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Just got home from Smith's with a brand new LG room air conditioner, in the box, for $150.
They seem to have a number of them. 30 day warranty.
Just FYI
Just checked with Home Depot web site. Same unit is $320.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/LG-Electroni.../300422892
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I got one on Monday, and I'm in love with it. OMG, it's portable and cools down a small room super fast on a hot day. Can't stop smiling when it's on.
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Yep. Well I have noticed our summers getting hotter.
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They have different models mine is the 10,200 BTU and I saw more powerful ones as well.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/LG-Electroni.../300422891
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What did you pay for yours?
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Same, $150. I think all models are that price. Take it back and upgrade perhaps.
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Just one thing to be aware of, those portable units use up to 3x the electricity of "Energy Star" window units per BTU. At least they did when I was shopping for them. A portable unit would have been ideal for me, but my solar PV system couldn't do it.
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The 10K BTU poratable really does draw 1200W like the specs say it will.
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That's not the worst of it, the 10,000 BTU unit is really only a 6,500 unit even though it's pulling all the extra wattage. That's why it's labeled as:
"10,200 BTU (6,500 BTU, DOE) Portable Air Conditioner"
In a window unit, there is a "cold" side (your home) and a "hot" side (outdoors). In a portable unit, the cold and hot sides are both indoors. The unit blows the hot air out through the tube (which is how it works) but it functions really more like a "dehumidifier with a hose" than an A/C unit (dehumidifiers make both hot and cold air, but the warm air wins which is why they heat your room when you use them). On a window unit all the heat creating "guts" are outside the house. In a portable unit, they are in the room with you. As it blows the hot air out, it creates a vacuum inside the house (the escaping air has to be replaced). Where does it come from? It comes from outside. That's why portable units have two separate BTU ratings, the cooling BTU the unit produces and the "effective" BTU once all these considerations are put in place.
For an example, my 10,000 BTU window unit uses just under 500 watts at full blast. The 10,000 portable unit has effective cooling of only 6,500 BTU but uses 1200 watts.
ETA: I asked an HVAC guy what I should do if I didn't want to mount an A/C in my window. He said, "If you don't want to put it in the window, you're gonna have to cut a hole in the wall."
You can't change physics. If you put the heat-creating part of the heat pump equation inside the house you're trying to cool... it is possible but at great cost.
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Terracore: For an example, my 10,000 BTU window unit uses just under 500 watts at full blast.
Is there a typo in that? 500 watts? As checked by a Watt a Metor or whatever it’s called?
Seems so low.
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Kirt
