So I went out and bought what I could afford, which was this $ 200. 8,000. Btu. Let me let me start by saying I put it in the window because it's so it's considerably smaller than that unit, and there are some. There are some things I like about it. According to the documentation, this should cool adequately cool a 3000 up to a 350 foot room.
This room is about 345 square feet and it struggles. I mean it's 90 degrees outside, so it's hot, but not super hot, and I'm trying to keep it about 75. In here - and it's just struggling so some, but to get to some positives about it, um nice touch interface has three speeds and automatic. It does three levels of cooling Plus just acting as a humidifier dehumidifier, which is nice, has energy saving mode, a timer, a sleep mode and comes with a remote, which I thought all how cheesy but there's actually a good reason for the remote.
The idea is that you take the remote to another part of the room where it's a little warmer and you press the center button and it senses what the current temperature is in here, which is again 76. It goes okay. What am I set to and then it try it kicks on and tries to get the temperature over here so like it's set at 70 right now and so um, so that works and it frankly it's kind of handy when the phone rings.
I can just turn off the AC talk on high. It is kind of loud I'm not going to lie on medium or low, it's not bad. You could actually sleep in the same room with it and it would be fine. So that's the reason. That's the purpose. Behind the remote it does make sense: it's not displaying anything right now, because I have the display turned off. You can turn that on. Have it on all the time or have it off.
I just have it off now some things I don't care too much about with this unit. It's 8,000 BTU, that's 10. This thing is struggling to keep this room at 75. 76 degree temperature. That thing had no problem getting this room. 265. If I wanted it to this one big difference, they had some nice features like it has the accordion panels on either side and it has actual locks that you can screw down to your sash to hold them in place.
So that's nice when each accordion has a hole and then the the top railing up here has a hole for a screw, which is nice kind of, holds everything in place and then there's this thing here. You can't see it but there's a little bracket that they give you up. That fits up here to keep your window from accidentally opening or keep anybody from opening your window, which again is nice some of the downsides.
Well, one of the other downsides. Let me go up here for a minute. Yes, I don't know if you can tell on camera, but this is sitting at three quarters of an inch drop from here to here and they want 3/4 to 1 inch. There's no way you can go an inch without it just falling out, and so I got it to 3/4. I thought fine, I turned it on after an hour. There was so much water buildup in here that it was just kind of bubbling out and I could feel it spitting out here, because the fan was hitting the water that he would like to hear.
I wound up having to drill a hole right here to drain the water shouldn't have to do that. That hole should already be there. I don't know what they were thinking so just understand. You may have to do that. I don't know, I don't think it's anything. I've done, I you know, like I said I can't tilt this back any further and I don't understand why there's not a hole there. They claim this is an 8000 BTU and it would comfortably cool a 350 foot room square foot room, I'm not buying it.
I think a 300 foot or lower a 300 square foot or lower room is more what this is for. This was $ 200 at Walmart for the next size up as a 10,000 BTU. That was almost $ 100 more. I couldn't afford that, though I did get the window unit, it's better than nothing um. It is an Arctic King and it's there 8,000 BTU model of me, here's the box for it. Ah, so you can see, says 8,000 BTU and it has three cooling three span.
A fan, speed, temperature sensing, remote filter reminder light that is kind of nice energy saver, electronic timer, quick install window kit. There was nothing quick about that. Just so you know um here's! The model number I'm Walmart's website had had it listed for 190 dollars. When I got to the store was 206, so I brought that up and they said the website was wrong. That was their answer. Okay, fine! Whatever I needed an AC unit, I wasn't going to bicker from over $ 16, but it is what it is.
So if you're in the market for an 8,000 BTU window unit, try a Kenmore, Admiral or somebody else, I do regret buying this. But since I put the hole in the back, I'm not going to return it. I will say it comes with plenty of cable or the extent a power cord see because uh I mean there's it's like balled up back here. Even it's definitely long enough, not a lot of adjustment on the fins, but on these little window units you don't get much so it's about what you'd expect.
So I can't complain really about that. I haven't taken the filter off yet, but I, as I understand it, it's just as easy as popping these off and there is a handle here. So I just have to pop that would probably work fine, probably come off pretty easily there's one on this side too. So that's my initial thoughts and I am about this window unit. It's going to work, it's going to keep the room, cool and free of humidity.
That's what I needed it's going to struggle to do it, however, which means its lifespan is going to drop dramatically. So, overall, I'm ok with it like two hundred and six dollars: ok with it plus tax, well kind of wish I'd gone for the 10,000 BTU unit. Now, but again it was money issue so anyway, but I think in a small bedroom, this thing would be killer. You could probably put it on medium, even low and just let it run, and it would probably do a great job, cooling, their room so anyway, later one other thing about the remote.
When you press this and say: okay, the temperature over here is warmer than over. By the AC unit, it only does this for about five minutes, and then it stops communicating with the AC unit according to the instructions, that's normal! That's how it's designed so that if this is left outside or something it doesn't keep your receipt unit running. I'r sorry three minutes is not enough time to change the room temperature to degrees across a 20 foot room, so you can stantly have to press that button.
I'r not so sure I like that and there's what it looks like with the LED yeah. Like I said. I just keep it off, so just a heads up, you
