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Homelabs 230V Mini Split Air Conditioner: 12K BTU $500, 9K BTU Expired

$400
$689.00
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Home.Woot! has Homelabs 230V Mini Split Air Conditioners on sale from $399.99. Shipping is free w/ Amazon Prime or is otherwise a flat $6 per order.

Thanks to Community Member TarikV for finding this deal.

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  • 9,000 BTU unit (cooling capacity up to 400 sq. ft) $399.99
  • 12,000 BTU unit (cooling capacity up to 550 sq. ft) $499.99
Product Details:
  • Air conditioner and heater in one
  • Auto, Cool, Dry, Heat, and Fan modes
  • Other notable features include the stealth LED display, 2 way swing, and eco-friendly refrigerant R410A.
  • Backlit LCD remote
  • Permanent washable and easy to clean air filter
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it's cheaper for a reason...
can't be used below 5ยฐF, where the Pioneer units are good to -15ยฐF
1 year limited warranty
can't find the SEER rating anywhere, which normally means it's hilariously low... only thing that even mentions it is on the Woot page, which has to be wrong "Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER) 2.6"
here's the manual for those interested. [manualslib.com]

wait for the Pioneer units to go back on sale at HomeDepot or a MrCool... i put a Pioneer 9K 240V unit in our 12x20 pot belly pig house last year, worked great over the NY winter, kept the house at a steady 66ยฐ even on the weeks we barely got above 0ยฐF during the day and down to -10ยฐ over night. that's also with freezer straps on the doorway so the pigs can get out to do their business during the day.

side note... even if you're handy, do all the work up to the final line-set connection and just let an AC guy connect it up, pump it down, fill with nitrogen and leak check. my guy charged 300$, well worth it for the piece of mind to me.
This is a DIY-ish setup, if you know how to use a wrench (and can youtube vacuum pump operation) you could get away with just hiring an electrician unless you felt comfortable doing that too. Scary enough most electrical work can be legally done by the home owner.

You do not even need refrigerant gauges for 99% of mini split installs unless something is wrong with the system. Most manufacturers do not want you hooking gauges up unless you are troubleshooting.

True, but there is no alternative unless you want a window unit. Kinda like factoring the price of a pot to boil the water when discussing the cost of a pasta dinner.

And you don't "need" lineset covers.

You should NOT shorten the lineset unless the manual tells you to. These systems are "critically charged" and the lineset lengths are taken into account. Meaning a few feet difference lineset length could overcharge the system hurting performance / efficiently. Also half the point of a lineset being pre-flared is ease of install. Shortening the lineset defeats that purpose and adds another step to install...a step that probably will cause a refrigerant leak as well.

While there is a move towards other refrigerants R410a is still the most common in the US.

BTW, I hate these HVAC related posts because there is so much (probably well intentioned) misinformation shared.
Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER) 2.6 in the documentation (got to be wrong), but if you look at the pictures, the SEER is 16.8 for 12K which is quite low for a unit like this. I also bought the Pioneer units last year and am quite happy with them. The SEER on the Pioneer unit was 19 and got the 12K and 18K from HD on sale last May. I just ordered a 22 SEER unit in March and will pick up this week. Waiting on new refrigerant before I buy a new central unit. Wish these were not R410a units. I calculate my energy savings from the installed mini splits will pay for themselves by the end of this year.

Mini Splits....live long and prosper.

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outback_97
04-05-2023 at 12:14 PM.
04-05-2023 at 12:14 PM.
I'll be building a 200 s.f. (12 x 16) backyard art studio for my wife. I was planning on just a space heater when it's cold, and fans and open windows when it's warmer, but reading about these mini splits has me wondering if I could do cooling also.

Any suggestions for a small, quiet heating and cooling unit that would run on 120V? I'm located in northern Utah so we have a pretty variable climate... cool to cold winters, mostly moderate in the spring and fall, and quite hot and dry in the summer.
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sblack005
04-05-2023 at 01:28 PM.
04-05-2023 at 01:28 PM.
Quote from OlivePenguin524 :
Depends on where you want to install this. If you live in a cold climate like the northern US, don't buy this, it will not work efficiently the colder it gets.

I'd get a 20+ unit if you lived somewhere cold and want to use this for heat too.
Lots of discussion for heating but what about cooling? Living in Florida we don't get a lot of cold weather. I have a 2 story house and the upstairs bedrooms are hard to cool even with a 2nd central heat / air unit. So I have installed windows units in both bedrooms to help. It works but isn't the best. Would something like this be good for cooling those upstairs bedrooms, about 15 by 15 feed with 12 foot ceilings. Can't be worse than a window unit?
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OlivePenguin524
04-05-2023 at 02:57 PM.
04-05-2023 at 02:57 PM.
Quote from sblack005 :
Lots of discussion for heating but what about cooling? Living in Florida we don't get a lot of cold weather. I have a 2 story house and the upstairs bedrooms are hard to cool even with a 2nd central heat / air unit. So I have installed windows units in both bedrooms to help. It works but isn't the best. Would something like this be good for cooling those upstairs bedrooms, about 15 by 15 feed with 12 foot ceilings. Can't be worse than a window unit?
If you're going to be using this primarily for cooling, it should be fine. It's not a very high
SEER, but like others have said, the higher the SEER the more it costs and will take a long time to recoup that.

A 9K BTU will cool about a 20x20 with 8' ceilings, so you should be okay.

They do make these with more than one zone too. So just one compressor and 2 line sets with 2 units.

They also make 110v units, which means you don't need to run a 220v to the units.
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c3688t
04-05-2023 at 04:11 PM.
04-05-2023 at 04:11 PM.
Quote from Riboflav1n :
To the pros here: Am I going to be sad if I install the 12k unit in my 768 sqft garage? I was looking at the 17K DIY MRCOOL, but if this will do the job I'd love to save the $1000.

The garage is fully insulated with R-38 in the rafters (4:12 roof pitch) and R-13 in the walls. Since it's insulated at the rafters I'm concerned that all of the overhead space is going to make even the $17k BTU unit not enough. I guess, in theory, I could install one of the 12k on each end of the garage and still save money. Advice?
It's probably not ideal, but one thing I do in a similar situation is turn it on early in the morning (5am or 6am) and let it start pulling our 2400 sq-ft shop down before the hot part of the day. This is with a 24k btu model in a northern desert environment. By 6pm when it's 110F outside, the temps will usually have climbed up to 75F or even 77F inside, but I can still function. If I wait to start the system up until it really starts to warm up in the shop (usually around 11am or noon), it can't keep up and it will climb much higher by the afternoon, and I then it's too hot to keep working. It's one way to get a little more out of an undersized system. Probably wastes some energy. And I only do it on days I'm working in there.
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04-07-2023 at 10:12 AM.
04-07-2023 at 10:12 AM.
I pulled the trigger on the 12k unit. The low SEER was a bit of a concern, but screw it. Way better than window units that don't work and 4k for a whole house setup.
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danielnmai
04-10-2023 at 07:31 AM.
04-10-2023 at 07:31 AM.
Deal is dead. Mod please delete the post.
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DillDozer
04-21-2023 at 10:57 PM.
04-21-2023 at 10:57 PM.
Quote from kris.d.phillips :

If you're handy you can install these yourself. Just make sure you follow electrical codes, file permits when necessary, etc. Don't be redneck Billy and duct tape it to the outside wall or something.

Stop personally attacking me.
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04-21-2023 at 11:11 PM.
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Stop personally attacking me.

Oh hi Billy ๐Ÿ˜‰
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Quote from kris.d.phillips :
Oh hi Billy ๐Ÿ˜‰

That's Billy Bob Jethro the Third!
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