as the
> other one after manufacturer rebate. I am thinking to get that one, if
> I plan to keep it. My question is, is this kind of dual things a good
> thing to have. BTW, what type of heater is it?
>
> BTW, I am using it a small room - office.
>
> See at
>
>
http://www.sylvane.com/soleus-air.html?source=goog&keyword=soleus%20portable%20ac&s_kwcid=soleus%20portable%20ac|412465886
>
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Posted by Big Al on July 18, 2006, 3:11 am
"Matthew Reed" <nospam at zootal dot com nospam> wrote in message
> Does yours work well? I have the 10,000 btu model. It is a worthless piece
> of junk. It will cool a small closet and that is about all. They have a
> fatal design flaw - the high pressure side is cooled with inside air and
> then vented to the outside, which results in a constant flow of hot air
into
> the room. I'm trying to figure out some way to draw outside air to cool
the
> high pressure side, like most a/c units do.
>
> .
Some of them have two hoses. One out, one in. I was in Lowe's the other day,
they had a demo running. Covered the inlet with my hand. Guess what? The
outlet was still blasting. So what the hell is the other hose for? Just for
grins, I put the two hoses together. So the hot air should have entered the
condenser and made it real hot. It didn't.
Al
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Posted by Amanda on July 20, 2006, 11:53 pm
Matthew Reed wrote:
> Does yours work well? I have the 10,000 btu model. It is a worthless piece
> of junk. It will cool a small closet and that is about all.
Initially (before centra Ac issue), I bought Royal Aire 10,000BTU form
seras and used in bedroom useless, IMO.
Ths one was bought because AC broke but now, after reading your design
flaw info, I am returning it. Noth worht keeping it.
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x
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>They have a
> fatal design flaw - the high pressure side is cooled with inside air and
> then vented to the outside, which results in a constant flow of hot air into
> the room. I'm trying to figure out some way to draw outside air to cool the
> high pressure side, like most a/c units do.
>
> .
> > My AC - 6 yrs old - needs service. Beutler is coming on July 27. I got
> > a Soleus (K32, I think) from Fry's for $499. It's 12,000BTU. Are these
> > worth keeping? How about service contract? And ..
> >
> > today, I saw another Model at Fry's - I didn't see it yesterday. Soleus
> > LX120 which also is
> > 12, 000 BTU but has heater feature. It's the same price (499.95) as the
> > other one after manufacturer rebate. I am thinking to get that one, if
> > I plan to keep it. My question is, is this kind of dual things a good
> > thing to have. BTW, what type of heater is it?
> >
> > BTW, I am using it a small room - office.
> >
> > See at
> >
> >
http://www.sylvane.com/soleus-air.html?source=goog&keyword=soleus%20portable%20ac&s_kwcid=soleus%20portable%20ac|412465886
> >
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Posted by John on July 23, 2006, 1:08 pm
Amanda wrote:
> My AC - 6 yrs old - needs service. Beutler is coming on July 27. I got
> a Soleus (K32, I think) from Fry's for $499. It's 12,000BTU. Are these
> worth keeping? How about service contract? And ..
>
> today, I saw another Model at Fry's - I didn't see it yesterday. Soleus
> LX120 which also is
> 12, 000 BTU but has heater feature. It's the same price (499.95) as the
> other one after manufacturer rebate. I am thinking to get that one, if
> I plan to keep it. My question is, is this kind of dual things a good
> thing to have. BTW, what type of heater is it?
>
> BTW, I am using it a small room - office.
>
> See at
>
>
http://www.sylvane.com/soleus-air.html?source=goog&keyword=soleus%20portable%20ac&s_kwcid=soleus%20portable%20ac|412465886
>
We live in the deep south and air conditioning is an absolute necessity.
After our central A/C died several times with the outdoor temperature in the
90's or 100's with high humidity (try getting service on a weekend!), I
decided to get some window A/C's as backups.
I did some research and bought a 110 volt Frididaire FAC107P1A (10,000 BTUs)
for $200 at Home Despot for the first floor. It has a 10.8 EER (which is
just a wee bit shy of the the most efficient model of 11.0 EER. The kicker
is that it has a full five year in-home warranty.
Now, instead of using the giant electricity-sucking central A/C which costs
over $300/month to run and $150 in yearly maintenance costs, I use just this
litle window A/C which I can pick up by myself (and I ain't no big Bubba with
size 14 boots). The room humidity has dropped from 55% to 45%.
As small as this A/C unit is, it cools the entire first floor to the mid-70's
and we have a southern exposure with no shade trees. All the houses here
have a lousy 4" insulation.
I turn on the central A/C every few months to keep to make sure that it keeps
lubricated but I've stopped using it. Now, I used the central A/C as a
backup and cancelled the yearly maintenance.
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