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Midea 12,000 BTU DUO Portable Air Conditioner, (Refurbished) 2year warranty $249 at eBay
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Woot has the heat version on sale for $300. But that's with pretty much no warranty. Also looking up that model number MAP14AHS1TWT I'm seeing wattage rating of 1300 watts. Is that right for an inverter model? Seems high. Considering I'd mostly just use this in a power outage, and it'd be running off a generator.
Woot has the heat version on sale for $300. But that's with pretty much no warranty. Also looking up that model number MAP14AHS1TWT I'm seeing wattage rating of 1300 watts. Is that right for an inverter model? Seems high. Considering I'd mostly just use this in a power outage, and it'd be running off a generator.
I have this model and I also have the same thing labeled as a whynter. Yes they use a lot of energy. I have no idea why, they're supposed to be greater. Plus it's a dual hose inside one single hose but when I use it it's running about 1200, 1300 Watts for the AC or even the dehumidifier. I'm thinking about just switching over to a small window unit. I found several that only run about 490, 500 watts. I'll take that, way less than half of what this puts out since I'm also using Ecoflow solar batteries.
My wife would never allow a window unit. Or i would go with a mini split. Plus my windows are side opening so they wouldn't work anyway.
I'll have to continue my hunt for a lower wattage alternative...
My wife would never allow a window unit. Or i would go with a mini split. Plus my windows are side opening so they wouldn't work anyway.
I'll have to continue my hunt for a lower wattage alternative...
So yeah I'm kind of disappointed that it runs at that wattage all the time. I can have a window unit there to cut down on the energy. Little disappointed that it's so high but it's one of the only units that is portable has cool and heat on it. U-shaped Midea would also work but I have two of those and they run kind of high too. Not as high as the portable but higher than just a regular window unit.
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My wife would never allow a window unit. Or i would go with a mini split. Plus my windows are side opening so they wouldn't work anyway.
I'll have to continue my hunt for a lower wattage alternative...
At more medium range...
I own two that I monitor with not only my eco-flow app which I use the battery for these two portable ACs, but I also use a kill a watt and it hardly ever varies from the highest number.
At more medium range...
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.
Feels like the right answer is to keep it based on the generous return policy but tempting to save a few $
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I offered $225 and it was immediately accepted