I was noticing on Amazon.com that the portable air conditioners (that can be
wheeled from room to room) have gone down in price. Consumer Reports
reviewed them years ago and said they weren't energy efficient. The new
units my Danby, Mobile Air and others are combo a/c, humidifiers, and
heaters.

Anyone have experience recently and are there any recommendations.
My apartment has the under window sleeve for air conditioners and I do have
two, but one is as old as the hills and fails to work most of the time.
A replacement would involve getting someone in to install it, and re-plaster
the wall around the sleeve. I could also use the portable heater in the
portable unit.

"Elaine" wrote in message
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I was noticing on Amazon.com that the portable air conditioners (that can
be
wheeled from room to room) have gone down in price. Consumer Reports
reviewed them years ago and said they weren't energy efficient. The new
units my Danby, Mobile Air and others are combo a/c, humidifiers, and
heaters.

Anyone have experience recently and are there any recommendations.
My apartment has the under window sleeve for air conditioners and I do
have
two, but one is as old as the hills and fails to work most of the time.
A replacement would involve getting someone in to install it, and
re-plaster
the wall around the sleeve. I could also use the portable heater in the
portable unit.

The only issue I have with the portable A/C's and coolers is they need to be
set up in a certain method so that they work. If you set up this a/co in a
bedroom and you have cold air coming out of it. WHERE is the hot air going?
Back into your house. Unless you have them vented your playing a squirrel
game and only helping the utility. Bite the bullet and get the through the
wall one fixed or replaced.

I used a portable for a job on the 4th of July in Phoenix. The unit was out
side the room we were working on. I placed plastic over all the doors and
then ran the supply hoses into the room. The hoses were hung from the light
fixtures blowing down on us. 40K btu held the room at 89 degrees, it was 115
outside. There was a steam header in the room as well.

SQLit wrote:
"Elaine" wrote in message
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I was noticing on Amazon.com that the portable air conditioners
(that can be wheeled from room to room) have gone down in price.
Consumer Reports reviewed them years ago and said they weren't
energy efficient. The new units my Danby, Mobile Air and others are
combo a/c, humidifiers, and heaters.

Anyone have experience recently and are there any recommendations.
My apartment has the under window sleeve for air conditioners and I
do have two, but one is as old as the hills and fails to work most
of the time. A replacement would involve getting someone in to
install it, and re-plaster the wall around the sleeve. I could also
use the portable heater in the portable unit.

The only issue I have with the portable A/C's and coolers is they
need to be set up in a certain method so that they work. If you set
up this a/co in a bedroom and you have cold air coming out of it.
WHERE is the hot air going? Back into your house. Unless you have
them vented your playing a squirrel game and only helping the
utility. Bite the bullet and get the through the wall one fixed or
replaced.

I used a portable for a job on the 4th of July in Phoenix. The unit
was out side the room we were working on. I placed plastic over all
the doors and then ran the supply hoses into the room. The hoses were
hung from the light fixtures blowing down on us. 40K btu held the
room at 89 degrees, it was 115 outside. There was a steam header in
the room as well.

I believe Elaine is talking about a system that either split or ducts
air from the outside to past the condenser coils and then ducts it back out.

--
Joseph E. Meehan

26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math

The ones I see at Home Depot (Maytag) vent hot air out the window via a flex
duct like a dryer. Unit comes with expandable panel to put in double hung
window with duct connection in the panel. The system recirculates room air
for cooling.


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"Elaine" wrote in message
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I was noticing on Amazon.com that the portable air conditioners (that
can
be
wheeled from room to room) have gone down in price. Consumer Reports
reviewed them years ago and said they weren't energy efficient. The new
units my Danby, Mobile Air and others are combo a/c, humidifiers, and
heaters.

Anyone have experience recently and are there any recommendations.
My apartment has the under window sleeve for air conditioners and I do
have
two, but one is as old as the hills and fails to work most of the time.
A replacement would involve getting someone in to install it, and
re-plaster
the wall around the sleeve. I could also use the portable heater in the
portable unit.

The only issue I have with the portable A/C's and coolers is they need to
be
set up in a certain method so that they work. If you set up this a/co in a
bedroom and you have cold air coming out of it. WHERE is the hot air
going?
Back into your house. Unless you have them vented your playing a squirrel
game and only helping the utility. Bite the bullet and get the through the
wall one fixed or replaced.

I used a portable for a job on the 4th of July in Phoenix. The unit was
out
side the room we were working on. I placed plastic over all the doors and
then ran the supply hoses into the room. The hoses were hung from the
light
fixtures blowing down on us. 40K btu held the room at 89 degrees, it was
115
outside. There was a steam header in the room as well.

Curmudgeon wrote:

The ones I see at Home Depot (Maytag) vent hot air out the window via a
flex
duct like a dryer. Unit comes with expandable panel to put in double hung
window with duct connection in the panel. The system recirculates room
air for cooling.

I have had one of those Maytag portable units since early last summer for
my upstairs. It is A/C if vented out a window (or dehumidifier if not). The
condensate is used to cool the condenser, so all summer it only accumulated
a couple ounces of water in its tank (rest went out vent as vapor). That
works for me until I have a chance to replace a Whirlpool window shaker
that is glued into the wall above a modified window and does NOT have a
slide out chassis.

My main floor has a Friedrich through-the-wall that is still going strong
after over 30 yrs (which I estimated from its appearance to be from the
70's, but from its serial number might be from 1967).

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"Elaine" wrote in message
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I was noticing on Amazon.com that the portable air conditioners (that
can
be
wheeled from room to room) have gone down in price. Consumer Reports
reviewed them years ago and said they weren't energy efficient. The
new units my Danby, Mobile Air and others are combo a/c, humidifiers,
and heaters.

Anyone have experience recently and are there any recommendations.
My apartment has the under window sleeve for air conditioners and I do
have
two, but one is as old as the hills and fails to work most of the time.
A replacement would involve getting someone in to install it, and
re-plaster
the wall around the sleeve. I could also use the portable heater in
the portable unit.

--
David Efflandt http://www.de-srv.com/

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The only issue I have with the portable A/C's and coolers is they need
to be set up in a certain method so that they work. If you set up this
a/co in a bedroom and you have cold air coming out of it. WHERE is the
hot air going? Back into your house

if you take a look at the diagram here, it seems to move the hot air through
a vent in a window adapter:


http://www.abtelectronics.com/script...t.php3?id=8371

How energy efficient is the Maytag portable and does it keep the room cool?

That old Friedrich you have must be VERY energy inefficient! Do you ever
have anyone come in to fill it up with Freon?

David Efflandt opened in
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have had one of those Maytag portable units since early last summer for
my upstairs. It is A/C if vented out a window (or dehumidifier if not).
The condensate is used to cool the condenser, so all summer it only
accumulated a couple ounces of water in its tank (rest went out vent as
vapor). That works for me until I have a chance to replace a Whirlpool
window shaker that is glued into the wall above a modified window and
does NOT have a slide out chassis.

My main floor has a Friedrich through-the-wall that is still going
strong after over 30 yrs (which I estimated from its appearance to be
from the 70's, but from its serial number might be from 1967).