Summer is coming

It's coming. Last year I didn't get anything and sweated all summer. What is the deal with mobile conditioners?
Are the expensive ones really so much better
Would a 2 year old second hand one be good (Delonghi) do they need recharged.
I see mainly 1 hose ones i dont see 2 hose ones.
Dont know what to buy and don't want to end up with nothing again. A fan dries my nose and throat out

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Two different points of view.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Two different points of view.

      Did you even watch the videos? They're not at all "two different points of view". The dual-hose units are significantly more efficient than the singles, which is what dude #2 has, and what dude #1 says is an acceptable option.

      https://i.imgur.com/WEKtPw8.jpg

      It's coming. Last year I didn't get anything and sweated all summer. What is the deal with mobile conditioners?
      Are the expensive ones really so much better
      Would a 2 year old second hand one be good (Delonghi) do they need recharged.
      I see mainly 1 hose ones i dont see 2 hose ones.
      Dont know what to buy and don't want to end up with nothing again. A fan dries my nose and throat out

      >Are the expensive ones really so much better

      The only major bump in performance is, as just mentioned, going from a single-hose two a dual. The single-hose models work, but, honestly, they're so bad in comparison that they don't even make financial sense unless your power is borderline free. If you actually run the thing for any decent length of time, the payback period of the dual hose could literally be just a single cooling season. IDK why the frick it's so hard to find dual hose models and why they're so much more expensive in the first place; literally the only major design difference is the extra hose, which does not cost another $200 for the manufacturer to add on.

      Only thing I can assume is that people are dumb and don't actually put much (if any) thought into what they're buying.

      >Would a 2 year old second hand one be good (Delonghi) do they need recharged.

      They work the same as any other air conditioner, they're just packaged different. As long as it never springs a leak (which it shouldn't), it should never need recharging.

      https://i.imgur.com/sJmyFQi.jpg

      Could I buy a portable fridge and just leave the door open full time?

      No, what the frick.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Wait until you find out that some dual hose models actually just pull air from inside the room and exhaust it anyway (a trick where manufacturers charge dual hose prices for what is effectively acting as a single hose unit)

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          There is 0 reason to do this, it wouldnt save the manufacturer money or anything. It just makes their AC work worse.
          I doubt this is a thing

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            It's dropping 10k for new plastic mould ad 2x'ing the price VS building a whole new product from ground up, sealing off separate sections, ensuring proper airflows, ordering new moulds and jigs for multiple parts etc.

            They basically just DIY intake grill into hose mount leaving all other intake paths unchanged. 200% price for injection moulded version of picrel.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              correct.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Could I buy a portable fridge and just leave the door open full time?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's good for a medium sized room, but not enough for a house or apartment which would need one in each room.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The 1-hose units are not great because they have to suck air out of the room to exhaust the heat outside, I'd advise against buying one. If you have to buy one new, I would advise buying a 2-hose model. However if you have access to a used portable AC, go ahead and use it regardless of what it is. Worst case scenario is it doesn't work and you're back where you started.

      No, they aren't designed to cool that volume of air, it would probably burn up in a matter of days. Also, just having a refrigerator open and running won't cool down the room, because all a refrigerator does is take heat from inside the box and move it outside the box. So not only would it not cool the room it's in, it would probably make the room a little hotter than normal due to thermal losses from the power it's using to run the compressor.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Could I buy a portable fridge and just leave the door open full time?
      They aren’t designed for that kind of continuous duty cycle.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they make something like this but for a whole room its called an air conditioner

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Refrigerators extract heat from their interiors and radiate it out the back. If you put one in a room and leave the door open, you'll get more heat from the rear of the fridge than you'd get cold air from the blower inside. Maybe if you cut a hole in your exterior wall and pushed the rear half of the fridge through it so the heat would radiate outside, you'd have something, but that's essentially what a normal air conditioner does.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Here's an idea I had before this anon even posted. What if I take a mini fridge, lay it on its back, and then cut holes in it for my feet? Would the cool climate of the fridge cool me down through my feet enough for this to be worth it?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        you will damage the compressor if you turn it on it's side.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Alright what if I cut a snug hole in the top then?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >What if I take a mini fridge, lay it on its back, and then cut holes in it for my feet?

        You should have made a new thread for this.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    get a dual hose air conditioner
    insulate the pipes

    most mobile units are fairly loud

    a proper split unit is not that much more expensive
    its much more efficient and much more silent

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you get a single hose unit keep the hose as short as possible, and put insulation around it. they sell round insulation for ducting. if you don't insulate the hose it will generate as much heat as it gets rid of and will not cool well.

    the better ones are either a window unit, or a 2 hose. the output hose also needs to be insulated. these work better because they don't pull in outside hot air except through the intake hose.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      single hose units take room air to cool the condenser coil and exhaust it outside. so its bascially taking the air from the room you are trying to cool, and venting it outside making it less efficient and useless.

      2 hose units pull outside air in over the condenser coil then exhaust it right back outside. no room air is sacrificed and the unit will cool the room much more efficiently.

      dont fall for the single hose meme. try to find a 2 hose unit if possible. also check ebay or craigslist

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I got one of these portable units last year off a student for $150. Cleaned it up a bit and was good as new. Probably some of the best money I've ever spent

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >summer time
    >10 threads a day by broke yuropoors trying to rig up some ghetto AC system because they're too poor to just get central air in their stone hovels
    >winter time
    >10 threads a day by broke yuropoors trying to rig up some ghetto heating system because they're too broke to just get central heating

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >central air
      Impossible in our stone hovels because the walls aren't hollow, we use mini splits instead. Works just as well.
      >central heating
      Most of yurop has picrel and you can always disconnect and use your own thing to circulate hot water.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Most of yurop has picrel
        No it doesn't. Denmark & Sweden use it heavily, and some of the former commie countries have it in the cities, but the vast majority of Europe uses gas in the home.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >No it doesn't. Denmark & Sweden use it heavily
          Brits do as well, as far as I know.
          >and some of the former commie countries have it in the cities
          ALL do. I do.
          >but the vast majority of Europe uses gas in the home.
          And what does the heat produced by the gas go to, exactly? Oh right, to water that's pumped through the radiators. We're considering disconnecting our shit from the district heating and using a heat pump for it.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Those suck ass. The exhaust hose gets so hot it reheats the room before the hot air gets outside. Just get a regular cheap window unit

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    get this Midea U AC, it's cut down the middle and you shut the window over it, less noise, less loss of cool air, and less gaps for bugs to get through.
    I have one it's great, 12,000BTU model covers my whole upstairs except my bedroom where regrettably the window is very narrow and only the smallest 5000BTU AC I could find fits.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Also another benefit of this, I leave it in all year and just put a cover over it on both sides, there is no significant leakage of cold air.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This looks good. Pity I've the wrong type of windows

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    god I wish I had municipal heating
    I have to get my boiler replaced soon so I can keep paying for oil deliveries
    every upgrade path away from oil is way, way more expensive and disruptive
    wwyd? wwjd?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >oil
      where i live people on oil are paying $1000 for one months worth of heating. Apply for a heat loan and switch to natural gas as soon as humanly possible.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        there's no natural gas in my area

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