Anyone have a portable AC?
I need an AC soon and I'm seeing ads for the tall portable ones that stand on the floor. I saw a few reviews for one that said it's more like a fan feel and doesn't get a room to a true AC cool. Anyone have one?
Ontheroad · M
What most of them are is nothing more than an exhaust fan. An inexpensive box fan put in a window will exhaust the heat just as well, but neither cools the air.
To get one that will do some cooling, you'll need something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Gasbye-Portable-Conditioner-Compressor-Energy-Saving/dp/B0DXKBG6LT/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8&th=1
Even then, it has limitations and will only cool a single room and might not adequately handle really hot weather (90s and above).
To get one that will do some cooling, you'll need something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Gasbye-Portable-Conditioner-Compressor-Energy-Saving/dp/B0DXKBG6LT/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8&th=1
Even then, it has limitations and will only cool a single room and might not adequately handle really hot weather (90s and above).
StygianKohlrabi · 46-50, M
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
They cannot possibly be "air conditioners" unless they transfer the heat to outside the building, which a portable unit is very unlikely to do.
The reviews are right.
The snake-oil aspect is of hoping buyers do not really understand what an air-conditioner does - and what it does not do.
The reviews are right.
The snake-oil aspect is of hoping buyers do not really understand what an air-conditioner does - and what it does not do.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@twiigss They do make them; but the machines don't do anything useful! They simply circulate the air around them.
You are right that the heat needs be discharged outside, but if it does so by simply transferring hot room air, that too will be self-defeating because it will draw in external, warm air through the home's other ventilation.
Really the only way air-conditiong can work usefully is by transferring only the heat, via an intermediary fluid in a closed system; and that is what proper AC units do.
You are right that the heat needs be discharged outside, but if it does so by simply transferring hot room air, that too will be self-defeating because it will draw in external, warm air through the home's other ventilation.
Really the only way air-conditiong can work usefully is by transferring only the heat, via an intermediary fluid in a closed system; and that is what proper AC units do.
