Midea America Corp. via Walmart has
12,000 BTU Midea DUO Dual-Hose Portable Air Conditioner (Refurbished / Walmart Restored) on sale for $224.66
-> now $249.99.
Shipping is free.
- Note: Only offers 90-Day Returns.
Thanks to Community Members
shb2dae &
GreySwing658 for sharing this deal.
About this Item:
- 12,000 BTU DOE: 3-in-1 Comfort Cools, Ventilates, and Dehumidifies
- Inverter Technology Delivers up to 40% Energy Savings Compared to US Federal Standard
- Matter Certified Unit with App & Voice Control: Control From Anywhere with the Smart Home App
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It can also peg around 450-480 watts periodically when settling down from medium to low or when first kicking into low when the compressor surges, and then levels out at around 250-300 watts.
Medium is pretty capable of bringing my living room/kitchen area which is around 400sq ft or so I'd say with other rooms doors shut, from 85 degrees to 76 or so within 30 minutes to an hour.
YMMV depending on your area, it's generally in the high 70's to low 80's outdoor temps here at the moment, but it can reach 95+ in the middle of summer, so I can't comment on those sorts of conditions just yet.
Fan speed settings more or less control compressor load along with it on these units. If you set the fan to low, expect the 250-300 watt load range, medium upper 700 watt range, high over 1K watts. So you can't have for instance just the fan on low and the compressor running at full load, or the fan on high and the compressor at its lowest load, these aren't actually 'smart'. Ceiling fans or floor standing fans will certainly help to distribute the cold air throughout more than one area/room.
Since temps aren't that high yet I generally just have mine in low all the time with continuous fan mode, so when the compressor turns off entirely, the fan still runs at a load of 10 to 12 watts to help with any moisture accumulation in the tank.
If my asshole cats unplug it and the house heats up into the mid 80's I'll run it on medium until it gets down to 76-77 and switch it back to low.
When I get it plugged in again I'll correct any errors I might have made, I put a U-shaped window unit in the living room cause I'm less concerned about my cats messing with that, and will be moving the portable to my bedroom and can recheck the load then.
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Any recommendations for a glass sliding door adapter kit for the exhaust that's solid and maybe still allows locking?
The fan shutting all the way off and then springing to life a few moments later was driving me nuts trying to fall asleep on this Midea.
Anyway... my experience with this thing is I can't wait to get it out of my bedroom. I have it in a horizontally sliding window and the included window kit and slider window adapter connection is all pretty cheap and flimsy, but worked. The included weather stripping sealed everything up surprisingly well.
1) It takes up a lot of floor space
2) It makes every LED bulb flicker upstairs when the compressor is running
- this is present even when it's maintaining a temperature, not working hard to reach that temperature. It's not due to a massive load on the circuit. Happens to my cheap smart bulbs and philips hue bulbs alike
3) the motorized swing action of the outlet makes 8 very audible rapid clicking noises as it sweeps up and down. It sounds like cheap plastic. I've had this function disabled most of the last week as a result, but just tried it out again after learning about continuous fan operation in quoted post. Still does it, still bothers the hell out of me.
4) The high pitch electrical whiney noise of the compressor starting has bothered me this entire time, though it's brief and lessens after 10 seconds or so. My dogs don't like it. I don't like it either.
4 & 5 just began in the last few hours. It's making a loud grumbling 1.5 second noise + thud when compressor engages and shuts off now. It shakes the window kit too when this happens.
Lastly, I just noticed it kind of smells like old socks. Very noticeable when I went to engage continuous fan mode and was standing right above it, and now I can smell it in the entire room.
I've had this powered ON for about 150 of the last 168 hours since installing upstairs. I haven't gotten any error codes about water, and I check multiple times a day to make sure there's no water on my floor just in case a sensor is bad. I live in a humid area which is about to become wayyy more humid in ~July so I wouldn't be surprised if emptying were to become a thing.
But it won't, because I ordered the $219? costco hisense inverter window unit which arrives tomorrow, and WILL find a way to install it in my sliding window. Anyway, that's my take on this Midea. I'd use it in a garage or workshop if I didn't have a window appropriate for an inverter window ac (and didn't want to do a mini split) but it's no good in my bedroom. I've lived with a lot of the traditional window shaker units in my life, 1970's clunkers even, and find that ruckus to be more tolerable.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/395952301
Or 4 year $45
https://www.walmart.com/ip/723742414
That's what I did last go round, then registered it via the asurion Walmart portal. https://www.walmart.com/protection-plans
Click "file a claim" which which will take you to the square trade/asurion portal, then you can click manage plan and register/associate the warranty with the ac.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/4-Year...hatgpt.c
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Does anybody else hear that high frequency noise when the compressor is running?
[edit] here are numerous threads about the topic
Link 1 [reddit.com]
Link 2 [reddit.com]
Link 3 [reddit.com]
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Feels like the right answer is to keep it based on the generous return policy but tempting to save a few $
https://www.costco.com/PriceAdjustment
If that link malfunctions, go to customer service, type in 'price match', see the costco.com price article and it has that above link a little bit down the page.
I have two of these, and just installed one. The instruction sheet is hard to read and way too small, but there are videos on amazon and youtube. It's pretty easy, no panel cutting.
As soon as I powered it on, the google home app saw it's Matter registration, hooked it to my wifi and home app. So I can control it from my watch or voice to a speaker. Just on/off and temp control, so you need the remote for other stuff.
Makes a momentary rattle as the compressor starts, and that's why a bunch of people return them. So many that they had real box art boxes with "refurbished" part of the artwork, So refurb you're getting one that's been shipped back and forth, possibly carried home and carried back to a store and then shipped to a refurbishing center, repacked and resold and shipped some more.
We'll see how well they do when it's 105 every day in July. At least there's no humidity. Which in reading reviews are a problem for this and a lot of other portables. They aren't good at shedding water through the hose. Lots of returns for that when the bucket filled up and they'd already thrown out the hose with the packaging.
Some folks break the small plastic tabs trying to snap the sliding/casement adapter into things. It's very thin and cheap feeling. I'll probably break it when trying to disconnected it from the window in the Fall.
They also historically have had zero ability to ship one missing or broken part. It's a "return the whole thing for a missing plastic piece" deal, and that's led to many returns and angry customers who had the whole thing half installed and had to send it all back.
At the price delta, buy the costco one. I thought it was cheap at $479, now at $379 brand new and shipped < half the number of times as the refurb, no brainer. But if you don't have the extra cash, and can only afford the refurb, you aren't in a high humidity area, you're careful with the plastic parts and whisper silent wasn't the top three needs, should be a good one. At least it's 12,000 by the reliable/accurate measure. Many will say 12000 and it's actually 8000 or even less. That leads to many portable ac returns, not just midea. Most aren't truthful about cooling ability, noise, or problems with full water tanks.
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