Whynter Portable Air Conditioner 14,000 BTU with Dual Hose Dehumidifier & Cooling Fan for 500 Sq Ft Rooms, Includes AC Unit Window Kit, ARC-14S (9,500 SACC)

The unit is heavy, but I was able to manage to get it i to my house just fine. It is a large unit and it will take up room, so pay attention to the measurements. Overall, it is an excellent machine! I have been using it for just about a month. I am in NY where the summer has been humid and in the upper 80’s. I did have to use adhesive velcro and plexiglass in the window. I bought this specifically to use in my casement windows that open from the top and out. The plexiglass was used to act as a window frame to keep the outside out. I was able to get the velcro and plexiglass at Home Depot. It did take me time, but I am happy with home it turned out. The unit works well! It kept our living room cool during these hot days. When the fan is on full speed it is loud. I only had to connect the outtake hose. This way, the air from inside the house was being cooled and then exhausted out the window. The only issue I have, and this may be user error- the screws to attach the hose to the window plate are the improper size. They do not secure the hose to the plate at all. I was able to place it just right to connect it, but now it will not stay attached.

This is an amazing AC unit. It uses a double hose setup that purportedly removes hot air as it injects cold air, so it is more efficient at cooling a room. The unit I purchased was the heat and air, and I can say that it works great. It's only rated to 500 sqft, but the room we have it in encompasses 2 separate areas, with a wall partially in between and covers a little over 550 sqft. I can say that this unit is actually able to keep both areas pretty cool, with a couple of small ceiling fans running to help circulate the air. Our room temperatures went down from 80-90+ degrees to around the 70 degree point we needed. This thing works better than some other single hose counterparts (frigidaire for example). Noise wise, this unit has been a mild sound. It fades into other general background noises, and I've had a bladed fan running nonstop until I got this that was way louder. It also is a little quieter than some window units I've tried using.The only downside I'd have about this unit is that the heat pump doesn't work below 45 degree farenheit. This was not known to me at the time of purchase and I was hoping it'd be able to run during the winter, but it won't be able to do that based on the manual and related information. Still, this heat pump fares better than other models as well. I discussed the heat pumps on competitor units at frigidaire and the support staff informed me the portable ac heat pumps don't generally work well below 60 degrees. The only other thing I discovered was this unit drained a lot of condensation for the first 48 hours, so much so I ended up having to hook up continuous drainage as I was taking tray fulls of water out of the unit. Apparently our house was very humid or similar as it stopped leaking so much after the first couple of days - but something to be aware of. The unit will turn itself off and just say "STOP" until you drain it, which I don't believe the manual indicated very well. Also, draining the entire internal tank requires tilting the unit by about 45 degrees, at least as I was told by support staff over a chat.Overall, there's not much that will be wrong with purchasing this, unless you expect the heat pump to work all winter ( as I was hoping), but it is able to cool a room fairly larger than it was qualified for and so far the best of the several different units I've tried.

This is a five-star air-conditioner with a two-star thermostat. The cooling capability when in either full A/C mode or as a Humidifier is fast and quite cold. I'm very satisfied with that aspect of this unit. My issue with the thermostat is that the temperature differential drifts too much either too cold or does not turn on when the room is too hot. I have not been able maintain a temperature that I set. It's been a manual operation where I get the room cold enough and then manually to the fan only. The remote control? Well, it works - sometimes. Sometimes it doesn't. Since this unit is for a porch and it's never on when we're not on the porch, controlling it is not too much of a problem. I wish, though, that I could set it for 76 degrees and the porch would stay close to that when we're there. I have not found a way to do that so far. But, as I said in the beginning -- the porch gets cold fast.