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Vulcan_Rider
Jul 17, 2015Explorer
1775 wrote:
A portable air conditioner needs to be vented out a window -
I see my little tirade was in a different thread so here goes again:
Portable A/C units with a single hose are a cruel joke.
It takes air from inside the "room" and blows it out the single hose.
The REPLACEMENT air comes in through cracks and such through out the structure.
Thus your NET cooling turns out to be very little when the outside air is, for instance, 95F and very humid. It effectively cools only a small area and would actually make the rest of the structure warmer if there was no other A/C system in use.
A similar unit with TWO hoses doesn't have that drawback. Alas, they are quite a bit more expensive.
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