Costco has a pretty small 6000 btu AC now
I bought one and am going to see if I can mod it to work just venting from the back for a in-cabinet side wall installation. It is very very tiny and $139. I will let you know how it goes.
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Ok so through wall usually means the air conditioner has been designed to pull in air through the back of the AC and vent the air out of the same back. With our ducting, we are just doing the same thing. Here is a diagram of the airflow in the mockup I did which seems to work pretty well (tested with paper streamers to map the vector field of air flow). Obviously blue represents incoming air and red is the exhaust air that has passed through the condenser.
edit: the top two vent louvers on the external grill I used are also above the level of the Danby AC so some air can flow in there and across the top of the AC then down into the unit. The AC is 12 inches tall and the grill is 14 x 25.
edit: the top two vent louvers on the external grill I used are also above the level of the Danby AC so some air can flow in there and across the top of the AC then down into the unit. The AC is 12 inches tall and the grill is 14 x 25.
