I have a room without a window that needs to be cooled. Can I still use a portable AC unit?
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You will need a window or at least a place where you can put hose for exhaust
1017605
On a hot day this ac .Puts off a lot of hot air and depending on humidity, water. Your room would be hort without a anway for exhaust to escape...
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You can keep your window screened. The vent doesn't go much farther than the window. I love this unit. It's small but cools very well and it's easy to set up.
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In a small room it is beneficial for cooling the air. But we do not find it an effective unit overall. We bought an actual portable air conditioning unit to deal with the heat in our house in Orange County.
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We are at the max cubic foot cooling specs for this AC. You, if it's an eight foot ceiling, are less than half what we are cooling. You should be ok. Be sure to read my comments about the compressor cooling hose being hot. Your smaller room may be easier to cool without insulating the one hose. I don't find the noise objectionable but it's a pretty big room and it's at the far end. It doesn't affect our hearing the tv programs. I haven't heard a window AC for many years, and they may have improved like everything else.
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Possibly. The temp controller could be bad and not allowing you to reduce the heat. It is also possible that you are out of refrigerant in your AC system which will eliminate cold air. If the ambient temp allows can you get cooler air by adjusting the temp with the AC off? Also the air divert doors might be stuck in the hot position.
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You will need an exhaust hose. Hot air blows out of the exhaust port and would just go back into your room, defeating the whole purpose of the air conditioner.
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as long as you have a window to exhaust the hot air out of the room,using the window kit.works well.
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it will definately take the chill out of the air, but since it is uninsalated and has 17 windows that probablly leak air, you will probably need two. If the room was insulated it would keep it warm
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No. The window needs to open a bit for the flow of air to go through the AC
693184
You need to vent it outside so the hot air has somewhere to go. A window is the easiest.
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We also don't have AC where we use this fan. It moves a lot of air around so you will feel cooler. You could probably put a wet sheet like material in front of it and make a sort of "swamp cooler". This fan works very well.
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definitely does. without venting out a window, the hot air from the compressor would just pump back into the room. But it comes with the vent tube and window adapter...essentially everything you'll need to plug it in and get cool. not the highest output unit available, but it cools a smaller room quite well (as long as its vented properly and there's not a lot of warmer air seeping into the room)
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No you don't need to open your windows. It will stay cooler if you do close them. You can use it in a some what closed area, but it does have a filter in the back that needs to pull in air to run. I use it in all my rooms.
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If it is very hot then this fan will only move the hot air around. You'll probably still need a small A/C unit.
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Yes. Unit is mounted on the wall and a hole needs to made through to the outside so you can run the connections to the outside unit. There are several good videos online for installing ductless cool/heat systems. This unit can heat and cool a room, just select the option you want on the remote control.
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No, but I would seriously consider a window a/c. This does not cool effectively and my electric bill went up more than three times prior years running a window a/c 24/7
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Seems like you've answered your own question. Yes, you should be get the unit into that size window without the side curtains. Will probably have to fabricate your own weather proofing for the sides.