On 25 May 2006 07:57:20 -0700, "z" wrote:


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Thanks for the help everyone. The support people at Sunpentown said a
regular 15 amp outlet will work fine. Also, I am worried about the
window A/C dropping on someone's head.

Happens less often than you might think. Of course, when it does....


It has to randomly fall when someone is randomly benieth it. You can get
brackets to secure it more firmly or you can buiold a small platform outside
the window.

I did the latter. And even though there was no walkway underneath.
Actually, first I put in a shelf in the kitchen, to hold plants
outside the kitchen window. Then I put a charcoal grill on that shelf
and had many nice grilled meals from my fifth floor apartement.
(window couldn't be seen except by recovering drug addicts next door,
although one time one of them told someone there was a fire in my
apartment. That's when the charcoal lighter was still burning, and it
certainly looked like a fire from 4 flights down. Also, on rare
occasiosn the smoke blew into the kitchen enough to bother me, and I
closed the window several times. Once during the flaming part, I broke
the window. But only once out of about 50 times.)

Then I put the AC in my bedroom, and the first thing I did was build a
shelf, just a piece of plywood with 2 wood blocks nailed to it. The
blocks sat on the cement window sill, and the plywood was nailed to
the wooden, outdoor window frame. I removed the AC when I left, but
the shelf was still good.

I was thinking the pretty much only chance of it falling, without major
structural failure of the wall, is during installation if you manage to
drop it before closing the sash.

That's enough.

And you forgot when it is removed for any reason.

for a 20A plug, the blades have one horizontal and one vertical, it should
not fit in a 15A receptacle unless the cord had been replaced. Usually a
receptacle with a single plug is installed but they also have 20A duplex
receptacles too.

In any case, the circuit should be dedicated to that appliance or at least
don't use anything else with lots of watts on the same branch or you will
trip the breaker. A/Cs draw the most current right when they start up, then
it immediately drops to a more reasonable level.