Text 11769, 67 rader
Skriven 2008-08-09 19:13:35 av Carol Shenkenberger (18079.cooks)
  Kommentar till text 11742 av Jim White (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Portable Air Conditioner (was Re: Sunroom)
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 >  CS> Don's making a wood stand for the portable AC.  It has a small water
 > outlet
 >  CS> at the bottom which is a little too low to port out the sill.  We'll be
 >  CS> using
 >  CS> the patio door (screen opens) to port out the hot air vent and water
 >  CS> outlet.
 > 
 >  CS> On really hot days, it does add heat from back there so needs occasiona
 > AC
 >  CS> assist as it's off the main vents in the house.  The little unit will m
 >  CS> than make up for that.  In winter, I'll store the AC away and put a sma
 >  CS> electric oil filled radiator out there.  In fact, we needed a bigger on
 >  CS> for
 >  CS> the garage so the garage unit will move out here and be just right.
 > 
 > I tried one of those here and did NOT like it.  We had been using a 5k btu
 > window unit and bought an 8k btu portable unit to replace it.  Even with the
 > waste heat hose only 3' long, it cooled the room  A LOT LESS than the 5k win
 > unit.  So I put the window unit back in and returned the portable!

I dont have the ability to put a window unit there.  I opted away from the
wall unit at 2,500$ (AC and Heat) and the rest doesnt adapt right for a
window unit.

Portable it must be.  It seems to be working well.  As the day hit closer to
95, I turned it back on and it's happy.


 >  CS> LOL!  While typing, Don made a little wood box and set the AC unit in i
 >  CS> It's just right so the wheels fit in there and the unit has air room at
 > the
 >  CS> sides around it since there's minor venting at the bottom, this was
 >  CS> needed).
 >  CS> He made it out of pre-treated 1x6 decking wood.
 > 
 >  CS> Now he'd making something to vent the hot air tube out, that we can eas
 >  CS> move out of the way to close the back patio sunroom door and screen at
 >  CS> night.
 >  CS>  It wont be totally air-tight but close enough for use.  The plastic
 >  CS> doohicky
 >  CS> that came with it was framed for a standard small window, not the big
 >  CS> ones in the sunroom or the glass patio door we are using.
 > 
 > Ours had adapters to to fit a 38" window, but we didn't need it.  The anothe
 > thing I didn't like was how the bugs could crawl into the waste heat hose (w
 > turned off) and go right down into the A/C unit!  Makes me wonder if bugs co
 > get into the house when you dumped the condensation tank.

Ours now has a long thin wood block that fits in the patio door.  A bit of
air leak but not more than 1/8th inch.  Just pick it up and move to the side
when closing up at night.

 > Oh, we have our humid days too, and that feature is useful.  Our portable ha
 > 1 qt tank for condensation collection.  And it had an alarm to warn you when
 > was full.  Dang thing woke us up TWICE the first night and again at 7:30 AM!
 > There was a hose adapter we could have used into a 5 gallon bucket, but that
 > water was VERY hot.  I didn't want that extra heat in the room, chance the d
 > getting into it, or having them spill it and burning themselves.

Humm, I'll have to check that carefully.  I had not expected the water to be 
very hot.  If it's a problem, we drill a little hole in the long-wood that
the exaust vent plugs to and just vent outside.
            xxcarol

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