Woot has (Refurb)
GE Profile 10,000 BTU Dual-Hose Portable Air Conditioner w/ Inverter (PPHV10WWF) for
$234.99.
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Features:- Enhanced Cooling Efficiency: Upgrade to a dual-hose system for faster, more efficient cooling allowing it to cool rooms more effectively and consistently.
- 3-in-1 Portable Air Conditioner: Stay comfortable with this versatile 3-in-1 unit featuring three cooling modes, three fan speeds, and a built-in dehumidifier for year-round convenience.
- Quietest Portable AC Brand: Enjoy the peace and quiet with the quietest portable AC brand, designed to provide powerful cooling without disturbing your comfort, perfect for bedrooms, nurseries, and workspaces.
- Geolocation: Automatically optimize your comfort with geolocation technology that activates Home or Away Mode based on your proximity, ensuring your AC adjusts to the perfect temperature as you approach or leave home.
- Easy-Roll Wheels: Effortlessly move your air conditioner from room to room with smooth-rolling, easy-glide wheels.
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Dual-hose units are definitely a big improvement over single-hose models, and I wasn't trying to lump them together. The point from the video is more that a window unit still has an inherent advantage because the hot side of the system (compressor/condenser) is outside.
The BIGGER issue is that even with a dual-hose portable unit, you're still moving heat through hoses that are sitting inside the room AND the hot components and hoses are physically inside the room, and those hoses/components get warm, so some of that heat inevitably radiates back into the space before it can exit, which is counterproductive. Not to mention that if the hot exhaust air gets pulled back toward the intake, since they're usually sitting right next to each other at the window adapter, the unit can end up re-ingesting warmer air and work harder.
On top of that, like Nightmare mentioned, you're also spending energy pushing as much of that trapped heat outside as you can. If a portable AC is the only practical option, dual-hose is absolutely the way to go. But if a window unit is possible, it'll generally cool much more effectively and efficiently.
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IF you can get away with a window unit instead, it is going to be muchhh better! If not, then just know why it doesn't cool a room as well as you may hope based on the btu.
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Dual-hose units are definitely a big improvement over single-hose models, and I wasn't trying to lump them together. The point from the video is more that a window unit still has an inherent advantage because the hot side of the system (compressor/condenser) is outside.
The BIGGER issue is that even with a dual-hose portable unit, you're still moving heat through hoses that are sitting inside the room AND the hot components and hoses are physically inside the room, and those hoses/components get warm, so some of that heat inevitably radiates back into the space before it can exit, which is counterproductive. Not to mention that if the hot exhaust air gets pulled back toward the intake, since they're usually sitting right next to each other at the window adapter, the unit can end up re-ingesting warmer air and work harder.
On top of that, like Nightmare mentioned, you're also spending energy pushing as much of that trapped heat outside as you can. If a portable AC is the only practical option, dual-hose is absolutely the way to go. But if a window unit is possible, it'll generally cool much more effectively and efficiently.
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IF you can get away with a window unit instead, it is going to be muchhh better! If not, then just know why it doesn't cool a room as well as you may hope based on the btu.
Also very YMMV on woot refurbished stuff, I bought a portable ac unit from them a few years and that thing was beat up very bad and hoses didn't fit in correctly. I just returned it instead of having to fix 10 things about it and order extra parts.
I ended up tearing the unit apart and repairing the blower housing with JB Weld myself. It's still working fine today, but it cost me about an hour of my time to fix. It was obnoxiously loud because the blower was rubbing on the housing.
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As said earlier, no matter how well engineered these portable units are, you still have the HOT condenser part inside of the house, and more energy is going to be spent piping that hot air out, versus a split or a window unit where that hot condenser side is already outside of your place. On the commercial end, this is why fully packaged units (those huge green box things on rooftops of businesses where the whole system is outdoors except for the ducting) are never as efficient as split systems.
Comparatively, dehumidifiers thrive in this "rolling suitcase" style because you literally WANT the heat to be inside of your basement...so no need to eject it outside.
You do have the advantage of less work, and absolutely less worrying about leaks...but you pretty much gotta toss the whole thing out if it has an issue.
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