Feel like a jackass for asking this about window air conditioners but, do you need the window?
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I just felt like I had to comment on this. Why are people responding to an air conditioning question that have no clue how one works. Those of you who think this is wise, then pick up a book about thermodynamics and how a refrigeration system works. If he runs his A/C in the room he will not only blow the same hot air back in the room that he just took out he will also add mechanical energy (mechanical heat). If the room is small and the door is closed the temperature will eventually rise.
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Because it works by heat exchange. It blows cold air out the front, and hot air out the back. So you really won't be gaining much by not putting it in the window.
Sorry, but good luck with the neighbor. You'll just have to suffer until tomorrow.
Because it works by heat exchange. It blows cold air out the front, and hot air out the back. So you really won't be gaining much by not putting it in the window.
Sorry, but good luck with the neighbor. You'll just have to suffer until tomorrow.
The one I have here throws off a lot of heat while operating.
I think you want the heat to be vented outside, and the cooling to be inside.
That is the only reason that I can think of.
Why don't you go downstairs, knock on her door, and ask her to remain calm until you can get the unit in the window? Offer to help her out with some chore sometime in the future if she cuts you some slack on this.
Hope this helps. :-))
You need to get the exaust to blow outside.Otherwise the heat it blows out will cancell the cool that comes out the front and make your place hotter.
My first thought is try it and see; the only things I can think of that will cause problems are noise and maybe heat discharge from the back of the A/C unit. Just my 2 cents.
won't work, you need to exhaust the stale air. it takes the heat out of the air inside, and transfers it to the coils, like a refrigerator and the exhaust is hot air. If you are careful, you should be able to place it quietly in the window without waking up the lady downstairs. We did it with a baby sleeping in the room before.
We've been doing that at work because our ac went out and the computers were messing up. We did it for two days ....... seemed to work fine.
Just make sure there is no way the water can come in contact with the unit or the electrical outlet.
Happy cooling ---
There is a hot side of the unit that you will discover. Its supposed to be on the outside. Thats why we have so much global warming. Everyone is grabbing up all the cold air and pumping hot air onto the streets.
You would do better for yourself at this time, to place a pan of water in front of a table fan. It would be like a mini swamp cooler.
You would be wasting your time trying to run it on the table it is called transfer of heat. you will just be heating the same air you just cooled off. The outside portion is the exhuast and blows hot air.
Because like most people, you don't understand how it works. All a/c's work by pumping a chemical (freon) through tubing in the unit. It has an indoor coil & outdoor coil. As the freon passes through the indoor coil in a vapor state, it absorbs heat . The compressor forces the freon into the condensor (outdoor) coil, & the freon changes to a liquid form & dissapates the heat outdoors.
If you set it on a table, you will feel cold air while you're standing in front of it, but it will put the heat right back in the room.
You can, but it won't be very productive. The unit will pull air in, blow cold out, but then send hot air out the back of the unit. As far as your neighbor, I would call the police on her old ***, and say that you thought you heard her fall and break her hip.
Yes you can place it on a stool or similar item and put something to catch the water for a night or two. The units today don't release toxic fumes so sleep well my friend ,cool as a cucumber as they say!! And no the cooling coils are not hot they make portable air conditioners and the only difference is the housing and a drain hose.
ok if you avhe a talbe or a flat surface near your window why dotn you jstu put it there and the back facing tward the opend window and the fron part noraml jstu for on enigth that should help you out some so some of thehto goes out or maby you can turn it on the fan mode to get soem air moving maby that can help you out
You need to vent the exhaust air outside for it to cool your house. If you run it unvented, it will not help and actually act as as a heater. So, you don't need a window, but you do need to have the back vents outside. In the south, some people install window shakers in a wall and leave them in year round. They make portable units with wheels and a large hose for venting outside, and they vent out through a partially opened window. These would be good for old people that can't lift a window unit and don't have a good son to help them.
Sorry but unless you can separate the heat from the condenser coils from the cooling off the evaporator coils you will actually create more heat in the room than you started with. You could put it in a doorway but then you would need to close off the entire doorway to separate the cooling from the heating.
Hot air comes out the back, so you will be trying to cool a room and warm it up at the same time. With a window the hot air goes out side of your house.
thanks for making me laugh out loud! now really, what is so noisy about opening your window and putting the ac in? it takes me less than 3 min and hardly any noise, if you're reasonably careful. go ahead and do it! by now the police should be on to your neighbor
cryllie
You can do that, but the unit produces more heat than cool. The result is that your room will gradually get warmer.
Don't know about the AC but it sounds like you need to move.