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Wonderful Product
This LG Portable AC unit is great! It was shipped and we received it in four days. It is refurbished by the mfg but it looks brand new, even the mfg box looked brand new. We bought this in August when we were in the midst of a three week heat wave of upper 90s temperatures here in California. We were also experiencing high humidity levels which made a 94 degree day feel like 98 degrees - it was terrible, even at night as our low temps were in the mid-70s. We out this LG AC unit in our bedroom and we both love it! It keeps our room cool, the AC runs very cold which is wonderful. This also has a dehumidifier and a only fan option - we use just the fan the majority of the time, and haven't used the dehumidifier at all. This AC unit also recirculates the water that it creates for self-cooling, so we aren't constantly emptying water from the unit and our wood floors haven't gotten wet. If enough water should accumulate, the unit will not run and a code will come up that means you need to empty the water before AC can be used. The window kit works very well in our hugh , bedroom window - it is 48" tall and the kit fits easily - my husband had the kit installed in just minutes. At night I can still slide our bedroom window open and let in cool nighttime air and shut it in the morning when it starts warming up. Lastly, it has a remote control and that is what we use most of the time when the unit is on. I highly recommend this LG Portable AC 8000 BTU unit, it works great in a small space like our bedroom and when it is miserably hot here, keeps it cool enough to sleep comfortably.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: pre-owned • Sold by: doodahdeals
Decent AC
Pros:
Installation was easy and pretty straightforward.
Cons:
I have placed this ac in my 150 sq feet bedroom and it doesn't cool the room enough. I need a fan to circulate the air evenly. The remote is difficult to work with. It has to be facing exactly the front of the ac. Also the values on the remote and the ac go out of sync.
There is also a minor leak of hot air near the exhaust and the vent hose. I had to tape it to fix the leak. It looks like a manufacturing defect because i googled several options.
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Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: refurbished • Sold by: refurbking
Nice machine, smaller and quieter than expected.
Quieter than expected. Appears to have same energy consumption rating as smaller 5000 btu models but provides 8000 btu. Smaller than expected (I plan to store ours behind a wing chair in the corner when not in use). Rolls well on solid surfaces with non-scratching wheels. These models do need to be drained by removing drain plugs and tipping unit slightly but the water is minimal after a full days use on a fairly hot and humid day. The draining process may require disconnecting the exhaust hose from the window or from the unit which is fairly easy.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: refurbished • Sold by: refurbking
Portable Air Conditioner
Good product which does what it's supposed to...keeps room nice and cool! It's pretty quiet and moves around easily.I recommend it!
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: refurbished • Sold by: refurbking
Know the principles of operation first...
It does produce cooler air, in both modes... AC and dehumidification. The amount of hot air that is expelled out the window vent system needs to sucked back into the area where the unit is, normally that means you are pulling in outside air (which is also hot and has higher humidity - otherwise why run the unit if it is not hot or humid???). So the unit cools and dehumidifies some air, then expels some hot air through the vent system, and as that air leaves... new air is sucked in, and that new air is not conditioned and from the outside.
So you are at best exchanging air, sending out hot air to the outside, and bringing in hot humid air from outside, so... what is being accomplished? You can spot cool you or anything the air blows on... you can lower the humidity inside to match that of the air outside, you can lower your inside air temp to that of the outside air temp (remember, you are exchanging air... sending air outside and bringing in air from the outside).
Now, let's say you are downstairs using your unit, it is cooling off nicely and the humidity is dropping, just as you hoped. Later, you go upstairs to get ready for bed and find it is hotter and stickier than ever up there... turns out the make up air is coming in from the upstairs bathroom vent straight out of the very hot attic... now you know how this system works, if you send air outside, then outside air must come back in to take it's place... they only question becomes where is that outside air leaking back into the house, if it is from the attic you are bringing even hotter air than you are expelling through the vent system.
Just want you to make sure you know how this system works...Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: refurbished • Sold by: refurbking
Needed
It is doing a great job or what I needed it for. Certainly could have had a longer coil to reach the window. It is hard to keep it from coming loose from the air conditioner and the window.
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: refurbished • Sold by: refurbking
Great solution to cool a small room
Does a great job keeping my room cold. Coldest setting is 60 F. A bit loud but I like white noise in the background while I sleep anyway. Relatively easy to install. It is a bit heavy so you may need help moving it to the room where you plan to install it.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: new • Sold by: lilispad
great unit
people that use portable / window airconditioners that make so much noise need to buy one of these...it's so quite.
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: pre-owned • Sold by: indyliquidation
Worth the money, works great.
This portable air conditioner unit works great. We have it in our master bedroom and it cools the room down very nice, and quickly. Our bedroom is roughly 230 square feet. Its not very quiet. However...I wasn't expecting it to be quiet. Its a portable air conditioner, they are not quiet. The noise is no different than any air conditioner unit in a casino hotel room in vegas or most hotel rooms for that matter. Its tolerable. And the sleep timer is a great feature on it as well. I still give this unit 5 stars. Works great.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: refurbished • Sold by: refurbking
Does the job, but not as well as a window unit AC.
For the most part, it works as advertised. It does cool the room (about 160 sq. ft), but it neither cools nor dehumidifies nearly as well as the window unit it replaced. Also, the instruction manual says that it does not need to be drained on the "cool" setting, but I have not found that to be true. After a few days (I run it only at night while I sleep), it starts to make annoying "water splash" noises, and eventually begins to spit little flecks of water out of both the air intake and output vents. Perhaps its just because I live in a very humid part of the southeastern US, but I find I have to drain it about every three or four days to keep this from happening.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: refurbished • Sold by: refurbking